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Photo: Mike Hurwitz

Germaine and Rosario: Percussive Languages

Lynn Matluck Brooks

These two powerful, petite women dance face to face, side by side, back to back, and, at times, as one another’s shadows.

Photo: Johanna Austin

Scratch Night Returns

Ellen Chenoweth

Three moments during Scratch Night stood out in their intensity or departure from predictable performance customs.

Photo: Eduardo Patino

It’s About the Conversation

Patricia Graham

Patricia Graham chats with Ballet Hispanico Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro.

Photo: Ann-Marie Gover

Perspectives on Dance in Public Places

Becca Weber

The energy involved in being on view at Dance in Public Places became a part of the rehearsal process.

Twenty Six Ways to Reinvigorate Your Dance Writing

Annie Wilson

Critic Brian Schaefer goads thINKingDANCE, and all dance writers, to change it up, look into pop culture and try new forms.

Photo by Kat Muscinesi

Pitter Patter

Lisa Bardarson

"I heard subtleties in the footwork that shoes would have obscured making this piece more about listening and less about sound."

Photo: Johanna Austin

Egg Cartons, Cotton Candy, and Living Sculpture

Libby Rush

The invisible wall between viewer and performer is broken; the viewer given an active voice.

Photo: Julieta Cervantes

Nyet, Sochi Olympics. Da, Liz Gerring’s glacier!

Jonathan Stein

Liz Gerring talks to thINKingDANCE before her company's first Philadelphia area performance of glacier.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

BalletX: A Winter Valentine

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Perfect confection for the lover's holiday, performed with love in the mind and body--coy, seductive and intimately close.