Coming off the momentum of their 20th Anniversary, Philadelphia’s Koresh Dance Company presents another stunning program this spring at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. The show will feature three new works by artistic director Ronen (Roni) Koresh: Bolero, Out/line and The Heart. Building upon an already impressive body of work, Roni will close out the season [...]

By Merilyn Jackson FOR THE INQUIRER What a wonderful thing when a city’s audience base sustains an arts organization for two decades or more. Koresh Dance Company’s 20th anniversary year is upon us, and the company proved that it deserves this longevity with its fall season opener at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre Thursday evening. The [...]

Koresh Dance Company’s 20th Anniversary Season, a Pathway to the Future  In 1991, Ronen (Roni) Koresh founded Koresh Dance Company in Philadelphia.  Twenty years later, the company has gained recognition as one of Philadelphia’s most well known dance companies. Roni has developed a vast repertoire of work that ranges from explosive and passionate, to intimate [...]

By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer Artistic director/choreographer Roni Koresh sometimes cherry-picks the best-received sections from his earlier dances, gathers them into a sequence, then gives the whole a title and a vague raison d’etre, as he has with his new Through the Skin. “Don’t intellectualize this dance, feel it viscerally,” he said before Thursday’s [...]

Koresh Dance Company takes the stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for its 2010 fall season featuring two world premieres by Ronen (Roni) Koresh, Somewhere in Between and Benchtime Stories. Performances will be held from Thursday, October 28 to Sunday, October 31. If you could go back in time, what would you change? Would you [...]

By Ellen Dunkel For The Inquirer Inspiration can come from the least likely sources. For Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, it happened on a plane, via an in-flight entertainment program. “Greensleeves” from John Gay’s 1728 Beggar’s Opera was playing in his ears as two flight attendants demonstrated safety regulations. And he saw dance. “I thought it [...]

Koresh Dance Company takes the stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for its 2010 spring season featuring the world premiere of Sense of Human, by Ronen (Roni) Koresh and the company premiere of Passomezzo by Ohad Naharin, artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company. Passomezzo, set to the Baroque melodies of Greensleeves and The Beggar’s [...]

by Beth Kephart for The Dance Journal Love walks down the street and sits in the park in the sun.  It tenders its hand in apology or desire, corrupts the knees, revokes the arch of the foot.  Love is the story, never finally told in words and, perhaps, never finally told at all, though one [...]

By Ellen Dunkel, For The Inquirer Do people ever really change? Observers from psychologists to advice columnists have weighed in on that question. Now, let’s hear from a choreographer. “In 3,000 years, nothing has changed,” asserts Ronen “Roni” Koresh, who, as director of his eponymous dance company, turns social commentary into movement. “Go to a [...]

Koresh Dance Company, Philadelphia’s third largest dance company, takes the stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, home of the Philadelphia Theatre Company. Performances begin Thursday, April 30th and continue through Sunday, May 3rd, 2009.   Programming for Koresh Dance Company’s 2009 Spring Season includes a new work by Roni Koresh, and Paul Selwyn Norton, a rising [...]