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Photo: Karl Surkan
  • News

Remembering tD Writer Karl Surkan

Jonathan Stein

A passionate embrace of performance as an embodiment of the gender, sexual and political complexities of contemporary life.

Photo: Katie Moore
  • Interviews

News for Dance Educators/Teaching Artists: PA Direct Path Dance Certification

Ellen Gerdes

An interview with PaDEO's Monica Frichtel: PK-12 certification for teaching dance in PA.

Photo: Whitney Browne
  • Interviews

A Shared Rhythm: Interview with Palestinian Dancer Mohammed Smahneh

Nadia Khayrallah

Fusing Dabke, Hip Hop, contemporary dance, and puppetry.

Still image from Downstage
  • Reviews

Dance as an Exploration of Love, Pain, and Performance

Caitlin Green

Watching the film felt like the motion-picture equivalent of flipping through an old photo album.

Photo: Grant McMillan
  • Reviews

Poetry (and Prose) in Motion

Darcy Grabenstein

Dance interpretation of written works wows writers at weekend workshop

Photo: Ashley Berkman
  • Reviews

Testing stereotypes through physical comedy

Lu Donovan

Five clowns visit Miniball’s stage, concluding the festival with crude jokes and a disappointing lack of care.

Photo: Mark Garvin
  • Reviews

Y’all Come to See A Fight?

Sophiann Mahalia Moore

Heavy are the shoulders that carry the weight of an entire race’s future.

Photo: Laura Bustillos Jaquez
  • Interviews, Reviews

Using Our Bodies as Sites of Restful Resistance

Darcy Grabenstein

Healing ourselves by rescripting the script.

Photo: Daniel Jackson/Embassy Interactive
  • Reviews

Spirits in the Space

Ellen Chenoweth

John Dowell and his collaborators create a cathedral at the Barnes.

Photo: Kidlat Fajardo Canlas
  • Reviews

Reclaiming the Village

Ella-Gabriel Mason

Ani/MalayaWorks invite the community to join their intimate investigation of immigration, colonization, family, and home.