Reviews

Photo: Ryan Walter Wagner

Navigating Conflict Through Bharata Natyam

Kara Nepomuceno

How do bharata natyam artists navigate conditions of globalization and conflict, even as they advocate for peace?

Photo: Sanchel Brown

Home is underneath your feet

Anito Gavino

Her dance journey from Baltimore to New Orleans to Senegal showed her burning desire to trace her own lineage.

Photo: Nancy Bo Flood

A Book Filled with Beauty and Inspiration

Darcy Grabenstein

Eva is determined to turn her dance dreams into reality.

Photo: KK Verglas

Vitche-Boul Ra Conjures Eternity

Maddie Hopfield

Just as we become acquainted with a new being, Ra switches them up on us.

Still image from Sin Eaters

Eating the Sins of Others

Kristen Shahverdian

Theatre Exile’s Sin Eaters is a psychological thriller peppered with satire, a film noir for our times.

Photo: Peter Born and Nadine George-Graves.

Care in Conversation

Emilee Lord

A text that reflects on practice, intention, ritual, community care, and the trauma of the world we live in.

Still image from 3 x 13, Nagham Salah Othman

Distancing Elides in 3 x 13, Yaa Samar!’s Outstanding Multinational Film

Jonathan Stein

A rare dance-film achievement, and a gift that remote can become together.

Courtesy of Rourou Ye

Dreaming of Home on Lunar New Year

Kristi Yeung

Rourou Ye and Southeast of Rain fuse contemporary and traditional Chinese forms in a transportive new work.

Photo: Mark Guldin

ArtWell Provides a Creative Outlet for Philadelphia Youth

Darcy Grabenstein

Philly youth find a creative outlet through ArtWell’s in-school programs.

Photo: Maria Baranova

Living in the Fracture: Scores for our Last Audience

Kristen Shahverdian

Last Audience speaks to this time where past and present are exposed. How will we move into the future?