Four young choreographers graduating from the University of the Arts have come together to create a dance production of excitingly diverse performance.  While these individuals share a similar education their unique styles of dance and concepts of art show the range of possibilities for a progressive future in dance.  Tabitha Liversidge, Katherine Stevens, Kelly Turner [...]

‘Shut Up & Dance’ Saturday By Lindsay Warner, The Bulletin At the Pennsylvania Ballet’s studios in East Falls, the mood is one of casual concentration. With one week to go until the annual “Shut Up & Dance” performance to benefit MANNA (Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance, an organization that provides nutritional meals and counseling to [...]

By Andrea K. Hammer, For The Bulletin When PHILADANCO! performs internationally, audiences spring to their feet — expressing their deep appreciation of the arts. They bang on the floor enthusiastically during 20-minute ovations and reciprocally feed the dancers’ creative passion. With appearances in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Hungary, company members vividly recall “rock-star” [...]

By Alaina Mabaso, For The Bulletin It might be difficult to find a career choreographer who is also a keen researcher and writer — likewise a dedicated entrepreneur who is a serious scholar of art.  To succeed with her latest world premiere, Rebecca Davis must be all of these. But by this time, Philadelphia theatergoers [...]

Kùlú Mèlé African Dance and Drum Ensemble will perform the U. S. premiere of Mali Sadjo: The Legend of the Hippopotamus, a theatrical ballet from Guinea, on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. as part of its 40th Anniversary Concert at New Freedom Theater, 1346 N. Broad Street.  The premiere of a documentary film [...]

The dance and music programs at Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design join in “A Celebration of Bach,” a concert devoted to the works of the master composer. Musicians and dancers will combine forces during this performance to present a variety of Bach-inspired works. Drexel’s University Chorus, directed by Dr. Steven Powell, [...]

Dancing Through the Synapse The Shmib Dance Company will be exploring the structure of the brain and role of the mind in being human through dance movement in the innovative show Dancing Through the Synapse taking place on March 29, 2009 at 3:00pm at The Meetinghouse Theatre at The CEC. The nude body, props, and [...]

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance today released the results of a broad survey on consumer cultural participation, the Cultural Engagement Index (CEI). The index, much like the Consumer Price Index or Consumer Confidence Index, will provide the cultural community with the ability to track trends in consumer cultural participation over time. This first survey benchmarks [...]

from the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Thursday, March 19th,  Mayor Nutter took to the podium in a lively City Council meeting to address his five year plan for dealing with the city budget in the face of a mounting deficit. Tough decisions were made, including two important plans that will depend on authorization from Harrisburg: legislation [...]

By Merilyn Jackson. For The Inquirer The 16 dance numbers in the 2009 Garden State Dance Festival’s two-weekend run at Rutgers-Camden’s Walter K. Gordon Theater offer a kaleidoscopic glimpse of what emerging dancers can do when matched with established choreographers. Several of the works in last weekend’s opener were highly polished, mobile – and as [...]