Reviews

Photo: Bryon Calawa

Excavating the Family Secret

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Does your family have a secret? Jeanine McCain created an environment conducive to discovery and nostalgia.

Photo: Rachel Anderson-Rabern

Three Sisters Run with the Wolves

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The unsighted gaze of Papa Chekhov presides silently as women, wonders, and wolf-packs all come to naught.

Photo: Ryan Cliett

Writing Together about the Come Together Festival

Kirsten Kaschock

Featuring different companies, Come Together Dance Festival showcases the big, broad world of Philadelphia dancing.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Human Movement

Carolyn Merritt

Cardell showcases how dance can confront social issues viscerally, triggering responses that tap something as deep as migration is to our very existence.

Photo: Donna Winter

A Slew of Site-celebratory Performances

Ellen Chenoweth

June was a good month for adventurous performances in Philadelphia with artists using the traditional off-season to try new things.

Photo: Herman Sorgeloos

Facing Facing Front

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Lynn Matluck Brooks and Christopher Brooks reflect on programs 1 and 2 of Facing Front, featuring Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Astonish Us: PAB’s Closing Season Program

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Diaghilev's command, “Astonish me!,” fit the opening night of Pennsylvania Ballet’s last program of 2014-15.

Photo: Helio Ha

Philadelphia’s Tango Moment

Carolyn Merritt

Gustavo and Giselle Anne Naveira's participation in the 5th Philadelphia International Tango Festival, from teaching to dancing.

Photo: Stephan Floss

Conversation With A Curious Choreographer

Gregory King

William Forsythe in conversation on neo-classicism with Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland.

Photo: Mark Garvin

Kathakali Now

Lisa Kraus

An elegant sign language of mudras, like flutterings of rare birds. Bodies subtle, making the slightest weight shifts compelling.