On Stage: Stephen Petronio Brings RainForest Home

The Pittsburgh Dance Council season comes to a close with a performance of Merce Cunningham’s historic work, RainForest. For those of you who think that there are a lot of silver clouds just floating around, the Petronio company has to apply formally to use the...

Dance Beat: Tripping on Cuba

  With Cuba opening up its relations with the United States, we’ll certainly be hearing more about its storied dance companies. Here is an article from Huffington Post featuring photographer Omar Robies following his passion for dance in Havana. Share this:...

On Stage: Cabaret — Perfectly Marvelous

The advertising reads “Willkommen Back” and Cabaret, one of Broadway’s legendary shows, is definitely back in a big way. New York City has been peppered with revivals over the years, resulting in a Tony category in and of itself in 1994. But a...

Dance Beat: Teena Marie

It’s not often that you see an acknowledged hip hop artist who has a foundation in contemporary dance. But it’s even rarer that the artist is a woman. Teena Marie Custer, trained at Ohio State University, faculty member at Slippery Rock University and...

Dance Beat: On the Road Again

That’s the Yellow Brick Road, Munchkins. If you want to see the dark side of Oz, there’s the stage production of Wicked. If you want to see the funky side of Oz, there’s always The Wiz. Actually there was an original stage version in 1902, just two...