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Interview Over Morning Coffee with Ian Hussey, departing Principal Dancer at Pennsylvania Ballet
Since he met ballet at age of 8 when his parents brought him to the Academy of Music to see the Nutcracker by Pennsylvania Ballet,…
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GISELLE (PA Ballet): A ballet of true love
Angel Corella’s restaging preserves the tradition of the classic ballet and manifests true love onstage.
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JEWELS (PA Ballet): A dazzling season finale
Pennsylvania Ballet closed its 2017-2018 season with George Balanchine’s masterpiece, JEWELS
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RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers
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.
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ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program
ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.
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Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION
Lily Kind uses a recent PA Ballet program to look at what makes a ballet a ballet and what makes a dance a dance.
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George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Showcasing the next great talents
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.
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REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind
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.
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CINDERELLA (PA Ballet): Enchanting ballet magic
The ballet shows the brave and caring intention of artistic director Angel Corella to the company and the Philadelphia ballet fans.
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BALANCHINE & BEYOND (PA Ballet): Experiment and challenge our comfort zone
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
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A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line
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.
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Bodies in Translation: Week Two: Trust Fails
Trisha Brown Company dancer Neal Beasley details the experience of setting Brown’s work on PA Ballet dancers.
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STRENGTH & LONGING (PA Ballet): Longing for higher and stronger
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.
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THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): A beloved holiday tradition
A holiday tradition for many Philadelphians, the Pennsylvania Ballet’s NUTCRACKER returns for another season.
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SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter
In his second season as the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet, Angel Corella is hand-picking the entire program for the first time.
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Keigwin, Fonte, & Forsythe (PA Ballet): Dance review
As Angel Corella’s first season with Pennsylvania Ballet draws to a close, it’s safe to say that his tenure as the company’s artistic director is off to a very impressive start.
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A TRIBUTE TO JEROME ROBBINS (PA Ballet): Perfect for Mother’s Day
Most balletomanes credit Balanchine with capturing the American spirit in ballet, but to me it’s Jerome Robbins who deserves the accolades.
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SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): An enduring classic
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.
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WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT OUTER SPACE (Pennsylvania Ballet, Curtis Institute of Music, FringeArts): Fringe Review 14
If dance is a language, it is spoken in a variety of accents. With WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT OUTER SPACE, FringeArts commissioning three contemporary choreographers—Zoe Scofield, Georg Reischl, and Itamar Serussi—to create pieces on PA Ballet dancers.
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