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Falling Through Narrative

"Falling into Here or The Importance of Normal" is a welcome dance work among the talking heads presentations of the First Person Arts Festival.
November 14, 2013
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DanceAfrica Comes to Philadelphia

"The dance is not just movement. It is a spiritual activity, how we engage as a community."
November 5, 2013
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Posts from Paris: How We Teach Trisha's Dance

The nuts and bolts of teaching Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" to the Paris Opera Ballet.
November 2, 2013
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What makes a choreographic transmission successful?

Lisa Bardarson poses the question after a visit with the Paris Opera Ballet as they undertake a re-staging of Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy."
October 26, 2013
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Posts from Paris: Dancing Toward a Premiere

The dancers get onstage where the "rubber meets the road."
October 24, 2013
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Posts from Paris: Elevators and Etiquette

The second in a series on working at the Paris Opera Ballet.
October 21, 2013
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Bharatanatyam for Beginners*

For someone relatively uninitiated, watching this classic dance form raises lots of questions.
October 18, 2013
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Skipping and Slipping Through Time with Lucinda Childs

There is an incredible humanity to these works... We breathe and the audience holds its breath. We are suspended in time.
October 17, 2013
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