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Photo: Monica Lyons Jones

Many Feet, One Step: Kùlú Mèlé Leads a Journey

R. Eric Thomas

An evening of dance that dazzled, astounded and—above all—emphasized the enduring power of community.

Photo: Alex Escalante

Seen & Heard: The Remix

Beau Hancock

A picture of Seen & Heard that moves beyond the impressions generated by the four authors whose words are reconfigured here, to a thickly textured remembrance.

Photo: Jeff Busby

Pulling Strings: Chunky Move’s Connected

Lynn Matluck Brooks

A light-filled mobile, electronic music, patches of light, and five performers who dance, speak, act, and finish the mobile’s assemblage – all weave integrally into the work’s fabric.

photo: Jim Rutter

More Than a Master Class: Dance “as it was meant to be”

Jim Rutter

Former Isadora Duncan Dance Company member Alice Bloch led students through a 90-minute session blending history, anatomy, gender and sexual politics.

A Danse4Nia Correction

Sara Nye clarifies personnel and show order.

The Stage and Page: Thinking Dance Authors Arrive

Anna Drozdowski

A little about who we are, and the many places we're coming from, when we come into the room together to think about dance.

Photo: Steven Gunther

Lionel Popkin and Gabrielle Revlock at the Performance Garage

Jonathan Stein

The declarative title of Lionel Popkin's "There Is An Elephant In This Dance" cued us to look for a pachyderm. But "Aida" it ain't.

Photo: Steven Schreiber

Philly PARD’s R&D for Dance

Amelia Longo

Philly Performance Arts Research & Development (PARD) offers classes and workshops, describing itself as “a laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement-based art forms.”