Reviews

Photo: Kailei Picciotti

Atypical Beauty

Whitney Weinstein

By the conclusion of the evening, Fatale had replayed, in microcosm, her journey.

Photo: Phile Deprez

How We Write When We Write About Dance: Ink on the Fringe

Kirsten Kaschock

Audience members gathered with old and new members of thINKingDANCE to pen a crowd response to Still Standing You.

Photo: Phile Deprez

The live-action version of every Judd Apatow movie: Still Standing You

Annie Wilson

I want to tell people to stop laughing, you’re only encouraging them.

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.