Pairing acknowledged “ballet legend” George Balanchine with “legend-in-the-making” Alexei Ratmansky, Pennsylvania Ballet presented a ”Russian Suite” of classical purity, nonstop dynamism and dramatic caricature.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 28, 2011
During the after-show Q&A, the movement artists and choreographers calling themselves The Requisite Movers sat on the stage to field questions.
Kirsten Kaschock
October 28, 2011
It was easy to imagine yourself on the stage of the Performance Garage at some point during “Fresh Juice”
R. Eric Thomas
October 28, 2011
Promising “potential for disaster and greatness,” Blind Date: dance and music duos presented far more greatness than disaster.
Ellen Gerdes
October 28, 2011
...A thoughtfully curated music selection, spanning time periods and Western genres, set the choreographic bar high...
Kilian Kröll
November 2, 2011
...integrating such hefty content as mental illness, it helps to spend time immersed in a process of artistic research...
Debbie Shapiro
November 4, 2011
“Last Monday” at Broad Street Ministry, interwove dance, music, and poetry...into a program of five fun and absurd...experiments.
Amelia Longo
November 4, 2011
Hua Hua Zhang's Visual Expressions blended puppet arts, dance, music and theater in "Two Hands," creating uneasy fusions.
Peter Price
November 5, 2011
The dancer started swinging his hips to the beat, then turned to face the audience and flashed a “Let’s do this!” smile that was to mark the vivacious tone of the evening.
Julie Diana
November 9, 2011
What happens when our curious drive to pick things apart and classify becomes a science of obsessive madness?
Laura Vriend
November 9, 2011
Philadelphia Dance Projects presented Shorts Fest, wildly different dance films, for this year’s 10th annual Motion Pictures series.
Christina Gesualdi
November 16, 2011
Picture an old woman painted white, hair matted with straw, folded into a hollowed-out spot of earth with grasses waving above. She moves glacially...
Lisa Kraus
November 16, 2011
Classical modern dance with a bit of sass.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
November 16, 2011
Born in India and raised in Paris, this “child of the east and west” has been hailed by critics for transcending culture...
Carolyn Merritt
November 16, 2011
Philly Performance Arts Research & Development (PARD) offers classes and workshops, describing itself as “a laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement-based art forms.”
Amelia Longo
November 17, 2011
The declarative title of Lionel Popkin's "There Is An Elephant In This Dance" cued us to look for a pachyderm. But "Aida" it ain't.
Jonathan Stein
November 22, 2011
A light-filled mobile, electronic music, patches of light, and five performers who dance, speak, act, and finish the mobile’s assemblage – all weave integrally into the work’s fabric.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 23, 2011
Former Isadora Duncan Dance Company member Alice Bloch led students through a 90-minute session blending history, anatomy, gender and sexual politics.
Jim Rutter
November 23, 2011
The opening night of BalletX's Fall Series 2011 provoked curiosity in me about what defines a ballet as contemporary.
Annie Wilson
November 30, 2011
An evening of dance that dazzled, astounded and—above all—emphasized the enduring power of community.
R. Eric Thomas
November 30, 2011
A picture of Seen & Heard that moves beyond the impressions generated by the four authors whose words are reconfigured here, to a thickly textured remembrance.
Beau Hancock
November 30, 2011
Our correspondent reports why you'll see him in the front row at the Annenberg for Champions of Dance.
Kilian Kröll
December 5, 2011
Jeanne Ruddy has resolved to shutter her eponymous 12-year-old company whose works I have grown to adore.
Jim Rutter
December 7, 2011
Providing work for dancers is grounds enough for a standing ovation, but Koresh XX Years offered other reasons to applaud.
Kirsten Kaschock
December 7, 2011
A nice sampling of the city’s young professionals, as well as food for thought on the ties that manifest in the lifeworld of an art scene, and the pleasures and challenges of shared concerts.
Carolyn Merritt
December 14, 2011
Chouinard’s work “reflects her deepest concerns as an artist...each new work must invent and explore a whole new universe.”
Megan Bridge
December 14, 2011
The Live Arts Brewery (LAB) hosts an open showing each month to allow performing artists to receive immediate feedback.
Anna Drozdowski
December 14, 2011
Five local dance artists hosted an "artist-process talk." This experimental response reflects the evening's thought-provoking spirit.
Kirsten Kaschock
December 19, 2011
In this season of Nutcrackers, feuding Republicans, and holiday kitsch, the Annenberg’s Dance Celebration Series brought us “Champions of the Dance.”
Jonathan Stein
December 21, 2011
When my son was seven or eight years old, he sweetly invited me on a “date.” His invitation was for the Nutcracker.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 21, 2011
Dancefusion Breathes Life into Historic Modern Dance
Julie Diana
January 4, 2012
Kate Watson-Wallace and Jaamil Kosoko are committing to a new working model to keep making art on their own terms.
Debbie Shapiro
January 4, 2012
Art as homage is among the most purely driven forms, whether it be Bach’s musical devotion to his God, or Wim Wenders’ to Pina Bausch.
Lisa Kraus
January 5, 2012
JJ Tiziou is known for his vivid images of dance performances, as well as for his project How Philly Moves, which he describes as capturing the moves of “self-identified Philly dancers.”
Amelia Longo
January 10, 2012
Kirsten Kaschock's enjoyable and multi-layered debut novel deserves multiple readings.
Beau Hancock
January 13, 2012
"Open House" at the Performance Garage showcased the strength and diversity of six young companies.
Peter Price
January 17, 2012
The first of two evenings of improvised dancing from Falls Bridge.
Megan Bridge
January 18, 2012
The nEW Festival presented four new works by its 2012 resident choreographers. Ellen Gerdes and Kilian Kröll attended, between them, four performances. They each wrote about the pieces, then mashed their words together.
Kilian Kröll
January 25, 2012
Like a rescue plane hovering over my somewhat helter-skelter dancing life, Peggy Baker is a relief effort.
Christina Gesualdi
January 26, 2012
...I believe that that’s what dance-makers strive to do: to tell us something about our culture, about ourselves.
Debbie Shapiro
January 30, 2012
A carefully calibrated explosion of grandiosity, Bauer’s solo is a study of opposing forces in collaboration.
R. Eric Thomas
January 31, 2012
In his Poetics, Aristotle derided spectacle as the least important artistic aspect of a performance. RubberbanDance Group’s Gravity of Center shows that sometimes, spectacle’s all you’ve got.
Jim Rutter
February 2, 2012
I was peering into the window of a stranger’s bedroom from the outside. The world of Lesya Popil’s Uninvited Guest was mostly private, and exposed.
Debbie Shapiro
February 6, 2012
Paying tribute to Trisha Brown on her 75th birthday, five veterans reunite for an iconic dance.
Lisa Kraus
February 9, 2012
On the eve of her retirement, PA Ballet principal Riolama Lorenzo spoke with Julie Diana about her life on and off the stage.
Julie Diana
February 9, 2012
An interesting addition to the simulcast landscape is the recent documentary, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 10, 2012
Oyster communicates at once the hard exterior of staged spectacle and the inner vulnerability of its performers.
Ellen Gerdes
February 18, 2012
Lindsay Browning filled her piece with rich and lovely components, but lacked a clear thread to link them.
Amelia Longo
February 21, 2012
Green Chair Dance Group's constant interaction with the audience served to include us in what otherwise could have been a very insular topic: the dancers’ relationships with one another.
Amelia Longo
February 21, 2012
Coming from the nothing-is-too-weird-to-be-performed contemporary dance world, I went out on a limb by agreeing to write about "Pushing Boundaries: Forsythe and Neenan."
Kilian Kröll
February 23, 2012
We can’t take our eyes off of this sweaty crew of risk-takers and are impressed by the dedication of their student counterparts.
Christina Gesualdi
February 23, 2012
Lynn Matluck Brooks interviews Elba Hevia y Vaca, Artistic Director and Founder of Pasión y Arte Flamenco.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 29, 2012
Disassociation provides pleasure--the vague elation of untethering nudity from sexuality... But new freedoms bring their own anxieties.
Kirsten Kaschock
February 29, 2012
In this instance I’ve decided to play the role of miner; trusting that the many angles offered up will unearth aspects of this multifaceted gem.
Anna Drozdowski
March 3, 2012
Faye Driscoll's recent informance delivered a multi-dimensional view of her identity as an artist.
Debbie Shapiro
March 7, 2012
Group Motion Company’s 'Spiel Uhr' series has been running continuously since the 1980’s
Peter Price
March 7, 2012
Handel’s Messiah is big and divine. In trying to match its lofty heights, Weiss instead showed his own humanity.
Amelia Longo
March 15, 2012
Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.
Jim Rutter
March 16, 2012
Terri Shockley brings her passion for community arts to her role as executive director of Philadelphia's Community Education Center.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
March 20, 2012
In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.
Carolyn Merritt
March 22, 2012
Revlock’s thoughtful construction of each action coupled with her assured, doe-eyed presence lent an affecting quality to these almost task-based phrases.
Beau Hancock
March 22, 2012
Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.
Annie Wilson
March 22, 2012
thINKingDANCE writer Ellen Gerdes recently met with choreographer Kun-Yang Lin to discuss his work Beyond the Bones.
Ellen Gerdes
March 22, 2012
Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion Dance Company and cornerstone of the Philadelphia dance community for over forty years, presents an improvised score.
Christina Gesualdi
March 30, 2012
The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).
Jonathan Stein
April 3, 2012
Branches are the dead parts of the tree....branches can also be used to build.
Kirsten Kaschock
April 4, 2012
This two-week celebration of flamenco featured films, master classes, a symposium, and performances of work by Rosario Toledo.
Carolyn Merritt
April 4, 2012
We are not in an American theater in 2012, but inside the Shrine, Fela’s nightclub in Lagos, for a final hoorah before his entourage flees Nigeria and all of its strife forever.
Debbie Shapiro
April 4, 2012
Showcase series provide a platform for bold new performances that might otherwise go unseen, as well as interesting ways to engage audiences.
Amelia Longo
April 12, 2012
Katherine Kiefer Stark/The Naked Stark examines issues related to war in a new work premiering April 19 at the Broad Street Ministry.
Megan Bridge
April 13, 2012
Even in rehearsal, these dancers move full throttle through whatever material they are given.
Beau Hancock
April 19, 2012
Philadelphia’s vibrant dance community includes a lively, if under-appreciated bellydance scene.
Jim Rutter
April 24, 2012
Merián Soto’s Branch Dances don’t just do away with traditional notions of performance, they reorganize whole landscapes.
Kilian Kröll
April 24, 2012
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The start of the JUXT[a]POSE! series was an impressive line-up of dances by choreographers on the scene for 8-10 years.
Amelia Longo
April 26, 2012
For the upcoming Blind Dates at the Arts Bank, thirdbird decided to up the ante and add what they call a “third wheel.”
Kirsten Kaschock
April 28, 2012
The Lady Hoofers take to City Hall in a new performance series.
Debbie Shapiro
April 30, 2012
Headlong returns to making and performing in a work together. K. Elizabeth Stevens directs this work, Desire, but confesses: "I've never made a dance before.”
Christina Gesualdi
April 30, 2012
Freelancing is the wave of the future, and that is what Ruddy intends to do next year.
Annie Wilson
May 3, 2012
"situation: becoming" is a work that requires serious contemplation. Its sounds, movements and textures orient the viewer, but in a disconcerting way.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
May 4, 2012
A white chamber pulsed with sound, hexagonal honeycombs of light floated on the walls, and women in white performed tasks and dances.
Carolyn Merritt
May 4, 2012
Equally adept at storytelling and beautiful movement, Priyadarsini Govind captivated with an evening of Bharata Natyam choreography.
Amelia Longo
May 9, 2012
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.
Kilian Kröll
May 9, 2012
Hungarian troupe Bloom’s pantomime and text-driven CITY suggests that the nude as symbol might deserve a bit of spoofing.
Jim Rutter
May 17, 2012
Sometimes titles raise expectations that are not always realized in the actual performance.
Jonathan Stein
May 17, 2012
Patnaik connected to the earth, rippled as watery waves, shimmered like fire, sailed on the wind, and seemed to hover in the sky.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 22, 2012
Anne-Marie Mulgrew’s latest work continues her 25-year Philadelphia dance legacy of whimsical landscapes and stages inhabited with charm and panache.
Jonathan Stein
May 23, 2012
Your guide to getting the most from the 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival and beyond.
Anna Drozdowski
May 23, 2012
What makes You Sick Little Baby refreshing as a lager on a warm evening is the curiosity that sits where ambition normally exists.
Annie Wilson
May 31, 2012
How can kabuki, taiko, and butoh be promoted as evolving contemporary practices with the capacity to provoke our most current and existential questions?
Ellen Gerdes
June 1, 2012
How performers use their faces colors audience engagement with their art.
Lisa Kraus
June 9, 2012
Inside that stone a dance is emerging, pounding and reverberating, breathing in and out.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 11, 2012
We’d both attended open rehearsals as well as the show, and the extended meditation on process had us thinking about elements and strategies of performance.
Debbie Shapiro
June 13, 2012
I call my work both “experimental” and “process based.” Being in the studio allows me to confront those monikers and try to figure out what they mean.
Megan Bridge
June 14, 2012
Four days of dancing in Northern Liberties, through the eyes of a local tango dancer.
Carolyn Merritt
June 14, 2012
This making in the moment is not winging it, but two masters of movement developing a fully formed idea in front of an audience.
Beau Hancock
June 18, 2012
How do dance profs -admittedly odd birds in academe- engage in research? Lots of ways.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 18, 2012
Tori Lawrence's originally site-specific work imported little of its meaning or impact at the Barnes Museum.
Jim Rutter
June 26, 2012
Subtlety and proximity become enmeshed and enemies at the Bride.
Kirsten Kaschock
July 2, 2012
This year's theme for Philadelphia’s SoLow Festival is "Down and Dirty." This no-frills performance festival could not have found a better city to inhabit.
Christina Gesualdi
July 3, 2012
Reconstructing Trisha Brown's 'Line Up' for the Venice Biennale--an experience traced through emails.
Lisa Kraus
July 6, 2012
Free, original, site-specific performances, including Shiloh Dance Days with subcircle and Team Sunshine Performance Corporation.
Amelia Longo
July 18, 2012
You hear ODUNDE, one of the nation’s largest and oldest street festivals, before you get there.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
July 21, 2012
Why are artists drawn to Philadelphia? Do they find community in the City of Brotherly Love?
Lynn Matluck Brooks
July 26, 2012
Sometimes a piece of art stays with you--and you are not satisfied until you articulate why it has.
Kilian Kröll
August 2, 2012
A bird’s-eye view of commentaries from the eighteenth century to the present.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
August 8, 2012
I thought I had landed at a piano lounge in Philadelphia’s historic gayborhood.
Kilian Kröll
August 14, 2012
Reflections on four days at Dance/USA in San Francisco - fear, technology, friendship and all.
Debbie Shapiro
August 14, 2012
Three boys and their mom review free children's programming at the Mann Center.
Kirsten Kaschock
August 16, 2012
After a mere five classes at the 2012 Illadelph Festival produced by Rennie Harris Puremovement (RHPM), I am in love with hip-hop. I am not entirely surprised.
Annie Wilson
August 23, 2012
Kirsten Kaschock
August 24, 2012
The post-moderns not only asked “what is dance?” but also “who can or should the dancer be?”. The latter question will soon receive the resounding answer--“Everyone!"
Jonathan Stein
September 1, 2012
In her new book, Susan Rethorst asks dance-makers to enter the philosophical realm.
Megan Bridge
September 3, 2012
One song in the evening’s soundtrack plugged “the more you drink, the better we look,” but honestly, these girls didn’t need any help here...
Carolyn Merritt
September 8, 2012
Order and disorder, monochrome and the spectrum, word and action, isolation and investment...
Kirsten Kaschock
September 8, 2012
Clowning at its finest, and terrifically funny... Bang’s “meaning” was ultimately drowned out by mirth, mayhem, and mashups.
Megan Bridge
September 9, 2012
The clarity of the movement’s attack and its clear lines and arcs in gestures, body shapes, and pathways reminded me of the power of classic modern dance in its search for expression of the universal...
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 9, 2012
What happens when Martha Graham and Yvonne Rainer walk into a bar/barre? Answers to be found at the Rocky Awards.
Anna Drozdowski
September 10, 2012
I can see these dancers working through ideas of physical intelligence. They are at home in their bodies, at home in making, and I can just tell that they are having a rip-roaring good time.
Megan Bridge
September 11, 2012
idiosynCrazy productions worked the Live Arts Studio in intricate and intimate ways that ignored the audience’s need for personal space.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
September 14, 2012
idiosynCrazy builds up to their Live Arts show Private Places with a year-long vlog.
Lisa Kraus
September 14, 2012
Headlong and the Aryadareis created a “third space” that honors both performers and guests as fully human and undoubtedly welcome.
Kilian Kröll
September 14, 2012
How do our fleshy selves coexist with our digital selves?
Annie Wilson
September 16, 2012
Can young artists be held responsible for integrating a history that happened on a different continent decades before?
Lisa Kraus
September 16, 2012
A crossroads of myth, memory, exile and archetypal meaning-making... Volcano invited us to consider that there’s more to reality than we think we know, that nothing need be only as it seems.
Kilian Kröll
September 16, 2012
Lea Bostick, vetted for "This Town is a Mystery," was asked by Andrew Simonet if her family members were shy. She said, “Shy was the only gene they didn’t have.”
Jonathan Stein
September 18, 2012
The synchronous movement in Colony causes me to view Kelly Bond and Melissa Krodman as a ferocious duo, in tune to each other's every subtlety.
Christina Gesualdi
September 18, 2012
The Gate hovered at the crossroads of Cirque de Soleil and the Chippendales, with acrobatic dancing in progressive states of undress.
Kilian Kröll
September 19, 2012
They’re not bodies with a message written across them; they are people sharing a space and an experience and letting us in.
R. Eric Thomas
September 21, 2012
With this highly stylized, precisely choreographed production, Toshiki Okada paints a picture of cubicle life as a near-death experience.
R. Eric Thomas
September 21, 2012
It takes a huge consciousness to live in the structure of a performance as opposed to clinging to it.
Annie Wilson
September 22, 2012
The BillHPhotos Choreography Showcase drew on significant talent in our community and underscored the value of showcasing excerpts and works-in-progress.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
September 25, 2012
Popil’s study is an eloquent portrayal of someone who has lost a loved one and Goudie-Averill makes a poignant commentary on the plastic objects that serve as replicas of our body parts.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
September 25, 2012
The weightedness of bodies in 'Hoist,' either in motion or at rest, was the strongest metaphorical connection to an industrial past of physical labor and heavy machinery.
Jonathan Stein
September 25, 2012
Gottschild tells the story of both discrimination against and perseverance of black dance pioneers in the 1940s and ’50s
Ellen Gerdes
October 10, 2012
We take you inside Susan Rethorst's audition for her upcoming work at Bryn Mawr College.
Anna Drozdowski
October 11, 2012
Lubovitch exposes his strategy and follows its logic, responding closely to the music he chooses.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 17, 2012
It’s been ten years and two children since I danced my first Giselle. Tonight, my husband and I step into the principal roles again – as parents.
Julie Diana
October 18, 2012
The balletic body is often held up as an image of machinic perfection.
Megan Bridge
October 24, 2012
What if the creator’s role was to release into the world a never-ending set of possibilities, whose lives would surely outlive that of their originator?
Carolyn Merritt
October 26, 2012
For six full hours the group prepared for an interactive performance. They took their shoes off, practiced trust falling and yes, believe it, they even attempted levitation.
Christina Gesualdi
October 27, 2012
Two TD Writers at the ballet talk Petipa, Grisi, the romantic macabre and overcoming dance sibling rivalry.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 3, 2012
The magical village of domes, projections and branch dancing of Merián Soto's "SoMoS."
Lisa Kraus
November 4, 2012
A discussion with Soto on her influences and interests, on teaching improvisation and the possibilities of the body.
Beau Hancock
November 4, 2012
Grace, attitude and ferocity in technique was balanced by big presence and a real joy in performing that I’d almost forgotten was possible.
Anna Drozdowski
November 14, 2012
Representing difference, they give us new information about Africa and its many traditions.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
November 15, 2012
I chance upon pieces dancing around the Bride: Cage’s neat scores, Duchamp’s nudes descending shattered large glasses, Cunningham’s reeling dances.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 17, 2012
In one night I witnessed the work of six aesthetically different artists and groups, some of whom had almost nothing to do with the others.
Debbie Shapiro
November 17, 2012
The audience’s first responses: “Celebration. Bearing witness. Transparency. Shadows. Remembering. Nooses dropping. Acceptance. Pain. Repetition. Awesome.”
Megan Bridge
November 21, 2012
Three distinct versions of the same Deborah Hay solo were performed by three Philadelphia artists.
Becca Weber
November 28, 2012
Perhaps the program’s title, "An Offering," suggests that this is just a small quantity of what Phil Grosser has in store.
Julie B. Johnson
November 29, 2012
I felt my focus SHARPen as I was pulled into each piece.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 29, 2012
How often does one have the opportunity to attend a lecture by a pioneer of post-modern dance?
Patricia Graham
December 6, 2012
Three choreographers show their work from the Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers Project.
Jonathan Stein
December 8, 2012
This first-ever collaboration between Kùlú Mèlé and The Requisite Movers proved a rich cultural experience, from beginning libations to a final invitation onstage.
Lynnette Young Overby
December 9, 2012
Time—as concept, construct, and reality—was engulfed in layers of questions and musings, artifacts and objects, sound and movement.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 10, 2012
“Sometimes art really imitates life,” said Ronen “Roni” Koresh, as he introduced his evening-length work, Trust, at its premiere Thursday, November 29.
