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 12:00AMThe 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 07:26PMFor 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 12:00AMWe 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“Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, ’Yoo hoo!’”
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 02:00PMBefore 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 12:00AMTexture 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 12:00AMThe 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 12:00AMTawni Darby knows how to catch dancers’ attention — even if she’s not on the dance floor.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMSome 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 12:00AMThe 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 immig…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AM“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…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 12:00AMIn 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 disc…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:38PMDance 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 12:28PMWith “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 05:24PMYou 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 Chines…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 01:15PMThe 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 …
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 11:55PMArt 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 05:04PMSince 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 fo…
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 05:28PMTexture 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…
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