New York-based choreographer Marjani Forte offers a work about recovery

By Steve Sucato How do mental illness, poverty and addiction relate? That is the question choreographer Marjani Forte explores in being Here … /this time. It’s her reworking of being Here, which she premiered last year to critical acclaim at New York City’s Dancespace Project. Forte and company follow their week-long residency at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater’s Alloy Studios with a work-in-progress showing of the newly … Continue reading New York-based choreographer Marjani Forte offers a work about recovery

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