Raphael Xavier

Photo: Maria Baranova

Love and Fight

Emilee Lord

Non-linear storytelling charged with struggle.

Photo: Richard Abstrak Soto

Hip Hop Artist Raphael Xavier Wins Grant to Produce Short Film

Darcy Grabenstein

Film grant propels hip hop artist from stage to street, breaking to biking.

Photo courtesy of Koresh Dance

The Message and Method Behind a Most Timely Work

Darcy Grabenstein

Words, not poetry. Experiment, not choreography. Expression, not dance.

Photo: Lisa Kraus

Raphstravaganza!

Lisa Kraus

A photo essay.

Photo: David McDuffie

The Evolution of Success

Whitney Weinstein

Xavier announces, “No thing can exist without nothing.”

Photo: Brian Mengini

Nothing Could Stop Me, My Body Was Like Origami

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Xavier’s work is autobiographical, focusing on his long relationship with break dancing.

Photo: Johanna Austin (DaDaDance Project)

Philadelphia Dance Community On The National Scene

Julie B. Johnson

How a close-knit arts community represents itself to NPN's nationwide audience.

Photo: Anja Hitzenberger

Dance Incubators, ‘Torture’ and New Dance

Jonathan Stein

Three choreographers show their work from the Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers Project.

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Seen and Heard: It’s Music to My Eyes

Ellen Gerdes

Promising “potential for disaster and greatness,” Blind Date: dance and music duos presented far more greatness than disaster.