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Photo: Jean Grosser

An Offering? I Want More!

Julie B. Johnson

Perhaps the program’s title, "An Offering," suggests that this is just a small quantity of what Phil Grosser has in store.

Photo: Bill Hebert

SHARPening the Focus

Kalila Kingsford Smith

I felt my focus SHARPen as I was pulled into each piece.

I think not, I think not, I think not

Becca Weber

Three distinct versions of the same Deborah Hay solo were performed by three Philadelphia artists.

Photo: La Dolce Photography

Lynching and Love

Megan Bridge

The audience’s first responses: “Celebration. Bearing witness. Transparency. Shadows. Remembering. Nooses dropping. Acceptance. Pain. Repetition. Awesome.”

Photo: James Klosty (1972)

May I Have This Dance, By Chance?

Lynn Matluck Brooks

I chance upon pieces dancing around the Bride: Cage’s neat scores, Duchamp’s nudes descending shattered large glasses, Cunningham’s reeling dances.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Bumping Up Against BalletX

Debbie Shapiro

In one night I witnessed the work of six aesthetically different artists and groups, some of whom had almost nothing to do with the others.

Photo: Royal Drummers & Dancers

The Royal Drummers and Dancers of Burundi: A Lesson On and Off the Stage

Kariamu Welsh

Representing difference, they give us new information about Africa and its many traditions.

Photo: The Napoleon Complex

Step It Up

Anna Drozdowski

Grace, attitude and ferocity in technique was balanced by big presence and a real joy in performing that I’d almost forgotten was possible.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

Inside SoMoS: A Photo Gallery

Lisa Kraus

The magical village of domes, projections and branch dancing of Merián Soto's "SoMoS."

In Conversation with Merián Soto

Beau Hancock

A discussion with Soto on her influences and interests, on teaching improvisation and the possibilities of the body.