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A female circus artist with a brown ponytail leans back over a trapeze and stretches her arms. She wears a shiny blue leotard and flies high above a full audience.
Photo: E. Wallis Cain Carbonell
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Heartfelt Showmen

E. Wallis Cain Carbonell

“Clap! Holler! We want all the attention from you guys tonight!.”

A young Black woman (Arianna Polite) holds a wooden bowl glowing with warm white light. She looks downward, sprinkling marbles of light onto the ground as darkness falls after sunset.
Photo: Daniel Madoff
  • Reviews

Homage to the Passed

Ellen Miller

A candle-lit performance offers a meeting and honoring of Black Philadelphians.

Photo: Paul Virtucio; courtesy of Ananya Dance Theatre
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Unpacking the buzzword “Decolonization”

Anito Gavino

Art is a vessel for creative expression, a space of freedom. Yet, here I am, a dancer, dancing to liberate myself from dance