Kat Richter, Author at The Dance Journal

Run, skip, prance or shimmy, just don’t walk to PHILADANCO’s Xmas Philes

December 13, 2019 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Run (or skip or prance or shimmy, just don’t walk)- to get your tickets to PHILADANCO’s Xmas Philes at the Annenberg this weekend ( December 12-14). The evening-length […]

Zachary Kapeluck and Andie Yorita in rehearsal with choreographer Jo Strømgren

BalletX’s Christmas in Space

November 27, 2019 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal | photo credit Vikki Sloviter One doesn’t generally expect to find a collection of astronaut helmets in the rehearsal studio of a ballet company. But at BalletX’s new […]

Chanel Holland’s Chocolate Ballerina Company Empowers Dancers of Color

October 15, 2019 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Twenty-nine year old Chanel Holland is a woman on a mission. As the Founder and Artistic Director of Chocolate Ballerina Company, she is working to provide dancers of […]

Cowboy Melodrama, in Sequins – Pursuit of Happiness

September 27, 2019 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal | photo credit Andrej Lamut In many ways, Pursuit of Happiness, created by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper of Nature Theater of Oklahoma (named after the theater in Kafka’s […]

Robyn Watson Tells (Her)stories through Tap

July 14, 2019 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal The name Harriet Tubman recalls many things, from the Underground Railroad to recent controversy over her appearance and subsequent lack thereof on the $20 bill. But rarely does […]

Meg Foley Talks and Dances Grief in the Fringe

September 4, 2018 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Philadelphia dance artist Meg Foley has earned herself a well-deserved reputation for introspective work—both danced and spoken— that somehow transcends her own highly personal performance practice to draw […]

Pennsylvania Ballet’s Grace and Grandeur Lives Up to its Name

April 9, 2018 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal | photo credit Rosalie O’Connor It wasn’t until after my husband and I left the Merriam Theatre on Friday night that I realized why the braggadocios title of Pennsylvania […]

Dancing Faith with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

March 19, 2018 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal | Photo credit: RobLi Photography A line of dancers faces the audience, head on, one behind the other and features obscured. One by one, they begin to raise […]

Latin Dance at BalletX with Darrell Grand Moultrie

March 6, 2018 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal | photo credit: Bill Hebert There are few dance companies who I would trust to present a mash up of ballet and the music of Spanish Harlem. (What […]

Soul Steps Brings History and Rhythm to Philadelphia

January 30, 2018 Kat Richter 0

by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal I’ll do just about anything in the hopes of convincing at least one of my three nephews to follow me into the world of dance: Nutcracker tickets and Nutcracker figurines, books about Bojangles […]