Jane Fries lives in the Philadelphia area and has written a regular column for the Dance Journal since 2015. Her writing has also appeared in Dance Magazine, Ballet Review and the Mills College Quarterly. She is currently working on a biography of the pioneering modern dancer and educator Marian Van Tuyl, who founded the Mills College Dance Department in 1941.
Philadanco delivered a brilliant run of concerts at the Perelman Theater over the past weekend (April 22-24). Before the curtain rose on Sunday, Joan Myers
The Philadelphia Ballet premiered three dances on Thursday, February 3rd, at the Perelman Theater. The most striking was The Persistence of Memory, choreographed by Alba
The 64-year-old Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, one of the world’s best-known dance companies, rolled into Philadelphia last week (January 27-30). Back on tour after
BalletX kicked off the New Year with a pair of concerts on January 8th and 9th, presented in partnership with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society,
by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal Can a conversation be a dance? I don’t know the answer to that, but it’s one of the
by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal The Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia’s Old City was the setting for Shayla-Vie Jenkins’ meditative, site-specific work,
by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal The pandemic has forced dance companies to adapt to new performance realities. Some have made dance films shot
by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal | photo credit: Tara Keating On Wednesday evening, almost one year to the day since the W.H.O. declared
by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal “It was the most liberating thing to dance in a mud pit,” said dancer Blake Krapels, describing his
