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    Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective returns from Haiti

    Back in May, we reported on Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective’s preparations for their trip to Haiti. This is a sequel to our first article covering their recent return from their arts and cultural mission. Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective, a Philadelphia-based non-profit has just returned from their first international mission, to Limbe, Haiti.  A team of [...]

    PhiladelphiaDANCE.org

    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.

    Visit our main site on the web at www.PhiladelphiaDANCE.org

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Featured Articles

featuredimage Headlong Dance Theater receives grant from MAP Fund

The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, announced today its 2010 grants underwriting 40 new projects spanning the disciplines of performing arts practices. A ...

featuredimage 2010 Illadelph Legends Festival Returns

Illadelph remains the longest continually run Hip Hop festival dedicated to the evolution of Hip Hop music and dance, featuring the most electrifying innovators and pioneers of Hip Hop movement. Celebrating over 11 consecutive years, the 2010 ...

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

Wilma Theater’s BalletX opens strong, gracefully

By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer No matter how great the choreography, without the right dancers to breathe life into it, a dance can go flat as a souffle when the oven door is opened too soon. No worries at the Wilma Theater Wednesday night when BalletX opened its summer run. All 10 of the [...]

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

BalletX Celebrates 5 Year Anniversary With Summer Series 2010

Contemporary dance company BalletX marks its five-year anniversary with Summer Series 2010, opening July 21-25 at The Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia.  The company presents world premieres by Matthew Prescott and Co-Artistic Director Matthew Neenan, as well as Risk of Flight by Adam Hougland which premiered in 2007. Founded in June of 2005, [...]

Dance Stories

Jaye Allison Taps Into the Nicholas Brothers’ Philly Roots

Posted At : July 6, 2010 7:19 PM | Posted By : Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe Recently I was introduced to the sensational moves of the Nicholas Brothers, a world famous tap-dancing duo from a time when it was difficult for African-American artists to cross over, who got their start in Philadelphia. Last [...]

Artist News

Forever Young: Jumatatu Poe Explores the Immortal Image

Posted By : Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe 28-year-old Jumatatu Poe is ready to be old. “It’s a tactile thing–I want to know what it feels like,” he explains. But growing old doesn’t sound so bad when you think about immortality as much as Jumatatu does. It’s a topic he’s exploring in his new [...]

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

Eun Jung Choi and the Reconstrucion of Memories

When you move around the globe as much as Eun Jung Choi has–she’s lived in her native Seoul, as well as New York, San Diego, Colorado, North Carolina, Philly, and takes frequent trips to Mexico–you tend to lose stuff. Eun Jung’s new work All My Socks Have Holes, which will be featured in the 2010 [...]

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

The Future Of Dance: Just Bumpy, or Bleakest Future Ever?

Here at the Festival Blog, we push Philly arts hard. But when we speak with many artists—especially dancers and choreographers, it seems—money always comes up. I’d bet we spend about a quarter of the time interviewing artists disc…