Photo by Bill Hebert On Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 2:00pm, MM2 Modern Dance Company will present a free preview of its newest work, THREE, as part of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts’ (PAFA) Family Arts Academy workshop. A collection of dances, short stories if you will, all less than three minutes as choreographed [...]
The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School is presenting the 3rd Annual Philadelphia International Tango Festival, May 24 through May 27, 2013. The event features 22 workshops and 5 milongas (tango social dances) with performances by world-renowned tango dancers each night. All of this will take place over the four-day extended Memorial Day holiday weekend. This year’s festival [...]
RealLivePeople(in)Motion, a company known for creating accessible and inventive contemporary dance, takes on the workplace with their latest piece, The Jobs Project. With original music from composer Ilan Isakov (composer of the hit film, “Ai Wei Wei, Never Sorry”) and set design by local artist Andrea Caldarise, the company transforms the Latvian Society into a [...]
Thirdbird will be presenting SPRING TRILOGY, a three-part exploration of spontaneous art making manifesting on stage with twelve risk taking performances where 28 artists are “matched” in first-time-ever meetings. SPRING TRILOGY, offering a unique program each night, is part of Thirdbird’s ongoing Blind Dates series, which pairs musicians and dancers with someone they’ve never performed [...]
Photo by Anne Saint Peter, featuring Sarah Nicolazzo Tangle Movement Arts presents Invert!, an evening of all-new aerial dance theater from Philadelphia’s interdisciplinary circus artists. Combining vertical flirtation, glittery sequins, feminist history, and a cordless power drill, Invert! premieres at the majestic Sanctuary at the Rotunda on May 16-18, 2013. Tangle’s seven-woman cast travels through [...]
Versatile Dance Company (VDC) will be coming to Philadelphia and The Performance Garage on April 18th & 19th presenting Richard Walters In Concert. This company, formed in 2009, is based in Akron, OH under the leadership of Artistic Director Mitchel Federan. Since its inception, the company has spread the art of dance, while simultaneously raising [...]
Vervet Dance Artistic Director and Choreographer Loren Groenendaal performing “Installment 1″ in a costume of her design, constructed by Jakki Kalogridis. Photo by Bill Hebert The new Philadelphia-based dance company, Vervet Dance, will host its grand opening performance and celebration at Mascher Space Cooperative, 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave, Philadelphia PA 19122 on Saturday, April [...]
It all started innocently enough with a tweet to hundreds of Philadelphia dancers with a date and time for a new flash dance to be performed simultaneously throughout the city today. Choreography was posted weeks ago on a popular video streaming site for everyone to learn. The stage was set for what was to be [...]
Dance performance displays talent of 14 young choreographers and 60 dancers Muhlenberg College dancers tell their stories through movement, as the Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department presents Dance Emerge, a showcase for dance works created by emerging choreographers, April 18-21 in the College’s Dance Studio Theatre. Jeffrey Peterson and Teresa VanDenend Sorge are co-artistic directors [...]
Photo: Reggie Wilson with staff Four artists to travel to four U.S. programs over the course of three years, including FringeArts at its new waterfront headquarters Furthering the research and development phases of American performance residencies, FringeArts (formerly the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe) is participating in The Hatchery Project, a multi-year collaborative residency partnership that [...]
