THE GLUE FACTORY. Former Dance Alloy Theater artistic director Beth Corning is up and moving again. She has resurrected THE GLUE FACTORY, a project that she initiated in Minnesota and is now resurrected here in Pittsburgh under the aegis of her new company, CORNING WORKS. The line-up of dancers, all over 40, is impressive: Peter Sparling (former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Company), Janet Lilly (former principal dancer with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company), Cathy Young (former principal dancer with Danny Buraczeski’s JAZZDANCE), Michael Blake (former dancer with Jose Limon and Donald Byrd companies) and David Covey (“better known for his award-winning lighting designs for dance, less known for his past dancing career). They will interpret Corning’s own brand of dance theater in “A Seat at the Table” at the New Hazlett Theatre Mar. 25-28.
MICHIGAN CONNECTION. Although former Pittsburgher Sreyashi Dey has moved to Michigan, she sends greetings and evidence of her still-busy schedule with guru Manoranjan Prandhan, talented twin daughters and a student. You can find a slideshow at her gallery.
HOLIDAY SPIRIT. Congratulations to Wexford Dance Academy for “The Kringle Jingle,” a potpourri of holiday-tinged productions from ballet to rock and roll with a smart, professional look and featuring “So You Think You Can Dance” 2009 runner-up Brandon Bryant in a popular solo, and Broadway Dance Studio’s “Christmas Spectacular” for its energetic musical theater approach that brought its own sparkle to the season. And, while the main company took to the Benedum Center stage for the annual production of the “Nutcracker,” members of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School took time to visit Children’s Hospital with some excerpts from the production, including the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Grand Pas de Deux with her cavalier and the Chinese, Russian and Spanish variations and then visited with patients.
NEW YEAR. The January dance Listings are up and running now. Several Kennedy Center performances are included because the distance is only four hours and there are companies of note coming our way. More on this later.
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