242 stories by "Sara Bauknecht / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"
Dancer, choreographer, tour manager, administrator, soundscape designer, fundraiser " it's all in a day's work for Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight.
Wang Ramirez is known worldwide for bringing hip-hop to concert dance stages, but to call it only a hip-hop act would be selling it short.
If two heads are supposedly better than one, what about three?
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre soloist Alexandre Silva will retire at the end of the 2017-18 season, the company announced today.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's 2018-19 season will be marked by new ballets, more live music and a farewell to one of its longtime principal dancers.
"Swan Lake" has been captivating crowds for more than a century. It has scintillating choreography, an exquisite Tchaikovsky score and a gripping story of love and loss sure to tug at t…
Principal Julia Erickson, one of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre's longest tenured dancers, will leave the company in October, PBT announced Thursday.
Who's raising the barre in Pittsburgh dance in 2018?
At a recent adult dance class at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School in the Strip District, an instructor led a small class through some ballet basics.
The beloved holiday ballet "The Nutcracker" is in full swing this month at Benedum Center.
There's nothing like a new year to stir thoughts of trying something new or rekindling old resolutions that dropped off during the year.
Celebrated choreographer Kyle Abraham is from Pittsburgh, but these days home is wherever the movement takes him.
It's been six years since Bram Stoker's blood-sucking lothario swooped into Benedum Center.
Swap the mask for makeup this Halloween and create a guise that's spectacularly spooky!
These days, change is one of the few things that Kelly Strayhorn Theater executive director Janera Solomon can be sure of.
At age 13, Misty Copeland was an anxious teen in stocking feet, shorts and a T-shirt taking her first ballet class on a basketball court at a Boys & Girls Club in San Pedro, Calif.
If we've learned anything about Attack Theatre in its 20-plus years, it's that there's no such thing as an ordinary performance.
Ballet lovers are in for a treat when Sonia Rodriguez, a principal with the National Ballet of Canada, debuts "A Ballerina's Legacy" at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East…
Sometimes the best way to unlock the lunacy of our lives is to laugh at it.
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will toast the unofficial start of its 2017-18 season with a new wine tasting tent at its annual "Ballet Under the Stars" event.
When the burden of student loans became too much to bear, Moriah Ella Mason bared her body in clubs across Pittsburgh.
Lincoln-Larimer native Kyle Abraham can add "cover star" to his list of accomplishments. Six dancers from his New York City-based dance troupe Abraham.In.Motion are featured o…
Terrence Orr will continue as artistic director for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, the company announced Monday morning.
Aspiring dancers know the drill all too well: train to be a performer, then head to New York City or Los Angeles to try to make it happen.
It's a little bit country, a little bit rock 'n roll -" with some Coldplay, classical and Vanilla Ice mixed in for good measure.
