Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Nearly closed by police and thunderstorms, this dance under the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on the Schuylkill held us in suspense.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:42PMFriday, June 14, 2013
The Pennsylvania Ballet closes its 2013 spring season with an artistically varied program that is emotionally and intellectually satisfying.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:33PMFriday, April 12, 2013
A physical theater work that asks all the right questions.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:41AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
No victory snatched by Savion Glover's lack of visible feet on remote stage at Academy of Music.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:02PMFriday, March 1, 2013
Two stylish, moving premieres: Parsons and company never fail to please.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 11:07AMThursday, February 28, 2013
A rare appearance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Philly at the Painted Bride.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:36PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Ailey Company at Merriam brings home Rennie Harris's Home
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:14AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears bring beasts of the wild to the stage to howls and hallelujahs.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:46PMMonday, December 17, 2012
The all-male ballet troupe affectionately call themselves the Trocks and frolic like lords-a-leaping.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:55PMThursday, December 13, 2012
Choreographer and artist team for a work at Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:20PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Koresh Dance Company's Fall run "Trust"
SOURCE: Philly.com at 08:46PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
With his choreography for BalletX last week, Rome's Mauro Astolfi's Spellbound Contemporary Dance made its North American debut at Annenberg Center this week.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:08PMThursday, November 8, 2012
BalletX's program started off as dark and stormy as the night, wound through two world premieres, and ended with Matthew Neenan's lovely, upbeat "Switch Phase," says Merilyn Jackson.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:51PMSaturday, October 27, 2012
In Carbon Dance Theatre’s Science Per Forms Meredith Rainey and Marcel Williams Foster ask which drives which, the body or the machine?
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:00AMMonday, September 17, 2012
"The Gate Reopened" is, like all Brian Sanders' work, thrilling, inventive, daring, ingenious and very witty, says critic Merilyn Jackson.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:18PM"I didn’t think I could be bored looking at beautifully built dancers in the buff," writes critic Merilyn Jackson, "but absent a single touch of irony or comic relief throughout [Jumatatu …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:05PMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Three Poland-based women give North American premieres of their solos
SOURCE: Philly.com at 05:02PMThursday, September 13, 2012
A daring and funny revue of erotic poetry and monologues in a very relaxed atmosphere.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:18AMMonday, September 10, 2012
A Gentlemen's Club revue as performed by trained dancers.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:25AMSunday, September 9, 2012
Thaddeus Phillips redesigned take on Edgar Allen Poe's last days.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:07AMFriday, September 7, 2012
Absurdist theater for all time and all peoples: Ivona, Princess of Burgundia by Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium
SOURCE: Philly.com at 01:20AMThursday, September 6, 2012
Dancers Nichole Canuso and John Luna in 'Return Return Departure,' a collaborative dance/gallery experience at sunset with music by Michael Kiley commissioned by the American Philosophical S…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:57PMFriday, July 13, 2012
BalletX regularly conceives scintillating programs — mysterious, sexy, funny, and surprising. This one, says critic Merilyn Jackson, is no different.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:18PMFriday, June 1, 2012
A new pairing joine an established on in reflecstions on identity. There are highs and not-so-highs, says Merilyn Jackson.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:11PMFriday, May 18, 2012
MOMIX offers an exotic caravan of pieces to an enthusiastic audience at the Annenberg, says critic Merilyn Jackson.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 09:41PMThursday, March 8, 2012
Leah Stein has been creating site-specific and stage dance since 1987. Ten years ago, she formed her own company, and this weekend Philadelphia Dance Projects celebrates its 10th anniversar…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 06:23PMMonday, February 27, 2012
Merilyn Jackson finds playfulness, poetry and philosophy in dancer/choreographer John Jasperse's revisiting of his 2000 piece "Fort Blossom" at Bryn Mawr.
SOURCE: Philly.com at 07:11PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Abe Lincoln had an irksome dream that he’d be assassinated just two weeks before he actually was. Dancer Lindsay Browning and her father, actor David Browning, collaborated in a dance thea…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 04:53PMMonday, December 5, 2011
“Ties that Bind,” seen at the Painted Bride over the weekend, exemplified, through the choreography of three Philadelphia dance makers, just how this dance community creatively pools it…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:26PMFriday, December 2, 2011
What a wonderful thing when a city’s audience base sustains an arts organization for two decades or more, says critic Merilyn Jackson. Koresh Dance Company’s 20th anniversary year is upo…
SOURCE: Philly.com at 03:57PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Merilyn Jackson revisits Gabrielle Revlock's "Share" and savors a first look at Lionel Popkin's "There Is an Elephant in This Dance."
SOURCE: Philly.com at 12:40PM 
