The Philadelphia arts scene is set for an expansive fall season with several dance programs across multiple venues. Performances will feature a diverse mix of classical ballet, contemporary works, Indian classical dance, and jazz-influenced productions.
Ballets Jazz Montréal
Ballets Jazz Montréal brings Dance Me, a Leonard Cohen tribute, to the Harold L. Zellerbach Theater at the Annenberg Center Oct. 23 and 24.
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Philadanco presents “For the Love of Philly” in December at the Perelman Theater, celebrating Philadelphia’s Black cultural legacy with world premieres and a nod to the Philadelphia International Records catalog. It will also feature a birthday tribute to founder Joan Myers Brown.
Philadelphia Ballet
The Philadelphia Ballet opens its season Oct. 8-11 with a patriotic program, “Stars and Stripes Forever,” featuring Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, George Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes and Who Cares?, along with Eliot Feld’s Variations on ‘America’.
A second Philadelphia Ballet program, “Dance at Great Velocity,” running from Oct. 15-18, spotlights speed and athleticism with works like Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Christopher Wheeldon’s DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse, and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper Room.