Dance Beat: Dance Films, Twyla, Dance Teachers

by | Oct 27, 2015 | Dance Beat

DANCE ON FILM. We know that the Bolshoi and Royal ballet companies have been putting out live performances aimed at mass market filmgoers for several years now. Click on Bolshoi.  Click on Royal. But it appears that there is another facet, Lincoln Center at the...

Dance Beat: Loti Falk Gaffney

by | Oct 20, 2015 | Dance Beat

Maybe they knew something. Above is the tribute that Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre assembled in honor of board founder Loti Falk Gaffney at the 45th Anniversary Gala last April at the Benedum Center. It was a wonderful occasion, with board members fully committed to send...

Film: Bolshoi Ballet Series

by | Oct 9, 2015 | Uncategorized

The Bolshoi Ballet is full of drama, seen onstage in its performances and offstage in the acid thrown in the face of artistic director Sergei Filin, almost blinding him (yes, he’s still there). There is more, though, to be seen in the current Bolshoi Ballet in...

On Stage: A Piquant Winter's Tale"

by | Oct 1, 2015 | Uncategorized

Quantum Theatre’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” was surprisingly sumptuous, deftly moving beyond the gritty city adventures usually conjured up by artistic director Karla Boos. That doesn’t mean, though, that it was any less of an...