Reviews

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.

Photo: Mike Hurwitz

Germaine and Rosario: Percussive Languages

Lynn Matluck Brooks

These two powerful, petite women dance face to face, side by side, back to back, and, at times, as one another’s shadows.

Photo: Johanna Austin

Scratch Night Returns

Ellen Chenoweth

Three moments during Scratch Night stood out in their intensity or departure from predictable performance customs.

Photo by Kat Muscinesi

Pitter Patter

Lisa Bardarson

"I heard subtleties in the footwork that shoes would have obscured making this piece more about listening and less about sound."

Photo: Johanna Austin

Egg Cartons, Cotton Candy, and Living Sculpture

Libby Rush

The invisible wall between viewer and performer is broken; the viewer given an active voice.