Dance
With three professional ballet companies, more than a dozen modern dance troupes, and several dance series and festivals throughout the year, Philadelphia has emerged as a dance capital - even though it is just 100 miles south of New York.
Pennsylvania Ballet artistic director Roy Kaiser in the comapany's studios in East Falls. (Ron Tarver / Staff Photogapher)
In the lean years - and there were many - a bad economy might have knocked Pennsylvania Ballet off the map. But in 2009, after years of improving fiscal health, the company has been able to tighten its belt, focus on the priorities, and find creative ways to deal with it.
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The floor is not enough: STREB, Elizabeth Streb's flying dance company, visits in February with the current show "Brave."
Over the last 15 years, Philadelphia's dance climate has improved dramatically. Festivals such as the Live Arts/Fringe and the now-dormant DanceBoom! cultivate ever-larger audiences, and excellent university dance departments turn out performers who often plant roots here instead of heading north. The funding climate lures out-of-towners - Headlong Dance Theater, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers - to relocate here, providing both competition for the community's dancers and mentoring in alternative styles and dance vocabularies.
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