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The Pennsylvania Ballet: A 50th Finale
Not everything was beautiful at the ballet
Is it just the dancing that makes a ballet a work of art, or do we need the other elements as well? The final performance of the Pennsylvania Ballet's 50th anniversary season may have taken minimalism too far.
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Nichole Canuso's 'Midway Avenue'
The shape of home
One of our city’s most creative dance artists presents her most personal creation: a meditation on how her childhood home affected her life.
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Gala Flamenca and Flamenco Festival
The dance as trance or political statement
Flamenco is both a compelling dance form and a challenge. It forces us to ask whether dance is merely an aesthetic experience, or must we be mindful of the sociopolitical implications of the dancers and the dance in a cultural context? In other words, has art become politics?
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Doug Elkins at Annenberg
The evolution of Doug Elkins
After almost three decades of hip-hop and break dancing, Doug Elkins has infused his dance with a fresh and dynamic variety of other styles and voices.
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Pennsylvania Ballet’s ‘Coppélia’
Tried and true
Leo Delibes’s comic rural fable Coppélia provides a rare opportunity for ballet dancers to demonstrate their acting ability.
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Rasta Thomas’s Bad Boys of Dance at the Annenberg Center
Like a night at the Trocadero
Rasta Thomas specializes in high-energy jazz- and hip-hop-infused dance, heavy on rhythm and athleticism. The highly charismatic group of "Bad Boys" executed the physically demanding choreography with a gymnastic poise and strength as well as polished balletic technique.
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When ice dancing was young: talking with Irene Muehlbronner
Before Meryl and Charlie — Irene and Walter
America’s ice-dancing champions stand on the shoulders of another talented and charismatic couple, who waltzed, spun, and leaped on ice in simpler times.
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BalletX Winter 2014 program
Performing flexibly and with fun
BalletX’s dancers move in ways that are simultaneously strenuous and fluid, harsh and delicate, serious and amusing.
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ClassicAlive presents Gabriel Cabezas and Chloe Felesina
Ballet over easy with a cello on the side
How do you bring ballet out from behind the curtain of elitism and high ticket prices? Serve it for Sunday brunch (with mimosas) to families. That’s what LiveConnections at World Café Live does.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's 'Serenade'
A celebration of two dance anniversaries
George Balanchine's Serenade, first performed 80 years ago, has changed over the years, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's production preserves its loveliness and soul.
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