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Local dance artist, Jumatatu Poe, inaugurates his BRAND NEW physical theatre company, idiosynCrazy Productions, with a fall concert at the Jeanne Ruddy’s Performance Garage.  The concert, FLATLAND… and other worlds, will take place Saturday, October 3, at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday, October 4, at 2pm and 7pm. The program will feature two works by [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the premier ballet companies in the country, launches its 46th season with a Balanchine classic, an innovative new work by Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan, and Agnes de Mille’s rousing ballet honoring the American West.
“I want to be able to expose the audience to a wide variety of styles within the [...]

After a successful run at the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Group Motion continues its City Dances/Parkway program under the auspices of PNC Arts Alive program.
City Dances/Parkway is an interactive, traveling performance involving dance, music, art and technology. Take a walking tour with Group Motion dancers to experience some of Philadelphia’s public art sites including Auguste [...]

by Beth Kephart for The Dance Journal
Love walks down the street and sits in the park in the sun.  It tenders its hand in apology or desire, corrupts the knees, revokes the arch of the foot.  Love is the story, never finally told in words and, perhaps, never finally told at all, though one gets [...]

Several hundred people turned out this Friday for a lunchtime rally and march along the Avenue of the Arts in center city Philadelphia, protesting the Pennsylvania state budget plan, which call for an eight-percent sales tax on tickets to certain arts and entertainment venues, museums, live stage shows and even zoos.
State senators Daylin Leach, Larry Farnese [...]

by Barry Englert
In writing this review, I want to make it clear that I am not looking to take away or minimize the achievements of those who either participated in this Philadelphia Live Arts Festival program or who won in either the preliminaries or finals.
I was also surprised at the fact The Dance Journal, which [...]

Bill Hebert has been photographing dance in the region for over six years. In addition to capturing performances at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, he is one of the photographers capturing touring companies as part of the Dance Celebration series and will be the photographer for the By Local series also at [...]

As details of  the $27.9 billion state spending plan became known late Friday in Harrisburg, word spread of the inclusion of the state sales tax to performing arts programs – dance, music, theater – and other cultural venues, such as museums and zoos, to generate about $100 million.
This initiative spearheaded by Republicans, who have remained [...]

Dance with Camera is an exhibition and a screening program that explores a crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. The exhibition features art works in film, video, and still photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists to record bodies moving in [...]