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A Dark, Dismembered Happening

The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).
April 3, 2012
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Group Motion Presents Spring Fest

Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion Dance Company and cornerstone of the Philadelphia dance community for over forty years, presents an improvised score.
March 30, 2012
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A Straightforward Evening of Hip-Hop: With surprising realizations, nonetheless

Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.
March 22, 2012
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Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.
March 22, 2012
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Contemplative and Connected: Leah Stein’s Singular Aesthetic

Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.
March 16, 2012
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Heaven, Earth, and Everything Between

Handel’s Messiah is big and divine. In trying to match its lofty heights, Weiss instead showed his own humanity.
March 15, 2012
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Balloons and Flowers for Spiel Uhr

Group Motion Company’s 'Spiel Uhr' series has been running continuously since the 1980’s
March 7, 2012
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Flotation Devices and Other Sex Toys

Disassociation provides pleasure--the vague elation of untethering nudity from sexuality... But new freedoms bring their own anxieties.
February 29, 2012
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