On Film: Bill Is Back

Performer Bill Shannon has been breaking new barriers in dance. Now the globe-trotting artist, based in Pittsburgh, is coming home with his latest work at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. Here’s a preview of the preview coming up later this month (see Listings):...

On Stage: LINES

Dance writers often think, “been there, done that.” And when Alonzo King LINES Ballet came to town to open the Pittsburgh Dance Council season (see Post-Gazette preview), I had seen his work on three previous occasions. But this performance was different....

On Stage: Follow the Bouncing Dancers`

These guys were here a while back at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s Dance Alloy Studios, but I never forgot them. This seemingly nonsensical piece seems particularly necessary in today’s social and political climate. Yes, that’s actually liquid...

On Stage: Water Dance

The Monongahela. It was an impossibly perfect night on a Saturday night in Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River where viewers could take in the debut of the city’s newest dance company, The Blanket. Read about it in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Friday night...

On Stage: Extra! Extra! Dance All Around It!

  As the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera continues its summer of excellence, it turned to yet another Disney production, the second such this year (The Little Mermaid) at the Benedum Center.  But where Mermaid swam with bubbly tunes over and under the sea, Newsies...

On Stage: Under the Sea With the CLO

Just call the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera’s splashy version of Disney’s The Little Mermaid simply bubblelicious. Yes, there are bubbles everywhere — filling the opening scrim, floating in a tower across the stage, defining the beach where Ariel...