Reviews

‘Danco Power Dance

Lynn Matluck Brooks

The dancers’ precision and elegance—placement of each limb, clarity of focus, intricately exact partnering, and silent landings from soaring leaps.

Photo: BodyFields Collective

Top Five Reasons You Should (or Shouldn’t?) Dance in Your Living Room

Whitney Weinstein

Whitney Weinstein enumerates the pros and cons of turning your living space into a stage.

Photo: Ellen Chenoweth

#mixingitup: 10 Hashtags Inspired by #GPSBodies

Ellen Chenoweth

#GPSBodies is an experience that is a little bit like a treasure hunt and a little bit like a dance performance, all mediated through Twitter.

Photo: Jessica Giacobbe

Making Nice, more or less

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

The nicest dance I have seen in a long time; nice like holding hands, or vanilla ice cream, or an easy breeze on an early spring day.

Photo: Julieanne Harris

Performance Art Physical Education

Ellen Chenoweth

CardioCreativity turned out to be an exuberant hybrid: half performance art, half physical education, combining into an unusual and unpredictable mixture.

Photo: LBrowning Photography

Cooking and Dancing in the Kitchen

Jonathan Stein

Marion Ramirez’s "Musa Paradisiaca," named after the banana tree of her native Puerto Rico, stirs together quotidian life, memory, cultural history and passionate art making.

Photo: Steven Whitsitt

It All Comes Out in the Wash

Lisa Bardarson

The Clothesline Muse is not just about family lineage and the impact that previous generations bring to bear upon its fledgling members.

Photo: Luca Fiaccave

Rock Stars and Flamencos: The Two Glorious Galváns

Lisa Kraus

A sister and brother, dancing flamenco, bring a facility, inventiveness and outrageousness that tops anything I've seen in years.

Photo: Kim Anno & Kyung Lee

Diving with SCUBA in Its Four City National Tour

Jonathan Stein

Taking a dive with Philadelphia Dance Projects’ SCUBA is one of the serendipitous pleasures of the Philadelphia dance scene each year. This program went deep.

Photo: Chris Nash

Cold, Hot and In-Between

Lisa Kraus

Philadelphia Dance Projects often pairs Philly artists with out-of-towners. Here, two artists inhabit different aesthetic universes.