After retooling her career, Beth Corning returns with a new solo dance work

By Steve Sucato If necessity is the mother of invention, perhaps change is the mother of reinvention. Such was the case for Beth Corning. After a string of life-changing events, including the death of her mother, the dancer and choreographer set about reinventing herself as an artist. Corning is a veteran dance creator and performer with an international résumé, including several years leading Pittsburgh’s Dance … Continue reading After retooling her career, Beth Corning returns with a new solo dance work

A classic supernatural tale gets the operatic treatment at the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival

By Steve Sucato How far would you go to be with the one you love? That is the central question in Ofer Ben-Amots‘ multimedia chamber opera The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds. This retelling of S. Ansky‘s seminal 1914 Yiddish play of the same name is presented by the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival April 25 and 28, at the New Hazlett Theater. Part of the Pittsburgh Symphony‘s Music for … Continue reading A classic supernatural tale gets the operatic treatment at the Pittsburgh Jewish Music Festival

MorrisonDance to Celebrate 15 Seasons of Dance

Cleveland, OH – MorrisonDance celebrates 15 seasons of dance Saturday, May 4 at 7 pm at PlayhouseSquare’s Ohio Theatre. The Cleveland-based dance company will share a selection of favorites from over 50 original pieces of choreography. The show will include Morrison’s “Tray Magnifique”, an imaginative tribute to the service industry where dancers convert trays into mirrors, dragonflies, limousines and drum kits; “Radke’s Melancholy Chromosomes”, an … Continue reading MorrisonDance to Celebrate 15 Seasons of Dance