“How long have we been asking these questions?After how many trains taken?” Rinde Eckert, Michael Palmer “Global Moves” mysteriously begins…
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So what is Bach’s St. Matthew Passion? It is presented this month at the Dorothy Chandler by the LA Opera….
Speaking to a nearly sold-out audience at the Academy of Music on March 3, Philadelphia Ballet artistic director Angel Corella…
The Philadelphia Ballet’s ‘New Works for a New World’ program features newly commissioned premieres by choreographers Juliano Nunes, Alba Castillo…
It doesn’t take long for a ballet student to grasp that dance is a bundle of contradictions: you go up…
“All across the nation such a strange vibration, People in motion, There’s a whole generation with a new explanation, People…
In July, BalletX kicked their return to in-person performances with a program of premieres in the open-air Mann Center in…
Opening weekend at the 2021 Vail Dance Festival featured torrential rain, real dancers in a real (outdoor) theater with a…
Near the end of Jerome Robbins’ 1969 piece, “Dances at a Gathering,” the six dancers begin to merely walk, after…
The Pennsylvania Ballet is the largest dance company in Philadelphia and as most of the other smaller companies have been…
Program 03’s curator has posed several challenges as well as questions for the reviewer. Three contemporary story ballets overload one…
BalletX has been confronted with an industry shutdown of theaters and venues with a slate of specific limitations to work…
It’s rare to see a Balanchine-choreographed story ballet, let alone one featuring a plotline as serpentine as Shakespeare’s impishly comic…
Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas commissioned Julia Adam to locate her “Nutcracker Suite” in a hotel suite—San Francisco’s Hotel…