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Andonis Foniadakis's CIRCUMSTELLARS features sublime performances by Mayara Pineiro and Sterling Baca. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
Dance Reviews

FORWARD MOTION (Philadelphia Ballet): An excellent showcase of skill

Christopher Munden February 4, 2023 No Comments

The intimate Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Cultural Campus provides an ideal setting for Philadelphia Ballet’s impressive new production, Forward Motion, three world premieres by…

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Theater

CINDERELLA (Pennsylvania Ballet): Ben Stevenson’s classic choreography

Eri Yoneda October 14, 2022 No Comments

Philadelphia Ballet opens its 2022-2023 season with Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella.  The production is dazzling and powerful, it may ALMOST let you believe in a fairytale.  …

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Nicholas Patterson, Gabriela Mesa, and Cory Ogdahl of Philadelphia Ballet in “Persistence of Memory”. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
Dance Reviews

NEW WORKS FOR A NEW WORLD (Philadelphia Ballet): An evocative and uplifting program by three impressive choreographers

Christopher Munden February 5, 2022 2 Comments

It’s a new world with Philadelphia Ballet. Vaccine checks and face masks, a new name (is there any state with less state pride than Pennsylvania?),…

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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

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 Music Reviews

ALL STRAVINSKY (PA Ballet): What about the music?

Margaret Darby April 8, 2019 No Comments

The Pennsylvania Ballet does their best to ignore their fantastic orchestra

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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

SWAN LAKE (PA Ballet): Pennsylvania Ballet refined through the classic

Eri Yoneda March 13, 2018 No Comments

SWAN LAKE is the classic that people think of when they hear the word “ballet.”

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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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