Articles

Performance Art Physical Education

CardioCreativity turned out to be an exuberant hybrid: half performance art, half physical education, combining into an unusual and unpredictable mixture.
April 7, 2014
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Making Nice, more or less

The nicest dance I have seen in a long time; nice like holding hands, or vanilla ice cream, or an easy breeze on an early spring day.
April 7, 2014
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Cooking and Dancing in the Kitchen

Marion Ramirez’s "Musa Paradisiaca," named after the banana tree of her native Puerto Rico, stirs together quotidian life, memory, cultural history and passionate art making.
April 3, 2014
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Feeling Like a Kid Again: Postcard from a College Dance Festival

I am still a hungry undergrad ready to drink in the elixir of dance, embarrassing in our current Philly culture of extreme cool.
March 21, 2014
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It All Comes Out in the Wash

The Clothesline Muse is not just about family lineage and the impact that previous generations bring to bear upon its fledgling members.
March 21, 2014
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Diving with SCUBA in Its Four City National Tour

Taking a dive with Philadelphia Dance Projects’ SCUBA is one of the serendipitous pleasures of the Philadelphia dance scene each year. This program went deep.
March 18, 2014
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Rock Stars and Flamencos: The Two Glorious Galváns

A sister and brother, dancing flamenco, bring a facility, inventiveness and outrageousness that tops anything I've seen in years.
March 18, 2014
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Cold, Hot and In-Between

Philadelphia Dance Projects often pairs Philly artists with out-of-towners. Here, two artists inhabit different aesthetic universes.
March 13, 2014
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