by jvranish | Aug 23, 2009 | Dance Notes, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
PBT PREPARES FOR HOLOCAUST BALLET. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will fly to Washington D.C. and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum August 25 in preparation for the local premiere of Stephen Mills’ “Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project” in...
by jvranish | Aug 22, 2009 | On Stage, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
There are rain dances performed in a ceremonial rite to protect a harvest and then there is dancing in the rain, which Gene Kelly did quite successfully. But the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre was hoping for the opposite at Hartwood Acres on Thursday night. Alas, it was...
by jvranish | Aug 14, 2009 | On the Road, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
I came across a little slice of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre history in Chautauqua, where the Dance Circle honored French ballerina and long-time Chautauqua teacher Violette Verdy and featured a new documentary about the former New York City Ballet principal dancer. But...
by jvranish | Aug 13, 2009 | Dance Notes, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
CONSERVATORY DANCE COMPANY. Point Park University has announced its dance season and it has some notable programming. Faculty member Keisha Lalama-White will premiere a new work called “The Bench,” for the holiday season. It will celebrate “family...
by jvranish | Aug 12, 2009 | Dance Notes, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
THE MURAL PROJECT. It was a surprise to head to Dance Alloy last Friday. I was expecting to see an unformed dance in rehearsal clothes. But Greer Reed-Jones had groomed her fledgling group, August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble, for its debut performance. It’s...
by jvranish | Aug 9, 2009 | On Stage, Pittsburgh Dance Companies
It seems that audiences are getting comfortable with The Pillow Project’s conceptual evenings of multi-media art. Running from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m., people come and go at will, converse lightly during the course of a performance, even get a “live” chair...
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