Articles by Jane Fries

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, dancers performed on stages in front of live audiences. Now, seemingly eons later, they beam into our homes […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal “We need to keep creating,” urged Christine Cox, Director of BalletX, in a Zoom panel discussion interspersed with the virtual premieres of four short dance films by the […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal The Performance Garage, a Philadelphia hub for dance performances, rehearsals, and classes, is marking its 20th anniversary this year. Due to the COVID-19 shutdown, the organization was forced […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal | photo by Jano Cohen Philadelphia Dance Projects presented local dance artists Megan Mazarick and Marion Ramirez in conjunction with its Dance Up Close series on Wednesday and […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal After more than six decades as one of America’s most preeminent modern dance troupes, the Paul Taylor Dance Company finds itself in a moment of radical transition. Its […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal Dancer Wendy Whelan and cellist Maya Beiser gave an ethereal performance last Wednesday, November 6th, of their new collaborative, total-theater piece, The Day, at the Williams Center for […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal The Trisha Brown Dance Company is carrying on without its founder, who retired from making new dances in 2013 and lamentably passed away in 2017. Brown was arguably […]

by Jane Fries For The Dance Journal | photo credit Anne Van Aerschot Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s seminal Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich proved as highly charged as ever […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal | photo credit Vikki Sloviter Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa first read The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a child, and then re-read the tale in […]

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal BalletX is out and about in Philadelphia this spring, popping up in a variety of locations to offer free performances. In two separate appearances this past weekend, the […]