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Koresh’s Come Together Dance Festival Launches
by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Roni Koresh and his company got back into town last week from tour dates in Idaho and immediately began putting the final touches on Come Together, a dance festival that he, his brother Alon and the creative team at Koresh Dance have been envisioning for a long time. [...]
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Published under the auspices of PhiladelphiaDANCE.org, The Dance Journal seeks to provide an outlet for writing on a range of topics that encompass the ever growing and emerging dance community in the greater Philadelphia region. The primary goal of The Dance Journal is to develop new audiences for dance, strengthen existing ones, and provide a flow of information on key topics such as education and advocacy that effect dance and the performing arts.Since its inception in 2006, The Dance Journal has grown to reach regional, national and even international audiences with over 35,000 hits per month. We publish reviews, features, interviews, press releases and critical thinking pieces that are of interest not only to the dance community but the general public as well. Contributors to The Dance Journal include professional journalists, full time bloggers, members of the dance community, students looking to develop their journalistic craft and even non-dancers who want to try their hand at writing. As part of its core philosophy, The Dance Journal encourages the submission of original material as a way to energize audiences and create a public forum for dance in the greater Philadelphia region.
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Featured Articles
Sneak Peek: Zipline
by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal It’s a shame that in 2013 the need still to promote the work of female choreographers and only female choreographers still exists but it does, according to Ellie Goudie-Averill, and her latest project with ...
Sneak Peek – The Jobs Project
by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal There’s no shortage of contemporary dance companies in Philadelphia—indeed, they seem to spring to life with each graduating class, some lasting only as long as the Fringe before former classmates part ways. But RealLivePeople(in)Motion, ...
FringeArts – Jumpstart Rejects Live At Mascher
What’s better than black market performing arts? Ben Grinberg and Mascher Space Co-op have put together their own performing arts showcase of performers and creators who were not chosen for the official Jumpstart here at FringeArts (Monday May 13 and Tuesday ...
A view from the Wings at the Temple BFA Concert – Entwined Vision
[caption id="attachment_10449" align="alignnone" width="400"] Choreography by Makeda Smith, Photo by Bill Hebert[/caption] From time to time when I shoot at Temple (where I usually shoot during the dress rehearsals) I like to come back to shoot from the wings. I love the ...
Philadelphia Argentine Tango School Presents the 3rd Annual Philadelphia International Tango Festival – May 24-27
The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School is presenting the 3rd Annual Philadelphia International Tango Festival, May 24 through May 27, 2013. The event features 22 workshops and 5 milongas (tango social dances) with performances by world-renowned tango dancers each night. All of ...
The Jobs Project Premieres in May
RealLivePeople(in)Motion, a company known for creating accessible and inventive contemporary dance, takes on the workplace with their latest piece, The Jobs Project. With original music from composer Ilan Isakov (composer of the hit film, “Ai Wei Wei, Never Sorry”) and ...
THIRDBIRD offers up SPRING TRILOGY
Thirdbird will be presenting SPRING TRILOGY, a three-part exploration of spontaneous art making manifesting on stage with twelve risk taking performances where 28 artists are “matched” in first-time-ever meetings. SPRING TRILOGY, offering a unique program each night, is part of ...
Tangle presents all new aerial dance spectacle with Invert
Photo by Anne Saint Peter, featuring Sarah Nicolazzo Tangle Movement Arts presents Invert!, an evening of all-new aerial dance theater from Philadelphia’s interdisciplinary circus artists. Combining vertical flirtation, glittery sequins, feminist history, and a cordless power drill, Invert! premieres at the ...
In Other Dance News
National & International Dance NewsA collection of dance news feeds daily from across the country and around the world as they appear in a variety of media sources.
Reviews
Student Author Program – Review of ONE- The Immortal Game photo by Bill Hebert By Hope DiTaranto for The Dance Journal This review is part of the Dance Journal’s Student Author Program. Hope is a freshman at Bishop Eustace Preparatory School. She has studied a variety of genres of dance since the age three. Hope has a particular love and proficiency for tap dance. She is [...]
What Kat Saw
Review: PA Ballet Carnival of the Animals Photo by Alexander Iziliaev By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal It’s not often that ballet leaves you gasping one moment and laughing the next but Pennsylvania Ballet’s latest program, a triple bill featuring two classic Balanchine works, Ballo Della Regina and The Four Temperaments, followed by Christopher Wheeldon’s Carnival of the Animals, did just [...]
Lew’s Danceland
Come Together charges out of the gate Koresh Dance Company; Melissa Rector, Jessica Daley, Shannon Bramham Photo credit: Alexander Iziliaev By Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal There may have been chunks of empty seats at various performances of Koresh‘s Come Together Festival, but this ambitious event was so well organized and executed that it has to be reported as a rousing [...]
Bill Hebert’s Behind The Lens
Talent and luck sometimes go hand in hand to capture that perfect moment. I would like to sit here as I type this and say yup i’m that darn awesome cause I grabbed this moment. Don’t get me wrong I am talented but more went into this shot then just me capturing the moment at the right time. I had photographed this piece during dress rehearsal which was [...]
