SHARON GEKOSKI-KIMMEL / Inquirer Staff Photographer Monk, composer, dancer, and director, completed a residency at Bryn Mawr College Sunday with a performance featuring her “Education of the Girlchild” from 1972. By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer At Bryn Mawr’s McPherson Auditorium Sunday afternoon, the first dancelike movements Meredith Monk made in her 1972 solo from [...]
Photo by CANDICE DeTORE Pennsylvania Ballet principal dancer Julie Diana and soloist James Ihde in Christopher Wheeldon’s “Polyphonia,” in “Classic Innovations” at the Merriam. By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer Fueled by controversy, the public perception of ballet is evolving from girly pink to grown-up sexy. The evolution was evident Thursday night in ‘s presentation [...]
By Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal At times unfolding like a book, a two-year comprehensive training program devised by Kun-Yang Lin read through meditative arts with Hsu-Hui Huang of Taiwan’s Cloud Gate Dance Theater, the martial arts led by Dr. Chik Qadir Mason and the art of moving with objects with puppet artist, Hua [...]
Kun-Yang Lin and Hua Hua Zhang seated in foreground surrounded by workshop participants and their props. By Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal Dance is a career that parallels those of athletes in terms of length – short, and actors in terms of character development – elusive. Dance training – especially on a professional level [...]
by Merilyn Jackson for The Dance Journal The martial arts and martial arts training are practiced internationally and in recent decades they have played a role in reshaping dance and choreography in the United States and Europe. By studying and training in any of the martial arts, a dancer’s body absorbs movement and takes on [...]
By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer You are sitting in silence as a black-and-white freeze-frame of phantom dancers appears on a scrim across the front of the stage, the opening shot of a film by artist Sol LeWitt. Then, like a startling squall, Philip Glass’ pulsing music jolts you into vigilance and live dancers leap [...]
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 [...]
Richard Boyd Photography Donna Faye Burchfield , who has spent 28 years building the dance program at Hollins University, will take over in Philadelphia from the retiring Susan Glazer. Builder yields to a successor. By Merilyn Jackson. For The Inquirer The nation’s largest undergraduate dance program – now 15 staff musicians, 30 full- and part-time [...]
By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer In the Philadelphia/Washington D.C. Exchange concert over the weekend, Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company joined with D.C.’s Human Landscape Dance, each presenting two works representative of their companies. Both have a reputation for working in site-specific arenas, each well-known for using parks, walls, even city sidewalks to create a [...]
By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer After 30 years at 2030 Sansom St., Susan Hess Modern Dance Studios presented its final concert there Sunday night. But instead of a wake, it was a celebration of the far-reaching dance legacy shaped in that space. Former Philly dancer Steve Krieckhaus came in from St. Louis to honor [...]
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