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Press Releases

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s “Here + Now” Runs March 24 – 27, 2022

Mixed Repertory Production Brings Cutting-Edge Female Choreographers’ Work to the August Wilson African American Cultural Center By Jenna Bodnar PITTSBURGH, PA – Cutting-edge voices in dance will take center stage at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center March 24 – 27 at Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s (PBT) Here + Now. Featuring a lineup of internationally acclaimed — and all female — choreographers, this evocative mixed repertory production … Continue reading Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s “Here + Now” Runs March 24 – 27, 2022

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CriticalDance.org, Dance Reviews 2021

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre: Distinction and Delight [REVIEW]

Pittsburgh Ballet TheatreOpen Air: A Series in Celebration of the Performing ArtsPrograms A and BMay 21 and 22, 2021 Flagstaff Hill at Schenley ParkPittsburgh, PA Steve Sucato As the hosts of the much-anticipated “Open Air: A Series in Celebration of the Performing Arts,” Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre (PBT) gave audiences a heaping helping of the kind of repertory new artistic director Susan Jaffe will be bringing to … Continue reading Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre: Distinction and Delight [REVIEW]

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Airings

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Susan Jaffe opens-up about ‘Open Air: A Series in Celebration of the Performing Arts’

By Steve Sucato One of the first things new Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre artistic director Susan Jaffe did in the job beginning the summer of 2020, was oversee the purchase of a portable outdoor stage. It was acquired to give the company more options in performing around the region especially in these pandemic times, but also to provide a means for PBT to bring their art … Continue reading Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s Susan Jaffe opens-up about ‘Open Air: A Series in Celebration of the Performing Arts’

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Press Releases

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Unveils Its 2021-2022 Season

By Katie Drozynski PITTSBURGH, PA (May 6, 2021) – After more than a year since the curtain came down abruptly on Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s (PBT) 50th Anniversary Season, PBT Artistic Director Susan Jaffe is proud to announce a 2021-2022 Season that brings ballet back to the Benedum Center and August Wilson African American Cultural Center. PBT’s triumphant return to the theater ignites innovative voices, revisits beloved … Continue reading Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Unveils Its 2021-2022 Season

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Dance Reviews 2020

Whim W’Him’s ‘Choreographic Shindig VI’ ups the ante on Virtual Dance Offerings [REVIEW-Arts Air]

Reviewed by Steve Sucato The global pandemic caught many dance companies big and small flat-footed when it came to alternative ways to do what they do. And while some of the big budget troupes may have the capability of throwing more resources into creative virtual performance solutions, it has been forward-thinking smaller dance organizations that have been making the most noise and producing some of … Continue reading Whim W’Him’s ‘Choreographic Shindig VI’ ups the ante on Virtual Dance Offerings [REVIEW-Arts Air]

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Airings

Squirt Guns, T.S. Eliot and Live Music are all part of Chamber Dance Project’s ‘New Works +’

By Steve Sucato Award-winning choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning’s Chamber Dance Project celebrates its sixth Washington season with New Works +, June 20-22 at D.C.’s Sidney Harmon Hall. The summer-only, project-based company whose model is to bring together dancers when they are on layoff and pair them with musicians to create new work was founded in New York in 2000 and has continued its commitment to … Continue reading Squirt Guns, T.S. Eliot and Live Music are all part of Chamber Dance Project’s ‘New Works +’

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Dance Reviews 2018

Ballet Hispánico’s All-Female Choreographers Program Struck All The Right Chords

Ballet Hispánico Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theatre Cleveland, OH November 10-11, 2018 Reviewed by Steve Sucato Co-presented by DANCECleveland and Cuyahoga Community College, Ballet Hispánico’s triple-bill of works by Hispanic female choreographers struck all the right chords Saturday, November 10 at Playhouse Square’s Ohio Theatre. The New York-based company, last in Cleveland in 2009, showed its versatility and popular appeal beginning with Colombian-Belgian choreographer Annabelle Lopez … Continue reading Ballet Hispánico’s All-Female Choreographers Program Struck All The Right Chords

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