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Photo: Phillip Makanna

Which Way Shall I Take to Leave?

Megan Bridge

Robert Ashley's music sparked the imagination of a range of choreographers, among them Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton and me.

Photo: Jessica Giacobbe

Making Nice, more or less

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

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.

Photo: Julieanne Harris

Performance Art Physical Education

Ellen Chenoweth

CardioCreativity turned out to be an exuberant hybrid: half performance art, half physical education, combining into an unusual and unpredictable mixture.

Photo: LBrowning Photography

Cooking and Dancing in the Kitchen

Jonathan Stein

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.

Photo: Steven Whitsitt

It All Comes Out in the Wash

Lisa Bardarson

The Clothesline Muse is not just about family lineage and the impact that previous generations bring to bear upon its fledgling members.

Photo: Ashley Joas

Feeling Like a Kid Again: Postcard from a College Dance Festival

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

I am still a hungry undergrad ready to drink in the elixir of dance, embarrassing in our current Philly culture of extreme cool.

Photo: Luca Fiaccave

Rock Stars and Flamencos: The Two Glorious Galváns

Lisa Kraus

A sister and brother, dancing flamenco, bring a facility, inventiveness and outrageousness that tops anything I've seen in years.

Photo: Kim Anno & Kyung Lee

Diving with SCUBA in Its Four City National Tour

Jonathan Stein

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.

Photo: Chris Nash

Cold, Hot and In-Between

Lisa Kraus

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