Metropolitan Ballet Company dancers in Kanji Segawa’s  “ Toward the Light ”  Photo by E.A. Kennedy, III Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) student dancers from the Philadelphia region garnered significant honors in the 2013 Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest international student ballet scholarship competition. Young dancers from the Jenkintown-based pre-professional ballet studio captured [...]

By Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Unlike sports stars who get headlines if they have a sprained pinkie, professional dancers just seem to deal with even major injuries on the quiet. For a variety of reasons, they just suck it up and get back to their daily routines. Dance audiences don’t recognize the physical [...]

Carinthia Bank (right) in costume for her debut performance with the Donetsk Ballet When the acclaimed Donetsk Ballet of Ukraine brings its production of Peter Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet, The Nutcracker, to Philadelphia, among its 18 professionals will be Carinthia Bank of Chestnut Hill, PA. Bank, 18, studied at WissahickonDanceAcademy, in Germantown, from 2001 to 2008, [...]

Temple’s Boyer College of Music and Dance will present two performances of Philip Grosser’s show called “AN OFFERING” in Conwell Dance Theater on Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 26 at 7:30 PM. Conwell Dance Theater is on the 5th floor of Conwell Hall on the N.E. corner of Broad Street and Montgomery Avenue in [...]

Direction by Ralph Lemon and features Poet Leigh Nelson A practitioner of hip-hop dance since 1983, Raphael Xavier brings a wide range of experience to the stage. Xavier specializes in breaking, a street dance form he has taught to new generations of hip-hop enthusiasts for years in order to keep its history alive. “As a [...]

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Choreographer Peter DiMuro’s newly-minted course for Drexel University says it all.  The DC transplant, who spent fifteen years at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and went on to serve as the Director of Dance Metro/DC, will be teaching an assortment of undergraduate courses this fall, including composition and [...]

Brian Mengini has been a portrait and dance photographer in Philadelphia since 2007. His work has been published such notable journals and newspapers as Pointe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Stanford Living Arts Magazine, Oxford Hill Press, Dancing Times (Great Britain), Auditorium Magazine (South Korea), Town & Country Magazine (Philippines), [...]

Today, meet Jessica Warchal-King, one-third of the folks behind the 2011 Philly Fringe dance piece Doris Says . . . Name: Jessica C. Warchal-King. Age: Young enough to still cause trouble but old enough to know better than to answer this question honestly. Where do you live now? In my heart. Where were you born? [...]

This turned out to be sort of a joint interview. While I was interviewing Charles Tyson, Jr. of Underground DanceWorks for Dance Talk Radio, Bill Hebert was interviewing Tabatha Robinson-Scott  of Monarch Dance for the Dance Journal. So we present our collaboration of their collaboration. On air interview with Charles Tyson, Jr. hosted by Steven [...]

Kun-Yang Lin and Hua Hua Zhang seated in foreground surrounded by workshop participants and their props. By Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal Dance is a career that parallels those of athletes in terms of length – short, and actors in terms of character development – elusive. Dance training – especially on a professional level [...]