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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.

Cross-Country Diving with SCUBA

Beau Hancock

Revlock’s thoughtful construction of each action coupled with her assured, doe-eyed presence lent an affecting quality to these almost task-based phrases.

Editor’s Note: Half Way

Lisa Kraus
Photo: Bill Hebert

A Straightforward Evening of Hip-Hop: With surprising realizations, nonetheless

Annie Wilson

Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.

Photo: Matthew Wright

Hope in Song: Kun-Yang Lin Reflects

Ellen Gerdes

thINKingDANCE writer Ellen Gerdes recently met with choreographer Kun-Yang Lin to discuss his work Beyond the Bones.