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  • Reviews

The Unbearable Weight of She

Carolyn Merritt

Real expressions of gender are indeed all around us. We need only take the time to see.

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  • Reviews

Sparkling at Fifty–PA Ballet in “Jewels”

Patricia Graham

Fifty years after its founding, Pennsylvania Ballet presents the Philadelphia premiere of a Balanchine masterwork.

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  • Reviews

Nothing Could Stop Me, My Body Was Like Origami

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Xavier’s work is autobiographical, focusing on his long relationship with break dancing.

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  • Reviews

Falling Through Narrative

Jonathan Stein

"Falling into Here or The Importance of Normal" is a welcome dance work among the talking heads presentations of the First Person Arts Festival.

  • Public Square

Performance Club: Raphael Xavier in First Person Arts

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  • Reviews

Reflections, in Retrospect

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

Thoughts on Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers FALL Reflections -- a retrospective of the company's five years in Philadelphia.

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  • Interviews

An Underground Garden of Connection

Whitney Weinstein

"The task was essentially to create six performances-for-one, but line them up to happen simultaneously, in the same space."

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  • Reviews

Archedream’s Dream of What a Dream Should Be

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

In "Inside Out," the blacklight mask and dance theater company, Archedream, melds childhood stories into one universal tale.

  • Reviews

The Hit Parade

Lisa Bardarson

In 1917 with "Parade," Massine was a fully participating player on the avant-garde playground...

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DanceAfrica Comes to Philadelphia

Patricia Graham

"The dance is not just movement. It is a spiritual activity, how we engage as a community."