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Photo: Bill Heber

Brisk Ballet for a Fall Season

Patricia Graham

Balletx's Fall Series delivered strong dancing and choreography from three disparate choreographers.

Photo: Aidan Un

When Dance Has a Voice

Ellen Chenoweth

TD writers and march participants Ellen Chenoweth and Gregory King respond to the Dancing For Justice event on December 13th, 2014.

Photo: Ellen Chenoweth

There Can Be an Ease

Ellen Chenoweth

How hundreds of mousetraps ended up in a dance class is related to the dialogue between performance art and performing arts currently underway.

P.S. 41: Art and Activism

With PHL dancers marching this past weekend for #blacklivesmatter and mobilized to help Dance/UP, the role of artists in working to effect change is palpable. How does activism relate to your life as an artist?

Photo: Richard Termin

Smiling on the Surface

Becca Weber

The dancers, virtuosic and athletic, execute grand leaps, surprising shifts of weight, and daring moments of partnering.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Pleasure in Plunging into the Stream

Vervet Dance’s curated evening of five works featured artists from throughout the region. After dipping my toe into the potential of these artists’ works I left wanting more.

Photo: Matt Karas

Black Girl

Nicole Bindler

During this evening of three dances with a mixed gender company, Brown decides to devote one of the pieces to the six women.

Photo: Christopher Duggan

One Brave Black Girl

Becca Weber

Not only was Brown opening up her work for anybody’s interpretation and critique, she was opening up her life--and all the layers of identity therein.

Photo: Eric Ashleigh

Hold it, control: 12 Questions and Answers

Carolyn Merritt

For her experimental response to Meg Foley and J. Louis Makary's experimental show, Carolyn Merritt answers 12 questions.

A Letter from Steve Paxton

A rebuttal to thoughts presented in Lisa Kraus' recent take on "Steve Paxton: Selected Works."