Reviews

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.

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).