Reviews

Photo: Joshua Pelta-Heller

Re-imagining Flamenco: Rosario Toledo and Pasión y Arte at the First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival

Carolyn Merritt

This two-week celebration of flamenco featured films, master classes, a symposium, and performances of work by Rosario Toledo.

Photo: Tristram Kenton

It’s About Time: Fela! at the Academy

Debbie Shapiro

We are not in an American theater in 2012, but inside the Shrine, Fela’s nightclub in Lagos, for a final hoorah before his entourage flees Nigeria and all of its strife forever.

Photo: Tobin Rothlein

A Dark, Dismembered Happening

Jonathan Stein

The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).

Bill Hebert

Group Motion Presents Spring Fest

Christina Gesualdi

Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion Dance Company and cornerstone of the Philadelphia dance community for over forty years, presents an improvised score.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

Carolyn Merritt

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.

Photo: Bill Hebert

A Straightforward Evening of Hip-Hop: With surprising realizations, nonetheless

Annie Wilson

Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.

Photo: Lois Greenfield

Contemplative and Connected: Leah Stein’s Singular Aesthetic

Jim Rutter

Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Heaven, Earth, and Everything Between

Amelia Longo

Handel’s Messiah is big and divine. In trying to match its lofty heights, Weiss instead showed his own humanity.

Photo: Bill Hebert

Balloons and Flowers for Spiel Uhr

Peter Price

Group Motion Company’s 'Spiel Uhr' series has been running continuously since the 1980’s

Photo: Maria Anguera de Sojo

Flotation Devices and Other Sex Toys

Kirsten Kaschock

Disassociation provides pleasure--the vague elation of untethering nudity from sexuality... But new freedoms bring their own anxieties.