Kristen Gillette
December 10, 2012
December 15, 2012. This is what I saw last night. It was not catharsis, and it was not “applicable” to the horror of the day.
Kirsten Kaschock
December 18, 2012
It is enough to watch Miller delicately place the record player’s needle down as if performing brain surgery on a field mouse.
Christina Gesualdi
December 20, 2012
These dancers carried the audience to a different world, where clothes are removed with a glint of irony that says, “You can look but you can’t touch.”
Kalila Kingsford Smith
December 23, 2012
At Group Motion’s "Spiel Uhr" there were holiday traditions of a different kind. The evening featured nine works of family, company, and friends.
Lisa Bardarson
December 24, 2012
Philadelphia offers new takes on The Nutcracker.
Whitney Weinstein
December 26, 2012
Philadanco, now celebrating forty-three years as a company, rolls on, preserving classic choreography and nurturing young performers and dance makers.
Patricia Graham
January 6, 2013
How a close-knit arts community represents itself to NPN's nationwide audience.
Julie B. Johnson
January 6, 2013
Carols in Color reminds of the beauty of miracles, the comfort of faith, that prayer can take many forms.
Carolyn Merritt
January 7, 2013
In “Mash Up Body,” Kate Watson-Wallace invited viewers to “remix” her choreography.
Julie B. Johnson
January 13, 2013
Dear Meg, It was such a pleasure to see you dance just now...
Megan Bridge
January 24, 2013
A wonderfully engaging ethnography, Tango Nuevo guides us on a journey...
Kalila Kingsford Smith
January 24, 2013
Audiences were served solid structures that flirted with choreography, free and open-ended interpretations, and works with little design other than spontaneity...
Becca Weber
January 28, 2013
Can, will, should opera survive into the twenty-first century? Will "Wolf-in-Skins" be one to land such a coveted spot?
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 30, 2013
Pilobolus Dance Theatre's reputation for astounding physical strength was consistently evident, yet the flawless transitions made me think more deeply about how relationships are formed.
Whitney Weinstein
February 5, 2013
Philly dancers share their musings on love, life, intimacy, and glitter.
Christina Gesualdi
February 13, 2013
Dr. Kariamu Welsh, the main choreographer of the evening, developed Umfundalai technique over 40 years ago.
Kristen Gillette
February 14, 2013
Annie Wilson interrogates just what it means to practice dance as if it were/as if it is central to the practice of a waking life.
Annie Wilson
March 1, 2013
Body Against Body: It’s a title that implies intimacy and comfort, but also danger and conflict.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
March 1, 2013
Tara Madsen Robbins cuts through my mental debris with her refreshingly sharp, minimal choreography.
Patricia Graham
March 7, 2013
Lisa Bardarson and Kirsten Kaschock chat about Parsons, cravings, and crowd pleasers.
Lisa Bardarson
March 9, 2013
Think Robert Palmer’s “Simply Irresistable” girls, put through an Olympic training boot camp, and then through Alice’s looking glass.
Debbie Shapiro
March 12, 2013
I think of all the places I have lived...Do I ever fully take stock, record to memory, carry their traces and leave mine behind?
Carolyn Merritt
March 12, 2013
Becca Weber
March 13, 2013
While the comedic elements are what make the show really enjoyable, the ballet has some gasp-worthy moments.
Kristen Gillette
March 16, 2013
In events like ETC.’s March Mayhem, Philly’s dance artists inspire, encourage, and contribute to each others’ accomplishments.
Whitney Weinstein
March 24, 2013
Lynn Matluck Brooks reports on intersections of performance and social change at the Asian Arts Initiative.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 25, 2013
Shut Up & Dance has seen twenty-one years gone by, generations passing through its midst.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
April 1, 2013
Popkin questions St. Denis' cultural appropriations with wit and bite. Jonathan Stein and Lisa Kraus discuss.
Jonathan Stein
April 2, 2013
Sheetal Ghandi’s virtuosity lies in her expert navigation of this multi-disciplinary performance – acting, singing, and dancing, all with equal talent.
Ellen Gerdes
April 7, 2013
This dance was about the journey, having fun and throwing a few curveballs along the way.
Lisa Bardarson
April 8, 2013
Is Glover expanding how we perceive tap dance?
Patricia Graham
April 19, 2013
The word "courage" was my takeaway after viewing THAT TIME, an improvisation featuring Tongue & Groove Spontaneous Theater and RealLivePeople(in)MotionImprovising.
Lisa Bardarson
April 24, 2013
Glass has found partners in Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass whose work parallels his.
Lisa Kraus
April 25, 2013
The program traveled through time to an era of slavery, specifically the 1700s.
Whitney Weinstein
April 29, 2013
Kristen wonders if the pre-show talk colored her opinions too much but she's wowed by BalletX's impressive physical abilities.
Kristen Gillette
May 2, 2013
Dancers were listening to each other in movement--a simple bond that made the entire piece compelling to watch.
Becca Weber
May 3, 2013
In this highly episodic ballet, little Oliver Percy, danced by Lucas Tischler, sneaks into a natural history museum, falls asleep, and dreams up adventures with all the animals-come-to-life.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 14, 2013
An investigation of women’s stories and the meeting of flamenco and postmodern dance, 1096 integrated two competing images of women – soft, compliant and supportive vs. strong, unyielding and leading.
Patricia Graham
May 15, 2013
Local ringers bookended the evening’s newbies giving a chance to glimpse both better known and up and coming companies.
Lisa Bardarson
May 22, 2013
Is PIFA’s goal to support local artists, or is it to increase audience attraction to Philadelphia?
Kalila Kingsford Smith
May 28, 2013
What do you do for a living? RealLivePeople(in)Motion's "The Jobs Project" is complex; an ambitious undertaking for a relatively young company.
Carolyn Merritt
May 30, 2013
May 31 – June 2 Mulgrew debuts "The Keepers." Here's a glimpse in photos and text.
Patricia Graham
May 30, 2013
Their movement reminds me of old-fashioned computer games...Linear. Pixellated. Dot matrix era.
Megan Bridge
June 1, 2013
TD's first video, for your enjoyment and to share!
Lisa Kraus
June 2, 2013
An immersive experimental work, not a sit-quietly-in-a-dark-theatre performance.
Becca Weber
June 3, 2013
Rosner's "barrish," a shameless, feminist homoerotic anxiety dream performance, also a poetic dance.
Debbie Shapiro
June 5, 2013
Ellen Gerdes and Brenda Dixon Gottschild speak about the contemporary relevance of DTH, Balanchine, pink tights, and more...
Ellen Gerdes
June 8, 2013
The relatively new company, BalletFleming, produced a show about exploration, new friends, and life’s enlightening journeys.
Whitney Weinstein
June 12, 2013
This joint striving is one of the strange pleasures Artifact Suite provides.
Kirsten Kaschock
June 18, 2013
Lisa Bardarson reports on thINKingDANCE's day with Culturebot.org founder Andy Horwitz.
Lisa Bardarson
July 3, 2013
Alie Vidich is a hyper-imaginative 28-year-old artist who swooped off a bridge and fought the city of Philadelphia for permission to turn that bridge into a performance venue.
Whitney Weinstein
July 5, 2013
A response to the DANCE/USA conference: part report/part thank you note to Philadelphia.
Ellen Gerdes
July 11, 2013
To explore the flavors offered up by the world of screen-dance, try "Dances Made to Order," an assortment of short films by artists from all over the map.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
July 16, 2013
The World Dance Alliance and Dance Critics Associations Hold 2013 Conferences in Vancouver, B.C.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
August 14, 2013
While attending the World Dance Alliance-Americas conference in Vancouver, B.C., I began thinking about all the facets of myself I was able to bring together there.
Becca Weber
August 19, 2013
Serge Diaghilev played a catalytic role in the reinvention of dance, music, theater and design as this D.C. exhibit documents.
Jonathan Stein
August 23, 2013
Welcome to thINKingDANCE’S first pop-quiz! Here is your chance to test your knowledge of The Yard.
Lisa Bardarson
August 30, 2013
With my newly formed dance business mindset I’m curious to know what your startup story is.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 3, 2013
Tangle Movement Arts, a confident troupe of women aerialist, dance and theater artists, don’t take long to get vertical.
Patricia Graham
September 6, 2013
How can works from 75 years ago still read so strikingly? Each company on this shared program also showed new work.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 7, 2013
The evening felt full and cohesive--a series of works with an unarticulated longing for more.
Becca Weber
September 8, 2013
Yes, yes it is, we say. As dance artists, critics, scholars, professors and enthusiasts, we wring our hands at the dying art form.
Annie Wilson
September 8, 2013
From a nightmare of heartless civilization and oozy evolution into the sunshine of play.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 8, 2013
The dances in this work are usually comical, but often athletic, embodied, earnest, and endearing, and sometimes all at once...
Megan Bridge
September 9, 2013
In Cavidad, Enza DePalma creates a fully-realized vision of an alternative reality, and the dancers' execution of the movement is the key to the world.
Patricia Graham
September 9, 2013
Issues of cultural stereotyping and the role of choreography within theater simmer to the surface.
Nicole Bindler
September 10, 2013
Kids anchored the show, emceed by "pregnant" hosts Christina Gesualdi and Annie Wilson. Fish and swimming were themes too.
Lisa Kraus
September 10, 2013
The real drama of "Pay Up" doesn't live inside the many rooms, it resides inside the audience choosing to spend their time and money while shuffling through the experience.
Anna Drozdowski
September 12, 2013
The directors interviewed their sound designer, asking her to tell her life story. Then they theatricalized it.
Annie Wilson
September 12, 2013
Elegantly, we get tricked, again and again, and we love it in Geoff Sobelle's 'The Object Lesson'.
Patricia Graham
September 14, 2013
New Street Dance Group’s ChORDED Motion bound its dancers in tangled ribbons, pearls, and strings of thought-- sometimes getting caught up by the limitations of the space.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 15, 2013
[I]n the shadow of better-funded festivals and venues, is.m drew a group of practitioners that demonstrated an unwavering commitment to their craft.
Megan Bridge
September 15, 2013
Stein’s crew raise and reground curving mahogany pews. I see the work of establishing and resettling a congregation, cultural shifts in urban America.
Carolyn Merritt
September 15, 2013
Lisa Bardarson and Jonathan Stein collectively review the Throughline Collective, joint project of Colleen Hooper & Julie B. Johnson.
Jonathan Stein
September 16, 2013
He told a story while confronting physical boundaries creating optical illusion and rich entertainment.
Whitney Weinstein
September 18, 2013
Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group's Moses(es) brings to life the nature of leadership within a community.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 20, 2013
The performers in "Glow" are as lost in cyber space as was Alice in Wonderland, looking for someone to connect with.
Lisa Bardarson
September 22, 2013
Motion travels up his legs and torso, as if through a volcano, bursting into a full-bodied, space-eating dance.
Lisa Kraus
September 23, 2013
The first of a series of occasional posts by TD's Editor-in-Chief on teaching Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Lisa Kraus
October 9, 2013
Six kick-ass Philadelphia dancers take on the challenge of Lucinda Childs’ be-in-the-moment-or-lose-your-place-forever dances.
Patricia Graham
October 15, 2013
...this evening was more than a traditional performance--it was a wild night out.
Becca Weber
October 17, 2013
Surveys reveal the changing state of arts engagement, preparation, practice, and sustainability.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 17, 2013
There is an incredible humanity to these works... We breathe and the audience holds its breath. We are suspended in time.
Megan Bridge
October 17, 2013
Kariamu Welsh interviews Charles O. Anderson, artistic director and choreographer for Dance Theater X, Philadelphia and Austin.
Kariamu Welsh (1949-2021)
October 17, 2013
Continuing her series on navigating the “business” of dance, Kalila Kingsford Smith interviews Amy Smith, Co-Founder and Finance Director of Headlong Dance Theatre.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
October 18, 2013
For someone relatively uninitiated, watching this classic dance form raises lots of questions.
Lisa Kraus
October 18, 2013
The second in a series on working at the Paris Opera Ballet.
Lisa Kraus
October 21, 2013
The dancers get onstage where the "rubber meets the road."
Lisa Kraus
October 24, 2013
Lisa Bardarson poses the question after a visit with the Paris Opera Ballet as they undertake a re-staging of Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy."
Lisa Bardarson
October 26, 2013
Or so Paul Taylor would have us believe in three of the four dances he presented in his Philadelphia season at the Annenberg.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 28, 2013
Seductive. Sultry. Intense. Visceral. Passionate. Electrifying. Sensual. Hot. Heady. Raw.
Carolyn Merritt
October 28, 2013
The nuts and bolts of teaching Trisha Brown's "Glacial Decoy" to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Lisa Kraus
November 2, 2013
"The dance is not just movement. It is a spiritual activity, how we engage as a community."
Patricia Graham
November 5, 2013
In this juke joint where even ecstatic dancing is infused with sorrow, the dancers pound the floor with rhythmic urgency.
Nicole Bindler
November 5, 2013
In 1917 with "Parade," Massine was a fully participating player on the avant-garde playground...
Lisa Bardarson
November 10, 2013
In "Inside Out," the blacklight mask and dance theater company, Archedream, melds childhood stories into one universal tale.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
November 11, 2013
"The task was essentially to create six performances-for-one, but line them up to happen simultaneously, in the same space."
Whitney Weinstein
November 12, 2013
Thoughts on Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers FALL Reflections -- a retrospective of the company's five years in Philadelphia.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
November 13, 2013
"Falling into Here or The Importance of Normal" is a welcome dance work among the talking heads presentations of the First Person Arts Festival.
Jonathan Stein
November 14, 2013
Real expressions of gender are indeed all around us. We need only take the time to see.
Carolyn Merritt
November 18, 2013
Fifty years after its founding, Pennsylvania Ballet presents the Philadelphia premiere of a Balanchine masterwork.
Patricia Graham
November 18, 2013
Xavier’s work is autobiographical, focusing on his long relationship with break dancing.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 18, 2013
fidget’s Fourth Annual Fall Experimental Music Festival asks questions about the sound/vision continuum.
Patricia Graham
November 20, 2013
Giving attention to the experience of an audience’s interface with work by three very different artists.
Megan Bridge
November 20, 2013
Each Ballet X dancer committed to the choreography with the precision of an elocutionist, every movement enunciated perfectly and laden with meaning.
Lisa Bardarson
November 24, 2013
I get the sense of planets, orbiting the same sun but never meeting.
Becca Weber
November 27, 2013
This was not scenic glam but a gender slam, reinforcing the gender stereotypes of the evening’s prior works.
Jonathan Stein
November 27, 2013
Keigwin's narratives could be read at face value, interpreted and enjoyed in the moment. It was showbiz—well executed, popular and easy on the eyes.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 30, 2013
"Onliest," created by Curt Haworth, is a site-specific work that enmeshes itself in the Mount Vernon Dance Space.
Nicole Bindler
December 2, 2013
A month after her return, Lisa wraps up her adventure with reflections and photos.
Lisa Kraus
December 4, 2013
How long will any of this stick with most? As long as the prayer beads, flags, books and other Tibetan memorabilia are available for sale?
Carolyn Merritt
December 5, 2013
PDP hosts an informed look at Susan Rethorst's new work with the dancers of Group Motion.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 8, 2013
An hour and a half of “balls to the wall” dancing rooted in African American, contemporary ballet, and modern influences.
Carolyn Merritt
December 12, 2013
This is a dance that knows where it comes from. This is dance you can trust. With Bleed,Tere O'Connor may just have created a masterpiece.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
December 18, 2013
Insights that emerged from a series curated by Marissa Perel where most of the work was by artists who are queer.
Patricia Graham
December 19, 2013
Thank you for tackling the big stuff, for giving us an angst-filled rant loaded with conflict, for taking us into the darker sides of our psyches.
Patricia Graham
December 22, 2013
Three Nutcrackers are brought into the same orbit through their shared theme, Tchaikovsky’s evocative music and the sense of community tradition.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 24, 2013
Eleanor Bauer surveys and bonds with her audience. She also fits in a chat with Jonathan Stein.
Jonathan Stein
January 17, 2014
Anna Drozdowski sat down with the five dancers of Group Motion’s most recent commission, THEN, by choreographer Susan Rethorst.
Anna Drozdowski
January 17, 2014
Kalila Kingsford Smith interviews Sara Nye, performer with Real Live People (In) Motion and Program Associate of Enchantment Theatre Company.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
January 18, 2014
Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal exceeds physical expectations. Each of the four works presented, all Philly premieres, were executed meticulously, with incredible fluidity and flexibility.
Whitney Weinstein
January 19, 2014
Philadelphia tap dancer, choreographer, performance artist and bearer of the city’s tap dance legacy, speaks with TD about her work and philosophy.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 23, 2014
As a retired dancer it is exhilarating to cultivate a practice offering the possibility of expanding not just the body but the mind as well.
Lisa Bardarson
January 27, 2014
A day by day account of one presenter's performance pig out at the annual conference.
Lisa Kraus
January 30, 2014
Asking the question, "How do I change when I dance and work with different people?"
Kalila Kingsford Smith
February 2, 2014
We live in a world that is both our living room and our soapbox. These two works--Allege and Singer/Songwriter--engage in the constant conversation between public and private.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
February 4, 2014
It stands to reason that pairing grandmothers and creative types would result in a match made in heaven.
Becca Weber
February 4, 2014
Luna had a way of making the showy encounters with objects approach poetry, particularly in “The Grid,” a solo with what appeared to be a discarded window frame...
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 5, 2014
The dancing of the Antonio Gades Company punctuates Opera Philadelphia's "Ainadamar" with dynamic range.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 10, 2014
TD writers are polled for quick takes on Group Motion’s performance of "THEN" by Susan Rethorst.
Megan Bridge
February 15, 2014
Perfect confection for the lover's holiday, performed with love in the mind and body--coy, seductive and intimately close.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
February 18, 2014
Liz Gerring talks to thINKingDANCE before her company's first Philadelphia area performance of glacier.
Jonathan Stein
February 23, 2014
The invisible wall between viewer and performer is broken; the viewer given an active voice.
Libby Rush
February 27, 2014
"I heard subtleties in the footwork that shoes would have obscured making this piece more about listening and less about sound."
Lisa Bardarson
February 28, 2014
The energy involved in being on view at Dance in Public Places became a part of the rehearsal process.
Becca Weber
March 2, 2014
Patricia Graham chats with Ballet Hispanico Artistic Director Eduardo Vilaro.
Patricia Graham
March 9, 2014
Three moments during Scratch Night stood out in their intensity or departure from predictable performance customs.
Ellen Chenoweth
March 11, 2014
These two powerful, petite women dance face to face, side by side, back to back, and, at times, as one another’s shadows.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 12, 2014
Philadelphia Dance Projects often pairs Philly artists with out-of-towners. Here, two artists inhabit different aesthetic universes.
Lisa Kraus
March 13, 2014
A sister and brother, dancing flamenco, bring a facility, inventiveness and outrageousness that tops anything I've seen in years.
Lisa Kraus
March 18, 2014
Taking a dive with Philadelphia Dance Projects’ SCUBA is one of the serendipitous pleasures of the Philadelphia dance scene each year. This program went deep.
Jonathan Stein
March 18, 2014
The Clothesline Muse is not just about family lineage and the impact that previous generations bring to bear upon its fledgling members.
Lisa Bardarson
March 21, 2014
I am still a hungry undergrad ready to drink in the elixir of dance, embarrassing in our current Philly culture of extreme cool.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
March 21, 2014
Marion Ramirez’s "Musa Paradisiaca," named after the banana tree of her native Puerto Rico, stirs together quotidian life, memory, cultural history and passionate art making.
Jonathan Stein
April 3, 2014
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.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
April 7, 2014
CardioCreativity turned out to be an exuberant hybrid: half performance art, half physical education, combining into an unusual and unpredictable mixture.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 7, 2014
Robert Ashley's music sparked the imagination of a range of choreographers, among them Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton and me.
Megan Bridge
April 8, 2014
#GPSBodies is an experience that is a little bit like a treasure hunt and a little bit like a dance performance, all mediated through Twitter.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 10, 2014
Whitney Weinstein enumerates the pros and cons of turning your living space into a stage.
Whitney Weinstein
April 11, 2014
Historically, Bharatanatyam has had empty spaces, and it is the duty of a talented dancer to fill the empty spaces. The potential in those breaks is a unifying force across genres.
Becca Weber
April 13, 2014
Two TD writers on David Gordon's Philadelphia workshop--"Political Shenanigans: dancing w/ Brecht & Eisler."
Megan Bridge
April 16, 2014
The dancers’ precision and elegance—placement of each limb, clarity of focus, intricately exact partnering, and silent landings from soaring leaps.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
April 24, 2014
"Being involved in acting has made me ask a lot more questions in dance..."
Kalila Kingsford Smith
May 6, 2014
The Remix Festival had choreographers start with someone else’s dance, and an audience remarkable for its collective concentration.
Ellen Chenoweth
May 12, 2014
Why is more courageous work sometimes less comprehensible? How to make improvisation a Practice? What about ballet now?
Patricia Graham
May 14, 2014
Pennsylvania Ballet shines in the contemporary-influenced works of 'Director's Choice.'
Carolyn Merritt
May 16, 2014
It’s no minor feat to keep a company going for 28 years... Onward!
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 21, 2014
Witnessing Mountain Empire execute these tasks with relish was like watching Julia Child chop an onion; no muss, no fuss and no tears.
Lisa Bardarson
May 23, 2014
Loren Groenendaal, a playful interrogator of ideas and sensations, suggests that a colorful palette should be at the ready in the studio and in performance.
Jonathan Stein
May 31, 2014
On watching American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet in two widely varied programs.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 2, 2014
Barr's piece could very well be about the laundry pile that never diminishes...the breath that insists on being taken every couple seconds without fail.
Annie Wilson
June 3, 2014
Guest contributor Ingram continues to chew on lingering questions that arose during the rich process of working with David Gordon.
