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Off Stage: A Weight-y Responsibility for Point Park
Point Park University made front page news at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday over a so-called "fat list" of dancers that was posted on the dance students' call board. Of course, weight is always an issue for dancers and young women between the ages of 16 to 19...
Dance Notes: PBT, PDC
LOVE STORY. It was no coincidence that the colors for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 40th anniversary Pointe in Time ball were pink and blue. Co-chairs Meg and Robert Eberly III were two weeks away from giving birth to their second child. But there was even more...
On Stage: Intimate in New York
Pittsburgh native Jordan Marinov has been working on intimacy for a year and a half. And she's finally finding it in the heart of New York City at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. It's considered the world's busiest, where approximately 200,000 people pass through the...
On Stage: A Few Words to the Young at Art
Susan Gillis, long-time faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Health and Physical Acitivity, where she runs the dance minor program and directs the Pitt Dance Ensemble, forwarded this text of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at CAPA during...
On Stage: Creativity and Spilling Ink
Vijay Paliparty calls himself a "one-man band," but it has nothing to do with instruments. The former student at Carnegie Mellon University decided to move to the Washington D.C./Virginia area for "a little more career growth." According to him, "It became a little...
On Stage: PBT — Ten from Forty
There aren't many who have stuck around for the long haul at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. The nature of the ballet company beast would have it so, with the relatively short careers of dancers, the gypsy nature of this artistic business and the small salaries that push...
On Stage: Everything Old Was New Again
Maybe it was the environmental aura about The Pillow Project's latest installment of its Second Saturday series, but a healthy crowd gathered at The Space Upstairs to sample some "Sophisticated Junk" last weekend. It was the perfect fit, with The Space being upstairs...
Dance Notes: PBT and King Richard
IN A GALA MOOD. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has a lot on its plate this week with the opening of its season with "The Sleeping Beauty" at the Benedum Center on Friday (see Martha Rial's photos). The Pittsburgh City Council presented a proclamation to artistic director...
Dance Notes: Fall for Dance
OCTOBER DANCE FEST. Dance Alloy hosted "In Good Company" last weekend as part of Penn Avenue's "First Friday" series. The "Company" aspect was led by several professional groups, including a sneak peak at Pearlann Porter's whimsical work-in-progress for The Pillow...
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