The company has gone through drastic changes since last season, some of which may have come with sorrow. Still they never stopped their devotion to ballet and to the Philadelphia art community.
View More RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
View More Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
Dance is an ever-changing artform: the standard themes change, technique changes,audiences change. Even such key aspects and tools as the body shape of the dancers change.
View More REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
The ballet shows the brave and caring intention of artistic director Angel Corella to the company and the Philadelphia ballet fans.
View More CINDERELLA (PA Ballet): Enchanting ballet magic
In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.
View More SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter
Most balletomanes credit Balanchine with capturing the American spirit in ballet, but to me it’s Jerome Robbins who deserves the accolades.
View More A TRIBUTE TO JEROME ROBBINS (PA Ballet): Perfect for Mother’s Day
If you want to see the traditional ballet form challenged but simultaneously upheld then Christopher Wheeldon’s adaptation of the Tchaikovsky classic is just the ticket.
View More SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classic
Roy Kaiser’s ‘Director’s Choice program proved to be one of the most artistically rich mixed bills PB has done and during their 50th anniversary season. , It featured the arrestingly intimate pas de deux between retiring dancer Julie Diana and real-life husband Zachary Hench.
View More DIRECTOR’S CHOICE (PA Ballet): Julie Diana’s luminous pas d’adieu