By Stephan Salisbury
Inquirer Culture Writer
‘If anyone wants to refer to me as czar,” said Gary Steuer, gesturing toward one of his flaking office walls, “they can look at the peeling paint.”
The city’s new arts czar chuckled in a hearty, if mildly wistful, way.
Just six weeks into his job in the newly constituted and robustly labeled [...]

The results of our summer and fall forums will be presented to citizens along with community and political leaders at The Big Canvas Confab. Sign up here to attend the Dec. 6 event, which will be held from 1-4 p.m. at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel & Convention Center. (Read more about the event in [...]

By Carrie Compton, News Editor
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“The Nutcracker,” put on annually for the last five years by the Philadelphia Dance Theatre in conjunction with the Hatboro-Horsham Educational Foundation, is not only filled with several local dancers, but may just be another holiday activity perfect to make a yearly tradition.
This year, however, the production’s [...]

By Megan DeMarco
Inquirer Staff Writer
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Paule Turner never thought about the World Trade Center towers before Sept. 11, 2001.Seven years later, they are the source of his artistic vision. The Philadelphia director-choreographer’s original dance work The Man Who Walked Between the Towers will be presented at Rowan University next week.
Inspired by Mordecai Gerstein’s [...]

Seventh Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Economic Survey Reveals
Significant Challenges for Charities
Results contrast greatly with those from only one year ago
A new GuideStar survey shows that the proportion of charity representatives reporting decreased contributions nearly doubled between 2007 and 2008, and that almost half of participants from nonprofits that rely on end-of-year gifts expect donations to decline [...]

by Kathryn Lipman
City Paper
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If you’re reading this, Rebecca Davis has succeeded in part. Her company’s latest dance project, 1994 in Philadelphia, is equal parts ballet performance and outreach program, meant to remind Western audiences of the reality of genocide and provoke them to think analytically [...]

By Andrea K. Hammer, For The Bulletin
11/26/2008
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In a world full of split-second changes, certain traditions offer constancy and comfort during the holiday season.
After Thanksgiving, curtains will start to rise on the classic Nutcracker ballet across the country. As each company adds its own style and signature to this wintertime favorite, The [...]

LehighValleyLive.com
FROM STAFF REPORTS
This year’s Thanksgiving Day parade in Philadelphia will have a decidedly Lehigh Valley feel.
Twenty-seven dancers from the Art of Dance Studio in Bethlehem Township, Pa., are featured dancers in the annual parade, which is sponsored by IKEA and will be televised starting at 8:30 a.m. on WPVI Channel 6.

The Art of Dance Studio [...]

PHILADELPHIA –The SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance has announced its 2009 artists who will be presented in Philadelphia as part of the Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents ’09 series (January 31 – February 28). On February 27 and 28 at Temple University’s Conwell Dance Theater, 2009 SCUBA Artist Charles O. Anderson and his company Dance [...]

The Ursinus College Dance Department has been chosen for the competitive American Masterpieces College Grant to reconstruct and perform a designated American dance masterpiece.
Ursinus was awarded $10,000 from the American Masterpieces: Dance-College Component, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with Dance/USA, for the [...]