Doug Elkins & Friends’ Fräulein Maria, a belly-laughing gender-bending full-length sendup of The Sound of Music, makes its Philadelphia premiere November 12-14 on the Dance Celebration Series, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA.
Conceived and choreographed by Doug Elkins, two-time Bessie award-winning choreographer and BBoy maven, Fräulein Maria was inspired by [...]

Contemporary dance company BalletX opens its new season with Fall Series 2009, an intriguing presentation of three dance premieres by three choreographers. BalletX will perform Thursday through Sunday, November 19-22, opening its third season as the resident dance company of The Wilma Theater.
Co-Artistic Directors Matthew Neenan and Christine Cox say that they see BalletX as [...]

The Community Education Center (CEC) will be kicking off its 25th Anniversary Season with an inventive group of young artists bringing fort distinctive mix dance and theatre offerings. Look for humorous dance, inspired by homemakers circa 1935, as created by Jennifer Morley; the acrobatics of physical theatre artist, Mary Tuomanen, who will literally fly from [...]

By Ellen Dunkel, For The Inquirer
Not everything went swimmingly when the dance troupe BodyVox opened Water Bodies at the Annenberg’s Zellerbach Theatre on Thursday night. There were technical difficulties and mistakes nearly from the start: Video wouldn’t play; sound volume and quality were inconsistent; dancers missed steps.
But the Portland, Ore., group’s suite of modern dances [...]

Every year brings more and more Halloween events from loads of haunted houses, boos at zoos, science gone mad at the museums, never ending corn mazes and theme park mayhem. Well this year, Philadelphia’s Dance Community is offering up their own set of Halloween treats that will have you moving for this favorite American holiday…
Archedream [...]

Exploring a new approach to the classic “Jekyll and Hyde” story, Rowan University’s Department of Theatre & Dance brings two internationally-acclaimed theatre artists to campus for an experimentaln and original work, The Last Days of Dr. Jekyll. Performances are November 12 – 15, Thursday-Saturday at 7 and 9 pm and Sunday at 3 pm, in [...]

By Geoffrey Partridge for The Dance Journal
SHARP Dance Company is more than modern dance; it is a vision of multi-media infused explorations into the beauties and cruelties of this life utilizing movement as a catalyst into the realm of endless possibilities. ‘Blind Faith’ is no exception, as the choreography is fiercely elegant, taking you for [...]

Alarmel Valli is an internationally acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer whose work reveals the infinite spaces within the traditional form.  In her choreography,  she draws on her knowledge of music and the rich vocabulary of classical Indian dance to explore the complex layers of meaning in poems and lyrics, giving them a visual and melodic [...]

Leah Stein Dance Company (LSDC) will perform Mill Tones, a new site-specific work at Historic RittenhouseTown, a more than 300 year-old historical site. LSDC is joined by long-time collaborator, percussionist Toshi Makihara, singer Ellen Gerdes, special guest artist Brigitta Hermann, and eight local community participants whose ages range from 6 to 60.
Historic RittenhouseTown, the first [...]

by The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
After months of painful debate, Governor Ed Rendell signed two bills into law late Friday night – one on taxes, and one on spending – that would finally bring Pennsylvania its long-awaited FY10 state budget of $27.8 billion.
The budget plan, which reduces overall state spending by 1 percent from 2008-09 [...]