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The poster of the Full Circle features portraits of the four choreographers, from left to right, Meredith Rainey, Weiwei Ma, Dr. yaTande Whitney V. Hunter, and Dana Williams.
Photo: Performance Garage
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A Cross-Cultural Encounter: DanceVisions’ Full Circle

Ziying Cui

Four choreographers showcase the diversity and inclusivity of Philadelphia’s contemporary dance scene.

A young Black woman (Arianna Polite) holds a wooden bowl glowing with warm white light. She looks downward, sprinkling marbles of light onto the ground as darkness falls after sunset.
Photo: Daniel Madoff
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Homage to the Passed

Ellen Miller

A candle-lit performance offers a meeting and honoring of Black Philadelphians.

evan ray suzuki dancing on the floor with a horse plushie attached to his face
Photo: Elyse Mertz
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How Many Coors Lights Cans Were Harmed in the Making of this Show?

Ellen Miller
Black and white image of Telephone dancer Toby MacNutt as theysit on their heels, hands interlaced over chest/top of stomach. Toby's crutches are laid out in front of them as they look to the side in a plant filled dance studio.
Photo: still from the film Telephone
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Listening to the dance

Kristen Shahverdian

The screendance Telephone pioneers a new form of audio description for dance.

In a blank expanse, a boat, a small wooden toy piano, and several clocks of various sizes pointing to different times are illuminated. In the boat sits Terry Beck, an older white man in a velvet jacket with coiffed hair. His eyes are closed as he raises one hand to his cheek and the other to the sky.
Photo: Brian Mengini
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“My Story Begins Very Simply” | a career’s worth of dancing

Madeline Shuron

A meditative start to Temple’s 50th anniversary of the dance department

The image shows the dancer Eun Jung Choi in a green shirt and striped pants balancing on one leg with her other leg bent and raised. She is framed by an open doorway with the outdoor setting of the Arch Street Meeting House visible behind her, including a bench and brick wall, suggesting a serene environment for the dance.
Photo: Christopher Ash
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The Garden Flows in You

Ziying Cui

As a site-specific performance, The Garden: River's Edge’s participatory nature provides audience members with a meditative a

Two different performance photos split the image. On the right side, a person stands with their back to the camera facing a Taiko drum that they are playing on a stage next to a person dancing. They wear matching turquoise jumpsuits. There are more drums in the background. The image on the left shows a dancer with orange legwarmers standing in a second position lunge, holding cymbals with arms outstretched overhead. Another dancer in a blue leotard crouches in front of them.
Photo Courtesy of the Artist
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Sound Moves: an interchange of expertise in percussion and modern dance.

Caitlin Green

Sound Moves showcases a meeting ground for complimentary flavors of modern dance and percussion.

Bathed in purple light, Adam Kerbel leans to one side with arms spread, a gold fringe flying from his shoulders as if he just landed a jump. His face is hidden by shadow and a large brown fedora.
Photo: Liz Deleo
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I’m an Artist, but I’m Fun!

Miryam Coppersmith

Adam brings his creative force to bear on his own experiences in Dead Muse.

"entangled" - With the ocean in the background, we only see the back of a man wearing a dirty blue shirt, James Barrett. He is reaching his hands behind him to touch another man, Miguel Alejandro Castillo, who wears red shorts and his lying on his back.
Photo courtesy of Faye Driscoll
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The Mutability of Outdoor Performance: Driscoll’s Oceanic Feeling

Brendan McCall

Site-specific performance along the liminal edge

pink backlight, three dancers, left most has right arm up and left arm down, middle has both arms bent upward, right has bent left arm and straight right arm, all in purple polos, two white set pieces frame the image with black curved lines.
Photo: Thomas Choinacky
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i hold your towel just how you like it

desire amaiya

we are spectators in a typically unwatched game.