Monday, January 31, 2022
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater celebrates a decade with artistic director Robert Battle in the company’s 2022 tour, which kicked off last week at the Academy of Music. Melissa Strong r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:34PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Dorrance Dance honors and expands upon tap traditions in a program including two Pennsylvania premieres and some holiday cheer for its return to live performance and debut at Penn Live Arts.…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:01AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Team Sunshine Performance Corporation returns with the fourth installment of The Sincerity Project, its 24-year-long artistic experiment that uses performance to explore the shifting contour…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:20PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
Koresh Dance Company looks to the past and the future in world premiere TikVAH, establishing itself as a Philadelphia treasure. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:10PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
The Barnes Foundation presents the world premiere of Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel, the first major US exhibition of the groundbreaking French artist. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:00PMMonday, September 27, 2021
Kyle Marshall Choreography draws inspiration from the church, the club, and Afrofuturism in a Fringe Festival event combining a dance film with a live performance. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:49PMMonday, September 20, 2021
A performance from Galumpha combined acrobatics, choreography, and physical theater for a special one-day stint at the Cannonball Festival. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:30PMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM & DCO) performs its signature Umbrella Dance this weekend. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:00PMTuesday, July 13, 2021
Dragonbutter is an inventive hour-long experience from Brian Sanders’ JUNK that inserts participants into a hands-on science-fiction video-game quest. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:31PMFriday, May 28, 2021
Pennsylvania Ballet offers elegance, emotion, and synchrony in world premieres by Russell Ducker, Meredith Rainey, and Juliano Nunes choreographed to the music of Jennifer Higdon. Melissa St…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:21PMFriday, April 2, 2021
Rennie Harris Puremovement offers embodied history for our times in a livestream performance from the Annenberg. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:33PMMonday, March 8, 2021
‘A Modern-Day Carmen Fantasy’ reunites the Philadelphia Orchestra with Brian Sanders’ JUNK for an innovative concert with movement for home viewers. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:11PMMonday, December 14, 2020
2020 Ibsen Award-winner Taylor Mac celebrates the dysfunction of the holidays in ‘Holiday Sauce…Pandemic!,’ a virtual vaudeville performance exploring the power of chosen family throug…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:03PMFriday, December 11, 2020
What is the state of ‘The Nutcracker’—beloved holiday tradition and the equivalent of retail’s Black Friday for dance companies—in 2020? Melissa Strong considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:02PMMonday, November 16, 2020
Sex, gender, and dance collide in ‘Aviva,’ a film about love and identity written and directed by Boaz Yakin, with choreography by Bobbi Jene Smith, formerly of Batsheva Dance Company. M…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:13PMMonday, October 19, 2020
Pam Tanowitz Dance’s Philadelphia premiere combines elegance with immediacy in a virtual performance. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:14PMMonday, October 5, 2020
A performance made for pandemic, ‘The Way Out’ took audiences on a drive-in journey through music, movement, theater, and glassblowing at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:14PMMonday, September 28, 2020
Two performances explore dance during pandemic for the 2020 Fringe Festival. Artist House/Asya Zlatina + Dancers and stb x at offer different experiences combining movement, technology, and …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:40PMTuesday, September 15, 2020
Apartment 20 adapts Enid Dame’s collection of poems ‘Lilith and Her Demons’ into a song cycle for the 2020 Fringe Festival, exploring how and where we see the Lilith of Jewish folklore…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:55PMTuesday, July 21, 2020
What might Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for beloved community look like in pandemic-era Philadelphia? Melissa Strong considers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:42AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Best-known as a musical composition, 'Appalachian Spring' originated as a ballet of the same name. A 1944 recording of this Martha Graham Dance Company performance is now streaming for free,…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:35PMMonday, June 8, 2020
‘Storm,’ a performance of the Works & Process Artists Virtual Commission Series, packs emotional punch into a short solo dance now streaming free on YouTube. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:41PMSaturday, April 11, 2020
National Theatre Live delivers a fresh production of Jane Eyre as bold as the heroine of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel, streaming free on YouTube through April 16, 2020. Melissa Strong…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:38PMMonday, March 23, 2020
Does a dance critic need to be a dancer? Dance writer Melissa Strong has spent years answering that question for herself.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:46PMMonday, February 24, 2020
JCWK Dance Lab’s ‘HOMEbody’ explores the physical embodiment of home in an ambitious and inspiring new dance. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:56PMMonday, January 27, 2020
A visit from Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Annenberg showcased the late choreographer’s unique vision and range in a program that didn’t always cohere. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:47PMMonday, December 16, 2019
PHILADANCO’s 'Xmas Philes' at the Annenberg reminded dance lovers of the full spectrum of holiday emotions. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:55PMMonday, November 25, 2019
Koresh’s sixth annual Come Together Dance Festival is one of the region’s top opportunities for a diversity of dance on one stage. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:15PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Ujima Dance Theatre’s An Afternoon of Dance, part of SoLow Fest 2019, contained five inspiring, globally minded works. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:48PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
LA-based BODYTRAFFIC brought contemporary dance in a wide range of styles in a program presented by Annenberg Center Live and NextMove Dance. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:48AMMonday, April 8, 2019
Orchestra met stirring acrobatics when JUNK tackled Prokofiev alongside Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:05PM 
