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Dance Alloy Theater
5530 Penn Avenue,
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
T: 412 363 4321
F: 412 363 4320
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Critical Reviews HOT OFF THE PRESS! EXPOSED "Alloy artistic director Beth Corning builds her dance menu around a trio of weighty entrees. Thus her programs are usually meaty and, in this case, full of protean emotions that were splayed wide open -- piercing, probing, uncomfortable and occasionally gentle. All were deftly "Exposed," which the current series at the New Hazlett Theater was titled..." Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 6, 2009 Past Seasons Dirty Little Secrets Feed Your Head Cafe ... A Different Drummer Fragile Black/White Dancing In The Red Individual Works Three Camilles Schakt After the Beat Table of Content In A Small Place Interrupted Narrative/No Consolation I Don't Want To Be There The Moors Pavane White Man Sleep Time & Again Selective Memory Blue Quartet Lost Open Seating Duet Dirty Little Secrets "Dance Alloy Theater dishes in its new show, 'Dirty Little Secrets,' but its revelations go beyond the gossipy realm the title implies. It is a touching and troubling show, performed with compelling artistry..." Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 9, 2009 Feed Your Head Cafe "(FEED YOUR HEAD CAFE) Corning's dance production is ambitious, brilliant." Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 1, 2008 "(FEED YOUR HEAD CAFE) Detailed and visually striking..." Read More Pittsburgh City Paper, April 2, 2008 "(FEED YOUR HEAD CAFE) Call it surreal, dreamlike, or a real trip...it works." Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 31, 2008 return to top ... A Different Drummer "(...A DIFFERENT DRUMMER) confidence and trust...the audience could sit back and really enjoy the dance experience...the Alloy's finest Corning concert to date." Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 10, 2007 "(...A DIFFERENT DRUMMER) ...thoroughly enjoyable three-piece show..." Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 11, 2007 return to top Fragile "(FRAGILE) Corning likes to make you pause and think about what is coming next, where nothing is easily absorbed and everything is probing... This was as raw as the Alloy gets, a heavyweight blend of theater, with the human condition laid bare... everything is carefully tended, like a bonsai garden, with enormous foresight and acute attention to detail." Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 16, 2007 "(FRAGILE) Corning and company again up the ante by offering perhaps the most emotionally powerful work in the company’s 31-year history.The very best this dance season has to offer, FRAGILE’s collection of humanistic dancetheater works is a must-see” Read More Pittsburgh City Paper, April 12, 2007 return to top Black/White Dancing In The Red "(BLACK/WHITE DANCING IN THE RED) Two elegant, humorous, powerful and contrasting commentaries on lifes' apparent choices...the feeling of internal pressure was palpable" Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 13, 2006 "(BLACK/WHITE DANCING IN THE RED) Corning's ultra-dark humor and unrelenting intensity...a sense of freedom and daring in conveying a wildly impressionistic school reunion and the hidden secrets that came with it" Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 12, 2006 return to top Three Camilles "'Three Camilles' is a lucid and imaginative exploration..." Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 9, 2008 return to top Schakt "'Schakt" is a Swedish classic and remains a haunting work 25 years after its premiere." Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, December 9, 2008 "'Schakt' marked a substantive step forward in the re-emergence of Pittsburgh's oldest modern dance company along a new path toward reclaiming former national prominence." Read More Arts Air: Rarefied Views and Reviews on the Arts "(SCHAKT/Jonsson) a league of its own... A masterpiece that touched nearly all the senses and was as ominous as it was profound...the stuff of nightmares and one remarkable dance work...Read More Arts Air, July 21, 2005 return to top After the Beat "(AFTER THE BEAT) David Parker's 'After the Beat' was low-key and relaxed...with occasional splashes of humor" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 10, 2007 return to top Table of Content "(TABLE OF CONTENT) Marina Harris's 'Table of Content' was a welcome touch of whimsy...with long taffeta skirts and flickering footwork and blubble gum" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 10, 2007 return to top In A Small Place "(IN A SMALL PLACE/Corning) masterfully danced with uncompromising passion and genius by DAT’s dancers…” Read More Dance Magazine, May 2007 "(IN A SMALL PLACE/Corning) Corning’s language resonates deeply with the aspirations and compromises of the human experience” Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 17, 2007 return to top Interrupted Narrative/No Consolation "(NO CONSOLATION/Byrd) Donald Byrd's 'Interrupted Narrative/No Consolation'...was the Alloy at its finest. This was a piece bathed in despair from which there was no escape...it was impossible not to sympathize with the commitment of these dancers. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 16, 2007 return to top I Don't Want To Be There "(I DON'T WANT TO BE THERE/Joe Goode) An ambitious multimedia examination of loneliness...after taking off her outer garments, she stood before the audience in her underwear, glanced down, and asked, "Is this all I am?"... a stunning experience" Read More Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 25, 2006 "(I DON'T WANT TO BE THERE/Joe Goode) a layer of dry humor... One of the best things about Goode's work was the movement, where the tensions play out throughout the body and a remarkable quartet...Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 24, 2006 return to top The Moors Pavane (THE MOORS PAVANE/Limon)... The passionately committed performance of Jacob Rice, Beth Corning, Stephanie Dumaine and Walsh... Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 24, 2006 return to top White Man Sleep (WHITE MAN SLEEP/ Donald Byrd) rippling with an almost uncontrollable grief... Byrd's dynamic piece, where these remarkably open dancers could have been witnesses to any horrific event" Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 24, 2006 return to top Time & Again "(TIME & AGAIN/Porter) disarmingly honest, in a text-driven dance piece that would even give real pleasure to theater buffs...Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 5, 2005 return to top Selective Memory (SELECTIVE MEMORY/Corning) delivered at the meticulous, deliberate pace currently found in many European dance companies... Pungent images that can be fondly recalled by everyone in the audience... Where the whimsical elements of surprise were slowly replaced by a solid choreographic technique...This was the kind of performance that you cannot and will not forget" Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 5, 2005 return to top Blue Quartet Dance Alloy Theater showed they are a dance troupe capable of great things and that they are once again worthy of serious notice...(BLUE QUARTET/Harris) emotional exploration and a coming of age... A poignant duet performed by Corning and Rice... Sliding along a tabletop...a trio of dancers using wads of bubble bum... Tinged with yearning and melancholy, Harris's work found emotional depth amidst frivolity...Read More Arts Air, July 21, 2005 return to top Lost (LOST/Corning) dense with with physical and emotional intensity...arguably some of Corning's best choreography to date" Read More Arts Air, July 21, 2005 return to top Open Seating "...A viable company, one with firm semblance of a tangible theatrical style and a luxuriously weighted, yet sleek technique on which to base it... Corning has an astute eye for new choreography...Friday night's performance was nothing short of stunning...(OPEN SEATING/Shimotakahara) seeming like a race to the finish, it brandished its physicality like a sword... A mesmerizing tour de force...Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2004 return to top Duet (DUET/Pilobolus)a slice of sheer poetry... Seemingly simple, such as the arm that spiraled up like a curl of smoke... A series of intimate lifts... Minute control and weight distributions that alluded to a myriad group of relationships - something for each observer" Read More Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, December 6, 2004 return to top |
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