Upping the ante on dance coverage and conversation

Join us at the start of Fringe for Two In-Person Events! 

thINKingDANCE and FringeArts are hosting a Festival Kick-off Party on Monday September 1st, 5-7pm at the Biergarten at FringeArts!

thINKingDANCE will lead a Write Back Atcha after Beautiful Human Lies on Monday September 8th. Get tickets for the show and join us afterwards for a post-show writing workshop facilitated by Noel Price-Bracey!

Melissa Strong


Photo: Heather McBride

Melissa Strong (she/her) is a Philadelphia-based writer and professor who studied dance for more than 10 years. She writes about dance and the arts for Broad Street Review and about film for MovieJawn. A scholar of American literature and culture, Melissa is a faculty member at Community College of Philadelphia and the author of American Lit Remixed: Music in Twenty-First-Century American Literature (Lexington Books, 2021). Learn more on her website.