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Koresh dancer Jessica Daley: Getting psyched for battle. (Photo: Cabriel Bienczycki.)

Koresh Dance Company’s season opener

Intense, highly rhythmic and strangely engrossing

I’d known of the Koresh Dance Company, but until last weekend I’d had no exposure to its work. I came away from its seasonal opening boggled and bedazzled by what I’m prepared to call a major work.

Gary L. Day

Nov 19, 2013 Articles 2 minute read

Nichole Canuso, the all-wise expert of dance

Nichole Canuso's 'The Garden'

An exhilarating exploration of space and self

All reviews are subjective, of course. But never have I experienced a dance performance that is so individualized that objectivity is absolutely impossible.

Steve Cohen

Nov 06, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Taylor back in the day: The spirit endures. (Photo: Tom Caravalgia.)

Paul Taylor Dance Company at Annenberg

Still growing at 83

For 60 years Paul Taylor has created choreography that often deals with controversial themes and ideas. But he’s still evolving, as last weekend’s retrospective program demonstrated.

Gary L. Day

Oct 28, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Lucinda Childs: Origins of post-modern dance

Lucinda Childs, body and soul

Some of the best of Philadelphia’s modern dancers recreated the challenging work of Lucinda Childs, a pioneer of post-modern dance in America.

Jonathan M. Stein

Oct 12, 2013 Articles 5 minute read

Diverse ethnicities, identical body types.

Our debt to "So You Think You Can Dance'

Where popularity trumps talent (which isn't necessarily bad)

Dance purists find “So You Think You Can Dance” superficial, commercial and degrading. Not me. In an age when dance desperately needs to expand its audience, this popular reality show shows us how to succeed— assuming we can stand success.

Roger Lee

Sep 08, 2013 Articles 2 minute read

Pennsylvania Ballet founder Barbara Weisberger (left) with Brown and Luckman: Can we get along? (Photo: Alexander Iziliaev.)

Dance/USA and the race issue

Dance and race: Confronting the elephant

At Dance/USA's annual conference, dancers and impresarios usually spend their time talking about dance and economics, but rarely about race. This year's gathering in Philadelphia confronted the issue head-on.

Merilyn Jackson

Jul 02, 2013 Articles 6 minute read

The crowd gasped: Vidich and Hoffman slice into the water.

Alie Vidich's "Invisible River'

Just when you thought you'd seen everything

Alie Vidich is a 28-year-old movement artist who dreams impossible dreams. In her latest open-air spectacle, she and a fellow dancer pay homage to the Schuylkill River and Mother Nature by performing an aerial dance off the Strawberry Mansion Bridge in Fairmount Park.

Jonathan M. Stein

Jun 20, 2013 Articles 3 minute read

Amy Aldridge, Hussey: Feast for the mind and the senses. (Photo: Candice DeTore.)

Pennsylvania Ballet: Forsythe and Kylián

Rising to the occasion

Innovative works by William Forsythe and JiÅ™í Kylián revealed the strengths of an outstanding company of dancers who should be offered more such challenging choreography, as well as an audience equally willing to be challenged.

Jonathan M. Stein

Jun 17, 2013 Articles 5 minute read