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Photo: Art Reach

“I Am” Documentary Review

Preeti Pathak

This documentary breaks down barriers and opens the door to those left out of the performing arts.

Photo: Stephanie Ramones Contigo

Contemporary Dance, Gendered Norms

Maddie Hopfield

"Come Together" left me wondering about the amorphous amalgam that is contemporary dance in the United States.

Photo: Adriano Shaplin

Deliciously Considered

Thomas Choinacky

Unlike anything I have seen or experienced before.

Photo: Mar C. Llop

The Body Endures

Megan Bridge

Three solo works move through contemporary notions of gender, pain, and the body.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Reflections from the Philadelphia Museum of Dance

Megan Bridge

Six tD writers report on the elements of the moving museum that moved them.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Three by PAB

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Moments of stunning vulnerability took my breath away.

Illustration: Jenny Kessler

Gritty in Performance

Mira Treatman

Philadelphia’s Gritty is a new classic, the jawn of all jawns.

Photo: J.H. Kertis

Ten Tiny Dances Alight at Mascher Space Cooperative

Jonathan Stein

A small army of rambunctious revelers attacked the square from four approaches.

Photo: Ian Douglas

chipaumire: Unlimit Freedom

Carolyn Merritt

'Freedom is not on Facebook. Get off fucking Instagram. True liberation is a process of deep work.'

Photo: Tino Tran

“A Rap” Needs a Flow

A danced conversation between Margaret Mead and James Baldwin.