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 [...]

The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, announced today its 2010 grants underwriting 40 new projects spanning the disciplines of performing arts practices. A panel of peers selected this year’s grantees from more than 800 submissions. Amongst the 2010 grantees was Headlong Dance [...]

It’s the 50th Anniversary of “The Twist,” and Philadelphia’s native son, Chubby Checker, will perform live at Philadelphia City Hall (Dilworth Plaza – West Side) in a FREE concert on Friday, July 9th at Noon. Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, but grew up in South Philadelphia, where he lived with his [...]

Illadelph remains the longest continually run Hip Hop festival dedicated to the evolution of Hip Hop music and dance, featuring the most electrifying innovators and pioneers of Hip Hop movement. Celebrating over 11 consecutive years, the 2010 Illadelph Legends Festival (Illadelph) returns to Philadelphia from July 26 through August 1 in the state-of-the-art facilities at [...]

Miro Dance Theatre has spent the Spring in a creative laboratory process known as the Miro Mash-Ups. For three sessions, the company has gone into an intensive and experimental one week process with a rock band, a composer, and its core dancers to come out four days later and present what they have created. On [...]

Pennsylvania Ballet, one of the nation’s leading ballet companies, and Fred Alger Management present the world’s best-known love story, Romeo & Juliet, June 4-12 at the Academy of Music. Witness poetry in motion as Pennsylvania Ballet performs choreographer John Cranko’s stunning interpretation of William Shakespeare’s classic tale of star-crossed lovers. “John Cranko was a master [...]

by Brian Mengini for The Dance Journal Dance Theatre of Pennsylvania, founded in 1978 by former Pennsylvania Ballet dancer Marilyn Budzynski, has long been a pillar in the Bucks County arts community.  The goal and mission of this theatre company is to groom young dancers in a pre-professional environment as well as to make dance [...]

City Dances Parkway II is an interactive walking tour of public art sites led by Group Motion Dance Company, May 6-9, 2010. Presented by PNC Arts Alive, it incorporates contemporary dance and music with the sculptures along the east end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. By creating a site-specific performance piece that utilizes iPods and [...]

Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM & DCO) and Human Landscape Dance present The Philadelphia/Washington DC Exchange featuring two companies, two visions and two cities. The Philadelphia performances will take place Saturday, May 29 at 7:30pm and Sunday, May 30 at 3:00pm, Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine Street, Philadelphia PA. The program includes works [...]

2010 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Anne -Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Co. (AMM & DCO’s signature site-specific dance-video work, Dances for Imaginary Places AKA The Umbrella Dance.  This work for 8-10 female performers in white carrying white umbrellas accompanied by a live videographer salutes National Dance Week with free outside performances on Wednesday, April [...]