Reviews

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.

Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Maintaining Boundaries

Kilian Kröll

Coming from the nothing-is-too-weird-to-be-performed contemporary dance world, I went out on a limb by agreeing to write about "Pushing Boundaries: Forsythe and Neenan."

LEVYdance’s Romp: Fun = Exhausting and Exhilarating

Christina Gesualdi

We can’t take our eyes off of this sweaty crew of risk-takers and are impressed by the dedication of their student counterparts.

Photo: Paul Kopicki

Lincoln Luck’s Collaborative Multimedia Frenzy

Amelia Longo

Lindsay Browning filled her piece with rich and lovely components, but lacked a clear thread to link them.