By Eva Phillips So much of the history women are forced to learn, accept, and retell is conceived in terms of what is done to our bodies and what our bodies can handle. How fertile are we? How effectively do… Read More ›
Corningworks
“with a shadow of…” And Euphoric Submersion into Unknowning
By Eva Phillips Beth Corning knows precisely what she’s doing. Even when breaching the borderless, lawless, and seemingly indiscernible realm of the unknown, the unconscious/subconscious, and the liminal, Beth Corning (and her fellow artists) strikingly knows precisely what she’s doing. Having had… Read More ›
Spring Preview 2019
A Letter from the Editor, Friends, we have finally staggered our way through the unforgiving winter, plagued with days of 20 hours of darkness and a massively disappointing awards shows. Yet, while the winter was mercurial and bleak, Pittsburgh in… Read More ›
Electrified Bodies and Minds: Dance in Pittsburgh Spring 2019
Too often in constructing and pondering artistic criticism, I find myself hesitant or outright balking at the prospect of reviewing or discussing dance. Academically trained to understand and espouse an informed passion for film and theatre, I felt that the… Read More ›
The Waiting Room – a perfect balance of vision, collaboration and execution
Corningworks opened its tenth season with the thought-provoking dance theatre piece The Waiting Room. As we take our seats in the New Hazlett Theater, we are welcomed by the sight of a dimly lit coffin seemingly floating in darkness. Beth… Read More ›
Fall Preview: 3rd Edition
A letter from the Editor, Hello friends and welcome to our third annual Fall Preview! If you’ve been sticking with us for a while, you know the drill! If you’re new to the PITR game, welcome! We’re glad you’re here…. Read More ›
Corningworks 10th Anniversary Season
Beth Corning’s dance “company” Corningworks launches its tenth season with The Waiting Room. I say a company in quotes because Corningworks doesn’t own a theatre, doesn’t have a staff and doesn’t have a resident corps of full-time dancers. Corning has… Read More ›
In House
There is something so inherently simple about the deconstruction and even excoriation of an individual’s interior by following passages through rooms in the individuals’ personal space. How a person fills their space with their possessions; how a person uses their… Read More ›
Six a Breast: The Absurd Life of Women
Luckily for us, Beth Corning’s moved to Pittsburgh in 2003 to serving as Artistic Director of Dance Alloy. In 2010, she launched (to critical acclaim) CORNINGWORKS as a vehicle for “seasoned” performers and artists over 40. Her Glue Factory Project… Read More ›
What’s Missing?
What’s Missing is a show premised on imperfection, incompletion, dissatisfaction. The disembodied, mellifluous voice we hear as the two somber dancers begin their very calculated, yet very impassioned, tactile choreography. Over and over again, the disembodied voice urges that nothing… Read More ›