242 stories by "Sara Bauknecht / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is hitting the road this summer to make its debut at the Chicago Dancing Festival.
Dance comes in all shapes, styles and sizes. Some kinds are well known. Others, not so much.
Once upon a time, aspiring dancers followed a predictable path in pursuit of their dreams. Move to a big city, audition tirelessly and, if you're lucky, maybe you'll land a contract with a p…
With summer on the horizon, it's time to kick up your feet -- or watch others do it!
The Pittsburgh Dance Council closed its 2014-15 season on a steamy, Southern high with a spellbinding display of talent and storytelling by the Scottish Ballet in "A Streetcar Named Des…
The talent pool is deep these days at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School " so much so that all of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's latest company hires are alumni of its growing graduate p…
Since its inception in 2008, the newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival has been a way for the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater to showcase a slice of contemporary dance's emerging and established figu…
At a gala marking the final weekend of its 45th mainstage season, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre tonight announced a $20 million campaign that will expand its PBT School and its presence in the r…
From a young age, Pontus Lidberg has had a calling to create.
The dance world is ripe with fresh voices -- and Pittsburgh's dance audiences are eager to hear what they have to say.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre put its technical and artistic prowess center stage in a meaty mixed repertory program of Pittsburgh premieres in March. Now it's about to raise the rigor of its re…
Choreographer Pearlann Porter is well acquainted with how time can toy with perspective.
"Welcome back to the first night of winter," a man's voice said jokingly over the loudspeaker as he welcomed the audience to the Union Tanguera performance on an unseasonably cold Saturday t…
Greer Reed isn't content with plateaus. She's maintained a viable foothold in the evolving Pittsburgh dance scene over the years by growing and changing with it.
In their elementary readers, school children of yesteryear saw Dick and Jane run and laugh and play with Spot and Puff. But what ever happened to these cherubic characters and their "Le…
Texture Contemporary Ballet has a lot to be proud about following its latest run of performances at the New Hazlett Theater over the weekend. Not only did the engagement mark the completion …
When Ruben Graciani accepted the position of dance department chair at Point Park University, he hoped to make a program that's already highly esteemed even better.
