On Stage: Staycee Pearl at Play

It seemed like a perfect summer evening as Staycee Pearl dance project seemingly set off the summer season with Playground. The parking lot setting outside the SPdp studio was festive with poster boards, like large pages from coloring books with connecting strings of...

On Stage: Dancing All Night…Tango Style

Most of us have identified with an enthralled Eliza Doolittle, that “Fair Lady,” as she sang I Could Have Danced All Night. But have you? Really? In Buenos Aires, tango enthusiasts have every night available to them, waiting to fill it with dance and greet...

On Stage: Putting Her Own Footprint on Dance

My toes were tapping before it even began. Dance music bubbled through the intimate brick box of the Lester Hamburg Studio Theatre. Dancin’ in the Streets. Guy Lombardo (I think). Some kind of rap — I’m not sure because everyone was talking. Dance to the Music....

On Stage: Attack-ing the Pittsburgh Symphony

Family-oriented entertainment takes many forms, from Disney to Stravinsky. “Stravinsky?” you might say.” Ruler of rhythmic diversity? Terrorist with time signatures? Sultan of musical sarcasm?” But Attack Theatre has never let musical complexities get in the way. This...

On Stage: An Uncommon Photographer

Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer ©Martha Rial is always pushing the boundaries of her camera lens. So when she went to a dress rehearsal of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Uncommon, which featured works by Mark Morris, Dwight Rhoden and Dennis Nahat to music by...

On Stage: PBT Brings on 2012-13

You have to give Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre artistic director Terrence Orr credit. Both he and the marketing department feel that PBT audiences fill the houses for full-length ballets, so he is always in the hunt for contemporary works to fill out the thin glossary of...