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Dance Reviews

LA BAYADERE (PA Ballet): Overcoming criticism

Eri Yoneda March 13, 2020 1 Comment

The performance on opening night proved that Pennsylvania Ballet is now one of the top ballet companies in the world.

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Dance Reviews

George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): Much more than a holiday tradition

Eri Yoneda December 13, 2019 No Comments

A brilliant NUTCRACKER shows the company’s heightened artistry.

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Dance Reviews

DON QUIXOTE (PA Ballet):

Eri Yoneda October 24, 2019 2 Comments

A thrilling reprise from Pennsylvania Ballet

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Dance Reviews

DGV, Trigger Touch Fade, Glass Pieces (PA Ballet): Robbins, Wheeldon, and Elo

Eri Yoneda May 14, 2019 No Comments

Ballet is a living art.

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Dance Reviews

GISELLE (PA Ballet): A ballet of true love

Eri Yoneda March 12, 2019 No Comments

Angel Corella’s restaging preserves the tradition of the classic ballet and manifests true love onstage.

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Dance Features Interviews

The Authenticity and History of Giselle: Interview with Angel Corella of Pennsylvania Ballet

Eri Yoneda February 18, 2019 No Comments

Eri Yoneda speaks with the artistic director of PA Ballet about his new production of Giselle.

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Dance Reviews

THE NUTCRACKER (PA Ballet): 50 years of a holiday treat

Eri Yoneda December 16, 2018 No Comments

The Nutcracker is not just a lovely holiday tradition. It’s am ambassador for ballet, gaining fans who have never been to seen ballet before.

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Dance Reviews

JEWELS (PA Ballet): A dazzling season finale

Eri Yoneda May 15, 2018 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet closed its 2017-2018 season with George Balanchine’s masterpiece, JEWELS

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Dance Reviews

GRACE & GRANDEUR (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ballet, in different eras

Christopher Munden April 10, 2018 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet’s fifth program of the current season is a historically intriguing.

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Dance Reviews

George Balanchine’s THE NUTCRACKER (PA BALLET): A spectacle of dancers, magic, and color

Ralph Malachowski December 19, 2017 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet invites you to a spectacle of dancers, dancing children, dancing toys, snowflakes, candy canes, and beverages, magic, and color.

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Dance Reviews Theater

RE/ACTION (Pennsylvania Ballet): Brilliant ballet by divine dancers

Eri Yoneda May 15, 2017 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

ROMANCE (PA Ballet): Fall in love with a provocative and diverse program

Eri Yoneda April 9, 2017 No Comments

ROMANCE showcases the diversity and beauty of the Pennsylvania Ballet’s dancers.

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Dance Reviews

LE CORSAIRE (PA Ballet): A flamboyant and passionate ballet of the pirates

Eri Yoneda March 13, 2017 No Comments

Pennsylvania Ballet’s LE CORSAIRE is as gorgeous and breath-taking as it should be.

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Dance Features Reviews

Bad Title, Good Bloopers, and Brian Sanders: PA Ballet’s REVOLUTION

Lily Kind December 23, 2016 1 Comment

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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Dance Reviews

REVOLUTION (PA Ballet): Revolution for our mind

Eri Yoneda November 13, 2016 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

CINDERELLA (PA Ballet): Enchanting ballet magic

Eri Yoneda October 16, 2016 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

BALANCHINE & BEYOND (PA Ballet): Experiment and challenge our comfort zone

Eri Yoneda June 11, 2016 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

A PROGRAM OF FIRSTS (PA Ballet): Remembering the start-line

Eri Yoneda May 16, 2016 No Comments

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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Dance Reviews

DON QUIXOTE (PA Ballet): Love and passion, Spanish style

Eri Yoneda March 8, 2016 No Comments

Based on the beloved novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, DON QUIXOTE has been one of the most popular and challenging ballets for over a century.

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Dance Reviews

SPEED & PRECISION: (PA Ballet): Color and character at the start of a new chapter

Eri Yoneda October 24, 2015 No Comments

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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