by jvranish | May 23, 2025 | CRE8DANCE, Dance Beat, On Stage
So you thought that the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre season was done. But there’s a juicy postscript on tap for this weekend. Not strictly PBT, but with distinct support from company-associated dancers. It has a clever title, CRE8DANCE (get it, like a license plate on a...
by jvranish | Jun 19, 2023 | Dance Beat, STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos
I went to the Kelly Strayhorn’s Alloy Studios for INTERIM! with this in mind: “Co-Artistic Directors of STAYCEE PEARL dance project & Soy Sos, Staycee and Herman Pearl share an evening of multi-disciplinary collaborative explorations. The evenings include new...
by jvranish | Apr 17, 2023 | Dance Beat, Pittsburgh Dance Council
Ballet Hispanico is a welcome repeat customer at the Pittsburgh Dance Council. Things have changed over for its 50-plus years, though, but for the good. It has always been a strong group, the leading Latino version of Alvin Ailey American Dance Company in the way it...
by jvranish | Jan 18, 2023 | Dance Beat, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre has announced a replacement for artistic director Susan Jaffe, an internationally-recognized dance figure who moved on to New York City’s American Ballet Theatre. The search committee headed in the opposite direction this time, plucking...
by jvranish | Nov 23, 2022 | Dance Beat
I’ve interviewed and covered Paul Taylor for years. So I was thinking that there wasn’t much that I didn’t know about this modern master of dance. But from the delectable opening moments of a new documentary about the gentle giant, I knew I was wrong. With meditative...
by jvranish | May 5, 2022 | Dance Beat, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Susan Jaffe is coming full circle in a way. “Swan Lake” was her signature role when she was the face of American Ballet Theatre. Now she completes her first fully-staged season with her own staging of “Swan Lake” May 6-15 at the Benedum Center. That makes it a good...
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