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Photo: Kathryn Raines

Alone, Together

Becca Weber

I get the sense of planets, orbiting the same sun but never meeting.

Photo: Matthew Murphy

Bring Back the Monks

Jonathan Stein

This was not scenic glam but a gender slam, reinforcing the gender stereotypes of the evening’s prior works.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Great Xpectations

Lisa Bardarson

Each Ballet X dancer committed to the choreography with the precision of an elocutionist, every movement enunciated perfectly and laden with meaning.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Sonorous Continuing

Patricia Graham

fidget’s Fourth Annual Fall Experimental Music Festival asks questions about the sound/vision continuum.

Authoritative Bodies in Mascher’s Microfestival

Megan Bridge

Giving attention to the experience of an audience’s interface with work by three very different artists.

Photo: Johanna Austin, www.austinart.com

The Unbearable Weight of She

Carolyn Merritt

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

Photo: Alexander Izilaev

Sparkling at Fifty–PA Ballet in “Jewels”

Patricia Graham

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

Photo: Brian Mengini

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.

Photo: Kathryn Raines

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.