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    PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Annual Report 2009

    For year end 2009, PhiladelphiaDANCE.org, a registered trademark of Music & Motion Dance, operated and maintained a total of 10 websites for the sole purpose of promoting dance in the greater Philadelphia region. All sites were operated without any costs to the dance community or its users. Funding for this project was provided primarily by [...]

    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 Five Dynamic Performances & Two Celebrated Israeli Choreographers

Koresh Dance Company takes the stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for its 2010 spring season featuring the world premiere of Sense of Human, by Ronen (Roni) Koresh and the company premiere of Passomezzo by Ohad Naharin, artistic director of ...

featuredimage Shut Up & Dance 2010

MANNA  (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance) celebrates the 18th annual performance of Shut Up & Dance, a one-night-only benefit presented by dancers of Pennsylvania Ballet and sponsored by Toppers Spa Salon, featuring original works choreographed and performed by the dancers. ...

featuredimage Spiel Uhr on Valentine’s Day weekend

Group Motion will present new works by local choreographers at Spiel Uhr on Valentine’s Day weekend, February 13 & 14, 2010. Spiel Uhr, meaning “play clock” in German, features local choreographers and performers as they perform original dance works for ...

featuredimage ETC Performance Series is a February Festival!

ETC Performance Series, Philly’s favorite hi-drama, lo-key performance series, announces its February Festival line-up. Talent to present include: Melange Contemporary Dance Company,  Contempra Dance Theater, Chisena Danza, Rachel Feldman, Pamela Hetherington(feat. soloist Robert F. Burden, Jr.), Music and Motion Dance, JT ...

featuredimage Cultural critic, author, and essayist Joan Acocella comes to Penn Humanities Forum

Penn Humanities Forum presents... Vaslav Nijinksy and the Mad Genius Forumula with Joan Acocella, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Since ancient times, people have believed in the connection ...

featuredimage MacArthur Foundation Genius Award-Winner Elizabeth Streb Premieres BRAVE

Daredevil Hollywood stunts, slam-dancing  and the heart-pumping thrills of a demolition derby are landmarks of STREB’s full-length Brave which makes its Philadelphia premiere February 4-6, 2010 on the Dance Celebration Series, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street, ...

featuredimage Urban Bush Women Bring Collaboration with Renowned Choreographer Germaine Acogny to Bryn Mawr College

Photo by Antoine Temple Resistance, memory, and love drive the centerpiece of a penetrating evening of dance at Bryn Mawr College this winter. Part of the 25th Anniversary of Bryn Mawr’s Performing Arts Series and the opening celebration of the newly ...

featuredimage Philadelphia Dance – A Photo Year In Review 2009

Philadelphia Dance - A Photo Year In Review 2009 by Bill Hebert A collection of images and highlights from some truly notable performances in 2009. Click Here to begin viewing album. Then click on large displayed image to view all the photos in ...

featuredimage Sneak Peak at 2010 Dance Offerings at the Painted Bride

Here is a sneak peak at two new offerings coming to the Painted Bride for the 2010 season of dance... How am I Not Myself - Miro Dance Theater Amanda Miller and Viji Rao challenge the boundaries of modern and traditional Indian ...

Reviews

Blending East and West styles of dance

Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/01/2010
By Merilyn Jackson
Globally, there have to be as many forms of dance as there are varieties of flowers. In India, for example, two classics are Kathak and Bharatanatyam; in the West, ballet and modern. Viji Rai, who dances classical Bharatanatyam, and Amanda Miller, a former ballerina who [...]

Action & Advocacy

Arts budgets scheduled to take another hit in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s FY2010 state budget is only three months old. However, on the normal budget calendar, this is considered to be halfway through the year. According to Governor Rendell, revenues are far less than projected. In December, he announced the budget would be “frozen”, or trimmed by $162 million.  Last week, the details of the cuts [...]

Press Releases

Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective presents Zata (Imagine)

In the African dialect of Hausa the word “*Zata*” means “Imagine”- an appropriate title for an evening of scintillating new choreography by Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective at the Painted Bride Art Center on February 19th and 20th. Imagination is what these local dance companies have in abundance!
Guest choreographer Curt Haworth premieres Human Candles, a whimsical [...]

Dance Stories

PDP explores local dance history & next generation of dancers

Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) announced its second annual dance series, Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, to be held February 26 – March 20. Following 2009’s highly successful inaugural series, this year’s presentation highlights trends in contemporary dance by offering a look back and a look ahead. The series will feature performances, film events, workshops, discussions [...]

Artist News

Pennsylvania Ballet to present back to back programs in March

Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the premier ballet companies in the country, brings two compelling programs to the Academy of Music this March. Program II features Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan’s acclaimed Carmina Burana, March 4-13. Program III, March 13-14, is a collection of works set to the music of Frédéric Chopin, celebrating the 200th anniversary [...]

Dance Education

When Schools Collaborate!

Metropolitan Ballet Company (MBC) and students from the Jenkintown Branch of the Settlement Music School will present their annual collaborative performance on Saturday, February 6th, at 3:00 pm, in the Josephine Muller Auditorium at Abington Friends School, 575 Washington Lane, Jenkintown, PA.
Now in its ninth year, the annual collaborative concert will present works performed by [...]

The Creative Economy

Notes from A Federal Grant Reviewer – Part 4

by Sandra Jewell for the Dance Journal
This four-part series, written by the reviewer of numerous government grant applications, provides a first hand account of the federal review process. It discusses the process involved in creating a federal Request for Application (RFA), or a Request for Proposal (RFP), and chronicles the journey a submission makes once [...]

Artist Profiles

An interview with Tina Heuges Bracciale, Winged Woman Dance

By Bill Hebert for the Dance Journal
On Saturday, February 6th at 7:30 Winged Woman Dance will perform their piece titled Residue as part of the Annenberg’s “By Local” series. Winged Woman Dance is a Philadelphia based ensemble founded by Tina Heuges Bracciale, that is dedicated to in-depth collaborations between visual artists, musicians and dancers.
Bill: Tina, [...]

Images of Dance

How Philly Moves

The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program  announced, How Philly Moves, will place an extraordinary and vibrant new work of community-based public art on the parking decks facing Interstate 95 at the Philadelphia International Airport. The nearly 50,000 square foot mural, incorporating the photographic work of and designed by artist Jacques-Jean “JJ” Tiziou, will be [...]