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
ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.
View More ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program
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
It uses the same stage, the same music, and the same settings as previous years, but this year’s NUTCRACKER is even more convincing and more magical than before.
View More George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
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
For the last program of Pennsylvania Ballet’s 2015-2016 season, Angel Corella challenges both the dancers and the audience with the four experimental dances
View More BALANCHINE & BEYOND (PA Ballet): Experiment and challenge our comfort zone
It would not be too much to say that this has been one of the most exciting and accomplished seasons in Pennsylvania Ballet’s history.
View More A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line
The selections show artistic director Angel Corella’s close attention to the dancers’ talents and characters and his passion to bring out the best in them.
View More STRENGTH & LONGING (PA Ballet): Longing for higher and stronger
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