Germaine Ingram
June 17, 2014
Solano, a Venezuelan artist and researcher, creates projects using online tools to discover new experiences of embodiment.
Lisa Kraus
June 24, 2014
Reflections on the 4th Philadelphia International Tango Festival.
Carolyn Merritt
June 25, 2014
I approached the conference the same way you might anticipate seeing a charming but volatile ex.
Ellen Chenoweth
July 4, 2014
Myra Bazell and Jane Gotch reunite after fifteen years in The Iron Factory's June Presenting Series.
Lisa Bardarson
July 7, 2014
Along with its strong repertoire and artistry, BalletX is managing to find financial and commercial success.How do they do i?
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
July 8, 2014
Dragon boats, canoes, kayaks, a music boat--an art flotilla bringing people onto the river for enjoyment and advocacy.
Whitney Weinstein
July 14, 2014
Collaborators Neenan and Langabeer fashion a dreamlike adventure tale full of magical effects, spirited dancing and varied, wonderfully-played music.
Lisa Kraus
July 18, 2014
Immersing body and soul in a warm and roiling bath of dance, dance, dance at the World Dance Alliance Global Summit it Angers, France.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
July 20, 2014
"...a poetry of associations that oscillate around islands of topics: femininity, monstrosity, the unknown..."
Megan Bridge
August 1, 2014
Our reporter covers the White House ceremony honoring National Medal of Arts awardees.
Lisa Bardarson
August 7, 2014
I first met Mary Anthony when I was sixteen years old...at the age of 89, she was teaching a vibrantly physical class that left me winded.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
August 10, 2014
The Come Together Festival celebrates the abundance of well-crafted local dance in a range of genres including hip-hop, jazz, modern and ballet.
Patricia Graham
August 30, 2014
Part I of a three-part series on gender inequity in contemporary American dance investigates the data on gender discrimination in Philadelphia dance presenting.
Nicole Bindler
September 3, 2014
"Ladies, gentlemen give it up for Philadelphia's finest," the MC/dancer said to the police officer approaching to break up the show.
Ellen Chenoweth
September 4, 2014
At the Philly Fringe, RealLivePeople dance into lies.
Becca Weber
September 6, 2014
It was good to see Pennsylvania Ballet dancers gliding, falling, pulling, writhing, and otherwise off their verticals in What I Learned About Outer Space.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 7, 2014
There is no correct execution, rather it invites trust in the unscripted and free will and spontaneity in a controlled environment.
Whitney Weinstein
September 8, 2014
Chisena and Brown kept close quarters, as do those who journey far in the confines of boat or plane or space- or relationship...
Kirsten Kaschock
September 13, 2014
"2 for 1" was facilitated by a grant from the Bryn Mawr College Dance Department.
Patricia Graham
September 14, 2014
For Searles, Project: Through an Aperture was as an experiment in transforming a large space into a layered canvas for dance.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 15, 2014
Flynn and VanDenend Sorge captured the spirit of the Fringe season by experimenting within their art form as they intimately shared their pasts.
Whitney Weinstein
September 15, 2014
Fun was the watchword at the 2014 Philadelphia Rocky Awards.
Lisa Kraus
September 16, 2014
Blood, bones and a view of the body both raw and poetic.
Patricia Graham
September 16, 2014
Brian Sanders of JUNK is in his second year of creating work under the pseudonym Jasmine Zieroff.
Whitney Weinstein
September 16, 2014
Part II of a three-part series on gender inequity in contemporary American dance, featuring analysis of the numbers and interviews.
Nicole Bindler
September 18, 2014
The pony palace is the field house, or the football field, or sometimes the whole game of football in this fun, refreshing creation.
Ellen Chenoweth
September 18, 2014
Donning a projecting narwhal tusk, long greyish wigs, and silvery shifts and culottes, Lee and Elkins played off the eccentricity of this “unicorn of the sea.”
Jonathan Stein
September 18, 2014
Dancers scratch on the wood, tap it, rap it, and soon the audience joins into this gentle symphony.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 20, 2014
They are at a burlesque show called Lovertits. I am at an experimental dance-theater performance that critiques the male gaze called Lovertits.
Nicole Bindler
September 21, 2014
Puts the spotlight on the ritualistic nature of performance.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 22, 2014
Read a re-cap of thINKingDANCE's Philadelphia Fringe Festival twitter reviews.
Becca Weber
September 30, 2014
I have never seen a site-specific work use a chosen space to better impact, or performers more committed to the world they create therein.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 11, 2014
Why Angel Corella hopes "that everyone can make it to Philadelphia," and more thoughts from the new Artistic Director of PA Ballet.
Lisa Kraus
October 11, 2014
Eiko in performance — painted a near white, her slight frame and its minimal gestures sometimes unbearably sorrowful — does not appear to have the fortitude to take care of us. Still, I think she is doing just that.
Kirsten Kaschock
October 13, 2014
Megan Bridge sat down for a screen-to-screen “chat" with Gregory Holt about Trajal Harrell’s "Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church."
Megan Bridge
October 13, 2014
The final installment of Ugly Numbers, a three-part investigation on gender inequity in contemporary American dance.
Nicole Bindler
October 20, 2014
Rosas is a trial of endurance, sure, but like any great challenge with substance at its core, it rewards: you emerge changed.
Carolyn Merritt
October 24, 2014
What makes the InHale Performance Series a success is the nurturing community it offers to emerging and established artists.
Gregory King
October 30, 2014
Rather than performing as dancers or musicians, each cast member became a truly hybrid cross, moving and sounding at the same time throughout the piece.
Ellen Chenoweth
October 31, 2014
During three hours as a visitor to Retrospective I was swept into the individual retrospectives of several of the dancers.
Jonathan Stein
November 4, 2014
When I walked into choreographer Xavier Le Roy’s Retrospective at MoMA PS1 there seemed to be nothing happening.
Jonathan Stein
November 4, 2014
The conference was rich in opportunities to reconnect with friends and colleagues, and delightful surprises enlivened the sometimes dense sessions.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 18, 2014
The siren song of mermaids in the Philly Dance community: the popularity of these mavens-of-the-deep can’t be denied.
Becca Weber
November 18, 2014
Over time the body becomes less able in some ways but more eloquent in others.
Lisa Kraus
November 20, 2014
Delicate execution of movement by extremely muscular bodies, athletic but thoughtful choreography, the scramble of gender role expectations.
Whitney Weinstein
November 20, 2014
They resembled a well-trained army marching off to war: precise, focused, armored and ready.
Gregory King
November 23, 2014
The juxtaposition of the frightening terrorist soundtrack with the dancers' robust and alluring bodies is strange and haunting.
Nicole Bindler
November 24, 2014
A woman shouts “Come dance Dabke for justice!” to protest the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company's Philadelphia appearance.
Nicole Bindler
November 25, 2014
The emotion and the dynamism of the dancing transcend any language barrier.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 26, 2014
Dance/UP has been a particularly active and effective service organization, pursuing new programs with gusto and intelligence.
Ellen Chenoweth
November 26, 2014
Instead of being separated, can’t theatrical gesture and dance movement be mixed together to create something whole?
Kat J. Sullivan
November 30, 2014
For her experimental response to Meg Foley and J. Louis Makary's experimental show, Carolyn Merritt answers 12 questions.
Carolyn Merritt
December 8, 2014
During this evening of three dances with a mixed gender company, Brown decides to devote one of the pieces to the six women.
Nicole Bindler
December 11, 2014
Not only was Brown opening up her work for anybody’s interpretation and critique, she was opening up her life--and all the layers of identity therein.
Becca Weber
December 11, 2014
Vervet Dance’s curated evening of five works featured artists from throughout the region. After dipping my toe into the potential of these artists’ works I left wanting more.
Beau Hancock
December 12, 2014
The dancers, virtuosic and athletic, execute grand leaps, surprising shifts of weight, and daring moments of partnering.
Becca Weber
December 15, 2014
How hundreds of mousetraps ended up in a dance class is related to the dialogue between performance art and performing arts currently underway.
Ellen Chenoweth
December 19, 2014
TD writers and march participants Ellen Chenoweth and Gregory King respond to the Dancing For Justice event on December 13th, 2014.
Gregory King
December 20, 2014
Balletx's Fall Series delivered strong dancing and choreography from three disparate choreographers.
Patricia Graham
December 21, 2014
Rennie Harris and Michael Sakamoto create a cypher of cross-cultural connectedness.
Jonathan Stein
December 22, 2014
Jacques-Jean Tiziou's "How Philly Moves" mural vibrantly displays the images of 26 dancing Philadelphians on the parking garages of the airport.
Gregory King
December 23, 2014
Chremos is in full control of the psychedelic fire-on-cave-walls impact of the interplay of hands' colored lights and disco mirrors.
Kirsten Kaschock
December 23, 2014
MUMMENSCHANZ, established in Paris in 1972, evolved from experimental explorations and includes barefoot pantomimes, storytellers, modern dancers and puppeteers.
Whitney Weinstein
December 23, 2014
Freelance photographer Ted Lieverman shares beyond-performance photos of Brian Sanders' JUNK taken during the past three years.
Guest Writer
January 3, 2015
As codirector of a performance group based just blocks away from KCAPA, I dreamt about the partnerships I could initiate at the school.
Megan Bridge
January 12, 2015
Aidan Un's eloquent photos document the Dancing for Justice march.
Gregory King
January 23, 2015
Ellen Chenoweth and Lisa Kraus reflect and dialogue on this year’s Association of Arts Presenters Conference (APAP) in New York City.
Ellen Chenoweth
January 29, 2015
Who is up there now? Why are they? What genre is this? You have twelve minutes or less to make me care.
Kirsten Kaschock
February 5, 2015
Erin Manning invokes dance, choreography, philosophy, film, and even autism to advocate for a richer relationship to the world around us.
Megan Bridge
February 5, 2015
McCarren laid the foundation for discussions about urban dance practices from both American and European perspectives.
Gregory King
February 7, 2015
These dancers seemed completely comfortable with, and yet engrossed in, their roles; I wanted to... figure out their relationships, to try to guess their next moves.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 10, 2015
Lisa Kraus sits down with "recovering curator” Judith Stein to discuss "An Evening of Duets."
Lisa Kraus
February 11, 2015
Cabuag relishes in the fact that his heritage, his beliefs, his insecurities, his struggles, and his triumphs are all expressed through movement.
Gregory King
February 14, 2015
The symposium “Russian Movement Culture of the 1920s and 1930s” revealed a period of extraordinary vibrancy and anxiety in Russia and among its émigré populations.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 15, 2015
Elena Light interviews Magda & Chelsea simultaneously but separately over at Culturebot. Their "Vulgar Early Works" is coming to FringeArts.
Guest Writer
February 17, 2015
As their Fa’ataupati, or Samoan slap dance, progressed, I began to see the richness of Black Grace’s cultural identities emerge.
Whitney Weinstein
February 23, 2015
Language falls short of the wonder of their performance.
Carolyn Merritt
February 25, 2015
You’ve got the sacred and the profane, some spoken text, some songs, some painting, some dancing. You've got smart bodies and smart brains... aggression with vulnerability.
Ellen Chenoweth
February 26, 2015
The cocoon of home will always provide a comfortable space for this kind of experimentation.
Gregory King
March 7, 2015
Scratch Night reflects a growing interest among artists of all genres in revealing art making process to audiences.
Whitney Weinstein
March 11, 2015
Up close, the audience can see the balances and supports afforded by the circus equipment and notice each finger, glance, and weight shift.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 17, 2015
How do you reclaim something that, while rightfully yours, has always been used against your autonomy?
Kirsten Kaschock
March 23, 2015
Directed by Seán Curran, The Radio Hour will be a funny, stirring, and richly textured Philadelphia debut.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 24, 2015
"Bringing dance to unexpected spaces in the city will expand the dialogue on dance and build new audiences."
Gregory King
March 27, 2015
Flamenco babies, Beyoncé and old souls.
Lisa Kraus
April 6, 2015
With Cosas de Mujeres, Pasión y Arte Flamenco brings together a remarkable line-up of artists.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
April 14, 2015
This was a celebration of the human form in all its awkwardness.
Whitney Weinstein
April 15, 2015
In more than 300 performances, three vocalists from The Crossing whistled a piece composed by David Lang, while encircling a 4.5 billion year old rock.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 17, 2015
An imaginative world of carnal movements and attention-grabbing video...creative collective intellect...a state of heightened curiosity and pure ecstasy.
Gregory King
April 20, 2015
In the halves of Unveiled, the ethos of each of two choreographers was prominent and compelling.
Kirsten Kaschock
April 22, 2015
Dancer Asimina Chremos and photographer/poet Ditta Baron Hoeber share improvisational space.
Asimina Chremos and Ditta Baron Hoeber
April 22, 2015
The simple but powerful choreography brings to mind ballet’s court dance origins and connotations of rarified class and privilege.
Jonathan Stein
April 22, 2015
Hip-hop dance,the electric boogie, up-rocking, b-boying, popping overlapped with a la seconde turns, glissades and rond de jambes.
Gregory King
April 24, 2015
Dust: evidence of life. Enemy of the domestic goddess. Culprit of hay fever. The stuff we’re all destined for.
Carolyn Merritt
May 1, 2015
Collage Festival is an artist-friendly, affordable, and accessible multi-disciplinary event.
Ellen Chenoweth
May 5, 2015
Jean-Pierre Frohlich introduced Robbins’s work as more akin to a play than to a dance: "each character has a backstory."
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 13, 2015
Presence isn’t about acting, or charisma, it’s about directed and specific consciousness.
Megan Bridge
May 14, 2015
Pilobolus Dance Theater defies categorization, standing at the intersection of dance, gymnastics, technology and theatre arts.
Gregory King
May 16, 2015
This year, the three-day RDA/Northeast festival will be on the University of the Arts campus in Philadelphia from May 21 to 23.
Kirsten Kaschock
May 17, 2015
Come with an open mind to watch Mash Up Body. The intimacy is important.
Whitney Weinstein
June 4, 2015
This Score for Ballet could indeed be a dance, enacted, but with no bodies required.
Jonathan Stein
June 7, 2015
An elegant sign language of mudras, like flutterings of rare birds. Bodies subtle, making the slightest weight shifts compelling.
Lisa Kraus
June 7, 2015
William Forsythe in conversation on neo-classicism with Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland.
Gregory King
June 8, 2015
Diaghilev's command, “Astonish me!,” fit the opening night of Pennsylvania Ballet’s last program of 2014-15.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 13, 2015
Gustavo and Giselle Anne Naveira's participation in the 5th Philadelphia International Tango Festival, from teaching to dancing.
Carolyn Merritt
June 13, 2015
"...I am seeking ancestral healing and liberation for all."
Nicole Bindler
June 15, 2015
The four performers in this work are, in fact, the very kinds of people that devote their lives to becoming acrobats.
Megan Bridge
June 19, 2015
Lynn Matluck Brooks and Christopher Brooks reflect on programs 1 and 2 of Facing Front, featuring Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 23, 2015
I became increasingly aware that addressing only skin color will not solve the quest for diversity.
Gregory King
June 29, 2015
After seeing multiple iterations of the same material, certain phrases and shapes became familiar, like old friends returning to the stage.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
July 2, 2015
June was a good month for adventurous performances in Philadelphia with artists using the traditional off-season to try new things.
Ellen Chenoweth
July 3, 2015
Cardell showcases how dance can confront social issues viscerally, triggering responses that tap something as deep as migration is to our very existence.
Carolyn Merritt
July 14, 2015
Featuring different companies, Come Together Dance Festival showcases the big, broad world of Philadelphia dancing.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
August 3, 2015
A center in the Catskills counters the prevailing commodity-based "product" orientation in performing arts.
Lisa Kraus
September 5, 2015
The unsighted gaze of Papa Chekhov presides silently as women, wonders, and wolf-packs all come to naught.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 6, 2015
The dancers appeared to be following the deep paths of their own watery innards, or flowing along a torrent slightly out of their own control.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 6, 2015
Does your family have a secret? Jeanine McCain created an environment conducive to discovery and nostalgia.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 7, 2015
I want to tell people to stop laughing, you’re only encouraging them.
Annie Wilson
September 10, 2015
The duet form in dance, done with new twists by Norwegians.
Lisa Kraus
September 11, 2015
By the conclusion of the evening, Fatale had replayed, in microcosm, her journey.
Whitney Weinstein
September 11, 2015
Audience members gathered with old and new members of thINKingDANCE to pen a crowd response to Still Standing You.
Kirsten Kaschock
September 11, 2015
Sometimes repetition causes predictability and loss of interest...
Gregory King
September 12, 2015
Underground Railroad Game gets a B for attempting to dissect the construct of race and shed light on a tainted history.
Gregory King
September 13, 2015
I found we were all able to generate meaning from the performance, yet each interpretation was vastly different.
Whitney Weinstein
September 13, 2015
A Fringe audience questions binaries--how borders circumscribe and overlap and sometimes carve out small, human spaces.
Kirsten Kaschock
September 14, 2015
Their deeply embedded heritage bound them together as they stepped towards an unforeseen fate.
Whitney Weinstein
September 14, 2015
Greg performs 2,000 individual, unrepeated movements for one hour. But what is one movement anyway?
Nicole Bindler
September 18, 2015
Before he was a fallen black man, he was an unarmed black man. Now he lies as a shell of his former self.
Gregory King
September 18, 2015
Zambrano’s aim was to present the dancer as “being continuously alive.”
Jonathan Stein
September 19, 2015
Philadelphia dance-goers describe their evening at Zambrano's "Soul Project" in alternately poetic and analytical prose.
Kirsten Kaschock
September 22, 2015
What new connections and directions emerge this year from the Fringe Festival's explosion of artistic expression?
Ellen Chenoweth
September 25, 2015
Nicole Bindler reports on her experience setting work on the dancers of Diyar Dance Theater, a Dabke company in the occupied West Bank in Palestine.
Nicole Bindler
October 9, 2015
Fringearts is in full force in Philadelphia, and I am in Budapest, watching L1danceFest.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
October 10, 2015
How do we curate memory?
Lisa Kraus
October 11, 2015
A lecture from this year's Rockies by Asimina Chremos.
Guest Writer
October 13, 2015
The night left me elated, sad, hopeful, and very proud.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
October 13, 2015
Guest writer Tania Isaac reflects on what comforts, and what sustains.
Guest Writer
October 13, 2015
“I love birds,” the scientist says dreamily. “What can we learn from these caged lives?”
Megan Stern
October 17, 2015
Guillermo Ortega Tanus, Sheila Zagar, and Eun Jung Choi join Jonathan Stein talking through a Trisha Brown experience.
Jonathan Stein
October 17, 2015
Terzopoulos’s Antigone begins at the point of exhaustion, with a populace worn to the nub by war.
Julius Ferraro
October 18, 2015
It felt right to perform tango, a product of immigration, in the lead-up to Pope Francis’s speech on immigration during his recent visit to Philadelphia.
Carolyn Merritt
October 18, 2015
Pennsylvania Ballet put on a dizzying display of the body's potential.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 25, 2015
The lights are high and the music is low as I ascend the sea foam-colored steps of The Iron Factory.
Kat J. Sullivan
October 25, 2015
An aesthetic response to The Ripening Suite
Kat J. Sullivan
October 26, 2015
There is so much sadness and built-up anger, such a pressing need for strength, so much joy.
Lauren Samblanet
October 29, 2015
Sometimes you are not in control of what wells up inside of you in response to art... Sometimes, maybe that’s what art is.
Kirsten Kaschock
October 29, 2015
"Tragedy...it's not drama. You're naked on the stage, like dance."
Jay Oatis
October 30, 2015
Chopin Without Piano uses music in its dramatic application to reveal the way cultural revolutionaries are treated as cultural capital by appropriative governments.
Julius Ferraro
November 2, 2015
Complexions Contemporary Ballet's athleticism and movement skills went overlooked by none.
Whitney Weinstein
November 3, 2015
Felesina whittled through the space before washing the floors with her fluid, muscled body.
Gregory King
November 3, 2015
tD writers Lynn Brooks and Zornitsa Stoyanova intertwine their takes on performances at the NowHere Festival of Free Improvisation
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 3, 2015
Tablao Philly--an experience of unbridled crescendo, a night that accelerated in vigor, skill, and intensity until the end.
Sara Graybeal
November 4, 2015
Partita 2 asks us not just to note the passing of time, but to participate kinesthetically in time’s ticking.
Megan Bridge
November 4, 2015
The ridiculous and the sublime in Twyla Tharp: 50th Anniversary Tour and De Keersmaeker's Partita 2.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 6, 2015
The early '70s pieces remain stridently current, thanks to the timeless quality of Brown’s work.
Rhonda Moore
November 6, 2015
Published in collaboration with culturebot.org, John Hoobyar writes about the expectation of bowing or not after the show.
Guest Writer
November 9, 2015
Los Angeles is infamous for its traffic. The evening of work that LA-based company BODYTRAFFIC presented at the Prince Theater felt congested.
Jay Oatis
November 11, 2015
Hopkins asks: How is a performance like a person?
Ellen Chenoweth
November 12, 2015
The Dance Apocalypse -- hilarious, outrageous, provocative, and intimate all at once.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
November 12, 2015
Seeing Tharp's company, I was curious how she would respond to questions about race, inequality, diversity and inclusion.
Gregory King
November 15, 2015
Boris Charmatz strides out and then you, Anne Teresa.
Kat J. Sullivan
November 16, 2015
It felt personal.
Gregory King
November 16, 2015
Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- an excerpt from Mark Fisher's 2015 book.
Guest Writer
November 17, 2015
In a hinged position she dangled her arms—breathing as they swayed, living in their lifelessness.
Gregory King
November 20, 2015
Christopher Knowles’ performance brings us into his world, one that’s precise, repetitive, forthright, fantastical, and perhaps obsessive.
