Sunday, August 4

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The Pennsylvania Academy of Ballet celebrates its fiftieth anniversary.

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In 1964, following Fidel Castro’s Cuban Revolution, Pendleton’s parents moved to her father’s native California and tried to start a company. (Ramona would stay in Cuba, play a significant role developing the Cuban method of ballet education, and eventually become the director of the Cuban National Ballet School. The sisters’ reunion 40 years later in Cuba was the subject of a PBS Independent Lens documentary called Mirror Dance.)