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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.

Photo: Zornitsa Stoyanova

Quick Takes-“THEN”

Megan Bridge

TD writers are polled for quick takes on Group Motion’s performance of "THEN" by Susan Rethorst.

Photo: Kelly & Massa

Poetry, Oppression, and Opera

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The dancing of the Antonio Gades Company punctuates Opera Philadelphia's "Ainadamar" with dynamic range.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Episodes of Junk

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Luna had a way of making the showy encounters with objects approach poetry, particularly in “The Grid,” a solo with what appeared to be a discarded window frame...

Photo: Dieter Hartwig

Public in Private vs. Private in Public

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

We live in a world that is both our living room and our soapbox. These two works--Allege and Singer/Songwriter--engage in the constant conversation between public and private.

So, Grandma Sets You Up on a Blind Date…

Becca Weber

It stands to reason that pairing grandmothers and creative types would result in a match made in heaven.