Sarah Jordan has written extensively for national and regional magazines and newspapers. She is also the author of four books and a regular contributor to the Festival Blog. How bad does it have to hurt to keep a dancer off the stage? Often, near catastrophically. Dancers, especially classically trained, continuously battle the limits of their… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Pennsylvania Ballet
Fly Creation: More Behind The Scenes Of PA Ballet’s Peter Pan
This Saturday and Sunday are the last two performances for Pennsylvania Ballet’s production of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan at the Academy of Music. We recently heard from two of the dancers (playing Peter Pan and Wendy), but we were also interested in the behind-the-scenes perspective in staging the complex flying sequences. For this production, the… Read more »
Dancin’ On Air: Pennsylvania Ballet Dancers Reveal How They Learned To Fly In Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan
In Pennsylvania Ballet’s upcoming production (and company premiere) of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan there is a lot of air time. But this air time is not just for the audience to say, “Wow, they’re flying,” but it is used to create a vertical canvas where much of the choreography and evocative imagery of the ballet… Read more »
