Walter Bilderback - thINKingDANCE

Articles written by Walter Bilderback

A still from Magic Dances of Zaire, 1990. Three dancers in traditional dress of feathers, rattan, and intricate jewelry form a swaying diagonal, their weight on their left leg, their focus upward, smiling, and warm. The male dancer in the middle of the line wears an ankle bracelet used for percussion and a hand-held feather baton; the women dancers in front and behind him have white spots on their lower legs arranged in rows. They are accompanied upstage by percussion and a string reed instrument played by musicians who gaze out to the audience.

B.F.F. (Before the Fringe Festival: A Moving History)

August 31, 2025

Before the Philadelphia Fringe, there was Movement Theatre International (MTI).