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Photo: Mark Garvin

Minors: A Musical Ripped from the Headlines

Preeti Pathak

This musical brings light to the 2009 “Kids for Cash” scandal in Luzerne County, PA.

Photo: Evan Dawson

Fresh Juice Fest: Attending to Time and Space

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Featuring works both improvised and composed, the performance asks me to bring my attention to time and to space.

Photo: RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY

Marie Geneviève Van Goethem, aka “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen”

Carolyn Merritt

Like a sculptor aiming for a semblance of life, the author adjusts her sights beyond the facts, on Marie Van Goethem’s soul.

Photo: Gema Galiana

Milka Djordjevich’s Anthemic Opus

Mira Treatman

It makes sense somehow, as postmodern gumbo usually does.

Photo: Lynn Brooks

Ballet: What is the Matter?

Jennifer Fisher's new book, a memoir-as-ethnographic study

Photo: Jan Versweyveld

Between Two Archives

Andrew Sargus Klein

The Sentient Archive focuses on the generation of movement and the person within and through whom the movement exists.

Photo: Johanna Austin

Honestly Sincere

Miryam Coppersmith

Sincerity is a slippery thing to script.

Photo: Lauren Hirsch

Ballet Up Close and Personal with Bryan Koulman

Koulman’s fine group of artists splashed balletic bravura across the footlights.

Photo: LilaHurwitz/doolittleandbird

Site, Skin and Self: A Week with Rosy Simas

Janna Meiring

“My work is really based in an aesthetic of listening…it is really the underpinning of the whole thing.”

Photo: Daniel Kontz

Side by Side: Philadelphia Churches (and bodies in them)

Jenna Horton

Grounds that Shout! continues Reggie Wilson’s research into sacred spaces, ecstatic movement, and African diasporic experienc