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On Stage: The Blanket’s “Yolk & Grove” by Beth Gill Demands (And Rewards) Repeat Viewing
On a warm overcast evening I hustle up a long metallic ramp that runs alongside the factory floor of Carrie Blast Furnace in Rankin. Entering the large repurposed space I see two long rows of folding chairs facing one another and separated by an equally long cardboard...
On Stage: The Blanket
The Blanket has morphed into so many configurations during its brief Pittsburgh life, but never so more as this year. After one of their rehearsal sessions, this one at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's light-filled and spacious studios, the central figures split off in...
On Stage: To the Point
It was being advertised as a duet between machine and dancer. But “Origami,” a featured event at the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival and the official opening for Pittsburgh Dance Council’s 50th anniversary season, was so much more than that. On the surface,...
Dance Beat: Point Park
Point Park University was aiming to focus on its new facility and the theater program for the upcoming 2019-20 season announcement. But it turned out that the dance department came to the forefront. It began with PPU president Paul Hennigan, who took note of Gabrielle...
On Stage: A Heartfelt “Come From Away”
When the planes flew into the World Trade Center, we did not/could not look past New York City for a long time. But the truth be told, there were numerous stories stemming from the residual impact of that searing, impossible-to-forget event. Searing it might have...
2018: VIP Dance Moments
Deborah Colker Dance
On Stage: 2018 in Review
What with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust presenting Pittsburgh International Festival and the Kelly Strayhorn Theater achieving a strong foothold on the national dance scene when it sponsored the NPN conference and PearlArts joining the presenting fray, there was a...
On Stage: King George, Dancer
On Stage: Juggling It All
This is only one of Cirque du Soleil's "procession" acts in Corteo. In a way, we're all jugglers. Work, the dishes, the kids, friends, just life in general. It was never more apparent than when Johan Juslin came to 6401 Penn Avenue a creative work space with just...
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