Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Requiem for a Rose. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev. Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the nation’s leading ballet companies, showcases the breadth of its growing repertoire in one thrilling program at the Merriam Theater, May 5-9. Program IV features Company premieres by Jerome Robbins and William Forsythe, a timeless Balanchine [...]

Subcircle is an artist in resident at the Live Arts Studio in Northern Liberties, where they have held the True False Laboratory,  a series of workshops with a diverse group of artists. After the latest showing, working with Geoff Sobelle from Rainpan43, they will be performing Only Sleeping at the Performance Garage, April 29th through [...]

Ballet superstar, gold medalist, and Broadway star of Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp’s Movin Out, Rasta Thomas founded the Bad Boys of Dance (BBD) in 2007 as a vehicle to push the boundaries of male dancing. BBD is a virtuoso troupe of some of the world’s best male dancers, hand-picked for their extraordinary physical talents and artistry. [...]

Work-in-progress and public discussion: Sample the next stage of work by dancer/choreographer Germaine Ingram, composer/musician Bobby Zankel, and visual artist John Dowell as they collaborate in developing a multimedia performance piece commemorating the nine African Americans enslaved by President George Washington in the President’s House at 6th and Market Street here in Philadelphia in the [...]

PIMA Group announces the upcoming premiere performance of ohhorror, a live horror dance performance. Set to a score of  “found sounds”, ohhorroris the result of investigating horror films by Artistic Director, Melisa Putz. The performance conjures up nightmares, inner fears, demons and possessions with the campy and straightforward tactics and formulas used in horror films. [...]

On March 26, 2010, dancers worldwide will come together simultaneously in dance to celebrate the universal importance and joy of movement.  In its sixth year, this conceptual event will take place on Friday, March 26, 2010 at noon Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), 3pm EDT (Philadelphia, etc) 8pm in Paris, Rome, etc. Artist and dance anywhere® [...]

By Ellen Gerdes for The Dance Journal Philadelphia’s Kun-Yang Lin has traveled across geographic and cultural boundaries as an artist.  Taiwan-born, he first toured Europe working with post-modernist choreographers before moving to the United States in pursuit of the diverse, American modern dance opportunities offered by New York City.  He later founded Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers with [...]

Hip-hop dance phenomenon The Groovaloos, best known for the breakout winning performance on “Superstars of Dance” and appearances on “So You Think You Can Dance,” will bring the electric dance show GROOVALOO to the Merriam Theater at 250 South Broad St. in Philadelphia from Tuesday, March 9 through Sunday, March 14. Performances are Tuesday through [...]

SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society is presenting an Indian classical dance performance in the Odissi style by the Nrityagram Ensemble from India in collaboration with Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA. The event will take place on Saturday March 27, 2010 at 8:00 pm at the Montgomery County Community College Science Center [...]

Emerging Choreographers Angela Sigley, Jessica C. Warchal-King, and Laura Zimmerman question the role (and lack) of morality and ethics in our society in a joint modern dance concert. Each performance will include all three dance works. Angela Sigley presents The Rented World, an exploration of fear and morbid curiosity.  The movement is chilling and unsettling, [...]