Texture Contemporary Ballet’s New Season begins with ‘Life, Love, & Jazz’
By Steve Sucato Pittsburgh’s “other” professional ballet company, Texture Contemporary Ballet, opens its fourth home season July 17-20 at the New Hazlett Theater with four performances of Life, Love, & Jazz. The program features three world premieres that continue the company’s winning formula of pairing contemporary ballet styles with popular music to create moving, vibrant and energetic ballets. Such works have captivated audiences here and on … Continue reading Texture Contemporary Ballet’s New Season begins with ‘Life, Love, & Jazz’
Re-established Chamber Dance Project to make Washington debut at the Kennedy Center
By Steve Sucato Conventional wisdom dictates that bigger is better and that more trumps less. Not so when it comes to watching dance says Chamber Dance Project founder and artistic director Diane Coburn Bruning. “I don’t want people seeing my work from a football field away,” she says on the phone from our nation’s capital. “The closer the audience can be the better.” Coburn Bruning … Continue reading Re-established Chamber Dance Project to make Washington debut at the Kennedy Center
Pittsburgh work-in-progress showing to mark Pennsylvania Dance Theatre’s transition to TanzTheater André Koslowski
By Steve Sucato This summer, the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater continues serving as one of the region’s leading incubators of new dance work and artist development with three installments of its East Liberty LIVE! series. Up first, former Dance Alloy dancer André Koslowski returns to Pittsburgh to further develop his Wiegenlied (“Lullaby“), an evening-length dance-theater piece exploring themes of loneliness and isolation. Koslowski and his Pennsylvania Dance Theatre showed … Continue reading Pittsburgh work-in-progress showing to mark Pennsylvania Dance Theatre’s transition to TanzTheater André Koslowski
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