Headlong Dance Theater is seeking four Philadelphia households to participate in This Town Is A Mystery, a groundbreaking new performance project that will premiere during the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. This unprecedented project will journey into four households, transforming each home into a  theater and the household members into performers. Headlong is looking for [...]

A former Rowan faculty member returns to present an original dance piece, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Rowan University Art Gallery, on Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm. Olive Prince – an award winning, Philadelphia-based dancer/choreographer and experimental video artist who has taught at Rowan – offers this unique performance, which integrates with [...]

A Season of Firsts while Embracing Memorable Favorites Contemporary dance company BalletX is pleased to announce its 2011–2012 Season with an interweaving of new and re-imagined endeavors.  This season audiences will be introduced to five innovative World Premieres in addition to several BalletX favorites. Now in its fourth season at The Wilma Theater on the [...]

PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ANNOUNCES 2011-2012 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS: North American Premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Jeu de Cartes Company Premieres of Artifact Suite, Peter Pan, and N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz World Premiere by Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan International Debut of Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ Pennsylvania Ballet Artistic Director Roy Kaiser announces the Company’s [...]

The nEW Festival has announced the participants selected for the 2011-2012 Choreographers Program: Jung-Eun Kim, Daniele Strawmyre, Beau Hancock, and Jodi Obeid.  These artists were chosen from a pool of 29 applicants for their professionalism and creative potential within the field of dance.  Each choreographer will participate in nEW’s Artist Retreat at Silo Farms in [...]

Philadephila’s Miro Dance Theater has embarked on an exciting residency in Cambodia. Artistic directors Amanda Miller and Tobin Rothlein founded Miro in order to realize their unique creative vision and explore the intersections of contemporary dance, video and visual art. Miller has twenty years of performance experience including ten years as a dancer at the Pennsylvania Ballet. [...]

Martha Chamberlain photo by Alexander Iziliaev Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Martha Chamberlain announces she will retire after 21 years on stage, with a performance of George Balanchine’s Who Cares?, Sunday, April 17 at 2 p.m. at the Merriam Theater at 250 South Broad Street. “Martha’s artistry and talent have been an invaluable gift to Pennsylvania [...]

Photo by  Bill Hebert/BH Photos: BalletX dancers Colby Damon and Laura Feig in the world premiere performance of “Beside Myself” by Tobin Del Cuore. BalletX, a contemporary dance company, is creating and presenting two World Premieres thanks to support from The Jerome Robbins Foundation’s New Essential Works (NEW) Program, directed by Damian Woetzel, and a [...]

Miro Dance Theatre Artistic Director Amanda Miller and Producing Artistic Director Tobin Rothlein are preparing to leave Philadelphia for a six-week residency in Cambodia in January. The husband and wife team are packing up to plant roots in Cambodia for a short period of time, to continue collaborating with famed Cambodian Dance troupe, Khmer Arts [...]

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ANNOUNCES GRANT TO PENNSYLVANIA BALLET $35,000 grant will support two Company Premieres and a Word Premiere in Spring 2011 Philadelphia, PA (November 23, 2010) – Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, today announced that Pennsylvania Ballet has been approved for a grant of $35,000 to support [...]