With the recent announcement that the company is financially solvent, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is raising the barre on single ticket prices during a 2007-08 season that will feature a world premiere, a North American premiere and three Pittsburgh premieres.

Tickets for productions like "Don Quixote," "Carmina Burana" and "Alice in Wonderland" will range from $20 to $88, up from last year's rates of $16 to $78.

More information: 412-456-6666, the Box Office at Theater Square or www.pbt.org beginning Tuesday.

Attack Theatre

Michele de la Reza and Peter Kope seemed to be in several places at once this summer, teaching at Point Park University's Summerdance program, Carnegie Mellon University's Dalcroze seminars and pre-college summer workshop, among numerous other offerings. Jeff Davis split off to work with music director David Pressau to create and choreograph a musical theater revue, and Kope coordinated the movement in Quantum Theatre's fantastical adventure at Hartwood Acres stables, "Le Grand Meaulnes." De la Reza and Kope also sandwiched in a trip to Connecticut to celebrate their eighth anniversary and got a cat named Jasper.

Slippery Rock University

Slippery Rock faculty members have been on the move. In just a sampling of their activities:

Jennifer Keller is commissioning two works: a duet by New York-based choreographer Jeanine Durning for Keller and her longtime dance collaborator, Gwen Hunter Ritchie of Labco Dance, and a solo work by SRU colleague Ursula Payne. Also look for Keller's own choreography at the Shadyside Arts Festival, Labco Dance and Point Park University. Payne will premiere duet choreography for herself and SRU alumna Teena Custer at Aaron Davis Hall in New York City Sept. 7 and 8.

Resident musician and composer Andy Hasenpflug will perform in Chicago with "The Seldoms," a Chicago-based modern dance troupe, and in New York as part of the Harlem Stage Series at Aaron Davis Hall next month. Also, Melissa Teodoro travels to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, next July to present a paper on gender politics in Latin America carnival at the ICTM Ethnochoreogology Conference.

World Tango Championships

Former Pittsburgher Eduardo Goytia and partner Cyrena Drusine were the only American finalists at the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 26. They competed in the salon tango, which contains many familiar moves found at milongas, or dance hall parties. Goytia was a central figure at Pittsburgh Tangueros, a nonprofit dance club dedicated to the Argentine tango, before moving to New York City.

Sydney Dance Company

Those who attended the Pittsburgh Dance Council's March presentation of Sydney Dance Company were aware that it was one of artistic director Graeme Murphy's final performances with the company. And now comes news that his young successor, Tanja Liedtke, only 29, was hit by a truck near her apartment in Sydney and killed Aug. 19. Known for her glamour and thought-provoking choreography, she had been chosen from 53 candidates to take over the troupe beginning Oct. 2.

Wexford Dance Academy and Ballet Academy of Pittsburgh

These two Pittsburgh schools will produce an Inaugural Charity Performance, "Dance With Friends," with proceeds benefiting the Pittsburgh-based Friends of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti on Sept. 28. Also performing at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater will be former Rusted Root member Jim Donovan's Drum the Ecstatic International. More information: 724-934-9233.