Reviews

Photo: Johanna Austin, www.austinart.com

The Unbearable Weight of She

Carolyn Merritt

Real expressions of gender are indeed all around us. We need only take the time to see.

Photo: Alexander Izilaev

Sparkling at Fifty–PA Ballet in “Jewels”

Patricia Graham

Fifty years after its founding, Pennsylvania Ballet presents the Philadelphia premiere of a Balanchine masterwork.

Photo: Brian Mengini

Nothing Could Stop Me, My Body Was Like Origami

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Xavier’s work is autobiographical, focusing on his long relationship with break dancing.

Photo: Kathryn Raines

Falling Through Narrative

Jonathan Stein

"Falling into Here or The Importance of Normal" is a welcome dance work among the talking heads presentations of the First Person Arts Festival.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

Reflections, in Retrospect

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

Thoughts on Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers FALL Reflections -- a retrospective of the company's five years in Philadelphia.

Photo: Jacqui Tichenor

Archedream’s Dream of What a Dream Should Be

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

In "Inside Out," the blacklight mask and dance theater company, Archedream, melds childhood stories into one universal tale.

The Hit Parade

Lisa Bardarson

In 1917 with "Parade," Massine was a fully participating player on the avant-garde playground...

Photo: Sandy Carson

Restless Narratives in a Funereal Juke Joint

Nicole Bindler

In this juke joint where even ecstatic dancing is infused with sorrow, the dancers pound the floor with rhythmic urgency.

Photo: Tom Caravaglia

Even Bugs Can Love

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Or so Paul Taylor would have us believe in three of the four dances he presented in his Philadelphia season at the Annenberg.

Photo: Toni Rudov

Otro Tango Show

Carolyn Merritt

Seductive. Sultry. Intense. Visceral. Passionate. Electrifying. Sensual. Hot. Heady. Raw.