BalletX gets busy with quirky celebration of spring
By Ellen Dunkel
For The Inquirer
With spring comes new life.
BalletX’s new work, Right to Spring, celebrates new life in the shape of dancer-artistic director Christine Cox’s midterm-pregnancy belly.
Choreographed by the company’s other artistic director, Matthew Neenan (who is also choreographer in residence at Pennsylvania Ballet), the one-hour Right to [...]

A young woman who began dancing locally participated in her second charity performance at Rider University, helping to raise funds for an African orphanage. Read more…

Dance is in his genes
By Susan Snyder
Inquirer Staff Writer
His mother says he started to dance while still in her womb. At 9 months, he tapped on tables. Now, at 17, William Burden is dancing his way through school: in the lunch line, at his locker, down the hall – even in English class, where he [...]

Posted on Wed, Mar. 12, 2008
Rain delay, then winning ballet
18 Rock dancers have power enough at Youth Grand Prix in Swarthmore.
By Ellen Dunkel
For The Inquirer
Ballet is not often rained out.
But after dozens of “Don Quixote” variations and a passel of “Paquitas,” the Youth America Grand Prix regional semifinals had to be postponed Saturday night [...]

Nikolais works combine spirit of play, genius
By Merilyn Jackson
For The Inquirer
The Utah-based Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company became the repository of the works of the Alwin Nikolais Company in 2003, 10 years after the choreographer’s death. Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe had been his students, and their 43-year-old company vividly brought four of his most famous works [...]

Koresh troupe moves to its new home
By Merilyn Jackson
For The Inquirer
A dance company, like a sports team, must raise money, balance books, secure venues, attract and cater to fans, funders and investors, scout great physical specimens, then train them and keep them working. But while, say, a soccer team can rely on public dollars to [...]

Leaping to the next level
This week, top Rock School students step up to the world’s largest dance competition.
By Ellen Dunkel
For The Inquirer
Esteban Hernandez may be only 13, but his jumps soar. In his Don Quixote variation – usually danced by men twice his age – Hernandez’s confidence and regal posture belie his youth.
He is a [...]

Students at the Rock School for Dance Education are preparing for the Youth America Grand Prix, an international ballet competition for dancers age 9 to 19. See video