Reviews

Photo: Bill Hebert

Real life or fantasy? An afternoon at thefidget space

Carolyn Merritt

A white chamber pulsed with sound, hexagonal honeycombs of light floated on the walls, and women in white performed tasks and dances.

Photo: Jeanne Ruddy Dance

Aging Bodies, Changing Times: Jeanne Ruddy Dance Company Takes Its Final Bow

Annie Wilson

Freelancing is the wave of the future, and that is what Ruddy intends to do next year.

Photo: Brian Mengini

Time Travel With a Smile

Debbie Shapiro

The Lady Hoofers take to City Hall in a new performance series.

Photo: Kilian Kröll

The Topography of a Performance

Kilian Kröll

Merián Soto’s Branch Dances don’t just do away with traditional notions of performance, they reorganize whole landscapes.

Photo: Pete Checchia

Walking with Koresh

Beau Hancock

Even in rehearsal, these dancers move full throttle through whatever material they are given.

Photo: Bill Hebert

What Have We Done?—“Beyond the Bones Revisited (2002/12)”

Kirsten Kaschock

Branches are the dead parts of the tree....branches can also be used to build.

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.