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Jeanne Ruddy Dance Presents Final Performance Series
Jeanne Ruddy photographed by Bob Emmott Jeanne Ruddy Dance Presents Final Performance Series Twelve Memorable Seasons Come to a Close May 10-12 In celebration of the 12 triumphant years of critically acclaimed world premieres, innovative collaborations and national tours, Jeanne Ruddy is closing out her company’s final season with three of the most captivating works [...]
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Featured Articles
MM2 Modern Dance offers a sneak preview before they go on tour in Toronto
Photo by Bill Hebert Kelly Ann Posner for The Dance Journal On Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8pm, MM2 Modern Dance Company will present a preview of their new season work, Conversations, a dialog in movement, at Chi Movement Arts Center, 1316 ...
REVIEW: Saudade: Nicole Bindler and PIMA Group
by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal As the audience waits in anticipation, seated in a circle onstage, the front doors of the Jeanne Ruddy Performance Garage creak open, one by one, to reveal dancer Nicole Bindler standing on the ...
inkBoat and Ko Murobushi in Philly
SAND Shinichi Iova-Koga & Sherwood Chen by Pak Han Painted Bride Art Center will present inkBoat with Ko Murobushi in The Crazy Cloud Collection in the Pennsylvania performance of their national tour. The Crazy Cloud Collection is a collision. The life of 15th ...
Zornitsa Stoyanova of Herebegin Dance to present Paper Duchess
On Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 8 p.m., Zornitsa Stoyanova, director of Herebegin Dance will perform her new solo Paper Duchess as part of Mixed Grille Performance Series hosted at PARD SPACE on 1720 Mt.Vernon St. in Philadelphia. Paper Duchess premiered ...
Headlong Dance Theater Challenges Philadelphians, Asks: “So You Think You Can Make a Dance?”
Do-It-Yourself Workshops are Open To All Philadelphia Area Households Headlong Dance Theater announces Do-It-Yourself-With-Headlong, an unprecedented opportunity for area residents to create self-produced shows in their own homes under the guidance of one of Philadelphia’s most innovative performance companies. Headlong ...
BalletFleming Announces its 2012-2013 Season
Photo credit: Brian Mengini Professional ballet company, BalletFleming, is pleased to announce its exciting upcoming 3rd season. They will be kicking off their 2012-2013 Season as a part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, September 21-23, 2012. BalletFleming will be performing original ...
Reviews
Jeanne Ruddy – A Gracious Farewell by Kat Richter, MA for The Dance Journal Amidst champagne and a celebratory crowd at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Thursday night, the seven dancers of Jeanne Ruddy Dance emerged into the lobby to herald the start of the company’s farewell performance. In feathered headdresses and high heels, the women preened while the men beckoned [...]
Dance Updates
Tangle’s circus-theater meets science fiction in Half-life Photo by Jill LeMin Lee. Eight women on trapeze survive the end of the world—then ask, what happens next? Tangle’s new aerial acrobatics show Half-life will premiere at Germantown’s Funicular Railway Station on June 1 & 2, 2012. Inspired by complex machines, survivalist propaganda, and the animal kingdom, Half-life is an intricate exploration of utopian [...]
For Immediate Release
Pennsylvania Ballet to Present Company Premiere of N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo and former Company Member Maximilien Baud in Peter Martins’ Barber Violin Concerto. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev. Pennsylvania Ballet presents the grand finale of the 2011-2012 Season, the Company premiere of Jerome Robbins’s N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz, with Peter Martins’s Barber Violin Concerto and the World Premiere of Matthew Neenan’s Beside them, they [...]
Artist News
THIRDBIRD PRESENTS BLOOM! Dance Collective plus four all new dance and music collaborations in May Performances by: Matt Neenan, Meredith Rainey, Meg Foley, Megan Mazarick, Hannah de Keijzer, Michelle Stortz, Chris Colucci, Eugene Lew, Aaron Igler, Chris Powell, Michael Kiley, and Jorge Cousineau. Thirdbird is pleased to present the U.S. debut of Budapest based BLOOM! Dance Collective, May 3 and 4, at 8pm. This international ensemble with artists from Hungary, [...]
Dance Stories
Local Philadelphia Dancer Spreads Awareness of Ancient Art The Center for World Music will present Saṃsāra – The Cycle of Life, an Odissi dance production by Shibani Patnaik, on May 20th at 5:30pm at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street in Philadelphia Shibani is touring 15 cities across the US with a music ensemble from India. This is the very first time a US-based [...]
Artist Profiles
Empowered ME Brian Mengini has been a portrait and dance photographer in Philadelphia since 2007. His work has been published such notable journals and newspapers as Pointe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Studio Life Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, Stanford Living Arts Magazine, Oxford Hill Press, Dancing Times (Great Britain), Auditorium Magazine (South Korea), Town & Country Magazine (Philippines), [...]
In The Spotlight
The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School to present the 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School will host the 2nd Philadelphia Tango Festival, an four-day extravaganza of tango workshops, performances and social dancing, from May 25-28, 2012. Featuring a stellar line-up of tango luminaries from around the U.S. and Argentina, the festival is open to all tango dancers (and aspiring dancers) from Philadelphia and beyond. Festival [...]
Dance Education
Report on Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools Re-post from Americans for the Arts On April 2, the U.S. Department of Education released a study entitled Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools 1999-2000 and 2009-10. This study was previously published in 2002, prior to implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Arts education advocates are very pleased to finally see an [...]
Bill Hebert’s Behind The Lens
From THEN till NOW… Sorry for being MIA from my photo column. I have been decompressing from a crazy past couple months. So for this week’s column I wanted to take a THEN and NOW type look at myself. First the THEN … The shot above is from 2008′s Shut Up and Dance. Not a bad shot, but if [...]
Dance On Film
Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance will screen for one-night-only on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Hybrid Cinema has announced simultaneous one-night-only screenings of the feature length documentary Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance at various Landmark Theatres in eight different Midwest and East Coast states on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. Showtimes begin at 7:00pm for all eight screenings happening in Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Directed by Bob [...]
Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Dancin’ On Air: Pennsylvania Ballet Dancers Reveal How They Learned To Fly In Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan In Pennsylvania Ballet’s upcoming production (and company premiere) of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan there is a lot of air time. But this air time is not just for the audience to say, “Wow, they’re flying,” but it is used to create a vertical canvas where much of the choreography and evocative imagery of the ballet [...]
Action & Advocacy
President Releases FY13 Budget – addresses funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Arts in Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, and charitable giving incentives President Obama released his FY13 federal budget proposal to Congress, which serves as a starting point for the Congressional appropriations process. The proposed budget addresses funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Arts in Education Programs at the U.S. Department of Education, and charitable giving incentives. The budget proposal includes the following: National [...]
The Creative Economy
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2012 Dance Advance Grant Recipients Twelve local dance artists and organizations receive $812,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $812,000 through Dance Advance to 12 dance projects, representing seven individual artists, three dance companies, and two presenting organizations in the Philadelphia area. Two individual artists are first-time grantees; one is a first-time applicant. These projects [...]
