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Heard About Town: Tania Isaac

Guest writer Tania Isaac reflects on what comforts, and what sustains.

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In darkness, we disappear together

Zornitsa Stoyanova

Fringearts is in full force in Philadelphia, and I am in Budapest, watching L1danceFest.

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Women

Nicole Bindler

Nicole Bindler reports on her experience setting work on the dancers of Diyar Dance Theater, a Dabke company in the occupied West Bank in Palestine.

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New Maps from the Fringe Festival

Ellen Chenoweth

What new connections and directions emerge this year from the Fringe Festival's explosion of artistic expression?

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Letter to the Whirl: The Crowd Circles Round

Kirsten Kaschock

Philadelphia dance-goers describe their evening at Zambrano's "Soul Project" in alternately poetic and analytical prose.

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The Spirits in David Zambrano’s Soul Project

Jonathan Stein

Zambrano’s aim was to present the dancer as “being continuously alive.”

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Greg the Creature, the Human

Nicole Bindler

Greg performs 2,000 individual, unrepeated movements for one hour. But what is one movement anyway?

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Dead Bodies All Around Me: Unarmed

Gregory King

Before he was a fallen black man, he was an unarmed black man. Now he lies as a shell of his former self.

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Write Up to the Edge: Fringe at The Border

Kirsten Kaschock

A Fringe audience questions binaries--how borders circumscribe and overlap and sometimes carve out small, human spaces.

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From Here to There and in Between

Whitney Weinstein

Their deeply embedded heritage bound them together as they stepped towards an unforeseen fate.