Lisa Kraus
November 20, 2015
Our movement, our mating, our social veneer, and our violence barely sheathe our inner beastliness.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 22, 2015
Four short pieces, though they differ wildly in tone, form, humor, movement, and medium, use deliberately counterintuitive elements to evoke mystery, suspense, and even confusion.
Julius Ferraro
November 22, 2015
Published in collaboration with culturebot.org -- Rennie McDougall explains how "inging" is the word-equivalent of a Möbius strip.
Guest Writer
November 24, 2015
Rather than creating a hierarchy between transcendence and earthly presence, Pavel Zuštiak’s work gives equal weight to both.
Meredith Bove
November 26, 2015
I am reminded that dance works more like poetry than like news.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 28, 2015
Manfred Fischbeck described EN-TRANCE as an entry point into works in progress.
Roxanne Lyst
November 29, 2015
Milky Way comes into view softly and from the right.
Jenna Horton
December 1, 2015
They rage, rant, and even party in an attempt to process the harsh realities of the life we live.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
December 1, 2015
Their charm was awkward and impertinent.
Sara Graybeal
December 10, 2015
I wonder what would happen if we all felt this grounded place, this present self.
Beau Hancock
December 11, 2015
The brilliance is non-stop, but the engagement wanes.
Ellen Chenoweth
December 15, 2015
Tiny worlds unfold in each woven work by Asimina Chremos.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 17, 2015
Strap on your belt and jump in the sleigh for what Peek-A-Boo has to give away.
Whitney Weinstein
December 18, 2015
The City Cheesesteak Guy stole the heart of Liberty Belle Anne with his geeky glasses and a five foot long cheesesteak in tow.
Sara Graybeal
December 20, 2015
Our relationship with time, and empty time in particular, is more antagonistic than it has ever been.
Julius Ferraro
December 21, 2015
Dubbed a serial killer ballet, it is arch storytelling in someone's dark, winking headspace
Andrew Sargus Klein
December 23, 2015
How is The Wiz valued and how is it archived in the sphere of black popular culture?
Gregory King
December 30, 2015
With no party scene or dancing snowflakes, The First Noel offers an alternative narrative to the fairytale of other Christmas stories.
Gregory King
January 8, 2016
Upholding historical repertory while integrating contemporary works is what the Ailey Company does best.
Roxanne Lyst
January 9, 2016
Through gesture, posture, attitude, sound, and movement, the scene fills with clues that encourage all to connect the dots as they see fit.
Rhonda Moore
January 14, 2016
Jenna Horton waxes poetic about Christina Gesualdi's Lasso Belly.
Jenna Horton
January 17, 2016
Culturebot's Andy Horwitz on Alva Noë as collaborator/performer with Jess Curtis.
Guest Writer
January 21, 2016
But Ballets Jazz Montréal has their front door wide open. It beckons.
Kirsten Kaschock
January 24, 2016
Sam Tower speaks in long, seamless sentences about developing a fantasy world for performance.
Julius Ferraro
January 29, 2016
Tzveta Kassabova’s double bill "From Somewhere" at Danceplace in this dispatch from D.C.
Meredith Bove
February 2, 2016
Gregory King interviews Tiffany Rae-Fisher, the new artistic director of Elisa Monte Dance Company
Gregory King
February 5, 2016
Setting this work on four PAB men set the bar high, and they met it.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 7, 2016
Dance has the capacity to force us to confront our own mortality, our volatile bodies: Joe Goode's "The Resilience Project."
Meredith Bove
February 10, 2016
The final duet leaves me thoroughly satisfied with the evening as a study of the duet form.
Megan Stern
February 13, 2016
Gscheidle: I have fallen in love with the dance and theater community here.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
February 17, 2016
A collage of earnestness, passion and truth-telling, created by and for women.
Sara Graybeal
February 21, 2016
His intention: confronting and uncovering the perpetual and multi-faceted elephant in the room
Rhonda Moore
February 22, 2016
Poetry deserves our full attention.
Lauren Samblanet
February 25, 2016
Lovertits wasn’t about the bodies at all. But it was the bodies.
Kat J. Sullivan
February 25, 2016
Time has cycled and morphed.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
February 29, 2016
Xavier announces, “No thing can exist without nothing.”
Whitney Weinstein
March 2, 2016
It was delightful, from the pantomime characters to the virtuosic leads.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 7, 2016
There is no doubt in my mind that Dance Theatre of Harlem is back.
Gregory King
March 9, 2016
Divorced from context, Zaides's movements make the very consequential gestures of settlers, police and army seem mundane.
Nicole Bindler
March 10, 2016
The 35th-anniversary concert of New York-based Elisa Monte Dance was both a welcome and a farewell.
Gregory King
March 11, 2016
Pavane’s tight structure reveals the power of constrained form channeling explosive emotion.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 14, 2016
Coaction Dance Collective presented work layering spoken word, storytelling, and problem solving.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
March 15, 2016
Graffito Works’s dancers manifested Lewis’s merged abstraction and figuration, an elusive combination.
Jonathan Stein
March 17, 2016
At the American Dance Institute in DC, Jane Comfort’s new, untitled work-in-progress makes for glorious people-watching.
Meredith Bove
March 31, 2016
“The answer is: You will die, and all will end,” Revlock continues. “You will die and know everything or cease asking.”
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
April 11, 2016
Should one talk in couplets or algorithms about Claudio Monteverdi’s opera, L’Orfeo, choreographed and directed by Trisha Brown?
Patricia Graham
April 11, 2016
Representing nine religions the group performed Tai-Chi in an homage to integration.
Gregory King
April 12, 2016
I will keep Diavolo on my list of must-see entertainment.
Gregory King
April 18, 2016
Kinetic tree, you mystify me.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 19, 2016
Janine Antoni, Stephen Petronio and Anna Halprin working in the meeting space between forms.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 19, 2016
The beings in O Monsters may or may not be human. They function according to rules and laws that I’m not sure we fully grasp.
Julius Ferraro
April 23, 2016
"We get good at this thing about performance time, and I began to be very suspicious about that."
Jenna Horton
April 27, 2016
Curating empowerment of Palestinian artists; reclaiming Feldenkrais; and transforming Free Advice street sessions into movement.
Nicole Bindler
April 27, 2016
Vecino lives the thousands of tiny existences of each gesture.
Kat J. Sullivan
April 27, 2016
BalletX’s ten-year celebration was a thank-you note to Philadelphia.
Gregory King
May 2, 2016
Mascher Space’s H-O-T Series—a reminder that responsive, lively, daring dance and music can coexist.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 4, 2016
Finding the right balance in sharing behind-the-scenes work and thinking.
Lisa Kraus
May 7, 2016
She is naked again, having carried, cast off, born and been reborn.
Kat J. Sullivan
May 13, 2016
On stage they were admired, but on the streets their attire would make them the targets of discrimination.
Gregory King
May 15, 2016
Action is Primary is not a ballet. Action is Primary is a score. Action is Primary is a dance about what dance is.
Jenna Horton
May 19, 2016
Halprin’s most recent dance deck-mates include Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio
Jonathan Stein
May 22, 2016
We see bodies moving with vigor and determination and lounging with cool confidence.
Megan Stern
May 23, 2016
Alice Pencavel reviews Becca Blackwell's solo show at Culturebot.
Guest Writer
May 23, 2016
The opening salvo of a series of performances accompanying the installation—each of them at night, with a rotating cast presenting the same six-point material.
Anna Drozdowski
May 24, 2016
Each moment shifts to the next; Bindler and Tini let action unfold through accident and serendipity.
Megan Stern
June 1, 2016
Bringing awareness to the impact of Yoruba, Bantu and Fon traditions on Philadelphia’s cultural landscape.
Jonathan Stein
June 6, 2016
These performers bring to light experiences of queer people of color, so often overlooked and undernarrated.
Gregory King
June 9, 2016
For every action there is an opposite but equal reaction. For every shame, there is a pleasure.
Lauren Samblanet
June 12, 2016
I thought to myself, this will never happen again.
Meredith Bove
June 13, 2016
A Brewerytown afternoon unfolds with Subcircle's most recent missive.
Kat J. Sullivan
June 14, 2016
There is the biography... And there is the universal—the multitudes of a single life, the luck of longevity.
Carolyn Merritt
June 15, 2016
Issues of identity, race and communication with each other resonated, leaving me with a new hope for dance and its connection to the outside world.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
June 16, 2016
Bellows Falls allows story to arise from the concrete poetics of space.
Scott Rodrigue
June 17, 2016
The context of Balanchine and Beyond makes Trisha Brown’s work gleam. A nod to the events of the day would have made the ballet as an institution gleam as well.
Megan Bridge
June 19, 2016
On dance, her impact, and racism, "the most glaring, tragic, intransigent issue in every sector of the American landscape."
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 25, 2016
Do all dances become palimpsests over time? Overlaid meanings and overlaid bodies...which we, the audience, can never see fully.
Lauren Samblanet
July 9, 2016
Is Shakespeare different when interpreted by the black body?
Gregory King
July 10, 2016
BalletX urges classically-trained dancers to new heights and depths of nimbly explorative, bold, and compelling shape-shifting.
Rhonda Moore
July 14, 2016
“Sanctified. This space is now sanctified.” The energy of the room was palpable, and urgent.
Janna Meiring
July 17, 2016
In rowboats, kayaks, and dragon boats the audience watched four women balance, swing, and suspend themselves above the waters.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
July 22, 2016
Brief flashes in an otherwise loud, dark, and smoke-filled vision.
Ellen Chenoweth
August 3, 2016
What followed was anything but gentle.
Lisa Kraus
August 10, 2016
"...how words get in the way of actually understanding one another."
Julius Ferraro
August 21, 2016
Perhaps the best criteria for arts writers or critics is curiosity.
Carolyn Merritt
August 21, 2016
"I want to present the body as a real, human, social being.”
Julius Ferraro
August 27, 2016
Shows you may want to see after watching these appetizing trailers.
Lisa Kraus
September 5, 2016
Reprinted from TDF Stages.
Carolyn Merritt
September 5, 2016
With less than a week before residency start-up, my head—not my body—dances with multiple thoughts.
Rhonda Moore
September 5, 2016
BalletX brought five dances, ten dancers, and a storm of energy to Mt. Gretna's stage.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 7, 2016
Audaciously tipping to the extremes of African masculinity to up-end stereotype
Janna Meiring
September 8, 2016
It is the full range of humanity, expressed without a put-upon emotional layer.
Janna Meiring
September 10, 2016
CITIZEN melds movement from the African Diaspora with modern dance to question history, heritage, and what it means to belong.
Scott Rodrigue
September 10, 2016
Food has a visceral relationship to our daily experience of the world.
Julius Ferraro
September 10, 2016
I found the choreography too thickly applied but enjoyed moments of genuineness in the dancers’ idiosyncrasies.
Kat J. Sullivan
September 11, 2016
"Her" questioned, and embraced, female identity, inviting all women to exist not only as they are, but as sisters.
Whitney Weinstein
September 11, 2016
A photo essay.
Lisa Kraus
September 11, 2016
They orbited one another’s bodies, stretching apart and migrating, as if undeniably bound by a generational likeness.
Whitney Weinstein
September 12, 2016
This Fringe circus theater hit renders goddess Io as a feminist warrior
Jonathan Stein
September 12, 2016
There's seeming emptiness, but the more you spend time there you realize how rich it is.
Beau Hancock
September 12, 2016
If only people everywhere would regard each other as thoughtfully as this!
Nicole Bindler
September 14, 2016
This piece calls attention to its means of production. That is both a springboard and a limit for the content.
Scott Rodrigue
September 14, 2016
This piece, still new in my body, is already teaching me life lessons on flexibility of all kinds.
Rhonda Moore
September 15, 2016
Nichole Canuso's "Pandaemonium" traverses mind-blowing scale in the course of its one-hour duration.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 16, 2016
Stein’s dancers were joined by eight community performers of various ages and backgrounds, a fine choice for Frieda's Café.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 16, 2016
Individuals began confronting one another in primal, circular patterns. A fight for change has begun.
Whitney Weinstein
September 17, 2016
A work like Mary Wigman’s Hexentanz provides a jolting reminder of the power and intensity of early modern dance.
Lisa Kraus
September 18, 2016
One narrator posits that miracles may not be possible, but this lo-fi, rickety cart-stage and its ingenious human operators offer a small exhibit to the contrary.
Ellen Chenoweth
September 18, 2016
In Fore-ign/Fore-out, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things.
Kirsten Kaschock
September 18, 2016
Their spines are sinewy and roiling, their necks crane towards the ceiling, and their eyes roll upwards... this is a dance of skin and sensation.
Julius Ferraro
September 18, 2016
Half off, your shirt smothers your head...and you are faceless, everywoman, and an uncanny double of Abu Ghraib prisoners.
Carolyn Merritt
September 20, 2016
We start to see it for what it is: an exhausting relay, an impossible attempt to keep up.
Julius Ferraro
September 20, 2016
As he works his way towards the audience, his body rotating through space, the red kimono seems to be flying.
Janna Meiring
September 21, 2016
femme.collective highlights works by nine choreographers around a common theme.
Rhonda Moore
September 22, 2016
The boutique yoga studio is an ideal setting for Casal and Cuda’s Coffee?
Rhonda Moore
September 24, 2016
Here, that impulse of self-projection is indulged, but we lose control, the ability to curate.
Julius Ferraro
September 25, 2016
Their bodies may be used for the benefit of someone else, but their minds remain their own.
Whitney Weinstein
September 26, 2016
The Elementary Spacetime Show is equal parts Rocky Horror, Game Show Network, and a bad acid trip.
Whitney Weinstein
September 26, 2016
King talks butoh and breakin' inside of the New Central Baptist Church.
Gregory King
September 26, 2016
Longing and solitude in the Congo
Jonathan Stein
September 28, 2016
Charming, magnetic, grotesque, doomed.
Julius Ferraro
September 30, 2016
In iStand, the body is at once victim and victor, home to both the evidence of injustice and the keys to salvation.
Sara Graybeal
October 1, 2016
Baby Bowie and all the feels at Bel's Gala with Write Back Atcha.
Julius Ferraro
October 1, 2016
Guest Writer Toni Shapiro-Phim reflects on Jungwoong Kim's SaltSoul.
Toni Shapiro-Phim
October 1, 2016
Toni Shapiro-Phim reflects on Jungwoong Kim's Dilworth Plaza event for SaltSoul.
Toni Shapiro-Phim
October 2, 2016
Tracking seven cast members' disjointed yet affiliated daily rituals.
Whitney Weinstein
October 4, 2016
Each moment yields fluid beauty rivalling old master depictions of drapery.
Lisa Kraus
October 6, 2016
Above all, Rememberer is joyful.
Andrew Sargus Klein
October 10, 2016
It was easy for me to forget I was at a dance performance.
Gregory King
October 16, 2016
A good remix lets you listen to something you know well with new ears.
Kirsten Kaschock
October 17, 2016
A nine-course gourmet meal takes a long time too, but why would you complain about an embarrassment of riches?
Ellen Chenoweth
October 23, 2016
Embodying Victor Quijada's style—a fusion between breaking and contemporary dance.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
October 26, 2016
When weaponry is absurd, meaningless, and ultimately ineffective, how then to combat the very real violence and aggression that exists in the world?
Meredith Bove
October 26, 2016
A festival of lights.
Sara Graybeal
October 27, 2016
Something of a demigod and something of a dance great-grandmother.
Kat J. Sullivan
October 27, 2016
These group improvisations are inherently at least a bit wacky.
Julius Ferraro
October 27, 2016
I feel assailed by these questions when watching this choreography, and I wonder whom to hold accountable.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
October 28, 2016
The women memorably describe their lives in show business, shaped by the double discrimination of race and gender.
Ellen Chenoweth
November 5, 2016
Once upon a time the ballet was an enchanting place. Has the magic of the proscenium waned?
Whitney Weinstein
November 8, 2016
Undersweet dedicates rigorous attention to the unfolding of now, trimmed of nostalgic fat.
Jenna Horton
November 9, 2016
The duet by Kim and Ramirez is stunning, full of longing, gentleness and mild eroticism.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
November 15, 2016
Perhaps it's revolutionary to have a local non-ballet choreographer set a work on PAB.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 19, 2016
Beyond the booths, and between official CINARS showcases and Off-CINARS performances, there were more shows than anyone could attend.
Megan Bridge
November 25, 2016
In transition, we experience, momentarily, what we leave behind and where we are going.
Jenna Horton
November 26, 2016
Immersive dance intersects with election night trauma.
Andrew Sargus Klein
November 29, 2016
Social, political and creatively occupied space.
Jonathan Stein
November 29, 2016
A multi-layered trip into the idea of Universal Consciousness.
Janna Meiring
December 1, 2016
A vibrantly woven tapestry of sound and movement.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 3, 2016
The bastard: an urge to fall down, a depressive thought that won’t flush away, the bobbing reminder of personal failure.
Julius Ferraro
December 5, 2016
"You want the world to be both chaotic and predictable."
Ellen Chenoweth
December 7, 2016
We try to figure out the game, to understand the enigmatic logic that governs the devotees’ behavior.
Megan Stern
December 15, 2016
Bára Sigfúsdóttir's "The Lover" was the best thing I've seen in a long time. I wrote her a love letter.
Megan Bridge
December 20, 2016
Everything Jack Thomas needs to fulfill the character of the Prince is prescribed in the embodiment of the male technique.
Lily Kind
December 22, 2016
Pennsylvania Ballet welcomed people with sensory, learning and communications differences.
Lisa Kraus
December 28, 2016
The framework—the “undergird”—is what this piece is about, and it is visible everywhere.
Julius Ferraro
December 30, 2016
Graham's technique is still vital, but must adapt.
Gregory King
January 2, 2017
The drones are acting up in David Parsons newest dance piece with Drexel.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
January 5, 2017
As we pass the baton, a moment of reflection.
Kirsten Kaschock
January 8, 2017
I think there is a reawakening thirst for artistic expression beyond pure entertainment or academic exercise.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 9, 2017
Ellen Chenoweth and Beau Hancock casting back to Charmatz in the Fountain.
Ellen Chenoweth
January 14, 2017
In front of me were men reclaiming their own tacitly-restricted embodiment.
Kirsten Kaschock
January 16, 2017
The through-line of the evening was clear: entanglement, sensitively enacted and explored among the musicians and dancers.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 17, 2017
American Realness presents art that provides crucial alternatives to mainstream cultural models.
Megan Bridge
January 18, 2017
The Rockies began as a slapdash celebration, with the dance and movement community drinking together, celebrating, and laughing at itself.
Becca Weber
January 19, 2017
Jungwoong Kim’s site-specific dance animates and expands fabric installation
Jonathan Stein
January 20, 2017
The weird, experimental, and unconventional still has a home in South Kensington.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
January 22, 2017
Through movement, sound, and silence—straight to the heart.
Rhonda Moore
January 25, 2017
Ups and Downs is obsessed with audience experience—in expectation, in movement, in emphasis.
Andrew Sargus Klein
January 27, 2017
A masterclass taught by Xan Burley and Hsiao-Jou Tang gave a taste of Varone’s style.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
January 28, 2017
Cartoonist Lauren R. Weistein imagines what a more authorial Rockettes performance might look like.
Julius Ferraro
January 30, 2017
A night of short new works opens with a dance in outer space.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 31, 2017
These dancers harmonized a captivating mastery of power and durability with finesse and delicacy.
Whitney Weinstein
January 31, 2017
Lady Hoofers' constructive, propitious relationships in the theater and throughout Philadelphia emulates their passion for tap.
Whitney Weinstein
February 2, 2017
Poppies remain dormant for years before bursting into red glory, as do revolutions.
Nicole Bindler
February 3, 2017
Movement is one fractal amidst a larger entity when considering dance’s meaning.
Meredith Bove
February 4, 2017
We climb the hill, in the darkness, stone by stone.
Janna Meiring
February 9, 2017
To the invisible bodies: I will be your audience. You are not unwitnessed. You are not unloved.
Kat J. Sullivan
February 16, 2017
One of the most profound reasons for making—to connect.
Kirsten Kaschock
February 18, 2017
It is a beautiful puzzle, the attempt to construct the architecture from the outside in.
Kat J. Sullivan
February 23, 2017
A stellar line-up of dancers recount exciting, exasperating, and sometimes heartrending encounters on State Department tours.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 23, 2017
Gus Gscheidle talks new space in Kensington.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
February 26, 2017
Anticipating carnaval, consummate ritual of inversion, a month into the bizarro reality of a Trump presidency.
Carolyn Merritt
February 27, 2017
The more voices within the creative process, the harder it can be to create a cohesive work.
Andrew Sargus Klein
March 10, 2017
Kalila Kingsford Smith continues her expiration of NextMove offerings.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
March 13, 2017
The work begins at sea, on the moon-lit pirate ship that sails its crew to the fateful meeting of Conrad and Medora.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 13, 2017
How do we celebrate when the world is upside down?
Nicole Bindler
March 16, 2017
(Are you there with me? Do you feel that?)
Kat J. Sullivan
March 18, 2017
These mighty young women artists address the election of Donald Trump and the repercussions of the event.
Janna Meiring
March 24, 2017
Issues of cutural origins and expectations, and what are artists to do now post-election.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
March 25, 2017
Assuming imposed identities, and then going against that, criticizing and parodying.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
March 26, 2017
A lively dive into Philadelphia's Burlesque scene through the eyes of Sophie.
Whitney Weinstein
April 9, 2017
Pressing my arm down, I undulate into a backbend, softening my chest backwards. I am the sacrifice.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
April 16, 2017
In Rodrigue's performance, powerful theater can still take the form of a rational conversation.
Julius Ferraro
April 18, 2017
“Observe yourself observing”: The Landscape Game and reconsidered landscapes.
