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On Stage: Kyle Comes Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmCyHquYpbs It was a real pleasure to see the magnificent Kyle Abraham and his dancers at the August Wilson Center, which was reviewed at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. But I have to underscore my last statement, that Pittsburgh should...
On Stage: Stringing Steps Together, Bit By Bit
Point Park University always opens its season with Student Choreography. Not only choreography by students, but lighting designers and stage managers as well. And the results are quite remarkable. PPU used to pick the students who submitted the best proposals in their...
On Film: Bill Is Back
Performer Bill Shannon has been breaking new barriers in dance. Now the globe-trotting artist, based in Pittsburgh, is coming home with his latest work at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Here's a preview of the preview coming up later this month (see Listings):...
On Stage: LINES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scBVuZjvzw Dance writers often think, "been there, done that." And when Alonzo King LINES Ballet came to town to open the Pittsburgh Dance Council season (see Post-Gazette preview), I had seen his work on three previous occasions. But...
On Stage: Follow the Bouncing Dancers`
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o3PJKB8CsI These guys were here a while back at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater's Dance Alloy Studios, but I never forgot them. This seemingly nonsensical piece seems particularly necessary in today's social and political climate. Yes,...
On Stage: Water Dance
The Monongahela. It was an impossibly perfect night on a Saturday night in Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River where viewers could take in the debut of the city's newest dance company, The Blanket. Read about it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Friday night may have...
On Stage: Extra! Extra! Dance All Around It!
As the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera continues its summer of excellence, it turned to yet another Disney production, the second such this year (The Little Mermaid) at the Benedum Center. But where Mermaid swam with bubbly tunes over and under the sea, Newsies...
On Stage: Under the Sea With the CLO
Just call the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera's splashy version of Disney's The Little Mermaid simply bubblelicious. Yes, there are bubbles everywhere -- filling the opening scrim, floating in a tower across the stage, defining the beach where Ariel covets a whole new...
On Stage: Bringing "Paris" Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBOqLRX4xNs Paris is (or should be) on everyone's bucket list, whether it is the City of Light itself or the original movie starring Gene Kelly. Now An American in Paris can come calling to a city nearby. That is, in this case,...
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