Friday, October 1, 2021
A former Philly railroad plant becomes the perfect home for Lithuanian opera Sun & Sea, which shines at this year’s Fringe Festival. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:14PMSaturday, September 18, 2021
New Paradise Laboratories founder Whit MacLaughlin is back onstage for the first time since 1996, exploring the poem that might be his salvation in 707 Hazardous Moves. Merilyn Jackson revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:08PMSunday, September 5, 2021
There are as many different ways to review Love Unpunished as there are people who died on 9/11. But only the living can remember, and speak a little about the unspeakable. Merilyn Jackson r…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 06:45PMTuesday, May 18, 2021
Manfred Fischbeck passed away on March 17, 2021, but his Philadelphia dance legacy lives on. Merilyn Jackson remembers.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:33PMMonday, July 13, 2020
With stages dark around the world, dance critic Merilyn Jackson remembers the path of her musical education, rooted in the sounds of Philadelphia.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:14PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
Originally commissioned to be performed at the Guggenheim, this series of short dance films features BalletX artists finding their way on unexpected stages. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:31PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Is style just something you recognize when you see it? Doug Varone and Dancers still have it in a special residency performance at Swarthmore, despite two decades of a changing ensemble. Mer…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:01PMFriday, September 8, 2017
Big Dance Theater takes on 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys and contemporary parallels in the Philly Fringe's opening night production. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:58PMFriday, June 16, 2017
Automatic Arts' SoLow Festival entry, 'All on 1,' brings four short performance works to the PII Gallery. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 09:46PMThursday, January 19, 2017
Doug Varone and Dancers bring four worthy pieces to NextMove Dance at the Prince Theater. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:07PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
Pennsylvania Ballet's "Balanchine and Beyond" program dances the intricacies of poetry, ballet, and Trisha Brown's contemporary dance language.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:35PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
The conceit of the collaboration is "a night of dance listening and organ watching." So, with the grand Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ looming relâche above us, a smaller organ reigned on st…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:36PMSunday, March 27, 2016
In "Show No Show" at FringeArts, dancers Gabrielle Revlock and Aleksandr "Sasha" Frolov perform physical theater, conveying the awkwardness and power struggles of collaborating with someone …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:46PMFriday, February 5, 2016
His ability to pull at both the comic and tragic sides of the Janus mask in a millisecond makes Ezralow’s dances spellbinding.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:49PMSunday, January 31, 2016
This year, the Avenue of the Arts lives up to its name as never before. The Pennsylvania Ballet soars at the Merriam and Academy of Music with Ángel Corella’s first full season of program…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:21PMFriday, January 15, 2016
By Merilyn Jackson
For the Inquirer
The stellar Ballets Jazz de Montreal generously gives the spotlight to Mark Francis Caserta, dancing to his hometown audience with a luxuriantly sensu…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:40PMSunday, November 29, 2015
The voices of children reciting the pledge of allegiance float over Brent White’s opening chords, resonating with Putty White’s movement schema.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:19PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Nicolo Fonte: The Brooklyn native retired from dancing 15 years ago, once his now-international choreographic career began to soar. He last worked with BalletX in 2013, when he set Beautiful…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:20PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
At the talkback, instead of predictable questions like how or when did you think of doing this duet, I'd have asked about the chalk circles. Were they geometric maps for them to follow or we…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:40PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
The idea for the work came to the pair when Jacek Kaspszyk told them about a pianist who "was drunk or afraid and escaped through the bathroom window rather than attempt to play the concerti…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:26PMFriday, October 23, 2015
The night was a roller coaster of pain wrung out with joy, middle fingers upraised.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:26PMFriday, October 16, 2015
A new era for dance swept into Philadelphia with the opening night Wednesday of NextMove at Chestnut St. Prince Theater.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:24AMFriday, September 11, 2015
In 55 minutes of endurance, the dancers seem to be on invisible tracks. The legs open just a little wider, then more emphatically, as Adams’ music builds to a thunderous crescendo and what…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:52PMThursday, September 10, 2015
Strømgren’s first name is pronounced ‘you’, though since he seems on the verge of becoming an honorary Philadelphian, I am tempted to call him ‘Yo.’ And why not? His invented lang…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:14PMThursday, September 3, 2015
In the spring, she revised Available Light at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and Gehry, now 86, redesigned the set for the proscenium stage, making it portable for touring - w…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:37PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
The brainchild of Roni Koresh and brother Alon, the festival began in 2013 and has expanded rapidly, jumping from 26 companies presented last year to 33 this year.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:36PMTuesday, July 7, 2015
BalletX is rehearsing for its summer run, opening Wednesday, at the Wilma Theater. In one corner, dancers try on shoes, speaking softly so as not to disturb the duet across the room, under t…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:31AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
Having four highly regarded dance companies within a few blocks on the Avenue of the Arts makes Philadelphia unique in all of America. Some of that Broad Street dazzle will be on display at …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:13PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Amy Smith, as Jane Fonda, lends the controversial work her humor.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:58PMWednesday, April 22, 2015
Song as soul or self inspired A Forgotten Moon-Song, the lovely and lyrical world-premiere commission that three-time Bessie Award-winner Dianne McIntyre set on Philadanco to open the compan…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:09PMTuesday, April 14, 2015
During a run-through at FringeArts several weeks ago, it was clear she used that sorrow to make a moving paean with simple four-beat phrases that don't so much externalize the melancholy yet…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:13AM 
