Photo by Bill Hebert Kelly Ann Posner for The Dance Journal On Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8pm, MM2 Modern Dance Company will present a preview of their new season work, Conversations, a dialog in movement, at Chi Movement Arts Center, 1316 S 9th St., Philadelphia. Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for students [...]

Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo and former Company Member Maximilien Baud in Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev. Pennsylvania Ballet presents the grand finale of the 2011-2012 Season, the Company premiere of Jerome Robbins’s N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, with Peter Martins’s Barber Violin Concerto and the World Premiere of Matthew Neenan’s Beside them, they [...]

Photo by Jill LeMin Lee. Eight women on trapeze survive the end of the world—then ask, what happens next? Tangle’s new aerial acrobatics show Half-life will premiere at Germantown’s Funicular Railway Station on June 1 & 2, 2012. Inspired by complex machines, survivalist propaganda, and the animal kingdom, Half-life is an intricate exploration of utopian [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal As the audience waits in anticipation, seated in a circle onstage, the front doors of the Jeanne Ruddy Performance Garage creak open, one by one, to reveal dancer Nicole Bindler standing on the sidewalk.  It’s a bizarre start to the evening’s program, Saudade, which includes two works [...]

Hybrid Cinema has announced simultaneous one-night-only screenings of the feature length documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance at various Landmark Theatres in eight different Midwest and East Coast states on Wednesday, May 9, 2012.  Showtimes begin at 7:00pm for all eight screenings happening in Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC.  Directed by Bob [...]

SAND Shinichi Iova-Koga & Sherwood Chen by Pak Han Painted Bride Art Center will present inkBoat with Ko Murobushi in The Crazy Cloud Collection in the Pennsylvania performance of their national tour. The Crazy Cloud Collection is a collision.  The life of 15th century Buddhist monk and poet Ikkyu Sojun meets modern humanity, and questions arise [...]

On Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 8 p.m., Zornitsa Stoyanova, director of Herebegin Dance will perform her new solo Paper Duchess as part of Mixed Grille Performance Series hosted at PARD SPACE on 1720 Mt.Vernon St. in Philadelphia. Paper Duchess premiered at Falls Bridge Festival in January 2012, presented in the same bill with work [...]

The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School will host the 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival, an four-day extravaganza of tango workshops, performances and social dancing, from May 25-28, 2012.   Featuring a stellar line-up of tango luminaries from around the U.S. and Argentina, the festival is open to all tango dancers (and aspiring dancers) from Philadelphia and beyond. Festival [...]

Jeanne Ruddy photographed by Bob Emmott Jeanne Ruddy Dance Presents Final Performance Series Twelve Memorable Seasons Come to a Close May 10-12 In celebration of the 12 triumphant years of critically acclaimed world premieres, innovative collaborations and national tours, Jeanne Ruddy is closing out her company’s final season with three of the most captivating works [...]

Photo Credit: Ochoa by Iziliaev To transition to new role as Principal Instructor at School of Pennsylvania Ballet Final performance in Giselle this October Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Arantxa Ochoa has announced she will retire from the stage with Marius Petipa’s Giselle in October, after 16 years dancing with the Company, transitioning to her new [...]