Reviews

Photo: Bill Hebert

Inhal(In)g Philadelphia!

Gregory King

What makes the InHale Performance Series a success is the nurturing community it offers to emerging and established artists.

Photo: Jean Luc Tanghe

Re: Rosas*

Rosas is a trial of endurance, sure, but like any great challenge with substance at its core, it rewards: you emerge changed.

Photo: Robin Barnes

Ugly Numbers Part III: The Dance Apocalypse

Nicole Bindler

The final installment of Ugly Numbers, a three-part investigation on gender inequity in contemporary American dance.

Photo: Anna Lee Campbell

Petals on a wet, black bough

Kirsten Kaschock

Eiko in performance — painted a near white, her slight frame and its minimal gestures sometimes unbearably sorrowful — does not appear to have the fortitude to take care of us. Still, I think she is doing just that.

Photo: Nancy Chen

I Could Barely Breathe

Lynn Matluck Brooks

I have never seen a site-specific work use a chosen space to better impact, or performers more committed to the world they create therein.

Photo: Becca Weber

Chirp Chirp

Ellen Chenoweth

Read a re-cap of thINKingDANCE's Philadelphia Fringe Festival twitter reviews.

Photo: Andrea Clearfield

#shamanicinterfaces: Creative Meditation

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Puts the spotlight on the ritualistic nature of performance.

Photo: Hope Davis

Meat

Nicole Bindler

They are at a burlesque show called Lovertits. I am at an experimental dance-theater performance that critiques the male gaze called Lovertits.

Photo: Lora Allen

Jungle Loops

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Dancers scratch on the wood, tap it, rap it, and soon the audience joins into this gentle symphony.

Photo: Hunter Canning

Cheering for the Owls in the Pony Palace

Ellen Chenoweth

The pony palace is the field house, or the football field, or sometimes the whole game of football in this fun, refreshing creation.