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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."

Photo: John Luna

Choreographing Curiosity: Smart Bodies Asking Smart Questions

Annie Wilson

What makes You Sick Little Baby refreshing as a lager on a warm evening is the curiosity that sits where ambition normally exists.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Excavating The Past And Future

Jonathan Stein

Anne-Marie Mulgrew’s latest work continues her 25-year Philadelphia dance legacy of whimsical landscapes and stages inhabited with charm and panache.

Photo: Soobin Sunwoo

Tango Basics: A Beginner’s Primer

Anna Drozdowski

Your guide to getting the most from the 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival and beyond.

Photo credit: Jacques-Jean Tiziou

Jumpstarting new work with Live Arts Brewery

Amelia Longo

I recently had the opportunity to tour the future home of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe. While they don’t anticipate moving until fall 2013, they’re jumpstarting this year-round approach with, well, Jumpstart, a mini-festival of finished work by local performers.

Photo: Aurobinda Mohapatro

Virtue and Virtuosity: Shibani Patnaik at the Performance Garage

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Patnaik connected to the earth, rippled as watery waves, shimmered like fire, sailed on the wind, and seemed to hover in the sky.