In 2007 when NY choreographer Tere O’Connor provoked Headlong Dance Theater co-directors David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith to put their 17 years of collaboration on hold and work independently from one another on a new piece, he prob…

Posted By : Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe 28-year-old Jumatatu Poe is ready to be old. “It’s a tactile thing–I want to know what it feels like,” he explains. But growing old doesn’t sound so bad when you think about immortality as much as Jumatatu does. It’s a topic he’s exploring in his new [...]

There’s a new collective in town. They go by the name of Hybridge Arts. This Monday the 28th they’re kicking off with their first Last Mondays event at 7pm at Broad Street Ministry.

Hybridge Arts was recently formed by all-star alumni of th…

Philadelphia choreographer Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree at the Bates College 144th commencement ceremony on May 30, 2010. Founder and Artistic Director of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Harris was one of five honorary degree recipients this year. Honorands included: Dr. James McCarthy, Harvard professor of biological oceanography; Jane Pauley, veteran [...]

Rennie Harris the Founder/Artistic Director of Rennie Harris Puremovement has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 in recognition of his work as a hip hop choreographer. In 1992, North Philadelphia native Rennie Harris founded Puremovement with the vision for sharing an appreciation for diversity as well as being dedicated to preserving and disseminating hip-hop [...]

Miro Dance Theatre’s creative laboratory is moving to the home of creativity and science in the city, Drexel University, for its second edition. Miro is partnering with Drexel’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design, MAD Dragon Records and the Dance program for their second Miro Mash-Up. Following its recent debut, the second Miro [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the premier ballet companies in the country, brings two compelling programs to the Academy of Music this March. Program II features Choreographer in Residence Matthew Neenan’s acclaimed Carmina Burana, March 4-13. Program III, March 13-14, is a collection of works set to the music of Frédéric Chopin, celebrating the 200th anniversary [...]

The Kosoko Performance Group will present the second installment of their 2009-2010 live performance series KPG Presents.  Featured are some of NYC’s, NJ’s, and Philadelphia’s finest acts in music, dance, and performance art.  The event hosted by Jaamil Kosoko and Karama Butler under the aliases of Winston Margo Deboreau Hemm will take place on Saturday, [...]

Artistic Director Charles Tyson Jr. started his dance company “Underground DanceWorks (UDW)” as a student in Temple University’s dance department in 1999. He realized that he had been using the same group of talented dancers consistently for two years and decided there must be something to that! Here it is, 2009 and the company is [...]

by Mara Miller, Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog When Amy Harding, artistic director and choreographer for Alchemy Dance Company, was twelve she started taking ballet classes. But it was a short-lived stint; her parents pulled her out because they didn’t think she practiced enough. Amy wasn’t about to throw in the towel, though. “I [...]