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Edgar Degas: Dancer's Backstage

Poverty Amidst Plenty for Philadelphia’s Dance Adjuncts

Carolyn Merritt

The nation's "dance capital" abounds in creative opportunity, but local performers working as adjuncts are destined to scrape by for years to come.

Photo: Nicholas Burnham

Inside an Old Queen’s Head

Kilian Kröll

I thought I had landed at a piano lounge in Philadelphia’s historic gayborhood.

Photo: Dance/USA

Dancing in the Field: #dusaconf 2012

Debbie Shapiro

Reflections on four days at Dance/USA in San Francisco - fear, technology, friendship and all.

Photo: Fanny Elssler in "La Cachucha"

Critical Moments: Four Centuries of Dance Journalism

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A bird’s-eye view of commentaries from the eighteenth century to the present.

Season Preview? Let’s Crowdsource It!

DIY previewing comes to Philadelphia.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

Fort Blossom Revisited, Again

Kilian Kröll

Sometimes a piece of art stays with you--and you are not satisfied until you articulate why it has.

Photo: Craig Harris

Strangers in Artsland: Three “Newbies” Reflect on Philadelphia

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Why are artists drawn to Philadelphia? Do they find community in the City of Brotherly Love?

P.S. #21: Rejuvenation!

Photo: Monica Lyons-Jones

ODUNDE Dances in a New Year!

Kariamu Welsh

You hear ODUNDE, one of the nation’s largest and oldest street festivals, before you get there.