Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Kelly-Strayhorn Theater's executive director Janera Solomon is determined to create a win-win situation for artists and audiences this fall with its KST Presents programming.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 4, 2015
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust already has dipped its toe into the latest of its immensely rewarding festivals, this one called India in Focus, as it began with gallery exhibits and the Galle…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 07:26PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
For its first four seasons, Texture Contemporary Ballet relied on a type of balletic enthusiasm for this historic art form. But its latest program, "Timescape," seen Saturday night…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
We sometimes arrive at points in life that, upon reflection, are inevitable. Choreographer Beth Corning is a prime example of that. Throughout a long, probing career, the dance artist h…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 10:11PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2015
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Before the U.S.'s recent embrace of Cuba, the island nation was widely known for its cigars and talented baseball players and also for international ballet stars who had defected.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 18, 2015
Texture Contemporary Ballet headed into its fifth season at the New Hazlett Theater on Thursday with "Strength & Grace" and also took a look back for the first time.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 15, 2015
The road from rehearsal studio to stage premiere often can be abrupt, resulting in a not-ready-for-prime-time performance. Although cost issues may deem this necessary, more choreographers a…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 12, 2015
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Some people say you can never go home again. But Broadway veteran and songstress Rema Webb returned to Pittsburgh into the welcoming arms of family and friends at the Cabaret at Theater Squa…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 5, 2015
The City of Asylum is celebrating "Ten Years of Giving Voice." Most famously known for its work in supporting writers who are living in exile, it also has reached out to Pittsburgh immigrant…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
"It's strange for us to be coming to America with such a well-known American title," quips Scottish Ballet artistic director Christopher Hampson of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Des…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 10, 2015
In 2009, the Kelly Strayhorn Theater's executive director Janera Solomon began newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival. It's a massive undertaking, with an array of workshops and panel discussi…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:38PM[SHARE]Monday, April 20, 2015
Dance is cherished for many things. But the fact that it exists only in the moment, destined to change with each succeeding performance, sometimes mightily, gives this physical art form a un…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 19, 2015
With "Swan Lake" and "The Sleeping Beauty" topping the list of classical ballets, some people may forget about Marius Petipa's "La Bayadere," an exotic foray into ancient India.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:24PM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
You can always "Expect the Unexpected" in dance, as Chartiers Valley Performing Arts wants to demonstrate at its annual showcase this year. Or like Yanlai Dance Academy's "The Chinese Nutcra…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
The title of Beth Corning's latest work for The Glue Factory Project, a reworked and expanded "at Once there was a House," might be misleading. Currently puzzling audiences at the New Hazlet…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Art will imitate life when the French-Argentinian ensemble Union Tanguera seductively makes its way to the Byham Theater on Saturday night. Presented by the Pittsburgh Dance Council, the sev…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 22, 2015
Since its inception, Point Park University's Conservatory of Dance Company has prided itself on a diversity that was mostly geared toward commercial work or easy-on-the-eyes physicality for …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Texture Contemporary Ballet is closing out its fourth season. In that relatively short period of time, the prolific young company has given its enthusiastic Pittsburgh audiences 55 new dance…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:19AM[SHARE] 
