Tuesday, December 9, 2025
BalletX in Bryn Mawr features premieres by choreographic fellow Christian Denice and company dancers, along with an audience favorite. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:25PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
The Wilma’s production of The Snow Queen is a modern fairy tale for our times, and its first offering for families. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:27PMStreet dance met Afro-Latin jazz in Ephrat Asherie Dance’s Shadow Cities, featuring legendary jazz musician Arturo O’Farrill in its world premiere at Penn Live Arts. Melissa Strong revie…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:02PMMonday, November 3, 2025
Philly’s own BalletX celebrates two great decades with a 20th Anniversary Retrospective featuring 20 dances in two programs. Melissa Strong reviews Program A: The First Decade.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:46PMMonday, October 20, 2025
Philadelphia Ballet dances to the dark side in An Evening of Horror, featuring a resonant ballet about Lizzy Borden and the world premiere of Juliano Nunes’s Valley of Death. Melissa Stron…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:47PMMonday, September 29, 2025
Toni Nagy and Sarah Buckner’s interdisciplinary duo performance Grape Culture held space in this year’s Fringe for experiences of domination without consent. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:38PMThursday, September 25, 2025
Rhonda Moore and Ben Grinberg’s Helpful Hints for Strength and Health for Busy People, part of the Cannonball Festival, is a unique and remarkable physical duet exploring how and why we in…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:20PMMonday, September 22, 2025
nora chipaumire’s “anti-genre” performance installation Dambudzo, part of the curated Fringe Festival, is a postcolonial fever dream. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:08PMMonday, September 15, 2025
New York-based Wolfsmouth Players Company brings Queerano, a mashup of Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Wildean farce, and queer history to the Philly Fringe. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:55PMTuesday, July 29, 2025
Dance critic Melissa Strong observes performances with an expert eye, but she enjoys the challenge of taking dance classes herself along hobbyists and professionals alike at the annual Phila…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:45PMMonday, July 28, 2025
The dedication of new work from Mural Arts will bring the legacies of William Still, his family, and Philadelphia’s historic 7th Ward into the public eye. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:07PMTuesday, June 24, 2025
A June 22 performance of West Chester Dance Works’ Rachel Harris: One Woman Over the Line at the Performance Garage celebrated Juneteenth with a vibrant, relevant imagining of one real-lif…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:21PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
Both locally and nationally, dance is benefitting from increased visibility and representation of openly trans and/or nonbinary artists, but dance still clings to stereotypes of gender more …
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:57PMThursday, May 29, 2025
Tapestry of Time, a recital and celebration of courage, celebrates dancers of all ages. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:00AMMonday, May 12, 2025
Dance artist Megan Mazarick concluded her Performance Garage DanceVisions residency with the world premiere of soapbox, an engaging interdisciplinary dance/theater piece considering digital-…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:49PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
PHILADANCO! marked its 55th anniversary with world premieres by Tommie-Waheed Evans and Ray Mercer, plus works from the early aughts that are relevant today, including a tribute to Alvin Ail…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 10:27AMTuesday, April 8, 2025
The 7 Fingers offers a thrilling acrobatic take on a classic tragedy. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 12:02PMWednesday, April 2, 2025
Dance Up Close ‘25, a midweek dance series presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects, springs to life with Jumper Cables. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:44PMTuesday, April 1, 2025
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers reflected on the moon in Luna (月): Dance, Myth, and Nature, with vibrant repertory works and striking world premieres by Weiwei Ma, Evalina Carbonell, and Kun-Yang Lin…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 11:50AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
Rennie Harris Puremovement celebrates street dance in the world premiere of American Street Dancer. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 08:54AMFriday, February 14, 2025
As Philly celebrates the Eagles, BalletX flexes its own muscles with two world premieres in a dramatic Winter Series. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:55PMMonday, January 27, 2025
Montreal’s Agora de la danse, a venue and incubator for contemporary dance, brought its virtual-reality experience, Koros, to Philly for the first time with a weekend of showings at the An…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:21PMFriday, November 15, 2024
BalletX kicks off its 19th season with more dancers, a new venue, and works by Marguerite Donlon, Matthew Neenan, and Takehiro Ueyama. The works showcase the quality and range of the company…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 01:12PMThursday, November 14, 2024
Brian Sanders’ JUNK presents a limited-run showcase of Urban Scuba featuring a new musical score. Melissa Strong previews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:35AMTuesday, October 22, 2024
To kick off the “B-Side” series of its current Queer Revolutions season, EgoPo welcomes longtime collaborators Abrahamse & Meyer Productions with The Knightly Quest, a relatively lit…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 04:20PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
Laurel Johnson’s Grief Astronomer, part of the Cannonball Festival in the 2024 Philly Fringe, journeys through childhood trauma, disability, and the cosmos. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:36PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Tyshaun & Shekinah’s Forbidden Fruit, a circus-dance work about Black experiences, is part of Cannonball’s inaugural Black Circus Week. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:20PMMonday, September 9, 2024
For this year’s cabaret-style Fringe entry, REV Theatre Company takes over a basement nightclub with MY BIG FANG VAMPIRE WEDDING, boasting great music and committed performers. Melissa Str…
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 05:22PMSaturday, August 31, 2024
Choreographer Caili Quan sits down with contributor Melissa Strong to discuss her journey from Guam to Philly and from dancer to choreographer.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 03:11PMTuesday, July 30, 2024
New York Circus Project’s Hamlet put an inventive circus spin on Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy with performances at Philly’s FringeArts in late July. Melissa Strong reviews.
SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 02:22PMWednesday, July 24, 2024
Freelancer Alyssandra Docherty talks about her work as a lighting designer, how the light bulb got turned on for her, and how she manages to keep learning and growing. Melissa Strong preview…
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