Tickets are now on sale for the 14th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 3 – 18. The Philly Fringe will host 183 artists or companies performing 188 shows in venues throughout Philadelphia for the largest Fringe in festival history, topping 2009’s record breaking number of [...]

by Deena Moore for The Dance Journal With the creation of MM2 Modern Dance, Steven Weisz, Artistic Director, decided to offer a new type of platform for college age dancers to both develop choreography as well as showcase their works. Weisz goes on to elaborate, “We try to provide them the opportunity and resources needed, [...]

The Mann Center’s annual free Young People’s Concert Series plays a vital role in community outreach, making high-quality and culturally diverse performing arts programs accessible to all children in an informal atmosphere. Performances by professional and emerging artists offer our young people a chance to experience and be inspired by the talents of others their [...]

Yesterday evening, the U.S. House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which sets the initial funding level for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), approved a $2.5 million increase for the NEA in its FY 2011 spending bill. Chairman Jim Moran (D-VA), a longtime champion of arts and culture, presided over his first Interior spending bill as [...]

By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer No matter how great the choreography, without the right dancers to breathe life into it, a dance can go flat as a souffle when the oven door is opened too soon. No worries at the Wilma Theater Wednesday night when BalletX opened its summer run. All 10 of the [...]

Back in May, we reported on Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective’s preparations for their trip to Haiti. This is a sequel to our first article covering their recent return from their arts and cultural mission. Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective, a Philadelphia-based non-profit has just returned from their first international mission, to Limbe, Haiti.  A team of [...]

When you move around the globe as much as Eun Jung Choi has–she’s lived in her native Seoul, as well as New York, San Diego, Colorado, North Carolina, Philly, and takes frequent trips to Mexico–you tend to lose stuff. Eun Jung’s new work All My Socks Have Holes, which will be featured in the 2010 [...]

Here at the Festival Blog, we push Philly arts hard. But when we speak with many artists—especially dancers and choreographers, it seems—money always comes up. I’d bet we spend about a quarter of the time interviewing artists disc…

Mayor Nutter announced new cuts to the city budget that directly impacts arts and culture in this city.  This includes a 35% reduction to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (or $1,120,000), the Recreation Fund, and the Community Land Care Program run by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (or $840,000). This is a stark contrast to statements made [...]

by Brian Mengini for The Dance Journal Spirit of the Fallen is a project I started back in November of 2009 and was initially inspired by a memorial installation at the Police Administration Building by Commissioner Ramsey in tandem with Comcast, paying tribute to the fallen officers. I had wanted a new philanthropic project to [...]