Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Philadelphia Ballet, celebrating 60 years and its new home on Broad Street, brought a triple bill that enthralled with tension. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:12AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Koresh Dance Company’s new full-length work Darkness Dancing into Pieces sets the stage for understanding terror through dance. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:43AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
Dancer Thays Golz talks about the challenges of performing the Tchaikovsky classic Swan Lake, taking on the roles of both the white and black swan. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:47AMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Alvin Ailey American Dance Company acknowledges the legacy of a muse in its latest visit to the Academy of Music. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:57PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Camille Bacon-Smith debuts her new monthly column at BSR, curating a list of upcoming dance performances happening in and around the city of Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:10PMMonday, December 16, 2024
Prolific Philly solo artist (and budding mid-life ballerino)
Chris Davis is back with One-Man-Nutcracker, a deeply personal glimpse
at the famous ballet as well as the yearning to dance that…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:10PMTuesday, December 10, 2024
PHILADANCO! honored director Lee Daniels, an alum of the company’s classes, at a program showcasing four Black women choreographers, including company favorites as well as rising star Mart…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMTuesday, December 3, 2024
Each year, Philadelphia Ballet's Nutcracker is a holiday destination for area families. Camille Bacon-Smith takes us behind the scenes to meet the young singers who make the show stand out.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:11PMMonday, November 25, 2024
New York’s José Limón Dance Company, an icon of modern dance founded in 1946, visited Philly’s Penn Live Arts for a mix of classic and new choreography. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:47PMMonday, October 14, 2024
Ten years ago, when Angel Corella became artistic director of
Philadelphia Ballet, the company needed new ideas. As the premiere of his revamped
Le Corsaire approaches, he speaks with Camill…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:24PMMonday, September 30, 2024
A compilation of short pieces combining poetry and other voices with evocative movement brought dance artists including Sammy Caiola and Evalina Carbonell together for an interdisciplinary F…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:31PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Nichole Canuso Dance Company joins the 2024 Curated Philly Fringe with The Garden: River’s Edge, an immersive, interactive performance at the historic Arch Street Meeting House. Camille Ba…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:48PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Gunnar Montana returns for this year’s Fringe with a standalone sequel to last year’s BLACK WOOD. The bloody, sexy sorcery continues with WINTERBORN, running through October 30 at the La…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:01PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
Dance critic Camille Bacon-Smith has spent years admiring Philly’s dancers, illuminated by lighting designers who rarely get the spotlight themselves. Now they share the mysteries of their…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:11PMMonday, July 15, 2024
BalletX says goodbye to the Wilma stage with its 2024 Summer Series, featuring eclectic world-premiere choreography by Stina Quagebeur, Loughlan Prior, and choreographer-in-residence Amy Hal…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:04PMMonday, July 1, 2024
Lily Kind brought her puckish humor to the Philadelphia Dance Projects with a new hour-long show, I’ve got a tape I wanna play, which builds on the star quality and choreographic elements …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:40AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Longtime PHILADANCO! company member Joe González recently returned to his hometown in Boston, but he visited Philly in late May with a thrilling performance from his own company, Jo-Mé Dan…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:12PMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Philadelphia will celebrate hometown artist Mary Cassatt this summer, kicking off with a major new exhibition that was years in the making at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Camille Bacon-Sm…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:08PMMonday, May 13, 2024
The Philadelphia Ballet closed its season with Frederick Ashton’s crowd-pleasing Dream and George Balanchine’s strange and wonderful Prodigal Son, with revelatory dancing by Zecheng Lian…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:29PMMonday, April 29, 2024
BalletX’s spring 2024 performance combined otherworldliness with riveting historical narrative, all alongside captivating live music at the Mann. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:49PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
The new performance by "Phillyboy" Bernard H. Gaddis comes to the Fringe Bar. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:36PMMonday, April 15, 2024
With its spring program, Roots and Reflections, PHILADANCO! drew on popular works from past decades to prove that the vivid history of Black choreography still speaks to us today. Camille Ba…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:43PMTuesday, March 19, 2024
The Philadelphia Ballet offered a trio of grand finales for its March program: favorites by Alvin Ailey, William Forsythe, and Twyla Tharpe brought heart, speed, skill, and whimsy. Camille B…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:25PMWednesday, February 28, 2024
This production of Giselle gives a unique perspective for a classic story. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:14PMTuesday, January 9, 2024
For its second collaboration with BalletX, PCMS welcomed choreography by Matthew Neenan and Jamar Roberts alongside pianist Michelle Cann. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:48PMTuesday, December 19, 2023
In December, the Philly dance calendar seems to become nothing but Nutcrackers. Dance writer Camille Bacon-Smith heads to three different productions, to see how this enduring ballet looks i…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:06PMWednesday, December 6, 2023
PHILADANCO! opens the stage with a program featuring the works of new and familiar choreographers, touching on intimate stories and reflections. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:01PMWednesday, November 8, 2023
Koresh Dance Company reflects on choreographer Ronen Koresh’s emotional journey as an Israeli immigrant and an artist in Aftershock. Camille Bacon-Smith previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:19PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
Ballet dancers cannot just step into the iconic shoes. They must master a difficult technique and make a lifelong quest for the perfect pointe, but these Philly ballerinas tell Camille Bacon…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:15PMMonday, October 9, 2023
Opera fans know the story, but in this world-premiere original long-form ballet by Philadelphia Ballet director Angel Corella, Carmen gets a sexy edge. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:45PMTuesday, September 19, 2023
A transgressively absurdist exploration of the culture of Black music from blues to funk as the soundtrack of revolution, and its survival and commodification in the present. Camille Bacon-S…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:33PM 