Jenna Horton
April 19, 2017
When philosophical conversations surface, questions tend to emerge - as answers, as explorations, as response.
Whitney Weinstein
April 22, 2017
In preparation for his upcoming performance, SANCTUARY, Kun-Yang Lin deconstructs his creative philosophy.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
April 23, 2017
Dance here looks like a mix of mismatched language and movements.
Hannah Pearl
April 24, 2017
"Write Back Atcha" synthesizes audience reflections on Tania Isaac's "crazy beautiful"
Megan Bridge
May 3, 2017
Theresa Ruth Howard believes that "even in the dance community itself, we have a kind of collective amnesia."
Ellen Chenoweth
May 3, 2017
"I’m going back to these really primal needs to move—I learned to survive through the practice of dance."
Carolyn Merritt
May 10, 2017
Continued observation recommended.
Ellen Chenoweth
May 13, 2017
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's male and female performers' bold, unabashed intensity.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
May 15, 2017
May Pennsylvania Ballet settle, take root, and flourish.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 16, 2017
The simplicity of their movement has a beautifully muffled quality; hushed and gentle, like snow.
Kat J. Sullivan
June 2, 2017
As humans, we cannot be only solitary, nor can we be only collective.
Janna Meiring
June 3, 2017
If a voice inside your head told you to follow someone, would you?
Carolyn Merritt
June 5, 2017
The audience follows the teen identified as Dog Girl through an array of coming-of-age heartaches and triumphs.
Whitney Weinstein
June 12, 2017
Rosie Herrera’s pairing of sets and props with resonant personal symbols seamlessly blended the past and the present.
Andrew Sargus Klein
June 13, 2017
Its message is clear: stop talking. Dance. Donate.
Whitney Weinstein
June 29, 2017
In the spirit of low-maintenance, many performances take place outside.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
July 4, 2017
Mira Treatman led half a dozen curious across the bridge's pedestrian walkway.
Jonathan Stein
July 4, 2017
Ballet on the main stage, hip hop on the street
Gregory King
July 14, 2017
MK Abadoo explores body politics, African Diaspora, and sci-fi through dance
Andrew Sargus Klein
July 14, 2017
A July 28 screening of the film "In the Steps of Trisha Brown" is an unofficial memorial to the influential choreographer.
Lisa Kraus
July 14, 2017
I hoped that the grant would add fuel to IABD’s fire, augmenting support and resources for the organization.
Gregory King
July 19, 2017
Do we really want the truth or are we addicted only to the mystery, the smokescreen?
Rhonda Moore
July 29, 2017
The original in a different, fierce, and compelling incarnation
Ellen Chenoweth
August 6, 2017
Nicole Bindler recalls her experience in workshop with Deborah Hay
Nicole Bindler
August 22, 2017
Groenendaal, Faylor, and their collaborators have created a show that would never be exactly the same twice.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
August 30, 2017
"If you get really close, you see the foot wobble, you see the breath of the performer."
Whitney Weinstein
August 31, 2017
Twenty-eight dances by groups from Korea, Tonga and Hawaii with the power to uplift and to transcend boundaries.
Lisa Kraus
August 31, 2017
Upcoming Fringe performance uses clown to explore Jewish heritage
Nicole Bindler
September 6, 2017
I began using the principles of Theatre of the Oppressed long before I knew it as its own particular art form.
Nicole Bindler
September 7, 2017
While we now see these other lights, it's Pepys's yard they light up.
Jenna Horton
September 8, 2017
The difference between reading the play and watching a staged performance is the accessibility of the body.
Whitney Weinstein
September 8, 2017
Sam Tower weaves together dream, interior emotion, and reality to obscure perspective; we soon leave narrative behind.
Julius Ferraro
September 9, 2017
Interlacing sinewy dance and spoken text, "Spilt Milk" touches on miscommunication, white fragility, and difference.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 10, 2017
Mira Treatman dramatizes her body’s conflict with gravity and time.
Julius Ferraro
September 10, 2017
Each of them arrive where they need to be, do what they need to do, and the system churns on.
Kat J. Sullivan
September 10, 2017
Rosemary Candelario offers a critical analysis of the work of Eiko & Koma.
Janna Meiring
September 12, 2017
I left feeling they'd reduced America to cowgirls and red booty shorts.
Whitney Weinstein
September 14, 2017
Linyekula uses dance, video, and artifact to explore his intercontinental connections.
Jonathan Stein
September 14, 2017
Geoff Sobelle's HOME is magical, mystifying, and a little scary.
Carolyn Merritt
September 14, 2017
Kiley‘s aim is to get people closer to and more trusting of their own voices, without judgment.
Rhonda Moore
September 15, 2017
What pulls on my heart is that they have something to say: How does one nurture commitment over time?
Patricia Graham
September 15, 2017
Athletic, high-octane dance makes room for surprising tenderness.
Whitney Weinstein
September 15, 2017
When is it acceptable for a woman to indulge in pleasure and celebrate her sexuality?
Whitney Weinstein
September 16, 2017
Life is extraordinary and magical.
Janna Meiring
September 17, 2017
We are all at once able to see the separate components and the totality of an elusively undefinable quotidian experience.
Rhonda Moore
September 17, 2017
A space writer, Mullins creates beautiful, ephemeral calligraphy.
Rhonda Moore
September 18, 2017
When do we ever encounter utter darkness? Hello, blackout.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 18, 2017
Chocolate is more complicated than any of us suspected.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 18, 2017
KITH explores kinship via the metaphor of stars pulled together by gravitational attraction.
Janna Meiring
September 18, 2017
Waves of rolling sonic oceans and oversized videos paint an internal world of experience.
Patricia Graham
September 20, 2017
Dancer and fabric artist Sarah Carr offers an interpretation of iconography found in Minoan archeological artifacts.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 21, 2017
Pig Iron’s epic, symphonic theater searches for meaning in extinction.
Julius Ferraro
September 23, 2017
We all grasped that we too could find these pitches within our chests, from our own lungs, through our very own breath.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 24, 2017
I read the piece as an elegy to lives lived beyond this space, lives without celebration or witness.
Kirsten Kaschock
September 24, 2017
A scope which ranges from myth to the colloquial present.
Julius Ferraro
September 25, 2017
This satire takes a step closer to horror, too uncomfortable to unwind in front of at 10pm.
Jenna Horton
September 26, 2017
The dancers play the bass notes abstractly in the air: the invisible substance becomes thick with gesture.
Anna Drozdowski
September 26, 2017
Joy, rage, freedom, and chains in nora chipaumire's latest dance.
Hannah Pearl
September 29, 2017
The museum is full of color and life, each room a reminder of the resilience and creativity of black women and girls.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
October 3, 2017
Burlesque is a late-night cocktail of athleticism, shaken with tease and plot.
Whitney Weinstein
October 11, 2017
How much of Silverman was in Really Rosie?
Gregory King
October 11, 2017
Constrained by our forever running out of time ... time to make sense of life before it lands irrevocably in the past tense.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 12, 2017
How do we watch performance from different cultures? What can we learn?
Lisa Kraus
October 14, 2017
In the realm of MEN--Olivier Tarpaga's dazzling work.
Carolyn Merritt
October 20, 2017
Maya roots her portrayal of Roma women in an ancient past.
Jonathan Stein
October 20, 2017
It felt exactly right that a choreographer should be the one to lead this discovery of virtual reality's promise.
Ellen Chenoweth
October 23, 2017
A sweaty, blissful finale brings home the power of Hip-Hop as a uniting force.
Sara Graybeal
October 28, 2017
Andrea Miller is the first ever Artist-in-Residence in dance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
November 9, 2017
When was the last time you actually had fun seeing the ballet?
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 12, 2017
A single burst of color across a backdrop of white sheets.
Kat J. Sullivan
November 18, 2017
Our 1st Prize Winner in the 2017 New Art Writing Challenge
Nicole Sonsini
November 29, 2017
The piece exposes its own process, inviting the viewer to ask what it means to do this work.
Kirsten Kaschock
December 1, 2017
Their bodies create a sense of enclosing dread, a weight that becomes too heavy without counter.
Jenna Horton
December 12, 2017
Hellmut and Brenda hold the stage as centers of calm, strength, and wisdom amid BalletX’s young virtuosi.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
December 13, 2017
Kosoko's shapeshifting performance summons and witnesses radical thinkers.
Thomas Choinacky
December 16, 2017
Lyons’ choreography sits over this duo’s relationship like an Instagram filter: they’re themselves, but a slightly different color.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
December 18, 2017
The questions remain: are you watching or doing, welcoming or rejecting, giving or taking?
Rhonda Moore
December 23, 2017
An open letter from Rick Snyderman to the board of the Painted Bride.
Rick Snyderman
December 27, 2017
Brown's choreography comes from a place of faith.
Rhonda Moore
December 29, 2017
Okpokwasili outshines everyone and everything else on stage; her performance is worth the price of admission.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
January 17, 2018
Reading and seeing at American Realness.
Thomas Choinacky
January 21, 2018
Some faces are unforgettable. Such a one is Arthur Mitchell's.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 29, 2018
There becomes a new entity of energy when you bring us all together, and we’re already an energized group.
Carolyn Merritt
February 1, 2018
The New York Public Library offers a kaleidoscopic symposium about the life of Jerome Robbins.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
February 4, 2018
We don't touch like we once did.
Julius Ferraro
February 8, 2018
The limited pop culture archetypes we as women are often stuck with.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
February 12, 2018
This exhilarating ride with Mark Morris begs for more returns to Philadelphia.
Jonathan Stein
February 13, 2018
Guest writer Megan Mazarick reflects on her PDP residency in Budapest.
Megan Mazarick
February 18, 2018
They featured mostly abstracted relationships represented in a haze of sinewy slicing, slithering, and sliding.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
February 25, 2018
Like Rethorst, Miller places one event after another without being precious about it.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
March 2, 2018
The Collective hosts the 5th Baltimore Dance Invitational
Andrew Sargus Klein
March 4, 2018
Transfixed to befuddled to captive to everything in between.
Carolyn Merritt
March 9, 2018
The corps was sharp as the jagged rocks framing the lake before which the swan flock fluttered, bowed, and posed. Truly impressive!
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 11, 2018
From revolutionaries to icons.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 21, 2018
An interview with Honji Wang and Sébastien Ramirez
Julius Ferraro
March 23, 2018
Petronio's company explores their lineage, staging new works up against Merce Cunningham's Signals.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
March 27, 2018
NextMove Dance presents Wang Ramirez Company's Monchichi.
Amelia Rose Estrada
March 28, 2018
"If you empty yourself of ego, you can go anywhere; you can cross all the borders.”
Toni Shapiro-Phim
April 1, 2018
Implicit and explicit narratives of displacement, turmoil, and fear.
Andrew Sargus Klein
April 2, 2018
Leah Stein's Studio Works series is a new opportunity for movement-based artists to show work in an informal setting.
Patricia Graham
April 6, 2018
How do we make it okay to say "no"?
Miryam Coppersmith
April 11, 2018
“The artist is always an irritant; the artist is always a disrupter.”
Kat J. Sullivan
April 15, 2018
I stay for the dancers, whose names the program doesn't mention but should.
Jenna Horton
April 15, 2018
"Ally" is an incredibly generous offering: an artist retrospective in the form of a collection of essays, photographs, collages.
Andrew Sargus Klein
April 24, 2018
Brown's vision of creating a space for black dancers, and their stories, has been realized.
Mohan Bell
April 25, 2018
A dialogue between Megan Bridge and Beau Hancock, on working with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson at Mad Brook Farm.
Beau Hancock
April 25, 2018
"Deeply Rooted is committed to supporting all in the company in living their truth."
Gregory King
April 26, 2018
This multilayered performance corresponds with the complex socio-political relationship between the United States and Cuba.
Barbora Příhodová
April 26, 2018
Writing and dancing with the Mighty Writers and thINKingDANCE
Lynn Matluck Brooks
April 28, 2018
"In Relate" is a solemn rumination hinting at something missing—from the performance, from myself, from elsewhere.
Andrew Sargus Klein
May 2, 2018
How often is internal light, passion, fire, inspiration, or heat ever confined to perfectly staggered, centrally aligned rows?
Amelia Rose Estrada
May 3, 2018
Two thINKingDANCE writers reflect on writers' workshops.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
May 4, 2018
Notions of labor and personhood emerged as crucial to both artists’ work.
Mira Treatman
May 8, 2018
I see their movement living in places far from here.
Maddie Hopfield
May 9, 2018
Classic modern dance aesthetics yet something new and Eastern European
Zornitsa Stoyanova
May 9, 2018
The small stages invited the audience into something personal and intimate.
Mohan Bell
May 10, 2018
In Bindler’s world, the aqueous is not tethered to the aesthetic qualities of smooth, slow, continuous, or sequential.
Maddie Hopfield
May 15, 2018
Gibson takes the question "What is ballet in the 21st century" back to form.
Miryam Coppersmith
May 16, 2018
Each time he hit fifth position, Ihde looked like he was home.
Mira Treatman
May 17, 2018
We see the dynamics of power shaped by historic narrative, social conventions, and our own unselfconscious playfulness.
Jonathan Stein
May 22, 2018
A performance focused on the “human experience in relation to architecture” which questioned “concepts of stability”
Andrew Sargus Klein
May 24, 2018
How do we reconcile our inevitable evolution and change with the thorny sociality that made (and still makes) possible our survival?
Carolyn Merritt
May 26, 2018
She unfurls her fingers, claps her hands, plants rhythms into the floor, and begins to sing.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
June 6, 2018
My audience is the whole wide world, because everybody understands action.
Mira Treatman
June 10, 2018
Falling back into destructive coping mechanisms
Kat J. Sullivan
June 18, 2018
In the early nineteenth century, melodrama threatened to push Shakespeare off U.S. stages.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 18, 2018
Collectively laughing at, listening to, dancing through, and all-in-all living in Taylor Mac’s performance-art marathon.
Maddie Hopfield
June 19, 2018
Each iteration can cultivate an entirely different experience.
Andrew Sargus Klein
June 21, 2018
Is that promotion or is that your work?
Kat J. Sullivan
June 22, 2018
I forget that I entered as an observer. I feel part of this ensemble of strangers.
Amelia Rose Estrada
June 24, 2018
I see the juxtaposition of the frustration a parent can feel toward their child and the utter fear that they might lose it all.
Maddie Hopfield
July 1, 2018
'Attention emerges from the sensing body--it is the body'
Kat J. Sullivan
July 9, 2018
It is simple, beautiful, even captivating, but I wonder again about progression.
Ama Ma'at Gora
July 12, 2018
This is not your run-of-the-mill dance show.
Thomas Choinacky
July 16, 2018
The question remains...
Zornitsa Stoyanova
July 18, 2018
Where she looked, we followed. In her stillness, she held our gaze.
Mira Treatman
July 25, 2018
People are usually interested in the outcome of the struggle. I am exposing the struggle.
Mohan Bell
July 26, 2018
The record skips again.
Thomas Choinacky
July 28, 2018
I want to get on the bottom floor and find out who the community is and what the interests are.
Barbora Příhodová
July 31, 2018
It could be a message from the future, prophecy of what’s to come.
Meredith Bove
August 2, 2018
"One of the things I do take pride in is the diversity that exists here."
Maddie Hopfield
August 8, 2018
You can access these Fringe pieces right on your smartphone.
Jenny Kessler
August 14, 2018
They can do anything, and they do a lot of it.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
August 15, 2018
A little help navigating the Fringe guide.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
August 16, 2018
Six must-see shows in this year's Fringe
Jonathan Stein
August 21, 2018
This ambitious collaboration was a skillful application of audience-accessible gilt.
Mira Treatman
August 23, 2018
Three improvisational pieces share vast, new worlds.
Thomas Choinacky
August 27, 2018
A conversation with Puerto Rican artist on the roots of her new work "Lacks Criticality."
Amelia Rose Estrada
September 4, 2018
"Unhinged" made clear how far we have to go to redirect the still-prevalent male gaze.
Thomas Choinacky
September 6, 2018
We are led into a dreamscape of an office.
Jenny Kessler
September 7, 2018
"Close Your Legs, Honey" may be the perfect show for starting your Fringe adventures.
Whitney Weinstein
September 9, 2018
Drag is self-expression. It’s limitless. Everything and nothing at the same time.
Whitney Weinstein
September 10, 2018
Presented Fringe show questions what it means to be "alive."
Barbora Příhodová
September 10, 2018
Bastion Carboni's A Vacation is a precipitous plunge into the vlogosphere.
Whitney Weinstein
September 11, 2018
Declaring it was time to do what she was trained not to do in her theater and dance education.
Mira Treatman
September 13, 2018
Kill Move Paradise is a powerful convening of black men’s voices.
Thomas Choinacky
September 13, 2018
Leah Stein has created a space for potential— allowing audience members to fashion their own associations with this movement and this site.
Thomas Choinacky
September 14, 2018
I found moments of synchronicity and pattern amidst the frenzy.
Kat J. Sullivan
September 15, 2018
A shift towards the personal/political tumbles into the all-too relatable.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 15, 2018
The body perceiving and holding death and grief
Janna Meiring
September 16, 2018
Anna Sokolow: no frills, no elaboration.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 16, 2018
In “Caen Amour,” we drink, move from front to back to front: go ahead, peep.
Jenna Horton
September 16, 2018
For the Digital Fringe, Sean Thomas Boyt has created "How To Dance," 54 “minimal dance scores.”
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
September 16, 2018
Eroticism, athleticism, and unconventional ingenuity.
Whitney Weinstein
September 17, 2018
A 50 minute, 2 ½ mile speedy excursion with brief stops in front of almost 20 iconic paintings.
Jonathan Stein
September 18, 2018
Wherever they are—one or the other—I want to be, I want to see. They carry me, as they carry one another.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 20, 2018
Houston-Jones and Gutierrez revive John Bernd's works.
Mira Treatman
September 20, 2018
This testimonial performance challenges staid notions, like what it means to be masculine, feminine, and beautiful.
Barbora Příhodová
September 22, 2018
Think line dance meets flash mob, and what do you get?
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
September 23, 2018
ear-whispered deals with the experiences of refugees and martyrs and implicate audiences in their stories.
Nicole Bindler
September 23, 2018
Immediately I was thrown into energetic chaos...
Maddie Hopfield
September 23, 2018
What if you had lots of talent, fame, friends, faves, ideas, and money to play with—and you threw it all into a work you label “opera”?
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 24, 2018
Throughout manger the dancers will keep eating paper.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 24, 2018
A social-justice movement can only succeed if it constantly recalls its roots and pays homage to those who paved the way.
Preeti Pathak
September 24, 2018
A mix that satisfies an urban sensibility with the flavors of an old-school slumber party.
Janna Meiring
September 24, 2018
The thavil beats in unison with my breath and heart.
Preeti Pathak
September 24, 2018
Each audience member was guided by an “angel.”
Mira Treatman
September 26, 2018
I am most taken by the moments of awkward beauty.
Amelia Rose Estrada
September 29, 2018
How to Clean a Window is a sensual memoryscape, an ASMR heaven consisting of Yixuan Pan’s voice, lightly echoing...
Maddie Hopfield
October 1, 2018
The cast was attentive to sustaining their characters, even out of the limelight.
Whitney Weinstein
October 3, 2018
A symbol of feminine power, Oya represents both obliteration and, in its wake, renewal.
Carolyn Merritt
October 5, 2018
Gorgeous colors, choreography, and emotional complexity at Pennsylvania Ballet.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 14, 2018
Whitney Weinstein talks with Megan Mizanty about the "disposable woman".
Whitney Weinstein
October 16, 2018
Leighton has provocatively shaped a room that forces me into conflict.
Thomas Choinacky
October 17, 2018
Shoes are not allowed. Crawling, burping, and being are.
Jenna Horton
October 22, 2018
Highlighting issues like sexual assault and eating disorders contributed to the complexity of the characters.
Whitney Weinstein
October 23, 2018
A virtuoso dancer, fine actor and deeply versed historian, Hazebroucq's baroque dancing thrilled.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 25, 2018
A danced conversation between Margaret Mead and James Baldwin.
Miryam Coppersmith
October 27, 2018
'Freedom is not on Facebook. Get off fucking Instagram. True liberation is a process of deep work.'
Carolyn Merritt
October 29, 2018
A small army of rambunctious revelers attacked the square from four approaches.
Jonathan Stein
October 30, 2018
Philadelphia’s Gritty is a new classic, the jawn of all jawns.
Mira Treatman
October 31, 2018
Moments of stunning vulnerability took my breath away.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
November 11, 2018
Six tD writers report on the elements of the moving museum that moved them.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
November 14, 2018
Three solo works move through contemporary notions of gender, pain, and the body.
Megan Bridge
November 15, 2018
Unlike anything I have seen or experienced before.
Thomas Choinacky
November 25, 2018
"Come Together" left me wondering about the amorphous amalgam that is contemporary dance in the United States.
Maddie Hopfield
November 28, 2018
A new book review on "Group Motion in Practice: Collective Creation through Dance Movement Improvisation."
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
December 4, 2018
This documentary breaks down barriers and opens the door to those left out of the performing arts.
Preeti Pathak
December 4, 2018
I found the work to be pre-digested to the point of blandness.
Kat J. Sullivan
December 14, 2018
The space is awash in exhalations often culturally linked to sex or violence. The animal body. The body as energy.
Maddie Hopfield
December 18, 2018
Through the night of differing choreographic tastes, it is PHILADANCO’s dancers that shine.
Miryam Coppersmith
December 19, 2018
This duality between divulging and concealing feels fascinating rather than alienating.
Kat J. Sullivan
January 6, 2019
Instead of desperately in love, Romeo reads as an entitled paradigm of toxic masculinity.
Miryam Coppersmith
January 21, 2019
Reggie Wilson's work creates a sense of communal solidarity and strength for a complicated future.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
January 23, 2019
The patterns and places of synchronicity gave the evening a sense of unity.
