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Photo: Lindsay Browning

Reflections, in Retrospect

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

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

Photo: Peggy Woolsey

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."

Photo: Jacqui Tichenor

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.

The Hit Parade

Lisa Bardarson

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

Photo: Julietta Cervantes

DanceAfrica Comes to Philadelphia

Patricia Graham

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

Photo: Sandy Carson

Restless Narratives in a Funereal Juke Joint

Nicole Bindler

In this juke joint where even ecstatic dancing is infused with sorrow, the dancers pound the floor with rhythmic urgency.

Photo: Lisa Kraus

Posts from Paris: How We Teach Trisha’s Dance

Lisa Kraus

The nuts and bolts of teaching Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" to the Paris Opera Ballet.

Photo: Tom Caravaglia

Even Bugs Can Love

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Or so Paul Taylor would have us believe in three of the four dances he presented in his Philadelphia season at the Annenberg.

Photo: Toni Rudov

Otro Tango Show

Carolyn Merritt

Seductive. Sultry. Intense. Visceral. Passionate. Electrifying. Sensual. Hot. Heady. Raw.

Photo by Lisa Bardarson

What makes a choreographic transmission successful?

Lisa Bardarson

Lisa Bardarson poses the question after a visit with the Paris Opera Ballet as they undertake a re-staging of Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy."