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 04:49PMTuesday, 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.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:08AMTuesday, 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 10:07AMMonday, 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 11:26AMMonday, 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 r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:37PMSunday, 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 07:08PMTuesday, 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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:30PMTuesday, 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-Smit…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:40PMSunday, 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-Smit…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:25PMMonday, 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 10:04PMMonday, 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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:34PMMonday, 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 04:21PMThe Pennsylvania Ballet presents ‘Giselle,’ a tale of love and betrayal and vengeful spirits. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PMSunday, 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 10:29PMMonday, 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 04:57PMFriday, 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…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:32PMSaturday, 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 05:28PMSunday, April 9, 2017
In Pilobolus's 'Shadowland,' a young girl exploring adulthood enters a dream world of shadows. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:44PM 
