93 stories by "Merilyn Jackson"
Spring Arts - Dance: A dozen dances for spring including a few more online picks
world premiere of Susan Rethorst's THEN, with Group Motion and artistic director Manfred Fischbeck, was a bright, cheery, even cheeky little dance
Eleanor Tanks, Colony Soars
The ever popular BodyVox returns to Annenberg
An easy, breezy program by Keigwin + Company at Annenberg.
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers in 20 year retrospective of Lin's works with four Philadelphia premieres and a world premiere by Olive Prince
After 60 years as one of America's most beloved dance makers, 83-year-old Paul Taylor could rest on his laurels. But he won't.
Two vastly different dance works opening Thursday as part of the Fringe Festival's final weekend.
Swinging between childhood dreams and nightmares and adult sexuality. We become what we dream.
Three overly-caffeinated Frenchmen are horrified and mystified to discover a used tea bag in their coffee shop. War ensues.
Nearly closed by police and thunderstorms, this dance under the Strawberry Mansion Bridge on the Schuylkill held us in suspense.
The Pennsylvania Ballet closes its 2013 spring season with an artistically varied program that is emotionally and intellectually satisfying.
A physical theater work that asks all the right questions.
No victory snatched by Savion Glover's lack of visible feet on remote stage at Academy of Music.
Two stylish, moving premieres: Parsons and company never fail to please.
A rare appearance of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Philly at the Painted Bride.
Ailey Company at Merriam brings home Rennie Harris's Home
Choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears bring beasts of the wild to the stage to howls and hallelujahs.
The all-male ballet troupe affectionately call themselves the Trocks and frolic like lords-a-leaping.
Choreographer and artist team for a work at Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum
Koresh Dance Company's Fall run "Trust"
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.
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.
In Carbon Dance Theatre's Science Per Forms Meredith Rainey and Marcel Williams Foster ask which drives which, the body or the machine?
"The Gate Reopened" is, like all Brian Sanders' work, thrilling, inventive, daring, ingenious and very witty, says critic Merilyn Jackson.
