Reviews

Photo: Randl Bye

Dance: Fusion/360°, Then/Now

Lynn Matluck Brooks

How can works from 75 years ago still read so strikingly? Each company on this shared program also showed new work.

Tonight I watch a mantis-limbed woman…

Patricia Graham

Tangle Movement Arts, a confident troupe of women aerialist, dance and theater artists, don’t take long to get vertical.

Photo: Rodrigo Valenzuela and Molly Sides

Viewing Made to Order

Lynn Matluck Brooks

To explore the flavors offered up by the world of screen-dance, try "Dances Made to Order," an assortment of short films by artists from all over the map.

Photo: Katie Jasmin

What is Professional Dance? DANCE/USA, philly dance

Ellen Gerdes

A response to the DANCE/USA conference: part report/part thank you note to Philadelphia.

Photo: JJ Tiziou

Local Collaborators and Unconventional Minds

Whitney Weinstein

Alie Vidich is a hyper-imaginative 28-year-old artist who swooped off a bridge and fought the city of Philadelphia for permission to turn that bridge into a performance venue.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Artifact: 1. that which is made from/out of art, 2. evidence of what came before.

Kirsten Kaschock

This joint striving is one of the strange pleasures Artifact Suite provides.

Photo: Carley Schaffer

Lost in a New Wonderland

Whitney Weinstein

The relatively new company, BalletFleming, produced a show about exploration, new friends, and life’s enlightening journeys.

Photo: Matthew Murphy

Dance Theatre of Harlem: In Conversation with Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Ellen Gerdes

Ellen Gerdes and Brenda Dixon Gottschild speak about the contemporary relevance of DTH, Balanchine, pink tights, and more...

Photo: Alan DiBerio

Bridging Choreographers with ZIPLINE

Debbie Shapiro

Rosner's "barrish," a shameless, feminist homoerotic anxiety dream performance, also a poetic dance.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Aesthetic Immersion at shatter ::: dawn

Becca Weber

An immersive experimental work, not a sit-quietly-in-a-dark-theatre performance.