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Choreographer Charles Askegard guides a poignant moment as Oksana Maslova collapses into Sterling Baca’s arms. Her knees are drawn to her chest, toes pointed, arms extended overhead, lifted off the floor, expressing grief while supported by her partner.
Photo: Adrenaline Film
  • Interviews

The Art of Rising: Ballet Responds to the War in Ukraine

Lauren Berlin

Dance, War, and the Work That Became the Most Important of Maslova’s Career.

The ensemble erupts into explosive movement—some in deep lunges, others mid-air—surrounded by brilliant bursts of blue, yellow, orange, pink, and red light that flood the space.
Photo: Cameron Kincheloe
  • Reviews

That Fringeworthy Kind of Love

Lauren Berlin

In BABYBABYBABY, love is no mere feeling — it’s a spectacle of desire, delusion, and choreographed collapse.

Danielle Currica, one of the four soapbox dancers, lunges low and extended on a diagonal to the left front of the stage. She looks intently, perhaps searching, with wide eyes, wearing a long blue garment with fabric extensions behind her attached to four ropes, faintly seen extending into darkness beyond.
Photo: Jano Cohen
  • Reviews

Megan Mazarick’s Searing Subversions

Jonathan Stein

"soapbox" explores the nature of the ‘performative self’ versus our interior lives.

The poster of the Full Circle features portraits of the four choreographers, from left to right, Meredith Rainey, Weiwei Ma, Dr. yaTande Whitney V. Hunter, and Dana Williams.
Photo: Performance Garage
  • Reviews

A Cross-Cultural Encounter: DanceVisions’ Full Circle

Ziying Cui

Four choreographers showcase the diversity and inclusivity of Philadelphia’s contemporary dance scene.

Two different performance photos split the image. On the right side, a person stands with their back to the camera facing a Taiko drum that they are playing on a stage next to a person dancing. They wear matching turquoise jumpsuits. There are more drums in the background. The image on the left shows a dancer with orange legwarmers standing in a second position lunge, holding cymbals with arms outstretched overhead. Another dancer in a blue leotard crouches in front of them.
Photo Courtesy of the Artist
  • Reviews

Sound Moves: an interchange of expertise in percussion and modern dance.

Caitlin Green

Sound Moves showcases a meeting ground for complimentary flavors of modern dance and percussion.

Photo: Donna Faye Burchfield
  • Reviews

Talking About Blackness, Ballet, and a Hard Won Empowerment

Shayla-Vie Jenkins

Blackness complicates; it can never be separated from the person or their work.

Photo: Malaya Ulan
  • Reviews

A dance of remembrance

Anito Gavino

A remembering of those who transcended into the afterlife, a naming of the pain and suffering of Black gay men during the AID

Photo: Courtesy of Koulman Dance Company
  • Reviews

Koulman Dance Offers Treadmill, Technique, and Tradition

Caitlin Green

Soloist Grace Kimble invites audience onto the Treadmill for a marathon showcase.

  • Letters to Editor, News

Performance Garage Responds to its Critics

Photo: Terrell Halsey
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Staff Tackle Culture and Policy at the Performance Garage

Kristen Shahverdian

Given the reckoning around race and the recent #MeToo movement, I expected more response from dance leaders and dancers.