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Pennsylvania Ballet Showcases Contemporary Choreography in February Program

By Debra Yemenijian at 12:52 pm on Monday January 24, 2011

Billowy fog, a red unitard and sneakers might invoke imagery of someone taking an early morning jog along Boathouse Row.

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™ Returns to the Stage at the Academy of Music

By Christine Tarlecki at 10:10 am on Tuesday November 30, 2010

In the traditional sense of the word, nothing is more holiday than seeing the Nutcracker Ballet at the Academy of Music. It has been a family tradition since I was a kid, and every year the story still holds the same delight for me.

Romeo & Juliet: a Perfect Evening Out with the Pennsylvania Ballet

By Joseph Hallman at 10:50 am on Wednesday June 9, 2010

The Pennsylvania Ballet presented the classic 1935 Prokofiev ballet “Romeo and Juliet." Prokofiev wrote the music for the Kirov Ballet with a synopsis of the

Pennsylvania Ballet Keeps Audiences on Their Toes with Four Contemporary Classics

By Debra Yemenijian at 10:11 am on Thursday May 6, 2010

The Pennsylvania Ballet took the stage of the Merriam Theater with Program IV on Wednesday night, presenting premieres by Jerome Robbins and William Forsythe, a timeless B

BalletX: A Fall to Remember

By Porsche Slocum at 1:23 pm on Friday November 20, 2009

The Right Moves: BalletX’s Summer Series at the Wilma Theater

By Christopher Munden at 7:06 am on Sunday July 26, 2009

Perhaps it was a natural cultural chauvinism that kept me away from ballet for so long, even as my sister danced her way through elementary school and my mother eagerly anticipated the next season of the Royal Ballet, and later the Philadelphia Ballet Company.