Hundreds of Philadelphia fifth graders competed on May 27th in a citywide ballroom dance-off in the Juniata section of the city with everything from the fox trot and rumba to the tango.
This is part of a special program called Dancing Classrooms. While developing their talents on the dance floor, they also learn some very significant [...]
Genetically Mutating Computers Invade Old City
Acclaimed dancer Jodi Melnick and other artists present a living installation for Joel Mellin’s “Compositions for Computer”
Can language be evolved from randomness? Can fire listen and respond to melody? Do you need a surf band to make surf music? Avant-garde composer Joel Mellin explores questions like these.
“Think of a sound [...]
In 2003 Gretjen Clausing, Program Director, Scribe Video Center and Terry Fox, Director, Philadelphia Dance Projects, teamed up to co-curate “Motion Pictures.”
Now in its 7th year, it has become a unique mini-festival that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for dance, highlighting the power of image and motion in both.
The festival [...]
Utilizing the large, empty space of the 23rd Street Armory which once stored arms and ammunition, Leah Stein’s site specific choreography of movement and Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang’s music will investigate the great potential of many bodies in the large space and military atmosphere of the Armory. Over 100 performers – singers, dancers, [...]
Review of “SALT” performed by Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company
Painted Bride Art Center, May 23-24 2009
by Charles Tyson, Jr. , Artistic Director, Underground DanceWorks (UDW), Exclusively for The Dance Journal
Salt: a mineral, a culinary seasoning, a preservative, a medicinal agent, a spiritual catalyst…the inspiration for an evening of modern dance. The latter may well [...]
These past few months have been a challenge for all cultural organizations, but public interest in and support for the arts remains strong. According to TempCheck, a periodic survey released last week by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, public demand for arts and culture is growing just as resources to provide it, like state funding, [...]
The Pennsylvania Senate passed its version of the FY 2010 state budget (SB 850) with a 30-20 vote. The bill, introduced on May 4, eliminates all arts and culture grants in the state through the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC).
The budget process isn’t complete yet, however. [...]
What do you present to the OUTside world? Who do you appear to be? What happens if I turn you inside/OUT? Smile, it will all be okay.
Olive Prince Dance (ODP) premieres OUT, a dynamic dance montage that combines contemporary physicality with pedestrian realities, blending the lines between reality and make-believe and OUTward appearances and inside [...]
By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer
If you’ve ever preserved lemons, snorted a saline solution, scoured your black spider skillet with kosher salt, or just salted something away, you know how quotidian salt is – your salary is even named after it. You use it, say it, ingest it, avoid it, and think about it, often [...]
La Sylphide in Philadelphia for the First Time in 21 Years
June 5 – 13 at the Academy of Music
La Sylphide, widely regard as the oldest ballet in the classical repertoire, returns to the Academy of Music after a 21-year absence. Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the nation’s premier ballet companies, concludes its 45th Anniversary with this [...]
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