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Pilobolus at the Annenberg Center
Defying boundaries
Dancing by the long-running Pilobolus troupe is about fighting the limitations of not only the body, but also the environment and the imagination.
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The Pennsylvania Ballet's Tribute to Jerome Robbins
A storyteller's legacy
The Tribute to Jerome Robbins was a triumph as the dancers from the Pennsylvania Ballet soared in their interpretation of Robbins’s works.
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RUBBERBANDance at the Annenberg
Hip-hop grows up
RUBBERBANDance Group's artistic director and choreographer Victor Quijada takes hip-hop dance language, with all the athletic expressiveness of urban youth culture, and injects it into a formal modern dance structure.
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Copeland and Mack in the Washington Ballet's 'Swan Lake'
Black and white swans
Misty Copeland and Brooklyn Mack starred in Washington Ballet’s production of Swan Lake. This is the first time an American production of the ballet has cast black dancers as the leading couple.
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Jessica Lang Dance at the Annenberg
Coming home
Like performing at the Super Bowl in front of your home crowd, Doylestown native Jessica Lang introduced her New York-based company to old friends, family, and art enthusiasts at the Annenberg Center.
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Two productions of 'Swan Lake'
The price of a swan
Contrary to what the “experts” say, ballet is neither dead nor dying. It is merely under the sort of spell that can only be broken by love for it.
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Black Grace at the Annenberg Center
Calisthenics as dance
The choreography in Black Grace's program at the Annenberg was a mixed bag, full of exuberance and young promise, yet lacking the heft of a mature artist.
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Prokofiev’s 'Prodigal Son' at the Pennsylvania Ballet (second review)
Loving the prodigal
Prodigal Son is one of only two Balanchine ballets from the Diaghilev period that survive to this day, no doubt because men and women still grapple with sin, evil, and justice, and because sons continue to rebel and fathers to forgive.
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Prokofiev’s 'Prodigal Son' at the Pennsylvania Ballet (first review)
Going home again
The Pennsylvania Ballet Company has grown into a first-class troupe under Artistic Director Angel Corella, as its midwinter program showed.
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The Peek-A-Boo Revue at the Trocadero
Feminine intervention
The Peek-A-Boo Revue represents women who are not mainstream depictions of female sexuality and beauty, therefore providing a counter-narrative to conversations concerning sexual politics.
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