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BalletX Summer program at the Wilma (1st review)
It's all about movement
BalletX celebrated its fifth anniversary with a program demonstrating just how sophisticated this small troupe of ten has become within a short time period. It was especially good to see Matthew Neenan back to being his movement funky self again.
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The dance season: Nine highlights
In search of honest generosity: A backward glance at the dance season
Whether because of the economy or burnout, Philadelphia's 2010 dance season was thinner and weaker than in past years, in terms of intelligent dancers opening themselves to the choreographer's vision and then channeling it to us. Merilyn Jackson finds nine encouraging exceptions.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Romeo and Juliet'
Who needs Shakespeare?
Shakespeare may be history's greatest playwright, but the Pennsylvania Ballet's current production of Romeo and Juliet proves that we don't need a great writer to tell a great story.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Program IV'
From the familiar to the experimental
“We Can Do Anything” should have been Pennsylvania Ballet's title for its May performance. In a well-balanced program the company performed works as wildly different and separated by time and choreographic sensibilities as can be imagined.
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"Braving the New World' by Rebecca Davis
Orwell and Huxley meet their match
Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World shaped the course of modern thought. But Rebecca Davis's choreography has gone those cerebral works one better, enabling us to see and feel how totalitarian regimes work in practice.
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BalletX's Spring Series (2nd review)
Xperimental and xciting, too
Feisty BalletX's Spring Series was sophisticated and polished, offering four new ballets, each from (mostly) new choreographers.
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BalletX's Spring Series (1st review)
Ballet for people who don't particularly like ballet
Classical ballet has become a closed and rigid system. BalletX offers an antidote, opening up ballet to new movements and new forms of expressiveness.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's Chopin Celebration
Experiments with Chopin
Choreographers Matthew Neenan and Jerome Robbins both heard something in Chopin's work that suggested movements far removed from gentle early 19th-Century dances. Combine the three of them, as Pennsylvania Ballet's Roy Kaiser did, and you have an exciting program combination.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Program II'
Mathew Neenan takes (too many) liberties
Pennsylvania Ballet's version of Balanchine's Four Temperaments demonstrates that artists know more about life than philosophers. Matthew Neenan's take on Carmina Burana, on the other hand, tells us more about the artist than about life.
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Pink Hair Affair's "Take It Off!'
This was burlesque— or was it?
Pink Hair Affair's Take It Off! purports to blend burlesque and modern dance, although its pieces rarely achieve a mix of either.
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