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Revealing Neighborhood Mysteries and Artistries

Lea Bostick, vetted for "This Town is a Mystery," was asked by Andrew Simonet if her family members were shy. She said, “Shy was the only gene they didn’t have.”
September 18, 2012
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Camden, My Love

A crossroads of myth, memory, exile and archetypal meaning-making... Volcano invited us to consider that there’s more to reality than we think we know, that nothing need be only as it seems.
September 16, 2012
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From Gdansk, Warsaw and Burdag: Recasting the Past

Can young artists be held responsible for integrating a history that happened on a different continent decades before?
September 16, 2012
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Ceci n’est pas David

How do our fleshy selves coexist with our digital selves?
September 16, 2012
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Our House, In The Middle Of The Street

Headlong and the Aryadareis created a “third space” that honors both performers and guests as fully human and undoubtedly welcome.
September 14, 2012
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Public Spaces, Personal Places

idiosynCrazy productions worked the Live Arts Studio in intricate and intimate ways that ignored the audience’s need for personal space.
September 14, 2012
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Really, It Is Kind of Huge

I can see these dancers working through ideas of physical intelligence. They are at home in their bodies, at home in making, and I can just tell that they are having a rip-roaring good time.
September 11, 2012
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Double Vision: Dancefusion at the Philly Fringe

The clarity of the movement’s attack and its clear lines and arcs in gestures, body shapes, and pathways reminded me of the power of classic modern dance in its search for expression of the universal...
September 9, 2012
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