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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.

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.