Reviews

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.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

Catharsis: Not Just for Dead Greek Dudes

Megan Bridge

Their movement reminds me of old-fashioned computer games...Linear. Pixellated. Dot matrix era.

Photo: Lindsay Browning

(A) Moving Work

Carolyn Merritt

What do you do for a living? RealLivePeople(in)Motion's "The Jobs Project" is complex; an ambitious undertaking for a relatively young company.

Collisions in Time: Reflections on PIFA

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Is PIFA’s goal to support local artists, or is it to increase audience attraction to Philadelphia?

Photo: Erin Keough

Come Together

Lisa Bardarson

Local ringers bookended the evening’s newbies giving a chance to glimpse both better known and up and coming companies.