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One dancer is elevated in a supported position while others provide grounded bases for a lift, demonstrating coordinated weight-sharing and balance. The movement highlights contemporary partnering, spatial precision, and controlled transitions.
Photo: SEB Photography
  • Reviews

Pas de Umbrella: On Weathering the World with Whimsy

Lauren Berlin

39 is a reclamation of the wild child within.

Photo: Sean Thomas Boyt
  • Interviews

Sean Thomas Boyt On Performing the Hustle

Kat J. Sullivan

Is that promotion or is that your work?

Photo: Nicole Bindler
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Swimming Toward Meaning

Maddie Hopfield

In Bindler’s world, the aqueous is not tethered to the aesthetic qualities of smooth, slow, continuous, or sequential.

Photo: Eli Ambron
  • News

choreoBASH is a Smashing Success!

Carolyn Merritt

Thank you to all who made choreoBASH such a Smash!

Photo: Bryon Calawa
  • Reviews

Excavating the Family Secret

Kalila Kingsford Smith

Does your family have a secret? Jeanine McCain created an environment conducive to discovery and nostalgia.

Photo: Bicking Photography
  • Reviews

Unveiled: Authorial Intent

Kirsten Kaschock

In the halves of Unveiled, the ethos of each of two choreographers was prominent and compelling.

Photo: Jessica Giacobbe
  • Reviews

Making Nice, more or less

Eleanor Goudie-Averill

The nicest dance I have seen in a long time; nice like holding hands, or vanilla ice cream, or an easy breeze on an early spring day.

Photo: Lindsay Browning
  • Reviews

Throughline Collective Offers Collapse/Intersect

Jonathan Stein

Lisa Bardarson and Jonathan Stein collectively review the Throughline Collective, joint project of Colleen Hooper & Julie B. Johnson.

  • Reviews

The Challenge of Embodying Saudade

Jonathan Stein

Sometimes titles raise expectations that are not always realized in the actual performance.

Photo: Jacques-Jean Tiziou
  • Reviews

In 1993, When We Felt Free

Kilian Kröll

Two decades and 40 dances into their career, the darlings of Philly’s theatrical dance world in the 1990s and 2000s have arrived at a point of mid-life reflection.