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Dance Beat: Jessica, Jewels, James
DANCE JAM! Pittsburgh artist manager Jessica Marino (JAMpress management) is joining with Green Street Studios of Cambridge, Massachusetts to form Tracks to provide multiple showcase opportunities for dancers. Jessica and friends hope to "foster a creative...
On Stage: Attack-ing the Holidays
Take in Attack Theatre's spirit-driven (holiday, uplifting, etc.) Unbolted. Click on Attack.
Dance Beat: Lovin' Lil Buck
Art is art.
On Stage: A Millennial Response to "Dora" and World War II
This critique was written by Annette Elphinstone, a senior dance major at Point Park University from Freedom, Pennsylvania. It was given as an assignment in the newly-created course, "Dance Aesthetics and Criticism" We have all read and discussed the tragic...
On Stage: Introducing Peter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fevDew-8oSo In a way, Finding Neverland is the prequel to the numerous films and stage productions of J.M. Barrie's celebrated story, describing the boy who became Peter Pan. Except, perhaps, that this Broadway musical focuses on the...
On Stage: Head Over Heels for "Kinky Boots"
One famous quote about dancer Ginger Rogers smirked that she did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Well, ladies, the shoe company/drag queen musical Kinky Boots is putting its own stamp on that, in fact, elevating it to a new level with...
Dance Beat: Patricia, Matt, Brazzies, Charrette, Attack
A Wilde Award. Former Pittsburgh artistic director Patricia Wilde added yet another award to her treasure chest. She was honored by the National Museum of Dance in Saratoga, New York, along with famed tap dancer Gregory Hines, whose award was accepted by tapper...
On Stage: Dance Africa
Dance Africa's Erin Perry and staff have put together a rich look at traditional ethnic dance and more. It's also a great opportunity for artists to immerse themselves in the sophisticated and alluring rhythms of West African and Caribbean drumming. And the...
On Stage: Inside Women
We all know that women wear many faces while they perform many things -- nurture children, run a home, hold down a job and create new and wonderful things. But it's great to see younger women realizing this, as in Elisa-Marie Alaio's feminist-inspired...
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