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Photo: Hal Horowitz

Dancing “Spanish”

Lisa Kraus

Paying tribute to Trisha Brown on her 75th birthday, five veterans reunite for an iconic dance.

Photo: David Brick

Dancing Around Dramaturgy (an exploration)

Debbie Shapiro

...I believe that that’s what dance-makers strive to do: to tell us something about our culture, about ourselves.

Photo: Cylia von Tiedemann

The Empathetic Art of Teaching: Two Weeks of Community Class with Peggy Baker

Like a rescue plane hovering over my somewhat helter-skelter dancing life, Peggy Baker is a relief effort.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Resurrecting the Past

Julie Diana

Dancefusion Breathes Life into Historic Modern Dance

An Annual Nut to Crack

Lynn Matluck Brooks

When my son was seven or eight years old, he sweetly invited me on a “date.” His invitation was for the Nutcracker.

Photo: Bob Emmott

Two Women Walk Out

Jim Rutter

Jeanne Ruddy has resolved to shutter her eponymous 12-year-old company whose works I have grown to adore.

photo: Jim Rutter

More Than a Master Class: Dance “as it was meant to be”

Jim Rutter

Former Isadora Duncan Dance Company member Alice Bloch led students through a 90-minute session blending history, anatomy, gender and sexual politics.

Photo: Steven Schreiber

Philly PARD’s R&D for Dance

Amelia Longo

Philly Performance Arts Research & Development (PARD) offers classes and workshops, describing itself as “a laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement-based art forms.”