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Photo: Pete Checchia

Walking with Koresh

Beau Hancock

Even in rehearsal, these dancers move full throttle through whatever material they are given.

Goodnight War

Megan Bridge

Katherine Kiefer Stark/The Naked Stark examines issues related to war in a new work premiering April 19 at the Broad Street Ministry.

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?