Reviews

Photo: Johanna Austin

Old Ghosts at the New Barnes

Jim Rutter

Tori Lawrence's originally site-specific work imported little of its meaning or impact at the Barnes Museum.

Photo: Andrew Simonet

Episodes and Academe: Avalanche

Lynn Matluck Brooks

How do dance profs -admittedly odd birds in academe- engage in research? Lots of ways.

Photo: David Mielcarek

Tango, Day and Night, Night and Day: 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival

Carolyn Merritt

Four days of dancing in Northern Liberties, through the eyes of a local tango dancer.

Photo courtesy of Kelly Strayhorn Theater

anonymous bodies & fidget: discUS.

Debbie Shapiro

We’d both attended open rehearsals as well as the show, and the extended meditation on process had us thinking about elements and strategies of performance.

Photo: John Huber

Facing Off at Jumpstart

Lisa Kraus

How performers use their faces colors audience engagement with their art.

Photo: Paul Kopicki

Cherry Blossoms: Viewing Japanese Dance In Philadelphia

Ellen Gerdes

How can kabuki, taiko, and butoh be promoted as evolving contemporary practices with the capacity to provoke our most current and existential questions?

Photo: John Luna

Choreographing Curiosity: Smart Bodies Asking Smart Questions

Annie Wilson

What makes You Sick Little Baby refreshing as a lager on a warm evening is the curiosity that sits where ambition normally exists.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Excavating The Past And Future

Jonathan Stein

Anne-Marie Mulgrew’s latest work continues her 25-year Philadelphia dance legacy of whimsical landscapes and stages inhabited with charm and panache.

Photo: Aurobinda Mohapatro

Virtue and Virtuosity: Shibani Patnaik at the Performance Garage

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Patnaik connected to the earth, rippled as watery waves, shimmered like fire, sailed on the wind, and seemed to hover in the sky.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Reclaiming the Nude as Symbol of Freedom

Jim Rutter

Hungarian troupe Bloom’s pantomime and text-driven CITY suggests that the nude as symbol might deserve a bit of spoofing.