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    Dance and more at the 14th annual Philly Fringe!

    Tickets are now on sale for the 14th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 3 – 18. The Philly Fringe will host 183 artists or companies performing 188 shows in venues throughout Philadelphia for the largest Fringe in festival history, topping 2009’s record breaking number of [...]

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    PhiladelphiaDANCE.org has been established as a comprehensive web site for dancers, dance companies and dance resources in the greater Philadelphia Region. It offers a range of free online resources from promoting performances, classes and workshops, to offering discussion groups on everything from choreography to funding sources, and includes all dance styles from ballet to hip hop, as well as covering such topics as health and fitness for dancers and locating supportive services from photographers to dance agents. This site was implemented to unite the dance community as well as provide a vehicle for promoting dance in the region to the public.

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Featured Articles

featuredimage Fringe Bytes: Grounded Aerial – Insectinside

For the Philly Fringe, Insectinside offers up a raw and volatile love story in a whirling fantasy insect realm. Presented by Grounded Aerial, it combines modern dance (ground) with uniquely rigged aerial elements (air) in equal parts with a cast ...

featuredimage Live Arts Spotlight: Brian Sanders’ JUNK

This is where the lost take charge. Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions ...

featuredimage Fringe Bytes: Flat Intersections

Flat Intersections culminates the work of four different artists (Briel Driscoll, Colleen McNally, Nikki Roberts, and Tess Stumpf) who are all working to emphasize one thing: exploration. They are exploring physical relationships of bodies, ignored questions, natural rhythms, and perceptions. ...

featuredimage Fringe Bytes: Showcasing physical movement in Absence/Presence

Rain Ross Dance and Stone Depot Dance Lab will premiere, at the Philly Fringe,  Absence/Presence, a dance performance showcasing truly physical movement. Choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross explore political and historical subjects including social activism, identity vs. what we project ...

featuredimage Fringe Bytes: DC Experimental Choreographer Kelly Bond premieres Elephant

As September's Philly Fringe creeps ever closer, experimental DC choreographer and performing artist Kelly Bond confirms the Philadelphia premiere of Elephant at FLUXspace. Hailedm as “jarring and insightful” by dance critic, dramaturg and professor, Kathleen Mattingly, on the cultural blog ...

featuredimage Fringe Bytes: Colleen Hooper and Liz Reynolds premiere I saved this for you

This September, as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Colleen Hooper and Liz Reynolds premiere a dance theater performance, I saved this for you. The evening begins with a dance on the sidewalk and then travels into the theater.  This transition ...

featuredimage Live Arts Dance Film Series Announced

In conjunction with the showing of Dance at this year's festival, and in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art and International House Philly, Live Arts has organized a film series to showcase the work of Lucinda Childs ...

featuredimage Pennsylvania Ballet announces an innovative 2010-2011 Season

Pennsylvania Ballet Artistic Director Roy Kaiser announced a breathtaking and innovative 2010-2011 Season: a dynamic collection of lush narrative ballets, thrilling contemporary pieces, Balanchine treasures, and brand new works. A landmark appearance at the first-ever Philadelphia International Festival of the ...

featuredimage Dance Celebration’s 28th Season – Superstars of Dance, Today and Tomorrow

Dance Celebration’s 28th Season, “Superstars of Dance, Today and Tomorrow,” features eight companies in 35 performances at Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. Season highlights include Philadelphia premieres, a Broadway dance spectacle, and a special ...

featuredimage 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Dance Line-up Announced

The 2010 Live Arts Festival brings world-class contemporary dance to Philadelphia while continuing to cultivate the work of the region’s top choreographers.  Visiting artists include the celebrated New York-based choreographer Lucinda Childs, who will present the Philadelphia premiere of ...

Reviews

Lucinda Childs, a Patrick Bensard 2006 documentary

Kishin Shinoyama Photograph As a co-presentation with the Institute of Contemporary Art and International House Philly, Live Arts has organized a film series to showcase the work of Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass. The films provide insight into the creative processes, careers, and lives of these two influential artists. The series is being offered as [...]

Action & Advocacy

Your help is needed: NEA Receives Funding Increase in House Subcommittee

Yesterday evening, the U.S. House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which sets the initial funding level for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), approved a $2.5 million increase for the NEA in its FY 2011 spending bill. Chairman Jim Moran (D-VA), a longtime champion of arts and culture, presided over his first Interior spending bill as [...]

For Immediate Release

Rev9 Dance and Performance Company Revives Andy Warhol’s World in time for Fringe

Following sold out shows in Lancaster County, Rev9 Dance and Performance Company brings FACTORY to Philadelphia audiences during the Philly Fringe Festival this September.  A visually compelling glimpse into the world of Andy Warhol, FACTORY boasts twenty performers who synthesize dance, acrobatics, aerial work, and multimedia to create an awe-inspiring production. FACTORY makes its Philadelphia [...]

Dance Stories

Enriching a Community with Dance

The second annual Norristown DanceFest will take place again at the Montgomery County Cultural Center in Norristown, Pennsylvania on August 27 and 28, 2010 beginning at 8:00pm.   After last year’s two sold out shows, Norristown residents are anticipating another two evenings of noteworthy dance. Created in an effort to promote the arts in one of [...]

Artist News

Loving Headlong Dance Theater’s "More" Just A Little More

In 2007 when NY choreographer Tere O’Connor provoked Headlong Dance Theater co-directors David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith to put their 17 years of collaboration on hold and work independently from one another on a new piece, he prob…

Dance Education

Stepping in to keep UArts dance robust

Richard Boyd Photography Donna Faye Burchfield , who has spent 28 years building the dance program at Hollins University, will take over in Philadelphia from the retiring Susan Glazer. Builder yields to a successor. By Merilyn Jackson. For The Inquirer The nation’s largest undergraduate dance program – now 15 staff musicians, 30 full- and part-time [...]

The Creative Economy

The National Endowment for the Arts releases report on How Technology Influences Arts Participation

This report describes the demographic characteristics of U.S. adults that participated in the arts (such as concerts, plays, and dance performances) via electronic media (e.g., TV, radio, computers and portable media devices) in 2008, based on the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). Separately, the report examines broad categories of arts participation via [...]

Artist Profiles

Young Choreographers find a platform through MM2 Dance and the Philly Fringe

by Deena Moore for The Dance Journal With the creation of MM2 Modern Dance, Steven Weisz, Artistic Director, decided to offer a new type of platform for college age dancers to both develop choreography as well as showcase their works. Weisz goes on to elaborate, “We try to provide them the opportunity and resources needed, [...]

Images of Dance

Photography, Dance & Fallen Heroes

by Brian Mengini for The Dance Journal Spirit of the Fallen is a project I started back in November of 2009 and was initially inspired by a memorial installation at the Police Administration Building by Commissioner Ramsey in tandem with Comcast, paying tribute to the fallen officers. I had wanted a new philanthropic project to [...]

Dance at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

Takes on “TAKES”

When Dito Van Reigersberg first entered the cube, as the set for the 2010 Live Arts Festival show TAKES has come to be called, he had just stepped off a plane to an early rehearsal in Los Angeles. “I come into this space, watching my image fly around, and I almost ralphed,” Dito says. “We [...]