On the Road: Summer in the City

Yes, I’ll be spending one hot summer day in one of my favorite cities — New York. If Washington D.C. had an intriguing Ballet Smackdown going between the Bolshoi and Royal Ballets, American Ballet Theatre has a Ballerina Smackdown to offer in a pair of...

Off Stage: Mia Michaels Unplugged

On television’s So You Think You Can Dance, Emmy award-winning choreographer and judge Mia Michaels seems undeterred by Nigel Lythgoe, unfazed by the screaming from Mary Murphy and nonplussed by the whole audience scene. Recently the Emmy-winning choreographer...

On the Road: Kennedy Center

Dance is virtually on hiatus in Pittsburgh, except for a few studio star turns to be visited shortly. So it’s time to hit the road and find some. If the mountain won’t come to Mohammed…you get the picture. This Friday I’m heading to Washington,...

On Stage: Dueling "Serenades" and more…

It wasn’t a coordinated effort, but instead a bit of serendipitous scheduling from Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and Pittsburgh Youth Ballet Company that local dance fans wound up with dueling “Serenades” at the end of the school year. It was bound to happen...