Reviews

Photo: Lindsay Browning

Public Spaces, Personal Places

Kariamu Welsh

idiosynCrazy productions worked the Live Arts Studio in intricate and intimate ways that ignored the audience’s need for personal space.

Photo: Andrew Simonet

Our House, In The Middle Of The Street

Kilian Kröll

Headlong and the Aryadareis created a “third space” that honors both performers and guests as fully human and undoubtedly welcome.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Really, It Is Kind of Huge

Megan Bridge

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.

Photo: Kevin Monko

Body Politics Meet Mirth, Mayhem, and Mashups in Bang

Megan Bridge

Clowning at its finest, and terrifically funny... Bang’s “meaning” was ultimately drowned out by mirth, mayhem, and mashups.

Photo: Randl Bye

Double Vision: Dancefusion at the Philly Fringe

Lynn Matluck Brooks

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...

Photo: Lori Hochlerin, yourdailycheesesteak.com

RUB(bing me the wrong way)

Carolyn Merritt

One song in the evening’s soundtrack plugged “the more you drink, the better we look,” but honestly, these girls didn’t need any help here...

Get to Go Together

Kirsten Kaschock
Photo: Susan Rethorst

Choreographic Thinking: Practical Philosophy for Dance

Megan Bridge

In her new book, Susan Rethorst asks dance-makers to enter the philosophical realm.

Photo Credit: Robert Eticheverry

Everyone’s Dancing in “Le Grand Continental”

Jonathan Stein

The post-moderns not only asked “what is dance?” but also “who can or should the dancer be?”. The latter question will soon receive the resounding answer--“Everyone!"

Photo: Rennie Harris Puremovement

My Profound Experience at Illadelph

Annie Wilson

After a mere five classes at the 2012 Illadelph Festival produced by Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), I am in love with hip-hop. I am not entirely surprised.