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BalletX - Interview with guest choreographer Jodie Gates
Inna Heasley, publicist for BalletX, interview of Jodie Gates for the Dance Journal.
BalletX Summer Series 2009
July 22-29 at The Wilma Theater
Choreographer Jodie Gates, a former principal ballerina with The Pennsylvania Ballet and a founder of CaDance/ Laguna Dance Festival, CA. Ms. Gates will create a World Premiere choreographed to the stunning Bolero, [...]
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Featured Articles
Review: Meredith Rainey takes a new view of dance
By Brenda Dixon Gottschild, For The Inquirer Meredith Rainey talks a lot these days about finding his "voice," and about the road he's traveled since leaving the Pennsylvania Ballet three years ago, as he turned 40. He's been busy starting anew, honing ...
Dance Ensemble Singapore United States Premier at the Painted Bride
Dance Ensemble Singapore is a contemporary Chinese dance company, one of the leading performing arts groups in disseminating Chinese culture. Dance Ensemble Singapore is coming to the U.S. to work with Kun-Yang Lin, artistic director of Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers who performed ...
Dance Celebration’s Incredible Line Up for the 2009-2010 Season
Dance Celebration Presented by Dance Affiliates and Penn Presents The Magic of Movement 2009-2010 Season Dance Celebration has announced their line up for the 2009-2010 season! Thank You Gregory : A Tribute to the Legends of Tap October 6-10, 2009 Produced by Dance Affiliates, under the artistic ...
Meredith Rainey Urges You to Look Inside Yourself
Community Education Center (CEC) and Meeting House Theatre present the final artist of the 2009 New Edge Resident Artists Performance Series: Meredith Rainey with Look Inside. Meredith Rainey is best known for his years as a soloist in the Pennsylvania ...
PDP Motion Pictures ‘09
In 2003 Gretjen Clausing, Program Director, Scribe Video Center and Terry Fox, Director, Philadelphia Dance Projects, teamed up to co-curate “Motion Pictures.” Now in its 7th year, it has become a unique mini-festival that explores how film and video serve as ...
Philly Tap Challenge On Fire June 26th & 27th
Some of the World’s Top Tap Dancers arrive in region to instruct, perform, meet and celebrate Philly. Friday-Saturday, June 26-27. For the 6th year, Jaye Allison, Founding director of New LEJA Dances, organizes Jaye Allison's Philly TAP Challenge (JAPTC) with ...
2009 Illadelph Legends Festival set for July 20 – 26
Celebrating over 10 consecutive years, the 2009 Illadelph Legends Festival (Illadelph) will take place July 20 – 26, 2009 in the state-of-the-art facilities at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts, with a full schedule of master classes, lecture demonstrations, open jam ...
Reviews
From Hidden City at the old Met, gymnastic and dusty dance By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer
After donning blue plastic hard hats and climbing the stairs to the long-unused Metropolitan Opera House on North Broad Street, 280 audience members awaited the much-anticipated performance of choreographer Wally Cardona’s Revival by Group Motion Dance Company. The Wednesday-evening opening began the final weekend of the Hidden City festival.
Despite the [...]
Action & Advocacy
The Battle for the Budget Continues… Update from the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance…
This past Friday, Governor Rendell took to the podium to present another solution for closing the state’s ballooning deficit - trimming $500 million from his initial FY10 budget proposal back in February.
There is hope. The $14 million in funding for arts grants through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts [...]
Press Releases
BalletX: Hot Summer Dancing Philadelphia Season Finale with Summer Series 2009
Contemporary ballet company BalletX celebrates dance season finale at The Wilma Theater and presents Summer Series 2009, July 22-26. The innovative program features a world premiere by Jodie Gates danced to Ravel’s Bolero, and two classic BalletX favorites: Jorma Elo’s Scenes View 2 and Matthew Neenan’s Broke Apart.
“The movement, [...]
Dance Stories
Battle Hymns Utilizing the large, empty space of the 23rd Street Armory which once stored arms and ammunition, Leah Stein’s site specific choreography of movement and Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang’s music will investigate the great potential of many bodies in the large space and military atmosphere of the Armory. Over 100 performers – singers, dancers, [...]
Artist News
Otros Aires Brings Electronic Tango to Philadelphia Otros Aires, Argentina’s premiere electronic tango band, will bring their signature blend of tango and electronica to the Philadelphia Ethical Society on July 8, 2009.
The 8:30pm concert will be preceded by a 7pm beginner tango lesson. There will be ample space for dancing (and chairs for listening) and a performance by Andrés Amarilla and Meredith [...]
Dance Education
Tango Nuevo at the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School by Carolyn Merritt for The Dance Journal
The evening started off with the most basic of exercises. Walking. Two whole songs worth. Circling the space in counter-clockwise rotations, we matched the downbeat of each step with an exaggerated snap, the kind pacing and undeniable compás of DiSarli’s Don Juan drilling the room into a fleeting moment [...]
The Creative Economy
Can you get more out of Facebook? by Maryann Devine, author of smArts & Culture for The Dance Journal
Today, it’s commonplace to see dance companies on Facebook. And no wonder. At 200 million active members, Facebook is fast becoming the world’s preferred social networking site.
But are you taking full advantage of your organization’s Facebook account? Sure, you’ve got a fan page, and [...]
Profiles
Melanie Stewart’s brainchild turns 6 By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer
“Dance-driven” nEW Festival opens.
Good dance just keeps sweeping into Philadelphia - and sweeping us off our feet (or onto them; see below). This week it’s the nEW Festival, Melanie Stewart’s now-six-year-old brainchild. What began as an artists’ cooperative with workshops and classes for dancers at the University of the Arts [...]
Images of Dance
BalletX Summer Series in Rehearsal BalletX SUMMER SERIES 2009 at The Wilma Theater, July 22-26
Photos generously provided by: William Hebert / BH Photos
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Dance at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Rehearsal Report: TIDE from Scrap Performance Group Musings syndicated from the Philadelphia Live Arts & Philly Fringe Blog
blog entry by Nicholas Gilewicz
It’s early (for me, anyway), and I’m sitting in the theater at the Painted Bride. The dancers for Scrap Performance Group are warming up on stage. From semi-scripted verbal monologues, the dancers - Katharine Livingston, Marie Brown, Lindsay Browning, Shannon Murphy, [...]