Kat J. Sullivan
January 25, 2019
I'm grateful for attempts to connect that feel substantial and authentic.
Ellen Chenoweth
January 29, 2019
With a sense of familiarity and surprise, I feel I’m in Cuba for the first time.
Marion Ramírez
January 30, 2019
A review of partnership and performance: "yes, this is she" is quirky, funny, kinetic, kooky. The piece came out of a year-long residency at Urban Movement Arts.
Preeti Pathak
February 4, 2019
The performers’ camaraderie gives the evening the overall feel of an album rather than a collection of disparate singles.
Maddie Hopfield
February 4, 2019
I want to crack people open.
Barbora Příhodová
February 5, 2019
DanceAbility is a contemporary improvisation dance practice that is totally inclusive.
Jonathan Stein
February 6, 2019
Scratch Night: a quality experience, with an audience breathlessly uncertain about what's next.
Jenny Kessler
February 7, 2019
What does it mean to stand in the aftermath of a paradigm shift?
Maddie Hopfield
February 12, 2019
This is one of Peter Redgrave's strongest works to date.
Andrew Sargus Klein
February 17, 2019
Each artist explores the presence and impact that humans make on, with, and beyond the earth.
Janna Meiring
February 22, 2019
How do African-Americans live with and confront their own legacy, pain and joy?
Jenna Horton
February 22, 2019
Struggle is sewn through these responses to the nonagenarian Martha Graham Dance Company.
Jonathan Stein
February 24, 2019
The cast performs to their fullest extent. Individual iconic movements jump out in the combinations.
Mira Treatman
February 24, 2019
Former Editor-in-Chief announces new tD leadership and reflects on the organization.
Julius Ferraro
March 6, 2019
A fascinating discourse between two master choreographers of different generations.
Jonathan Stein
March 6, 2019
Dance Theatre of Harlem speaks, body and soul, to an eager audience.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 7, 2019
I reconnected momentarily with that freedom of youth, luxury of time, ease of relationship.
Carolyn Merritt
March 7, 2019
“Did you feel like you went somewhere?”
Miryam Coppersmith
March 8, 2019
A powerhouse performance revealing a delicious delicacy, shy but impassioned.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 9, 2019
Miro Magloire and Ursula Mamlok in intimate dance-music conversation.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 14, 2019
This is what dance can be, choreographer Nicolo Fonte seems to say, and isn’t it glorious?
Miryam Coppersmith
March 20, 2019
PAFA breaks new ground by bringing dance into the museum walls.
Preeti Pathak
March 22, 2019
The dancers give their all, and they clearly enjoy themselves.
Carolyn Merritt
March 23, 2019
Intimate, in-the-round theater where people allow themselves to be affected by and involved in the work.
Kat J. Sullivan
March 23, 2019
The theatre a uterus, the actors fetuses.
Mira Treatman
March 25, 2019
“Goodbye, my friends, goodbye.”
Maddie Hopfield
March 30, 2019
Director Nataki Garrett’s vision strikingly translates this well-written script into an engaging work of art.
Amelia Rose Estrada
April 6, 2019
"My connection to each work that I have made is deeply personal."
Amelia Rose Estrada
April 13, 2019
They bowed together as choreographer and muse but undoubtedly without the violence.
Mira Treatman
April 15, 2019
Authors envision curating as based on the ethics of care, and a call for 'democratizing curation'
Barbora Příhodová
April 19, 2019
Sin Salida posits dance as a metaphorical map for human relations
Carolyn Merritt
April 19, 2019
It’s not a yoga blanket, it’s a serape!
Mira Treatman
April 29, 2019
If Soul Steps’ goal was full-bodied audience education, I consider the task accomplished.
Maddie Hopfield
May 4, 2019
When the work behind the scenes is as brilliant as the work on the stage.
Ellen Chenoweth
May 7, 2019
"When all that matters is the dance and the music, and the ability to create connections with one person after another."
Carolyn Merritt
May 14, 2019
"I am Lindsay, a performing artist, and my artwork is an expression of movement."
Kalila Kingsford Smith
May 18, 2019
Subcircle celebrates 20 years of interdisciplinary, collaborative art-making.
Thomas Choinacky
May 20, 2019
thINKingDANCE and Mighty Writers, together with local artists, bring new dance and writing programming to students.
Barbora Příhodová
May 22, 2019
Kerbel and Grinberg are clearly meant to be dance partners.
Mira Treatman
May 23, 2019
JUNKSPACE moves deftly with deference to and camaraderie with the building's space.
Kat J. Sullivan
May 24, 2019
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andy Blankenbuehler present a Fosse retrospective.
Mira Treatman
May 28, 2019
I watch their pelvises shift and gyrate, thinking of the intestines beneath.
Maddie Hopfield
May 28, 2019
Grounds that Shout! continues Reggie Wilson’s research into sacred spaces, ecstatic movement, and African diasporic experience.
Jenna Horton
June 5, 2019
“My work is really based in an aesthetic of listening…it is really the underpinning of the whole thing.”
Janna Meiring
June 6, 2019
Koulman’s fine group of artists splashed balletic bravura across the footlights.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 10, 2019
Sincerity is a slippery thing to script.
Miryam Coppersmith
June 14, 2019
The Sentient Archive focuses on the generation of movement and the person within and through whom the movement exists.
Andrew Sargus Klein
June 20, 2019
Jennifer Fisher's new book, a memoir-as-ethnographic study
Lynn Matluck Brooks
June 22, 2019
It makes sense somehow, as postmodern gumbo usually does.
Mira Treatman
July 5, 2019
Featuring works both improvised and composed, the performance asks me to bring my attention to time and to space.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
July 9, 2019
Like a sculptor aiming for a semblance of life, the author adjusts her sights beyond the facts, on Marie Van Goethem’s soul.
Carolyn Merritt
July 9, 2019
This musical brings light to the 2009 “Kids for Cash” scandal in Luzerne County, PA.
Preeti Pathak
July 21, 2019
Morisseau, a Tony Award nominee and MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, writes with poetic clarity.
Kat J. Sullivan
July 23, 2019
Throwing the dancer into the unexpected, to routes in the body that haven’t been traveled.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
July 25, 2019
When Cat announces that time is up and the piece is over, we scoot our chairs in further, hungry to keep the conversation going.
Maddie Hopfield
July 30, 2019
The cast returns for bows. Ayewa is beaming. They went to war, they have their drums.
Mira Treatman
July 31, 2019
The audience at Clark Park went all the way with the old King, to the tragic end.
Barbora Příhodová
August 1, 2019
A Review of Moving Otherwise: Dance, Violence, and Memory in Buenos Aires.
Amelia Rose Estrada
August 8, 2019
Assumptions can be so juicy.
Kat J. Sullivan
August 13, 2019
Philadelphia’s independent dance artists deserve some love.
Kat J. Sullivan
August 20, 2019
Dance, spoken word, acrobatics, and sound reveal the pain, melancholy, and humor of witnessing and experiencing illness.
Amelia Rose Estrada
September 2, 2019
This play between 2D and 3D creates delight throughout the show.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 6, 2019
A wildly physical Theater of the Absurd that revels in the scatological and the hyperbolic.
Jonathan Stein
September 6, 2019
Sneakers grapples with loss on several levels, interweaving personal grief and the objectification of art.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 7, 2019
Ruminating on the depth and color of human and creatures' experience.
Janna Meiring
September 8, 2019
“Come Back, Little Sheba” is realistic, sad, funny, and beautifully situated in the Bethany Mission Gallery.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
September 8, 2019
“Let's turn this suck into a success.”
Mira Treatman
September 9, 2019
The ensemble marched in time to “Do you hear my cell phone ring?”
Whitney Weinstein
September 10, 2019
Warned of extreme gore, I also discover in BASEMENT a man struggling to cope with a deeply complex love story.
Whitney Weinstein
September 12, 2019
“Dumpster Dance”: The evening only got weirder.
Kat J. Sullivan
September 12, 2019
Though I have seen this dance on film before, my mouth still drops open.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 13, 2019
To see children play is to understand the balance between structure and whimsy.
Carolyn Merritt
September 13, 2019
The Miseducation of Generation Never is a multi-disciplinary journey through the digital age created and told by teens.
Preeti Pathak
September 14, 2019
Horton zigzags her audience beyond the façade of this country’s first capital.
Thomas Choinacky
September 14, 2019
"Superterranean" hypnotizes with a wordless, surreal stage meditation.
Barbora Příhodová
September 14, 2019
“Do you believe in love? ‘Cause I got something to say about it,” Gutierrez asks.
Maddie Hopfield
September 15, 2019
People migrate. Sometimes by choice but often by force, be it war, climate change, oppression, or violence.
Amelia Rose Estrada
September 15, 2019
Linking the spectacle of circus in all its forms to human fragility and risk.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
September 16, 2019
Dancers expansively eat up space through inventive spiraling, never languishing energetically.
Mira Treatman
September 17, 2019
Dance audiences got a taste of four different Fringe shows at a preview showcase at the Performance Garage.
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
September 19, 2019
The show radiates the love and care poured into it.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 19, 2019
Leah Stein and Asimina Chremos illuminate Philly’s vibrancy of social interaction.
Zornitsa Stoyanova
September 19, 2019
Between the curtains of words, I catch a few mesmerizing moments.
Janna Meiring
September 20, 2019
“Un Poyo Rojo”: a different kind of locker room talk.
Kat J. Sullivan
September 20, 2019
A journey through a complicated heritage, punctuating sorrows and joys with embodied expression.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 20, 2019
Proceed With Caution reminds me that bodies are soft, mortal.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 22, 2019
At Murder & Booze Cabaret, I traveled back to the time of Prohibition.
Whitney Weinstein
September 22, 2019
I stepped closer to listen in on whispered conversations.
Whitney Weinstein
September 23, 2019
You are Not a Shining Star: "weird but not boring."
Miryam Coppersmith
September 25, 2019
Leah Stein Dance Company captures the beauty and ambiguity of staged realism in Close to Home.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 26, 2019
The epic two-hour escape provided ever more evidence of U.S. pissing contests.
Mira Treatman
October 4, 2019
I find myself puzzling out Trisha Brown’s strategies, asking questions, making discoveries.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 6, 2019
The easy alignment of the joints, so quintessentially Trisha Brown, dangles unadorned above Center City.
Maddie Hopfield
October 7, 2019
PMA’s Friday Remix offered circus, poetry, dance, and music, capped off by a DJ-driven dance party.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
October 14, 2019
Jones, standing behind the podium, echoes Garner’s words, and I can feel the air being sucked from the room.
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
October 17, 2019
Perhaps, in a true analogy to a school, I left feeling unsure that I’d learned anything new at all.
Kat J. Sullivan
October 18, 2019
The art making is on the surface and the deeper layer is that we all investigate who we are.
Amelia Rose Estrada
October 19, 2019
Traveling performance like this mobilizes and conjures the LGBTQIA+ community of each city it’s in.
Maddie Hopfield
October 22, 2019
Pennsylvania Ballet offers glimmering conceptions of Spain in a series of paintings come to life.
Colin Murray
October 22, 2019
The dance was an offering, a quiet conversation from the dancer to the divine.
Anito Gavino
October 23, 2019
Stars of American Ballet presented a chef’s tasting menu of ballet, with New York City Ballet’s Daniel Ulbricht behind the stove.
Christina Catanese
October 25, 2019
A tribute, a parody, and a look into the past through the lens of ZeroMoving.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
October 26, 2019
Violence, friendship, dreams and celebration at Temple Dance Alumni Showcase.
Kristen Shahverdian
October 28, 2019
In THE DAY, four artists meditate on loss.
Emma Cohen
October 31, 2019
"A Small Fire" haunts long after its final scene
Kristi Yeung
October 31, 2019
Nicole Bindler’s belly button makes a case for invagination.
Leslie Bush
November 2, 2019
The Outlet Dance Project celebrates its 15th year with an extraordinary lineup.
Andrew Sargus Klein
November 2, 2019
Inciting pain and laughter in alternation, "Raise Your Voice/Maybe Even Higher" is at once disturbing and uplifting.
Colin Murray
November 3, 2019
"The Little Prince" is known for illuminating varying sides of human character, BalletX only succeeds in bringing a few of them to light.
Whitney Weinstein
November 7, 2019
Anissa Weinraub’s Philly Education Stories explore strengthening Philadelphia’s school communities through devised theater.
Preeti Pathak
November 7, 2019
The first installation in a series of community reflections on the history, impact and future of Mascher.
Anna Drozdowski
November 12, 2019
Philly A|V collective brings performance and experimental media together.
Leslie Bush
November 15, 2019
Come as You Are: Sublime Movement Workshop taught the basics of voguing and dancing to express yourself.
Kristi Yeung
November 18, 2019
Cardell Dance Theater successfully illustrates immigrant journeys, simultaneously humanizing migrant bodies.
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
November 18, 2019
Pennsylvania Ballet’s World Premieres showcases three new atmospheric works.
Colin Murray
November 20, 2019
I feel very validated by the concept that ‘to curate’ literally originates from the Latin root ‘to care.’
Maddie Hopfield
November 20, 2019
Annie-B Parson’s recent book weaves the detritus of past performances into a newly generative artifact.
Emma Cohen
November 23, 2019
Performative lecture calls for black liberation.
Barbora Příhodová
November 25, 2019
Miss Martha Hill, a little-known powerhouse behind the scenes of modern dance, makes dance matter in Greg Vander Veer’s film.
Kristen Shahverdian
November 25, 2019
These artists investigate how Black individuals center justice in their work, and by doing so, commit to locating and living in liberation.
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
December 5, 2019
Amid syncopated contemporary dance, Haun’s Chicago-based company offers a welcome respite of non-narrative, sculptural lines.
Kat J. Sullivan
December 6, 2019
"Because I'm me…": Morris is very much himself in his new wide-ranging memoir.
Christina Catanese
December 9, 2019
Works like Fleming’s inspire me to use art as a tool for protest.
Anito Gavino
December 9, 2019
A Nutcracker-alternative, holiday-inspired dance, perfect for anyone who has ever felt isolated by holiday cheer.
Christina Catanese
December 12, 2019
A Christmas Panto created a community for an afternoon and a chance to celebrate each other.
Kristen Shahverdian
December 13, 2019
A collection of Alvin Ailey photographs is made available to the public for the first time.
Emma Cohen
December 27, 2019
Quintessence Theatre’s imagining ends without closure.
Kat J. Sullivan
December 30, 2019
The 50-year celebration for Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble commences.
Janna Meiring
January 3, 2020
The intrepid playwright/performer delivers on his promise of a One-Man Nutcracker.
Mira Treatman
January 6, 2020
An unexpected look at gun control in a dizzying array of linguistic sleight of hand.
Mieke D
January 8, 2020
People, yes; funding, no.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
January 9, 2020
A relaxed, adaptive performance atmosphere for the holiday classic raises important questions about arts accessibility.
Christina Catanese
January 9, 2020
Polish performers cross-pollinate with local dancer Zornitsa Stoyanova
Kat J. Sullivan
January 10, 2020
If SEX TAPE was turned away from the lens, in Nuptial Blitz Revlock reveled in performing for the camera.
Emma Cohen
January 13, 2020
A scrappy, intimate staging of Hamlet at the Seaport Museum next to the Delaware River
Christina Catanese
January 19, 2020
A 3D film of Cunningham’s life provides a texturally rich environment in which viewers can dwell.
Emma Cohen
January 19, 2020
A teenager's astonishing contribution to the national discussion about gun control
Barbora Příhodová
January 20, 2020
Yoruba in Philadelphia
Anito Gavino
January 21, 2020
A book of prose by Steve Paxton that could be mistaken for a collection of poetry.
Andrew Sargus Klein
January 21, 2020
The personal and the political braid together working with Ananya Dance Theatre.
Mariadela Belle Alvarez
January 22, 2020
At the showcase hosted by Nickerson-Rossi Dance, the audience voted for a winner.
Kristi Yeung
January 24, 2020
The Rocky Awards return to honor and celebrate dance in Philadelphia.
Kristen Shahverdian
January 24, 2020
tD interview reveals Cardell movement collaboration with Zizka at Wilma Theater.
Jonathan Stein
January 28, 2020
“Two Short Dances” is an adventurous inaugural show at Mascher’s new space.
Leslie Bush
January 28, 2020
Appreciating a modern dance icon as his company moves into a new era.
Christina Catanese
January 29, 2020
Character work shines in this devised, absurdist take on reality dating shows.
Miryam Coppersmith
January 30, 2020
The show is a master class in integration.
Carolyn Merritt
February 1, 2020
“Philadelphia dance communities with an ‘S’” at the Rocky’s revival.
Maddie Hopfield
February 4, 2020
Mark Franko proposes an original theory of French balletic neoclassicism of the interwar period.
Colin Murray
February 6, 2020
A funny and fierce production of Man of God featuring an all-Asian cast.
Kristi Yeung
February 7, 2020
Do you believe in the future?
Kat J. Sullivan
February 8, 2020
In the whirling excitement of Friday Remix, Nicole Bindler takes us on a thoughtful journey of quiet reflection.
Preeti Pathak
February 10, 2020
Grey Rock offers us a window into the facets of Palestinian society at war with itself.
Nicole Bindler
February 11, 2020
Today, I conclude what black dance is to me.
Anito Gavino
February 12, 2020
Is fiction in the eye of the beholder?
Kat J. Sullivan
February 12, 2020
"I love being a beginner."
Mira Treatman
February 13, 2020
An opportunity to laugh at disturbing issues.
Colin Murray
February 13, 2020
The latest film from acclaimed artist Matthew Barney is beautiful, boring, yet subtly transformative.
Kristi Yeung
February 13, 2020
The musician’s eyes are fixed on the dancer; he stalks Wiles like a lion.
Maddie Hopfield
February 14, 2020
A duet with oneself, physical and virtual.
Jonathan Stein
February 25, 2020
Why do we attach to things that hurt us?
Emma Cohen
February 25, 2020
An intergenerational examination of home.
Leslie Bush
February 29, 2020
Babel explores government intervention in reproductive policy as a strategy for survival.
Carolyn Merritt
March 1, 2020
The setup amplified each artist's response to the current state of the world.
Janna Meiring
March 10, 2020
PAB’s production of La Bayadère stimulates reflection on cultural appropriation.
Colin Murray
March 12, 2020
At last, a full-length biography of Marius Petipa.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
March 14, 2020
Seven tiny takes, by tD authors and friends, on da Corte’s re-interpretation of Kaprow’s “Chicken.”
Jonathan Stein
March 15, 2020
Dance goes digital during the COVID-19 pandemic
Kristi Yeung
March 21, 2020
How does the body reflect or reject the meaning of language?
Kristen Shahverdian
March 22, 2020
Ohad Naharin’s movement practice, offered online for the first time, is uniquely suited to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Christina Catanese
April 3, 2020
Grieving a performance amidst immeasurable international loss.
Mira Treatman
April 3, 2020
Inventing new ways of being alive together.
Nicole Bindler
April 9, 2020
The Lady Hoofers keep tap alive in yet one more time of struggle.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
April 12, 2020
A deep dive into a dance form built on connection in the time of Covid-19.
Carolyn Merritt
April 14, 2020
Individuals find creative ways to spur financial gifts.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 15, 2020
Room/Roof Piece parses notions of distance and closeness, ideas that are more tangible now than ever.
Kat J. Sullivan
April 17, 2020
Submit an image to our dancing in confinement photo essay series.
Carolyn Merritt
April 17, 2020
There is a resurgence, an awakening of people paying attention to screendance now.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
April 17, 2020
How can we protect our joy, however fleeting, right now?
Nicole Bindler
April 18, 2020
Melissa Klapper’s new book offers a social history of ballet class in the United States.
Emma Cohen
April 19, 2020
Diving into motion, frame by frame.
Lynn Matluck Brooks
April 19, 2020
A dance studio in Rittenhouse Square adapts for social distancing.
Kristi Yeung
April 26, 2020
Remarks and meditations on Slowness.
Emma Cohen
May 1, 2020
Entering week seven of quarantine, I forage my city for something recognizable.
Nicole Bindler
May 10, 2020
'The intangible magic of dance has paused...as artists we always find a way.'
Maddie Hopfield
May 11, 2020
First in a series of reader submissions to our call for images of dancing in confinement
Christina Catanese
May 14, 2020
Dance Artists’ National Collective envisions a future with safe, equitable, and sustainable working conditions for freelance dancers.
Emma Cohen
May 15, 2020
What we learn from this time will carry us forward.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
May 18, 2020
Second in a series of reader submissions to our call for images of dancing in confinement.
Christina Catanese
May 21, 2020
Third in a series of reader submissions to our call for images of dancing in confinement.
Christina Catanese
May 28, 2020
Nancy danced in her body and in her words.
K.J. Holmes
June 1, 2020
Teaching us to embrace the unknown and not to take ourselves too seriously.
Jonathan Stein
June 1, 2020
Nancy’s legacy is to show us a different way to make art.
Jonathan Stein
June 1, 2020
Final edition in our series of reader submissions
Christina Catanese
June 5, 2020
When you find yourself in the horizontal laboratory, as Mary would say, you find that you coexist with everything and everyone.
Miryam Coppersmith
June 5, 2020
A discussion with five artists influenced by Mary Overlie.
Miryam Coppersmith
June 9, 2020
TikTok has produced a thoroughly postmodern dance technique.
Emma Cohen
June 11, 2020
Phil Chan’s book equips readers to speak out about ethnic stereotypes in ballet.
Kristi Yeung
June 12, 2020
You must say something, and after that you must do something.
Gregory King
June 12, 2020
“if there’s anything I want to share, it would be the sound of glass being smashed.”
Miryam Coppersmith
June 15, 2020
The Dance Union Town Hall for Collective Action was more than a forum for people to vent their rage and frustration.
