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On Stage: Hip Hop Nut
The dance field is getting more crowded around this time of year -- call it a Holiday Rave. There's the venerable Nutcracker at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, something that transcends it all.For musical theater lovers, though, there's Elf. Film buffs...
Video: Love Letter to Dance
Video: Love Letter to Dance
On Stage: “Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins” and more…
As a child, New York City choreographer Christopher Williams would visit the National Zoo in Washington D.C. and, to his parents’ chagrin, develop “an intensive love of creatures that were other than human. I would come home and imitate pigmy hippos and giraffes,” become involved in an “alternate physicality.”
PIFOF: Deborah Colker, In the Tunnel, What’s That?
Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts has been a great megaphone for political/social causes, certainly the best way to express sentiments in today’s politically combustible society.
PIFOF: Mrs. Krishnan, Gab Squad, Blind Cinema
Previous editions of Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts provided a mystical maze that delved into the latest developments in global performance -- all decidedly adult. This year there was a deliberate effort to include children's and family entertainment,...
PIFOF: Cirque Éloize Hotel
Pittsburgh has become a favorite stomping ground for Cirque du Soleil and I have to admit that I have seen virtually everything the venerable Montreal troupe has to offer. So as I took my seat at the Benedum Center for the PIFOF world premiere of Hotel, I wondered...
PIFOF: Manifold
We see plenty of ballet onstage at the Benedum Center, mostly from Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, but we've never seen a ballet (of sorts) projected onto the facade of the former movie palace. Then came Manifold. There it was -- an eight-minute example of projection...
PIFOF: Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTRGJIiVIEs It's the signature face of the Festival of Firsts, a tunnel-like structure that sits in a parking lot across Penn Avenue from the Benedum center. Unlike a tunnel, it's rather transparent, but ringed with lights that have a...
PIFOF: Quantum Theatre
The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts comes around once every five years and I've seen virtually everything that its sponsor, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has had to offer. I feel like it's taken me around the world and transformed the way I looked at...
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