On Stage: At the Rock

It’s always a treat to make the trip up to Slippery Rock University to see a performance, if only to luxuriate in the turn-out, usually averaging around 700, that the dance department gets from the Rock’s student population. Sometimes you think...

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...