Roger’s Dance Notes
4 Tips for soon-to-be college dance graduates by Roger Lee for The Dance Journal Congratulations! Many college students are preparing to graduate next month with degrees in Dance. It can be hard for undergraduate dance majors to think about life after college with all of their current academic and extracurricular commitments. But it is still necessary. Especially with just one month left [...]
Dance Updates
Pennsylvania Ballet Presents Forythe & Kylián plus a World Premiere by Matthew Neenan Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancers Julie Diana and Ian Hussey in William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite. Photo: Alexander Iziliaev Final Performances of the 2012-2013 Season Celebrate the evolution of Pennsylvania Ballet’s repertoire with Company premieres by two of today’s most influential choreographers – plus an innovative World Premiere by Matthew Neenan – with Forsythe & Kylián, June [...]
For Immediate Release
Coming in June – INVISIBLE RIVER, a free, public aerial dance and music concert in Fairmount Park Photo by JJ Tiziou Alie & the Brigade (formerly known as Movement Brigade) present INVISIBLE RIVER, a dance and music performance celebrating the Schuylkill River, the ephemeral nature of summer, and the possibility that live performance can bring a city together in a way that no other event can. An ensemble of 10 dancing singers [...]
Artist News
Three World Premieres by diverse choreographers for BalletX’s Spring Series 2013 BalletX, Philadelphia’s Premier Contemporary Ballet, continues its 2012-2013 Season with a showcase of three exciting World Premieres on April 17 – 21, 2013 at The Wilma Theater, where BalletX has enjoyed its honored status as the Resident Dance Company for over five years. Spring Series 2013 will feature a diverse array of artistic talent with [...]
Dance Stories
Glimpses of the Performance Garage First Annual Dance Marathon Unique to the Philadelphia landscape, the Performance Garage was originally a horse stable and automobile garage. Renovated in December 2002, it was transformed into a versatile dance space that includes both rehearsal studios and theater for all forms of dance. The Performance Garage continues to be an incubator for classes, rehearsals, workshops and productions. To [...]
Artist Profiles
Metropolitan Ballet Academy Student Dancers Excel in Youth America Grand Prix 2013 Metropolitan Ballet Company dancers in Kanji Segawa’s “ Toward the Light ” Photo by E.A. Kennedy, III Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) student dancers from the Philadelphia region garnered significant honors in the 2013 Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP), the world’s largest international student ballet scholarship competition. Young dancers from the Jenkintown-based pre-professional ballet studio captured [...]
In The Spotlight
BalletFleming’s Alice in Wonderland at the Painted Bride Arts Center BalletFleming, together with dancers from the Philadelphia area and the Tricia Sloan Dance School, presents an original ballet adventure choreographed by former New York City Ballet dancer and world-acclaimed choreographer Christopher Fleming. Follow Alice down the rabbit hole as she meets the weird and wonderful characters of Wonderland – have tea with the Mad Hatter, [...]
Dance Education
Choreographers Megan Mizanty and Rori Smith present After Bodies a multidisciplinary performance Philadelphia choreographers Megan Mizanty and Rori Smith present their culminating master’s thesis, After Bodies, an evening-length performance featuring two dynamic new works. Both works engage bodies in a technology spiral, bodies being absorbed through the screens of increasingly present digital devices. Both choreographers investigate how the body’s sensuous experience is impacted: how we see, hear [...]
Dance On Film
Philadelphia Dance Projects presents Motion Pictures 2013 Now in its 11th year, MOTION PICTURES has become mini-festival exploring the intersection of dance and video. This year’s festival is co-curated by PhillyCAM Executive Director Gretjen Clausing and Philadelphia Dance Projects Executive Director Terry Fox. Motion Pictures has been a PDP presentation that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for [...]
Partner Publication – FringeArts
Doing The Invert: Tangle Movement Arts Brings Their Style Of Circus To The Rotunda “I discovered a radical potential in circus arts to challenge our assumptions about relationships, gender, and what bodies can do.” Tangle Movement Arts has been creating a distinctive brand of circus-dance-theater for the past few years now, and from May 16 to 18, they will be taking over The Sanctuary at the Rotunda with their… Read more »
Action & Advocacy
The President’s 2014 Budget Proposal and The Arts ***Source: Performing Arts Alliance The President released his FY2014 budget proposal. Due in February, the budget arrived two months later than normal and after both the House and Senate have released their own budgets. Below are highlights from the budget proposal as it effects the performing arts field. Nonprofits Defend Charitable Giving Incentives As budget [...]
The Creative Economy
The Artistic Directors Forum by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal At the CultureWorks office on Saturday, April 6th, something rather unprecedented took place. Nearly twenty directors of small and mid-sized dance companies gathered together to share ideas and exchange information. Hosted by Steven Weisz of PhiladelphiaDance.org, the Artistic Directors Forum addressed funding, ticket prices, venues, audience development and [...]
