12 stories by "Ellen Dunkel"
The names of the company and the show tell you nothing, but 7 Fingers' Sequence 8 is fantastic, one of the most memorable Live Arts/Fringe performances I've seen over the years.
For 10 weeks, more than 150 non-dancers trained like professional dancers, and this afternoon Le Grand Continental had its Philadelphia premiere at the foot of the Art Museum steps.
With dance all over reality TV, in movies, and on music videos, one might think the interest would translate into theater as well. But concert dance still struggles. Jerome Robbins' 1958 pie…
I looked both ways three or four times Tuesday afternoon before I crossed Broad Street at Ellsworth, en route to the Rock School for Dance Education. That's the corner where, on March 18, Po…
Handel's "Messiah" is magnificent no matter what one's leanings, but the 2 1/4-hour-long ballet, set to the complete oratorio, may seem a bit of a haul for others, says Ellen Dunkel.
Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Riolama Lorenzo's final performance before retiring is Sunday, but it was already a lovefest Thursday night, when the company opened its Pushing Boundari…
After 22 years of being the rare American ballet company without a school, Pennsyvlania Ballet is reopening the School of Pennsylvania Ballet "sometime in the fall," says company artistic di…
Colin Quinn's solo show Long Story Short, visiting Philadelphia Theatre Company's Suzanne Roberts Theatre after an extended Broadway run, makes good on its title. In the first 10 minutes, Qu…
