November 2011 | The Dance Journal

Review: November’s Inhale Performance Series

November 28, 2011 Comments Off

Reprinted with permission of the author, Ruth E. Grauert, Bearnstow Journal, http://www.bearnstowjournal.org The InHale Performance Series is supported by the Kun-Yang Lin organization at the Chi Movement Arts Center to give emerging choreographers a venue […]

CORD Conference Report

November 27, 2011 Kat Richter Comments Off

by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal This year’s joint conference between the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society for Ethnomusicology, “Moving Music/Sounding Dance,” brought nearly 1300 dance and music scholars to […]

Taking a Peek at Peek A Boo Revue

November 26, 2011 Bill Hebert Comments Off

Ok being a photographer I love bright lighting which makes my job easier…BUT…as I’ve said before more creative lighting can yield some truly awesome results like this photo from a recent performance by the Peek-A-Boo […]

A new Nutcracker set to period streetscapes, storefronts and homes from Germantown

November 22, 2011 Comments Off

An exciting new version of “The Nutcracker” ballet set in late 19th century Philadelphia will be staged by the Philadelphia Dance Theatre on Nov. 25 and 26 in the Kurtz Performing Arts Center at the […]

REVIEW – Pink Hair Affair presents Let The Night Be Dark

November 21, 2011 Comments Off

by Gerald H Kaloi for The Dance Journal. Photos by Bill Hebert. The story of one woman’s struggle to accept herself and her own emotion and being is the journey Artistic Director and Choreographer Kaleigh […]

Afternoon Delights with BalletX

November 20, 2011 Steven Weisz Comments Off

I should probably start this dance review with the disclaimer that I am a big fan of BalletX. But then it is hard not be, when you have seen a company grow over the past […]

National Endowment for the Arts funds several Philadelphia dance companies

November 19, 2011 Steven Weisz Comments Off

At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. The […]

Stopping by for a little Dance Class action

November 18, 2011 Bill Hebert Comments Off

I recently had the chance to swing by a dance class for the Penn Dance Company taught by my friend Tina Heuges. I’ve said before that I love the rehearsal process and dance class. It’s […]

REVIEW: BalletX

November 18, 2011 Merilyn Jackson Comments Off

By Merilyn Jackson for The Inquirer BalletX opened its fifth season at the Wilma Theater on Wednesday with a triple bill sparkling with surprising and lovely performances by company newcomers and more-senior members. A new […]

Reflections on the unexpected learnings of the Live Arts Brewery By Craig T. Peterson, Philadelphia Live Arts’ Director of the Live Arts Brewery November, 2011

November 14, 2011 Comments Off

In October the Live Arts Brewery, better known as the LAB began our third year of activity at our home in Northern Liberties. The new Fellows met for the first time to discuss our coming year together, the work that they intend to research and develop and the challenges that artists often encounter in the […] […]