Photo by JJ Tiziou Alie & the Brigade (formerly known as Movement Brigade) present INVISIBLE RIVER, a dance and music performance celebrating the Schuylkill River, the ephemeral nature of summer, and the possibility that live performance can bring a city together in a way that no other event can. An ensemble of 10 dancing singers [...]

In a double bill performance, Group Motion and Olive Prince Dance will share the stage on April 25, 26 and 27 at the Performance Garage during “Juncture.” This evening of revisited works will feature two Group Motion performances from the early 90s that stand as a hallmark of their generation, an in-depth work by Olive [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Arantxa Ochoa in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust. Photo: Paul Kolnik Visit the vibrant, mystical fantasy of George Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, March 7-17, 2013 at the Academy of Music. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is presented by Bank of America. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Zachary Hench in Twyla Tharp’s Push Comes to Shove. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev Revel in ballet’s boundless potential as Pennsylvania Ballet presents a trio of diverse works with Balanchine/Wheeldon/Tharp, February 7-10, 2013 at the Merriam Theater. “The three choreographers on this program are nothing short of titans in the dance world,” Artistic [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects as part of their 2013 Dance Up Close series will be presenting WOLF-IN-SKINS a premiere with extracted scenes from a new Dance Opera choreographed by CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS and with music by GREGORY SPEARS. Co-produced in collaboration with American Opera Projects and the Conwell Dance Theater of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music [...]

Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance offers Reflection:Response, a performance and speaker series that brings together artists and scholars to explore how we assimilate ideas and events and our resulting actions within the field of dance. The series invites attendees to consider as a starting point how one ‘reflects’ and ‘responds’ through different [...]

Mark Morris – Photo by Amber Darragh Performing Arts Series presents bold and eye-opening art by virtuosic and adventurous artists The 2012-2013 season of the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series opens in September with new works by the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Bread and Puppet Theater. One explores a rich mix of cultures [...]

The fourth annual Norristown DanceFest will take place at the Montgomery County Cultural Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania on August 4, 2012 at 8pm and August 5, 2012 at 2pm.  Norristown residents can expect another enriching weekend of noteworthy dance. Created to promote the arts in one of Philadelphia’s culturally growing suburbs, Norristown DanceFest will highlight [...]

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 [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet Artistic Director Roy Kaiser announces the Company’s powerful 2012-2013 Season – highlighting some of the most revered classics and groundbreaking choreographers of all time. The 49th Season opens with Marius Petipa’s gripping classic Giselle and features George Balanchine’s whimsical A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Christopher Wheeldon’s imaginative Carnival of the Animals. Plus, four [...]