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Editor’s Note: Changing Course

Lisa Kraus

Grab bags, "From the Studio" features, book reviews and more on the horizon from TD.

Photo: Megan Bridge

From the Studio: Experimentation and Process

Megan Bridge

I call my work both “experimental” and “process based.” Being in the studio allows me to confront those monikers and try to figure out what they mean.

Photo: David Mielcarek

Tango, Day and Night, Night and Day: 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival

Carolyn Merritt

Four days of dancing in Northern Liberties, through the eyes of a local tango dancer.

Photo courtesy of Kelly Strayhorn Theater

anonymous bodies & fidget: discUS.

Debbie Shapiro

We’d both attended open rehearsals as well as the show, and the extended meditation on process had us thinking about elements and strategies of performance.

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Noguchi’s Garden Dance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Inside that stone a dance is emerging, pounding and reverberating, breathing in and out.

Photo: John Huber

Facing Off at Jumpstart

Lisa Kraus

How performers use their faces colors audience engagement with their art.

P.S. #19: The Perfect Word

A call to creative minds to expand dance language.

P.S. #18: Dancing in the Streets?

Photo: Paul Kopicki

Cherry Blossoms: Viewing Japanese Dance In Philadelphia

Ellen Gerdes

How can kabuki, taiko, and butoh be promoted as evolving contemporary practices with the capacity to provoke our most current and existential questions?

Notes from Two Days with Suzanne Carbonneau

Kirsten Kaschock

Notes that give the sense of Carbonneau's approach to think pieces. "Give yourself permission to experiment. And write something every day."