Saturday, September 14, 2024
Laurel Johnson’s Grief Astronomer, part of the Cannonball Festival in the 2024 Philly Fringe, journeys through childhood trauma, disability, and the cosmos. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:36PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Tyshaun & Shekinah’s Forbidden Fruit, a circus-dance work about Black experiences, is part of Cannonball’s inaugural Black Circus Week. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:20PMMonday, September 9, 2024
For this year’s cabaret-style Fringe entry, REV Theatre Company takes over a basement nightclub with MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING, boasting great music and committed performers. Melissa Str…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:22PMSaturday, August 31, 2024
Choreographer Caili Quan sits down with contributor Melissa Strong to discuss her journey from Guam to Philly and from dancer to choreographer.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:11PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
New York Circus Project’s Hamlet put an inventive circus spin on Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy with performances at Philly’s FringeArts in late July. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:22PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Freelancer Alyssandra Docherty talks about her work as a lighting designer, how the light bulb got turned on for her, and how she manages to keep learning and growing. Melissa Strong preview…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:55AMTuesday, July 16, 2024
The
fallout from the June closure of UArts continues for students, staff, faculty,
and alumni, including artists who are central to Philly’s dance scene. Melissa
Strong talks to Keila Pér…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:36AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
A split bill from Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company and Yu.S.Artistry titled Two Worlds offered strikingly different styles of contemporary dance, from folklore and fantasy to urgent re…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:16AMTuesday, June 18, 2024
A new opera about the visionary but little-known painter Hilma af Klint perpetuates longstanding dismissals of women artists and may be a keen disappointment to fans of her work. Melissa Str…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:09PMMonday, May 20, 2024
Meredith Rainey’s BUILDING takes a metatheatrical approach to his work as the Performance Garage’s DanceVisions 2023-2024 Resident Artist. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:31PMTuesday, April 30, 2024
The world premiere of Koresh’s Hollow Apple tackles a timely subject in its 2024 Spring Home Season performance. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:27PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Kun-Yang Lin Dancers shine in the world premiere of Breath into Air alongside Mandala Project and works by Weiwei Ma and Evalina Carbonell. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:49PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Philadelphia dancer and choreographer Gary W. Jeter II presents Filaments, a work exploring connections between humans and the structure of the universe. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:13PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Blurb (a two- or three-sentence summary): Roger Lee Dance Company presents Galaxy, a timely new family-friendly performance inspired by the Milky Way. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:40PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Two artists with ties to Koresh Dance Company, Melissa Rector
and Jim Bunting, continue their choreography journeys with a collaborative performance
exploring healing, truth, and self-awaren…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:33PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Choreographer Sarah Carlson and composer Vernon J. Mobley explore trauma in The Body Keeps the Score: Dancing with Trauma and Recovery, an original work inspired by Bessel van der Kolk’s w…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:00AMTuesday, January 23, 2024
LA-based dance troupe BODYTRAFFIC takes an inclusive perspective on contemporary dance, featuring a world premiere by Matthew Neenan and a repertory work by Trey McIntyre. Melissa Strong rev…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:12PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Flair Dance Company’s Cracked Nuts celebrates the holidays with a modern, comic twist on The Nutcracker. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:37PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Melissa Strong used to leave the lights on after watching The X-Files, and hated doing anything risky or scary. But when she pushed herself to begin watching horror movies, she experienced a…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PMPHILADANCO! honors late resident choreographer Gene Hill Sagan in a program also including two company premieres and two world premieres featuring returning and new choreographers. Melissa S…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:59AMMonday, October 23, 2023
In its 2023 Fall Series, BalletX presents Eros & Psyche by Jamar Roberts, Exalt by Jennifer Archibald, and the world premiere of Siete by Matthew Neenan. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:26PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
Camden Rep presents the world premiere of Child Support by Desi P. Shelton, a site-specific, immersive play that explores emotional, financial, and relational repercussions of playing the ch…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:29PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
Performance Garage presents a free panel discussion on being Black in ballet with 2023-2024 DanceVisions Resident Artist Meredith Rainey, choreographer Tommie-Waheed Evans, and founder of Me…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:20PMThursday, September 28, 2023
Cannonball Festival presented two solo shows about sex workers: Ella-Gabriel Mason’s Sex Werque: Notes from the Field and Kaytlin Bailey’s Whore’s Eye View. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:00PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
Cannonball Festival presents two solo shows at the intersection of trans identity and circus arts, Toni Cannon’s ReFlection and Mae West’s $7 Girl. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:52PMMonday, September 11, 2023
Two Fringe Festival performances feature classical forms of dance while looking to the present and future: Aylin Bayaz and Raúl Mannola’s Flamencodanza and KCBCxKCBC II’s Summer Series.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:32PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Roxey Ballet presents the second annual River Dance Festival, featuring diverse talent from across the nation. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:33PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
Keila Pérez-Vega talks her favorite parts of performing on stage, her behind-the-scenes work that informs her perspective, and how her upbringing instilled vital skills that she still uses …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:02PMMijkalena Smith, Malcolm Shute, and Jessica Warchal-King offer a diverse summer dance program at CHI Movement Arts Center. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:55PMFriday, July 14, 2023
BalletX presents Nicolo Fonte’s Sidd: A Hero’s Journey, an evening-length ballet inspired by Herman Hesse’s classic novel about the journey of self-discovery. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:12PMWednesday, May 10, 2023
The Philadelphia Ballet concludes its season with Coppélia, a new full-length work full of humor and fantasy, featuring choreography by artistic director Angel Corella. Melissa Strong previ…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PM 
