Reviews

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How is a Ballet Like a Plane Explosion?

Jenna Horton

In transition, we experience, momentarily, what we leave behind and where we are going.

Photo: Myriam Levent Erutku
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Eyes on Guys at CINARS

Megan Bridge

Beyond the booths, and between official CINARS showcases and Off-CINARS performances, there were more shows than anyone could

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What is Revolutionary about PA Ballet’s Revolution?

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Perhaps it's revolutionary to have a local non-ballet choreographer set a work on PAB.

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SaltSoul: Interrogating Loss and Large Scale Tragedies

Zornitsa Stoyanova

The duet by Kim and Ramirez is stunning, full of longing, gentleness and mild eroticism.

Photo: Paula Court
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Erotic Divine, Born of Structural Space

Jenna Horton

Undersweet dedicates rigorous attention to the unfolding of now, trimmed of nostalgic fat.

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Fading Dreams in PA Ballet’s Cinderella

Whitney Weinstein

Once upon a time the ballet was an enchanting place. Has the magic of the proscenium waned?

Photo: Jaci Downs
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Everything You’ve Come From and Everywhere You’ll Go

Sara Graybeal

A festival of lights.

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Yvonne, the Giant; Yvonne, So Small

Kat J. Sullivan

Something of a demigod and something of a dance great-grandmother.

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Collaborative Public Invention

Julius Ferraro

These group improvisations are inherently at least a bit wacky.

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Behind the Screen, Liveness

Meredith Bove

When weaponry is absurd, meaningless, and ultimately ineffective, how then to combat the very real violence and aggression th