Darcy Grabenstein
June 17, 2020
BREAK/ROOM Conversations try to get our field to new places.
Ellen Chenoweth
June 20, 2020
Rena Butler’s “The Under Way” stands out for connecting the Underground Railroad and BLM Movement.
Kristi Yeung
June 21, 2020
No more! We cannot stand for this anymore.
Mira Treatman
June 22, 2020
We should do a cultural audit and make it just as rigorous as a financial audit in order for us to get grant funds.
Mira Treatman
June 26, 2020
At a moment when those narratives of Black death were all on stage, we came in and it was just about love and tenderness.
Mira Treatman
June 26, 2020
While tango dancers wait to embrace again, this collective pause offers time and space.
Carolyn Merritt
June 26, 2020
Dr. Halifu Osumare’s memoir weaves personal stories together with histories of Black dance.
Leslie Bush
June 30, 2020
H’Doubler didn’t teach from a codified movement technique, and valued improvisation and discovery above all.
Eleanor Goudie-Averill
July 4, 2020
Performances infused with the reflection and thoughtfulness of lived experience
Rhonda Moore
July 13, 2020
Resmaa Menakem's "My Grandmother’s Hands" addresses racialized trauma through somatic practice
Emma Cohen
July 18, 2020
"I keep telling people I have 'founder’s disease.' I am always starting things."
Kat J. Sullivan
July 22, 2020
Are decentralized, virtual arts organizations the wave of the future?
Maddie Hopfield
July 30, 2020
Does walking through space change our definition of the body?
Kristen Shahverdian
August 7, 2020
Words, not poetry. Experiment, not choreography. Expression, not dance.
Darcy Grabenstein
August 12, 2020
Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.
Gregory King
August 14, 2020
Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.
Gregory King
August 21, 2020
Dance institutions cannot uphold a culture of secrecy that tolerates and protects abusers.
Gregory King
August 22, 2020
I use my nostalgia as a map for where I need to go.
Nicole Bindler
August 29, 2020
As the economic toll of the pandemic crashes like a wave over the city’s artistic network, smaller studios are being swept out to sea.
Kat J. Sullivan
August 30, 2020
Five writers from the "Dance Criticism and Aesthetics" summer course share their insights.
Gregory King
August 31, 2020
A legacy resisting if not outright rejecting formal documentation.
Andrew Sargus Klein
September 1, 2020
Considering the 'politics of gender in motion' in drag performance
Leila Mire
September 7, 2020
In Looks Like Sounds Like, you may wonder whether there’s more to it than meets the eye—and ear.
Darcy Grabenstein
September 10, 2020
In a sprawling collage of video, text, and audio, Legal Tender includes pieces of its process and past lives.
Andrew Sargus Klein
September 11, 2020
The African dance and drum ensemble celebrates 50 years in Philadelphia with a new film at the BlackStar Film Festival
Christina Catanese
September 11, 2020
Death was able to somehow remind me of everyone I’ve ever lost, through her simple gestures and dream-like presence.
Nicole Bindler
September 12, 2020
Experimenting with live performance during the pandemic, and using its limitations to inform the work.
Jonathan Stein
September 12, 2020
Storytelling and Jewish tradition in an interactive memorial ceremony for people of all faiths (or no faith)
Darcy Grabenstein
September 12, 2020
Gordon crafted a moving collage based on a full artistic lifetime, including past and present footage, music, photos, and text.
Lisa Kraus
September 16, 2020
Dawn States Company investigates the possibilities of accessibility and inclusivity for Fringe.
Christina Catanese
September 17, 2020
With surprising Zoom intimacy, Nichole Canuso and collaborators explore stories of people, their places, and their things.
Christina Catanese
September 19, 2020
A treasure hunt's discovery of dance films.
Leslie Bush
September 19, 2020
The two have admired each other from afar for years, and have finally, in the oddest of Fringe seasons, come together.
Maddie Hopfield
September 22, 2020
Aesthetic and cultural debates spurred by midcentury international performances
Darcy Grabenstein
September 22, 2020
Pandemic-mediated reflections on the book And Then We Danced
Kristi Yeung
September 23, 2020
A film of technonatural angst, TrashBot uses myth to approach an understanding of our scrambled modern bodies.
Christina Catanese
September 25, 2020
How to thrive in your body when the world pauses in uncertainty.
Whitney Weinstein
September 27, 2020
Take It Away Dance joins with The Jazz Tap Quintet for an afternoon of tap and music.
Whitney Weinstein
September 28, 2020
I still find myself waiting for it: when do the taiko and the dance come together?
Maddie Hopfield
September 29, 2020
What would normally be touch now looks like hands absorbing one another.
Kristen Shahverdian
September 30, 2020
The performers break down the barriers of inequality, highlighting our shared humanity.
Anito Gavino
October 1, 2020
Aquifer of the Ducts, a meditative sound and colorscape with a single dancing figure, invites viewers to drop deeper
Christina Catanese
October 1, 2020
The shape-shifting American Chameleon navigates grief with care.
Emma Cohen
October 2, 2020
Can't travel? Try a 'vicurious' theater trip.
Kristen Shahverdian
October 3, 2020
Flamenco company Pasión y Arte turns to sevillana to stay connected.
Kristi Yeung
October 5, 2020
Though physically distant, the video reflects their feelings of closeness, as if daydreaming in synchrony.
Whitney Weinstein
October 6, 2020
Given the reckoning around race and the recent #MeToo movement, I expected more response from dance leaders and dancers.
Kristen Shahverdian
October 7, 2020
Pam Tanowitz takes advantage of an audience-free Annenberg Center to stage dances in new spaces.
Christina Catanese
October 20, 2020
Seventy dancers celebrate Jasper Johns on a virtual platform—a true and gorgeous example of the new alone-together normal.
Emilee Lord
October 20, 2020
Up close and personal with artists Olivier Tarpaga and Jasmine Hearn, who pull back the curtain on their unique stories.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 22, 2020
The visual and auditory trails of 2020 are everywhere all at once.
Maddie Hopfield
October 29, 2020
Learning the twists and turns of a folk dance and finding commonalities in Filipino culture.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 29, 2020
Wouldn’t it be great if you could place a call and have all your problems solved?
Darcy Grabenstein
November 1, 2020
Three performances re-imagine public space at Cherry Street Pier.
Leslie Bush
November 2, 2020
Philadanco’s livestream performance touched on painfully timely themes.
Christina Catanese
November 5, 2020
What do writers do during the pandemic? They take online writing workshops, of course.
Darcy Grabenstein
November 9, 2020
Screendance is an emerging and evolving art form, a pas de deux of camera work and choreography.
Anito Gavino
November 15, 2020
A film captures the complex globalization of hula dance in Tokyo.
Leila Mire
November 16, 2020
Ariel Rivka Dance’s virtual premiere captures what it means to truly break free.
Darcy Grabenstein
November 22, 2020
In the new book Dance We Do, the line between language and movement is erased
Emma Cohen
November 23, 2020
Flamenco is how Hevia y Vaca has “made sense of the world.”
Kristen Shahverdian
November 23, 2020
Juniper Productions' MUSICALS WITH FRIENDS mixes up musical theatre, laughing, and polls
Whitney Weinstein
November 24, 2020
When is a place another dancer? When is it a hazy backdrop? When is it trying to tell you something?
Christina Catanese
November 25, 2020
The film Aviva features dancers in its experimental representations of gender.
Kristi Yeung
November 29, 2020
"I want it fresh, like when you open a mango."
Maddie Hopfield
December 3, 2020
When you think about how the use of language itself is scripted from our corporeal presence, reading through this collection is to experience the body.
Emilee Lord
December 10, 2020
Wendy Perron explores the Grand Union’s six years of anarchism from the inside.
Leslie Bush
December 10, 2020
What does it mean to dance for a home?
Kristen Shahverdian
December 11, 2020
"Why can't I find a reflection of myself anywhere I look?" -Joseph Ahmed
Anito Gavino
December 14, 2020
An interview with Final Bow for Yellowface co-founder Phil Chan about their upcoming Mystery Nutcracker Theater
Kristi Yeung
December 18, 2020
An all women tap ensemble brings a holiday favorite to your home.
Emilee Lord
December 20, 2020
What’s social justice got to do with French impressionism?
Darcy Grabenstein
December 23, 2020
Attention writers, directors, producers, choreographers, and casting directors: these narratives must be resisted.
Gregory King
December 27, 2020
Film grant propels hip hop artist from stage to street, breaking to biking.
Darcy Grabenstein
January 5, 2021
Jingle Jangle radiates Blackness; Black families, Black aspirations, Black skepticism, Black community, and Black magic.
Gregory King
January 5, 2021
Judith Hamera reminds readers that “enough” is just an illusion.
Leila Mire
January 14, 2021
Caitlin Green's CG Choreography meets a high bar for dance content on IGTV.
Emilee Lord
January 18, 2021
From jazz to Joffrey to Jingle Jangle, films that can help weather the pandemic.
Ellen Chenoweth
January 22, 2021
the figure is more spirit embodied than the body of a Black woman accessing spirit.
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
February 7, 2021
how do you practice freedom? be with your desires. dare to dream.
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
February 7, 2021
Last Audience speaks to this time where past and present are exposed. How will we move into the future?
Kristen Shahverdian
February 12, 2021
Philly youth find a creative outlet through ArtWell’s in-school programs.
Darcy Grabenstein
February 14, 2021
The Philly dance community rallies to help the owners of Dancewear On Broad, hit hard by the pandemic.
Darcy Grabenstein
February 15, 2021
Rourou Ye and Southeast of Rain fuse contemporary and traditional Chinese forms in a transportive new work.
Kristi Yeung
February 20, 2021
A rare dance-film achievement, and a gift that remote can become together.
Jonathan Stein
February 21, 2021
Butoh explained through science in Vangeline’s Butoh: Cradling Empty Space
Leslie Bush
February 23, 2021
A conversation with Anh Vo about their new work, BABYLIFT.
Emma Cohen
February 23, 2021
A text that reflects on practice, intention, ritual, community care, and the trauma of the world we live in.
Emilee Lord
February 24, 2021
Theatre Exile’s Sin Eaters is a psychological thriller peppered with satire, a film noir for our times.
Kristen Shahverdian
February 27, 2021
Just as we become acquainted with a new being, Ra switches them up on us.
Maddie Hopfield
March 7, 2021
Eva is determined to turn her dance dreams into reality.
Darcy Grabenstein
March 18, 2021
From her hometown of Sofia, Bulgaria, Stoyanova led an international group of dancers through her improvisational practice.
Emilee Lord
March 19, 2021
First in a series of video conversations in collaboration with Philadelphia-area artists on the Disability Spectrum.
Kenwyn Samuel
March 24, 2021
Her dance journey from Baltimore to New Orleans to Senegal showed her burning desire to trace her own lineage.
Anito Gavino
March 25, 2021
For POC dancers, “success” in elite institutions demands compliance above all else.
Leila Mire
March 26, 2021
I realize that being in a community takes practice, and I am out of practice.
Nicole Bindler
March 29, 2021
How do bharata natyam artists navigate conditions of globalization and conflict, even as they advocate for peace?
Kara Nepomuceno
April 17, 2021
The directors of Brownbody discuss honoring the collective and centering Blackness—on the ice.
Nadia Khayrallah
April 19, 2021
“What a thing, to have a technology available that registers feeling as an achievement.”
Kara Nepomuceno
April 28, 2021
Manfred Fischbeck left an indelible mark on the Philadelphia dance scene.
Megan Bridge
April 29, 2021
The Queer Dance anthology refuses to stay neatly in its book binding.
Miryam Coppersmith
May 1, 2021
Wilma Theater’s Fat Ham explores violence and joy at a Southern backyard barbecue.
Kristi Yeung
May 4, 2021
Dream Chapters welcomes outdoor performance with a personal vibe and six dynamic solos.
Joseph Ahmed
May 5, 2021
Earthdance’s conference unpacks the myth of the universal body in contact improvisation
Nadia Khayrallah
May 8, 2021
This moment captured the meaning behind rhythm in Jazz: constance, lineage, and ongoing journey.
Lauren Putty White
May 8, 2021
The performance spoke to the circularity of return
Lydia Platón Lázaro
May 19, 2021
#disposableincome…what’s debt anyway, ammiright?!
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
May 21, 2021
The book utilizes stream of consciousness writing, photographs, graphics, and drawings to share Jaye Allison’s viewpoint on a life in the arts.
Kristen Shahverdian
May 23, 2021
Despite the form’s inequities, many continue to find radical potential in Contact Improvisation
Nadia Khayrallah
May 23, 2021
Art is a vessel for creative expression, a space of freedom. Yet, here I am, a dancer, dancing to liberate myself from dance itself.
Anito Gavino
May 24, 2021
A reimagined Philly dance classic spins webs of connection in the PMA’s New Grit: Art & Philly Now exhibition.
Joseph Ahmed
May 27, 2021
AAPI choreographers and dancers have the power to redefine not just ballet, but dance altogether.
Dana Nichols
May 30, 2021
A “more socially just future” reaches beyond drastic changes in ballet’s foundations.
Kara Nepomuceno
May 30, 2021
This Painted Bride cohort blurs the lines separating community, ritual, and performance.
Maddie Hopfield
May 31, 2021
It reminded me that art has life even in stillness.
Lauren Putty White
June 10, 2021
Systemic racism and cisheteropatriarchy intertwine in this story, contributing more labored stakes in this game than meet the untrained eye.
Caitlin Green
June 11, 2021
(Ex)lovers Red Ruby Girl and Batty Boo navigate a sudden reunion in Ninth Planet’s Honey Honey.
Lu Donovan
June 16, 2021
Nengudi’s inventive mix of sculpture and performance defies categorization, inviting interaction and dialogue with the viewer.
Jonathan Stein
June 16, 2021
In acknowledging our past we must also reckon with those we have failed in our pursuit of liberation.
Leila Mire
June 20, 2021
As artists, our priority should be shifting narratives to resist oppressive regimes.
Leila Mire
June 20, 2021
An interview with Cinder Kuss reveals a cauldron of boiling emotions.
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
June 27, 2021
A journey of defining what it means to be Black as self and as community.
Lauren Putty White
June 28, 2021
The conflict and the sorrow in acknowledging eir ancestors' truths reverberates after the play's end.
Kristen Shahverdian
June 30, 2021
Rituals trigger a dialogue on gun violence and grief.
Darcy Grabenstein
July 2, 2021
DANC supports the PROAct, which could help freelance dancers unionize for better working conditions.
Lu Donovan
July 6, 2021
Dancing is a reminder to care for the body; to have a relationship with it.
Emilee Lord
July 16, 2021
A conversation with Juan Felipe Miranda Medina dissects decolonization and decoloniality in dance.
Leila Mire
July 16, 2021
It surprises me how captivating the students are, both their willingness to learn the dance and their struggles to find motivation.
Kristen Shahverdian
July 20, 2021
A collection of zines encourages us to stick with our gut feelings.
Lu Donovan
July 25, 2021
Miguel Gutierrez’s new podcast tackles the complicated nature of philanthropy and the arts.
Emilee Lord
July 31, 2021
Colonialism, a multi-faceted discourse, appears differently within peoples' histories around the world.
Leila Mire
August 3, 2021
I’m laughing; I’m crying; I’m laughing because I’m crying; I’m crying because I’m laughing.
Kat J. Sullivan
August 3, 2021
The controlling forces of coloniality blankets a laissez-faire on whom and what is deemed familiar, normal, and rectified.
Rhonda Moore
September 3, 2021
An invigorating exploration and reinvention of childhood "girls' games".
Joseph Ahmed
September 6, 2021
A physical theater piece with bursts, hesitations, and falls in a game of light, images, objects, and themselves
Emilee Lord
September 10, 2021
Through stages of quiet rite, disturbing contortion, and macabre hilarity, Marina Cherry takes us somewhere both private and performative.
Emilee Lord
September 10, 2021
Dreams, theatrics, ruminations, and inversions structure the Berlin-based collective’s latest dance film.
Kara Nepomuceno
September 11, 2021
A transcendent experience mining the racial history of the Christ Church Burial Ground.
Jonathan Stein
September 12, 2021
This piece was done gently enough, generously enough, that the themes of personal grief and loss came through without a heavy hand.
Emilee Lord
September 12, 2021
Flipping through the Jewish calendar, one dance at a time
Darcy Grabenstein
September 14, 2021
Dancers fill the stage, inviting me into their realm through silent narrative.
Lauren Putty White
September 17, 2021
A short, bitter-sweet reminiscence on home and loss, thoughtfully presented.
Joseph Ahmed
September 17, 2021
Description is less necessary when the work is already beautifully narrated by the dancers themselves.
Kara Nepomuceno
September 18, 2021
Can a solo pleasure performance become a communal experience?
Lu Donovan
September 19, 2021
The dancers chart their ancestral matrilineal stories onto their bodies and into the grass.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 20, 2021
Dancers blend like chameleons with the space, moving along the ground, against the wall, and between stage lights.
Lauren Putty White
September 30, 2021
The simple act of undressing is imbued with more significance when it is performed with careful attention.
Emilee Lord
October 2, 2021
“What if, instead of putting kids in cages, we put kids on stages?”
Miryam Coppersmith
October 2, 2021
A narrative of narratives exists beyond each door
Whitney Weinstein
October 3, 2021
In this world, everyone’s name is Chad. All Chads are gay for all other Chads.
Lu Donovan
October 6, 2021
Jasmine Zieroff brings choreographed eroticism to the Fringe
Karl Surkan (1969-2023)
October 12, 2021
Gray has created a world of practices which call into the room a thousand years of knowledge and resistance in the face of colonialism, and grounding in ancestry
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
October 14, 2021
Koresh Dance Company mourns the pandemic and celebrates 30 years of dance in Philly.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 26, 2021
This is not a book, it’s an act.
Emilee Lord
October 30, 2021
“‘Walk Strong!’ was her reminder that with every step we carry our ancestors with us…”
L. Graciella Maiolatesi
November 12, 2021
Disentanglement from colonial mindsets begins with telling ancestral stories and truths, starting at their coordinates without apology.
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
November 12, 2021
Grounded stomping of the feet, rib cage thrusts and pelvic distortions really displayed the body in a mesmerizing way and drew me in with a kinetic energy.
Lauren Putty White
November 18, 2021
Decolonizing starts with self.
Lauren Putty White
December 2, 2021
Sincerity Project #4 didn’t feel like a departure from the first three, but the continuation of a Big-Bang-like expansion.
Miryam Coppersmith
December 16, 2021
Rhoden’s choreography is laced with an edge of sweaty, carefree sexuality.
Dana Nichols
December 17, 2021
Brown skinned arms slowly stretch across and into the surface of melting ice.
Jonathan Stein
December 23, 2021
Is it possible to decolonize dance writing without resorting to master’s tools?
Anito Gavino
January 8, 2022
Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and bodily practices as tools for peacemaking, reconciliation and community building.
Lauren Putty White
January 8, 2022
Lauren Putty White
January 16, 2022
With masks on, mops in hand, and opinions to share, this duo takes us on a journey of being a brown, working-class female.
Lauren Putty White
January 21, 2022
From music of the enslaved to modern square dancing, we’ve come full circle.
Darcy Grabenstein
January 22, 2022
“If you’re in a shit hole but you look fucking amazing, that’s empowering.”
Emilee Lord
January 27, 2022
“She never gave up, she fought to the very end. I just know she’s in heaven flying on that trapeze.”
Kristen Shahverdian
January 30, 2022
It starts with hands: the back of the fingers pressed gently to the forehead.
Kara Nepomuceno
March 6, 2022
Worth, worthiness, and the impact of finite resources.
Emilee Lord
March 8, 2022
Pueblo dance treading in the path of the ancestors.
Jonathan Stein
March 9, 2022
Non-linear storytelling charged with struggle.
Emilee Lord
March 15, 2022
Gasps, goosebumps, boredom, confusion.
Miryam Coppersmith
March 22, 2022
Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers emerges from the pandemic with new works reconnecting to breath and nature.
Anito Gavino
March 28, 2022
Hearing the rigor of their breath reignites my connection to the humanity of dance.
Lauren Putty White
March 30, 2022
In the end, the church has a place for everyone.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
April 6, 2022
The multifaceted beauty of moving bodies.
Emilee Lord
April 10, 2022
“Is it still bad to call you people ‘gumbo.’”
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
April 20, 2022
An otherworldly trio navigates non-space with undulating clarity
Emilee Lord
April 28, 2022
We find ourselves grounded in spirit through music and dance.
Anito Gavino
April 29, 2022
A cellist, a percussionist, and two dancers create a public performance collage.
Lu Donovan
May 5, 2022
Rhonda Moore
May 6, 2022
Great on Skates brought the rink to Fringe Arts.
Miryam Coppersmith
May 22, 2022
The power of language, dance, and loss.
Emilee Lord
May 27, 2022
Inspired by Jasper Johns' postmodern method of variating art to make more art.
Anito Gavino
June 7, 2022
The room buzzes...
Lu Donovan
June 8, 2022
Dancing our races and our many faces with someone you love.
Megan Mazarick
June 15, 2022
He is hugging air yet gasping for breath with his entire body. Arms are open, inviting us into his soul.
Lauren Putty White
June 24, 2022
Soloist Grace Kimble invites audience onto the Treadmill for a marathon showcase.
Caitlin Green
June 28, 2022
Existential struggle and choice, and the simple joys of giving flowers to one another.
Andrew Sargus Klein
July 4, 2022
The fans ripple outwards, two ivory rivers.
Kara Nepomuceno
July 5, 2022
A conversation on motif description and scores with Emilee Lord and Brendan McCall.
Emilee Lord
July 29, 2022
The artists wove together themes of naming and violence in a site responsive work at Cherry St. Pier.
Kristen Shahverdian
August 13, 2022
“I’ve been trying to talk to You. This whole time.”
