Things went a bit rocky for Rock School at the olympics of dance, but dancers hauled in two medals and major scholarships.
By Ellen Dunkel
For The Inquirer
NEW YORK – There were nerves, slips, wardrobe malfunctions, and two major falls. In the end, the 20 students from the Rock School for Dance Education won only two medals [...]
Local Dance Group Performs Ballet Focused On Darfur Crisis
by KYW’s Karin Phillips
A South Philadelphia-based dance company is performing what it’s calling the first ever American ballet on the crisis in Darfur.
The Rebecca Davis Dance Company has a history of taking literature and history to the stage through the use of contemporary ballet. But [...]
At the Bride, a fruitful union of troupes
By Merilyn Jackson
For The Inquirer
At the Painted Bride last weekend, we got only 20 minutes of evidence of things (un)said, an excerpt from Charles O. Anderson’s work in development that is slated to be premiered by his dance theatre X next year.
The Bride’s stage was too small to [...]
Much to enjoy in this ‘Coppélia’
By Merilyn Jackson
For The Inquirer
In 1870, Leo Delibes’ score for Coppélia moved ballet music forward and set the stage for Tchaikovsky’s later masterpieces.
Considered a descriptive tone poem, the score may be the main reason for keeping the ballet in active repertory, but there is also much in the Marius Petipa [...]
Dance with a German accent
By Merilyn Jackson
For The Inquirer
In October, Susanne Linke – at 63 as lanky and loose as a teenager – arrived at Jeanne Ruddy’s Performance Garage on Brandywine Street for the first two weeks of an eight-week residency.
Ruddy and Linke stand on the shoulders of two giants of 20th-century dance – the [...]
Dance beyond the fringe
Passion for a fungus and other avant-garde moves at Temple.
By Ellen Dunkel
For The Inquirer
The calendar says March, not August or September, but Friday night’s performance of SCUBA at Temple’s Conwell Dance Theater looked an awful lot like the Fringe Festival.
Maybe it was the man dressed as a giant stalk of corn, pining [...]
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