Reviews

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.

The Challenge of Embodying Saudade

Jonathan Stein

Sometimes titles raise expectations that are not always realized in the actual performance.

Bharata Natyam at Bryn Mawr

Amelia Longo

Equally adept at storytelling and beautiful movement, Priyadarsini Govind captivated with an evening of Bharata Natyam choreography.

Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou

In 1993, When We Felt Free

Kilian Kröll

Two decades and 40 dances into their career, the darlings of Philly’s theatrical dance world in the 1990s and 2000s have arrived at a point of mid-life reflection.

Photo: Bill Hebert

A Nighttime “situation: becoming”

Kariamu Welsh

"situation: becoming" is a work that requires serious contemplation. Its sounds, movements and textures orient the viewer, but in a disconcerting way.