Darcy Grabenstein
August 16, 2022
Screen dance, collaborative practice, and dance film festivals.
Emilee Lord
August 18, 2022
“Listening to the site leads to acts of discovery-” Debra Loewen
Jonathan Stein
August 20, 2022
Rhythm carries me through; each of the performers shine in moments of complex rhythmic interplay.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 8, 2022
Tribe of Fools perfectly pairs the medium to the message.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 11, 2022
Dancefusion and Sokolow Ensemble demonstrate the power and vitality of classic modern dance.
Jonathan Stein
September 12, 2022
Geoff Sobelle has some tricks…down his gut.
Jonathan Stein
September 15, 2022
There’s a palpable sense of catharsis.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 16, 2022
Eat Me Baladi engages fragmentation to embody wholeness.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
September 16, 2022
Bower Bird fills the intimate MAAS studio with drag, movement, and video to humorously explore how we perform gender and elicit the attention of our desired mates.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
September 20, 2022
With both roaring and solacing soundscapes, we wander through the psyche of a cowboy.
Caitlin Green
September 22, 2022
Was the hair leading the head or was the head leading the hair?
Miryam Coppersmith
September 23, 2022
A witty mockery of artist self-aggrandizement.
Emilee Lord
September 23, 2022
A celebration of many identities and expressions.
Kalila Kingsford Smith
September 24, 2022
Two working-parent-artists premiere a collaboration years in the making.
Mira Treatman
September 24, 2022
Abraham’s movement vocabulary is a wonder of integration and versatility.
Patricia Graham
September 26, 2022
Stacking on bones like a winter blizzard...time can accumulate/elongate and backflip on itself.
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
September 27, 2022
Striving to stay human in tosses, spins, and synchronized flash dances.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 29, 2022
She calls on us to bear withness.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
September 29, 2022
Performance is the most beautiful thing in the world.
Emilee Lord
October 3, 2022
From words on paper to feet on the ground, workshop participants mix it up.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 23, 2022
Maybe you dance. You are a part of it.
Emilee Lord
October 24, 2022
A remembering of those who transcended into the afterlife, a naming of the pain and suffering of Black gay men during the AIDS epidemic
Anito Gavino
October 25, 2022
In Mud Baths, choreographers dig deep for inspiration
Darcy Grabenstein
October 25, 2022
“It should be possible to enjoy the same privileges as male artists.”
Joy-Marie Thompson
November 3, 2022
An embodied dialogue between agency and vulnerability, expressed by their use of weight, and one another.
Caitlin Green
November 27, 2022
I wrote in my notes, “I know they gotta be tired!”with about seven exclamation points, only 10 minutes into the 90-minute program.
Caitlin Green
December 9, 2022
The Africanist aesthetic as essential to jazz dance theory, pedagogy, and choreography.
Darcy Grabenstein
December 9, 2022
Ani/MalayaWorks invite the community to join their intimate investigation of immigration, colonization, family, and home.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
December 16, 2022
John Dowell and his collaborators create a cathedral at the Barnes.
Ellen Chenoweth
December 17, 2022
Healing ourselves by rescripting the script.
Darcy Grabenstein
December 21, 2022
Heavy are the shoulders that carry the weight of an entire race’s future.
Sophiann Mahalia Moore
December 24, 2022
Five clowns visit Miniball’s stage, concluding the festival with crude jokes and a disappointing lack of care.
Lu Donovan
January 8, 2023
Dance interpretation of written works wows writers at weekend workshop
Darcy Grabenstein
January 23, 2023
Watching the film felt like the motion-picture equivalent of flipping through an old photo album.
Caitlin Green
January 26, 2023
Fusing Dabke, Hip Hop, contemporary dance, and puppetry.
Nadia Khayrallah
January 27, 2023
An interview with PaDEO's Monica Frichtel: PK-12 certification for teaching dance in PA.
Ellen Gerdes
February 11, 2023
In 'The Appointment' the unborn speak for themselves.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
February 19, 2023
A passionate embrace of performance as an embodiment of the gender, sexual and political complexities of contemporary life.
Jonathan Stein
February 19, 2023
Contact Improvisation as a method for how to build, leave, and return to a home.
Lu Donovan
March 1, 2023
The musicians skillfully call and respond while the dancers unabashedly labor to find a visceral relationship in concert with the sound.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
March 4, 2023
I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind I'm building a still to slow down the time.
Emmett Wilson, EW! The Dancer
March 5, 2023
A glimpse into a beautiful internal world, forever separated by glass.
Kristen Shahverdian
March 10, 2023
“Creating this work connects me to something greater and keeps me going.”
Joy-Marie Thompson
March 14, 2023
Questioning caricature representations around the world.
Anito Gavino
March 25, 2023
An invisible dancer casts a spell still.
Ellen Chenoweth
April 1, 2023
The fringe on her jacket did a dance of its own as she chasséd her way into our hearts as ‘hill-Billy Elliot
Caitlin Green
April 10, 2023
“There is a certain kind of beauty that manifests when a brown skinned artist creates work about their people..."
Joy-Marie Thompson
April 19, 2023
The contestants of Philadelphia Burlesque Battle Royale lay claim to cult figures and pop culture icons.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
May 10, 2023
We don't break the laws, but we push right to the edge to be together.
Maddie Hopfield
May 12, 2023
Changing the dance landscape with blind ballet technique.
Emilee Lord
May 17, 2023
Annie Wilson is a singular artist.
Megan Bridge
May 23, 2023
In Fix Me, American and Egyptian gay men compare life experiences.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
May 23, 2023
Dancer Peter Trojic on performance, disability, and access.
Emilee Lord
May 29, 2023
What is in choreography and how does it exist around us?
Kristen Shahverdian
June 13, 2023
What it means to resist, specifically, to resist with the body.
Emilee Lord
June 18, 2023
Blood, Sea invites a porous consideration of our bodies
Ella-Gabriel Mason
June 21, 2023
The photos are the love letter.
Irina Varina
June 28, 2023
A Vietnamese-American refugee finds his way through embodied research.
Anito Gavino
June 30, 2023
An invitation to consider inclusive design
Emilee Lord
July 6, 2023
Three solos for PrideFest.
Emilee Lord
July 7, 2023
Dancing from one destination to the next.
Darcy Grabenstein
July 9, 2023
Concrete steps toward a more equitable and inclusive dance field.
Leila Mire
July 24, 2023
Sasha Velour builds us a home onstage.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
July 25, 2023
American evangelicals performing Israeli folk dances against the backdrop of the military base.
Kristen Shahverdian
August 1, 2023
Dancers’ gestures achieved spiritual and physical communion with William Edmondson’s figurative sculptures.
Jonathan Stein
August 6, 2023
Two nimble performers with a deliciously nuanced sense of timing.
Rhonda Moore
August 6, 2023
An inspiring confluent ground of many traditions on which community is being built by Irish dance artists.
Terry Fox
August 14, 2023
Madeline Shuron breathes new life into the disco ball.
Ziying Cui
September 4, 2023
To witness intimacy show up in so many earnest ways that had nothing to do with sex was a remedial moment.
Caitlin Green
September 5, 2023
Heartshakes is a call for our hearts to shake with passionate aliveness.
Mara Flamm
September 6, 2023
An acutely compassionate glimpse into the minutiae of sex work.
Megan Mizanty
September 8, 2023
A ballet that provokes beauty and questions.
Ziying Cui
September 12, 2023
Poetry and rain-infused performance
Ellen Miller
September 13, 2023
Digging for lineage and meaning in a contemporary Flamenco performance.
Anito Gavino
September 14, 2023
Rolling and twisting, pulling and pushing, they rotate in a circle.
Madeline Shuron
September 14, 2023
The beauty in Cannon’s work is its ability to draw you in as he externalizes his struggle, conflict, and joy.
Ellen Miller
September 15, 2023
The feminine edges of a masculine mind.
Courtney Colón
September 15, 2023
An autobiographical tale of motivation.
Megan Mizanty
September 17, 2023
Employing exposed bodies, choreographer Wang constructs her own Garden of Eden.
Ziying Cui
September 17, 2023
a traveling circle of life framed by tombstones.
desire amaiya
September 19, 2023
Where are we going and what if we can never return?
Charly Santagado
September 20, 2023
caggins undresses themselves in their dance theater solo "fem baby."
desire amaiya
September 20, 2023
Shedding light, sharing skin.
Charly Santagado
September 20, 2023
It’s a piece about the localized bioenergetic field that surrounds living beings, and the dancers play with this energy.
Madeline Shuron
September 25, 2023
The Mimi Lien installation provides a celestial embrace to the grounded embrace of the dancers.
Jonathan Stein
September 25, 2023
It is often taken for granted that dance, a field that proclaims to celebrate humanity, places ethics at the forefront of its practice.
Leila Mire
September 25, 2023
A brutal truth is lodged in this fairytale’s retelling.
Courtney Colón
September 26, 2023
Their dance alters between roughhousing and romance.
Caitlin Green
September 28, 2023
While pleasant feelings surface, I am reminded of the façade of joy as a necessity to survival
Caitlin Green
September 28, 2023
If soundwaves were visible, it would have looked like a tornado in there.
Caitlin Green
September 30, 2023
In "flooding is what they call it," a loud call compels us to reflect.
Ellen Miller
September 30, 2023
PROTOTYPE helps us remember the pleasure in slowness, the vulnerability in trust, and the fearlessness in experimentation.
Amy Schofield
October 1, 2023
The entire cast jockeys between individual and collective truths.
Rhonda Moore
October 5, 2023
Blackness complicates; it can never be separated from the person or their work.
Shayla-Vie Jenkins
October 10, 2023
Their stories are moving. Literally.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 16, 2023
The nuanced percussion raised the stakes from previous versions of Carmen, yet execution fell short.
Courtney Henry
October 18, 2023
questions of connection, reflection, punishment in a purgatory like space.
desire amaiya
October 19, 2023
Finding hope in the aftermath of a massacre.
Darcy Grabenstein
October 19, 2023
Whose lives count as lives? Cardell Dance Theater seeks to answer that question.
Madeline Shuron
October 27, 2023
Their uniquely Cuban aesthetic corporeally, sonically, and thematically foregrounds Cuban cultural pride.
Amy Schofield
October 27, 2023
Breakdance cyphers activate possibilities of knowledge and ways of being.
Amy Schofield
October 27, 2023
Banishing Orientalism is an intellectually stimulating, essential read.
Catja Christensen
October 28, 2023
A mixed bill bringing together a distinct blend of nostalgia, rigor, and unadulterated fun for all ages.
Charly Santagado
October 29, 2023
A carefully constructed choreographic layering that is complex while still allowing for air, time, and this ceaseless quiet.
Emilee Lord
October 30, 2023
Disability, queerness, and belonging in ‘the spoon’ of Kinetic Light’s DESCENT.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
November 3, 2023
As Wen Hui and Eiko note, “Our body memorizes.”
Ziying Cui
November 9, 2023
“Haworth’s dancers breathe life and credibility to the cyborg universe with multitude of movement variations that create onstage storms.”
Rhonda Moore
November 12, 2023
In our hurried world, Otake invites you to linger, to watch, and return to watch again.
Ellen Miller
November 17, 2023
A three-part article series sharing stories and practices of mentorship.
Megan Mizanty
November 22, 2023
Xiang says, “I don’t like to categorize my identity within a box.”
Ziying Cui
November 26, 2023
Even when Mattingly’s own choreographic apparatus may seem contentious, her viewpoint is definitely worth reading.
Jennifer Passios
November 28, 2023
A cypher to celebrate Hip Hop’s 50th Birthday.
Charly Santagado
November 29, 2023
Cuellar approaches archival material with extensive embodied knowledge of the form.
Amy Schofield
December 18, 2023
The Lady Hoofers’ adventure set in Paris is a sweet and satisfying treat.
Courtney Colón
December 19, 2023
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The dancers expand and contract through the chaos, searching for a calm that will not come.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
December 19, 2023
The Nutcracker Suite from Dorrance Dance updates a holiday favorite with percussive tap and jazzy music.
Melissa Strong
December 29, 2023
I have nothing here.
Emilee Lord
December 30, 2023
Part two of an article series sharing stories and practices of mentorship
Megan Mizanty
January 4, 2024
If Israel is so supportive of American dance institutions, more so than even our own government, why would it be questioned?
Lu Donovan
January 15, 2024
Reynoso gestures toward decolonial and pluriversal possibilities of mestizaje.
Amy Schofield
January 17, 2024
Bigger isn’t always better: proximity and access to dance in Texas.
Jennifer Passios
January 24, 2024
Warren imagines that dancing home is as natural and essential as breathing.
Catja Christensen
January 27, 2024
Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez seamlessly weaves together audio description and imaginative narrative.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
January 29, 2024
Insights into Laurencin's beguiling enchantments and sensuous visions.
Jonathan Stein
January 30, 2024
An article series sharing stories and practices of mentorship
Megan Mizanty
February 10, 2024
A revision of modern dance history centering artists marginalized and excluded.
Emilee Lord
February 16, 2024
Inclusivity, Unity, and Individuality.
Catja Christensen
February 20, 2024
are moments enough?
February 21, 2024
What happens when our dancers can no longer afford to live?
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
February 21, 2024
Five innovative choreographies by the current faculty of the Dance Department.
Ziying Cui
February 21, 2024
discussing an online toolkit for addressing harm and workplace abuse
Emilee Lord
February 21, 2024
"Instead of being consumers of that culture in Houston, what if we could produce it here?”
Jennifer Passios
February 23, 2024
Deep in the cave of the heart are all the stars in the sky.
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
February 24, 2024
Remembering and honoring this leader in our field.
Emilee Lord
February 29, 2024
In new and old work, Ailey’s dancers invite us to embody the joy of their expression
Ellen Miller
March 1, 2024
Corella’s exquisite choreography highlights the charm of pantomime ballet in conveying meanings and emotions in a non-dialogue context.
Ziying Cui
March 6, 2024
Sevon Becker-Wright plays with the structure of choreographing an entire album’s music to mixed success.
Ellen Miller
March 15, 2024
A spirited embodiment of Bach’s Goldberg Variations.
Charly Santagado
March 15, 2024
The LA-based company offered up a varied bill showcasing a high level technique and artistry
Courtney Colón
March 18, 2024
A dancer inspires a filmmaker, and a filmmaker inspires a poet.
Ellen Miller
March 26, 2024
Danse4Nia uplifts Philly’s Black children and their passion for dance.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
April 8, 2024
Three generations of dancers touch the void
Charly Santagado
April 12, 2024
Kun-Yang’s new piece “Breath Into Air” traverses cultural boundaries by exploring a collective human consciousness.
Ziying Cui
April 27, 2024
Wilma’s Hothouse company blooms in a messy, loud and outstanding production.
Guest Writer
April 30, 2024
Youth companies demonstrate high-level artistry and technical rigor at Peridance in NYC.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
May 4, 2024
Motherhood is not marketable.
Emilee Lord
May 8, 2024
Drums, dance, and community abound in the Propelled Animals Earth Day procession.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
May 10, 2024
At Leah Stein’s FILM WORKS screening, setting took center stage.
Ellen Miller
June 2, 2024
Two interdisciplinary works where lineages unravel, burdens are unloaded, and emotions let loose.
Charly Santagado
June 2, 2024
Why dance a story ripped from the headlines?
Ella-Gabriel Mason
June 6, 2024
Precision, Play, Autonomy, and Rest in this year's Fresh Tracks.
Emilee Lord
June 10, 2024
A breezy love letter to Burt Bacharach
Courtney Colón
June 12, 2024
Sumayyah Smith invites us into her vibrant world.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
June 13, 2024
One man, many voices, a drum to navigate the way home.
nikolai mckenzie ben rema
June 24, 2024
A pause. A breath. A grounding exercise.
Caitlin Green
June 28, 2024
A booming romp through your best friend’s playlist
Megan Mizanty
June 30, 2024
Four dancers share their experiences making a life in dance beyond city limits. Perhaps their stories look like yours.
Jennifer Passios
July 11, 2024
Innovative choreography put classical ballet vocabulary in conversation with diverse contemporary ethos.
Ziying Cui
July 18, 2024
The visionary artist reimagines a dance world where every body is worthy of care.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
July 24, 2024
Raja Feather Kelly and Yoland Wisher show us how to get free.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
July 24, 2024
By being vulnerable, the possibility to experience softness collectively.
Ellen Miller
August 1, 2024
At Traverse City Dance Project, contemporary joy stole the show.
Ellen Miller
August 18, 2024
The performative intersections of writing and dance.
Emilee Lord
August 19, 2024
A convening of dance writers offers critical opportunities to reflect on bias, harm, and opportunity in the field.
Ellen Miller
August 22, 2024
Kayla Hamilton’s How to Bend Down/How to Pick It Up ushers in an exciting new era.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
August 22, 2024
Cirque, dance, and sound art encapsulate the journey of letting go.
Karen Cecilia
August 28, 2024
Examining the long and short term impacts of sudden closure on UArts students
Megan Mizanty
August 29, 2024
A trek through the unconscious.
desire amaiya
September 4, 2024
we create a score through digital communication.
desire amaiya
September 4, 2024
we are spectators in a typically unwatched game.
desire amaiya
September 9, 2024
Adam brings his creative force to bear on his own experiences in Dead Muse.
Miryam Coppersmith
September 10, 2024
Site-specific performance along the liminal edge
Brendan McCall
September 10, 2024
Sound Moves showcases a meeting ground for complimentary flavors of modern dance and percussion.
Caitlin Green
September 12, 2024
As a site-specific performance, The Garden: River's Edge’s participatory nature provides audience members with a meditative adventure.
Ziying Cui
September 12, 2024
The screendance Telephone pioneers a new form of audio description for dance.
Kristen Shahverdian
September 13, 2024
A meditative start to Temple’s 50th anniversary of the dance department
Madeline Shuron
September 13, 2024
A candle-lit performance offers a meeting and honoring of Black Philadelphians.
Ellen Miller
September 15, 2024
We are surrounded with the sounds of meditation and beer cans.
Ellen Miller
September 15, 2024
Four choreographers showcase the diversity and inclusivity of Philadelphia’s contemporary dance scene.
Ziying Cui
September 16, 2024
Sound memories connect performers and audience members.
Ellen Miller
September 17, 2024
Moving through grief
Ellen Miller
September 17, 2024
The space left room for us to take our time there, ease in, and stay awhile.
Caitlin Green
September 19, 2024
What happens when the juice dries up?
Megan Mizanty
September 21, 2024
A breakup as richly layered as vanilla soft serve
Megan Mizanty
September 22, 2024
Vanessa Kamp contains multitudes.
Megan Mizanty
September 22, 2024
on the frontlines in France, there is an innocence as they talk about war.
desire amaiya
September 22, 2024
How does our acknowledgment of nature’s value compare to our participation in sustaining it?
Caitlin Green
September 23, 2024
When your ancestors share their stories after death, how do you answer?
Megan Mizanty
September 23, 2024
“Where the Violets Bloom” illuminates stories of queer love, joy, violence, and community.
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
September 23, 2024
A rejection of traditional meaning-making in Western theater and improvisation.
Ziying Cui
September 24, 2024
It’s all in the centuries old details.
Emilee Lord
September 27, 2024
Crumpled tissues on the floor, half-emptied soda bottles, and a raggedy wig tossed on the floor tell stories.
Anito Gavino
September 27, 2024
A film about a woman's power unwinding, written from multiple women’s voices.
Emilee Lord
September 29, 2024
At a séance sleepover party, they summon the spirit of Google from the future.
Caitlin Green
October 2, 2024
Dance and theater from artists/daughters address their mothers’ dementia.
Jonathan Stein
October 4, 2024
Complexions reimagines the contemporary ballet landscape.
Ziying Cui
October 28, 2024
The TRILATERAL Dance Exchange offers up a sampling of artistic research from home and abroad.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
November 1, 2024
Bucks County’s dance scene glows.
Megan Mizanty
November 11, 2024
Care, strength, and presence permeates the remount of Still/Here.
Kristen Shahverdian
November 17, 2024
Humor, joy, hope, tough truths, and pragmatism give this book its staying power.
Jennifer Passios
November 24, 2024
Three choreographers render a dazzling show to celebrate BalletX’s new journey.
Ziying Cui
December 1, 2024
The enduring artistry of mid-20th-century modern dance.
Ziying Cui
December 10, 2024
Uninhibited, Hemmings generates an electrifying presence, channeling vitality and rupture.
Caitlin Green
December 17, 2024
A web of expansive relationships, built through loyalty, shared artistic work, and time.
Miryam Coppersmith
December 21, 2024
Documenting five pioneering Black ballerinas of Dance Theatre of Harlem: their journeys to and departures from the company.
Ellen Miller
January 5, 2025
Angie Pittman and Kyle Marshall Choreography deliver a powerful split bill as part of the radical queer dance and film festival in NYC
Rachel DeForrest Repinz
January 16, 2025
Each step forward is a calculation that risks the possibility of imbalance.
Caitlin Green
January 18, 2025
Dancing while the world burns.
Brendan McCall
January 18, 2025
The poetic dance features neo-classical choreography and breathtaking visual spectacle.
Ziying Cui
February 6, 2025
With and through each other, PDS is reshaping the Philly dance scene, one class at a time.
Madeline Shuron
February 7, 2025
A Night with UMAMI and Urban Movement Arts Dance Theater
Sophiann Mahalia Moore
February 14, 2025
Steve Paxton remembered
Emilee Lord
February 20, 2025
“THIS IS THE WORST DAY EVER!”
Caitlin Green
March 2, 2025
Bringing street dance to the theater underscores the intersection of performance and social dance.
Caitlin Green
March 2, 2025
Dance has served as an expression of political power, religious fervor, and of women’s sexualities.
Lakshmi Thiagarajan
March 11, 2025