Former Principal Dancers Riolama Lorenzo and Sergio Torrado | Photo: Paul Kolnik by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal I’ve been underwhelmed by Pennsylvania Ballet in the past but last night’s performance of Giselle at the Academy of Music was everything that the 171-year old classic ought to be. From the sets to the score [...]
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Marius Petipa’s Giselle. Photo: Paul Kolnik Surrender your heart to the ultimate ballet of the Romantic era as Pennsylvania Ballet opens its 49th Season with Giselle, October 18-28 at the Academy of Music. “Giselle just grabs your heart,” Artistic Director Roy Kaiser says. “For the dancers, it demands both complex [...]
Sarah Jordan has written extensively for national and regional magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of four books and a regular contributor to the Festival Blog. How bad does it have to hurt to keep a dancer off the stage? Often, near catastrophically. Dancers, especially classically trained, continuously battle the limits of their… Read more »
Photo credit: Iziliaev by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Interesting programming for Pennsylvania Ballet season closer with a dance sampler representing three era – Jerome Robbins New York Export: Opus Jazz (1958), Peter Matins’ Barber Violin Concerto (1988) and the premiere of choreographer in residence Matt Neenan’s Beside them, they Dwell- covering broad aesthetic [...]
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 [...]
In Pennsylvania Ballet’s upcoming production (and company premiere) of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan there is a lot of air time. But this air time is not just for the audience to say, “Wow, they’re flying,” but it is used to create a vertical canvas where much of the choreography and evocative imagery of the ballet [...]
Photo Credit: Ochoa by Iziliaev To transition to new role as Principal Instructor at School of Pennsylvania Ballet Final performance in Giselle this October Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Arantxa Ochoa has announced she will retire from the stage with Marius Petipa’s Giselle in October, after 16 years dancing with the Company, transitioning to her new [...]
Houston Ballet’s Sara Webb and Randy Herrera in Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan. Photo: Jim Caldwell. Courtesy of Houston Ballet. Escape to Neverland as Pennsylvania Ballet presents Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan, premiering in Philadelphia May 3-13, 2012 at the Academy of Music. “Creating a captivating, full-length story ballet and making it relevant for today’s audiences is [...]
by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Attentions spans aren’t what they were when Handel’s Messiah first premiered in 1741; as such, it’s little wonder that most twenty first-century theatre goers know the Hallelujah chorus and little else. But add dance? And costumes? And special effects? Now we’re talking. In fact, thanks to Robert [...]
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Robert Weiss’ Messiah. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev. Pennsylvania Ballet presents choreographer Robert Weiss’s Messiah, set to the universally popular score by George Frideric Handel and featuring The Philadelphia Singers, March 8-17, 2012 at the Academy of Music. “With Messiah, our audience receives an incredibly robust performance experience,” Artistic Director Roy Kaiser [...]
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