by Kat Richter, MA  for The Dance Journal Amidst champagne and a celebratory crowd at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Thursday night, the seven dancers of Jeanne Ruddy Dance emerged into the lobby to herald the start of the company’s farewell performance.  In feathered headdresses and high heels, the women preened while the men beckoned [...]

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Between dangling breasts, exposed testicles and a seemingly suicidal remote controlled car, there was something for everyone at last night’s premiere of Seen & Heard 4 at the Arts Bank Theatre.  The evening comprised a split bill featuring half a dozen local artists in the first act, grouped [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Following the performance of Koresh’s Youth Ensemble at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Thursday night, Artistic Director Roni Koresh confessed that he hadn’t choreographed anything for an entire year thanks to the company’s retrospective 20th anniversary performance.  He said he’d been anxious to get started—itching to get [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Upon arriving at Broad Street Ministries for the Saturday matinee of The Naked Stark’s Goodnight War, I’m handed a red poppy and told I’ll have to check my bag.  As I head upstairs into the nave, which is hung with miniature windmills and origami doves, I’m reminded [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal These days, there’s nothing unusual about a ballet company donning sneakers or a self-professed modern dancer performing a complicated petit allegro.  Just last month the city of Philadelphia saw renown flamenco dancer Rosario Toledo trading her heels for pointe shoes but when it comes to blurring the [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Photographs by Bill Hebert BalletX Co-Artistic Director Christine Cox beamed as she introduced the company’s spring program at the Wilma on Thursday night.  And why not?  There was not an empty seat in the house, the seven-year old company will soon be embarking upon a national tour [...]

by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal. Photos by Bill Hebert. Following the cycle of life, death and renewal, that this revisited work embodies, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers presented Beyond the Bones Revisited 2002/2012 this past weekend at The Painted Bride. Kun-Yang Lin was one of the countless individuals, who were in New York City when the [...]

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal photo credit: Mike Hurwitz Flamenco, like many percussive dance forms, originated as a solo art.  As such, it takes a truly gifted individual to re-imagine that art for an entire company of dancers—even more so if she’s to infuse the traditional aesthetic with an almost burlesque sense [...]

By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Sitting in the last row of the crowded Starlight Ballroom in north Philly on Saturday night, I couldn’t help but think of the word “smörgåsbord.”  This was rather unfortunate, seeing as I was there to review a show and not a new restaurant, but the evening’s fare, Philadelphia [...]

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal It’s an intriguing concept: sixteen student dancers, nearly a dozen guest artists and one-hour in which to trace the history of tap from Buster Brown to Savion Glover.  With dancers ranging in age from 7 to its-not-polite-to-ask, Sunday night’s program, “Passing The Torch: Tap Dancing Through the Ages” [...]