Monday, March 15, 2021
BalletX concludes its spring season of world premieres as it began, dancing with the camera in three new short films by choreographers Maddie Hanson ('Virtuality'), Gustavo Ramirez Sansano (…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:38PM[SHARE]Monday, January 25, 2021
BalletX continues its season of world-premiere short dance films, with a third installment featuring choreographers Tsai Hsi Hung, Manuel Vignoulle, and Francesca Harper. Camille Bacon-Smith…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:30PM[SHARE]Monday, December 21, 2020
Following a successful citywide fight to restore some of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas helms a new task force to boost the arts sector in future. He speaks…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:58PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2020
The Martha Graham Dance Company offered a taste of the company's rich and emotionally charged repertoire in a series of excerpts from Graham's best-loved works, performed by Lloyd Knight and…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:08PM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2020
BalletX dances with the camera in three very short films that explore collaborations between choreographers, dancers, filmmakers, and the urban and natural landscapes of the city and its exu…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:50PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
PHILADANCO! explored love and struggle with emotional performances by Joe González and Janine Beckles, in a show that brought distanced audiences as close as possible to the theater. Cami…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Any serious Philly arts fan knows by now that local companies and venues aren't sitting out the pandemic. But big or small, how are they making the shift to distanced performances? Camille B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2020
BalletX opens its 15th season virtually with a quartet of world premieres in film from choreographers as near as the company's own star, Caili Quan, and as far as New Zealand's Loughlan Prio…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:31AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2020
Choreographer Jessica Warchal-King's JCWK Dance Lab curates a web-based journey through the process of creating a dance that explores the idea of home at the 2020 Philly Fringe. Camille Baco…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Just as it was poised to transition to its new home at the Perelman, the Pennsylvania Ballet hit the same crisis as every other live arts producer. Camille Bacon-Smith speaks with the organi…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Just like any major city, Philly wouldn't be the same without the lights in its sky. Camille Bacon-Smith talks to the people who keep them on.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:50PM[SHARE]Monday, June 29, 2020
Perhaps more than many other art forms, dance relies on the physical energy between dancers and their audience. Adapting to life in a pandemic is a special challenge for these companies. Lea…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Photographer Alexander Iziliaev put one passion aside when he became a dancer. But now that he's off the stage, he can bring something to his art form that others behind the camera cannot. H…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2020
For anyone who's longing to get back to the museum, PMA curator of European art Jennifer Thompson talks to Camille Bacon-Smith about shaking up the collection.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:07AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2020
In 'Foreign Tongues,' Austrian dance company Liquid Loft mingled with the audience to explore communication through space and gesture and the spoken word. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:26AM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2020
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents 'La Bayadère,' a classic tale of love and jealousy, betrayal and remorse set in a colonizers' vision of an India that never was. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 26, 2020
A site-adaptive work from Tori Lawrence & Co. engages modernist industrial architecture as found artistic spaces. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Balanchine's 'Nutcracker' is a dance lover's seasonal favorite, but after 27 years of working with the PA Ballet's orchestra, music director Beatrice Jona Affron has a thing or two to say ab…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Philly's own Kulu Mele celebrated its 50th anniversary at the Annenberg with the world-premiere 'Ogun and the People,' a story of the Orisha based on Afro-Cuban culture. Camille Bacon-Smith …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2019
'Taj Express' brings Mumbai to Philadelphia in director Shruti Merchant's gleeful explosion of color, dance, and music from the creators of India's Bollywood musicals. Camille Bacon-Smith re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents three diverse choreographic voices in a trio of contemporary world premieres. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:04PM[SHARE]Monday, April 8, 2019
The Pennsylvania Ballet's all-Stravinsky program drew from his earliest collaborations with George Balanchine in the 1920s to new works by Philadelphia choreographer Mathew Neenan. Camille B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:34PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents 'Giselle,' a tale of love and betrayal and vengeful spirits. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PM[SHARE]The Pennsylvania Ballet presents 'Giselle,' a tale of love and betrayal and vengeful spirits. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
BalletX presents new works by 2019 choreographic fellow Katarzyna Skarpetowska, and mentor and long-time BalletX collaborator Nicolo Fonte. An East Coast premiere by dancer and choreographer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:29PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
Annenberg Center Live and NextMove Dance present Dance Theater of Harlem in residency, with a world premiere by choreographer (and Philadelphia native) Robert Garland. Camille Bacon-Smith re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:57PM[SHARE]Friday, February 15, 2019
Pennsylvania ballet artistic director Angel Corella is making plans for the company's next step, onto stages beyond the U.S. But it's going to need some new partners. Camille Bacon-Smith con…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:32PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 10, 2018
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents 'Swan Lake,' the most iconic and best-loved ballet in the classical repertoire. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2017
In Pilobolus's 'Shadowland,' a young girl exploring adulthood enters a dream world of shadows. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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