Off Stage: A Weight-y Responsibility for Point Park

Point Park University made front page news at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday over a so-called “fat list” of dancers that was posted on the dance students’ call board. Of course, weight is always an issue for dancers and young women between the...

Dance Notes: PBT, PDC

LOVE STORY. It was no coincidence that the colors for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s 40th anniversary Pointe in Time ball were pink and blue. Co-chairs Meg and Robert Eberly III were two weeks away from giving birth to their second child. But there was even more...

On Stage: Intimate in New York

Pittsburgh native Jordan Marinov has been working on intimacy for a year and a half. And she’s finally finding it in the heart of New York City at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It’s considered the world’s busiest, where approximately 200,000...

On Stage: A Few Words to the Young at Art

Susan Gillis, long-time faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Health and Physical Acitivity, where she runs the dance minor program and directs the Pitt Dance Ensemble, forwarded this text of First Lady Michelle Obama’s speech at...

On Stage: Creativity and Spilling Ink

Vijay Paliparty calls himself a “one-man band,” but it has nothing to do with instruments. The former student at Carnegie Mellon University decided to move to the Washington D.C./Virginia area for “a little more career growth.” According to...