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Photo: Ian Foster

Philadelphia’s Thriving Showcase Series Scene

Amelia Longo

Showcase series provide a platform for bold new performances that might otherwise go unseen, as well as interesting ways to engage audiences.

PS #15: Your Dance Brain

Photo: Bill Hebert

What Have We Done?—“Beyond the Bones Revisited (2002/12)”

Kirsten Kaschock

Branches are the dead parts of the tree....branches can also be used to build.

Photo: Joshua Pelta-Heller

Re-imagining Flamenco: Rosario Toledo and Pasión y Arte at the First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival

Carolyn Merritt

This two-week celebration of flamenco featured films, master classes, a symposium, and performances of work by Rosario Toledo.

Photo: Tristram Kenton

It’s About Time: Fela! at the Academy

Debbie Shapiro

We are not in an American theater in 2012, but inside the Shrine, Fela’s nightclub in Lagos, for a final hoorah before his entourage flees Nigeria and all of its strife forever.

Photo: Tobin Rothlein

A Dark, Dismembered Happening

Jonathan Stein

The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).

PS #14: Lost in Translation?

Bill Hebert

Group Motion Presents Spring Fest

Christina Gesualdi

Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion Dance Company and cornerstone of the Philadelphia dance community for over forty years, presents an improvised score.

Meet the Writers: Debbie Shapiro

Debbie Shapiro
Photo: Bill Hebert

Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

Carolyn Merritt

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.