Philadelphia choreographers Megan Mizanty and Rori Smith present their culminating master’s thesis, After Bodies, an evening-length performance featuring two dynamic new works.  Both works engage bodies in a technology spiral, bodies being absorbed through the screens of increasingly present digital devices.  Both choreographers investigate how the body’s sensuous experience is impacted: how we see, hear [...]

Photo by Bill Hebert Don’t miss Hold Me To This, a collection of performances from Philadelphia-based choreographers Danielle Greene, Meredith Steinberg, and Becca Weber.  These three world premieres highlight each artist’s individual vocabulary while finding common ground in their investigation of authenticity in human interaction. This concert is the choreographers’ culminating work as MFA candidates in [...]

Drexel Dance Program Begins the Year with a Lecture and Demonstration Featuring Deborah Jowitt and Janet Pilla Why are certain performances remembered and heralded as timeless and classic? What makes a dance or any piece of art a masterpiece? Why are some paintings more famous than others? The Drexel University Dance program welcomes internationally renowned [...]

The Philadelphia Argentine Tango School is offering “A World of Sensations,” a weekend-long tango immersion with Buenos Aires’ premiere male-male partnership, Martin Maldonado and Maurizio Ghella.  This two-day intensive program of tango workshops, performances, and social dancing will take place September 22-23, 2012 at the Philadelphia Argentine Tango School and the First Unitarian Church. World-renowned [...]

Re-post from Americans for the Arts On April 2, the U.S. Department of Education released a study entitled Arts Education in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools 1999-2000 and 2009-10. This study was previously published in 2002, prior to implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Arts education advocates are very pleased to finally see an [...]

VI VA is the celebration of our culminating work as MFA candidates in Temple’s Esther Boyer Dance Department.  Two pieces will be presented, Study #2: Holy Cabinet and The Pathless Step, which explores the intricacies of our subtle energy, perception, and imagination.  Come experience performance art, dance, live music and original costume design created in [...]

Peter Weil, (15, Jenkintown) Second Place winner in the Contemporary Dance Category; Photo by VAM Productions Metropolitan Ballet Academy students have much to celebrate as they excelled in the Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) 2012 Regional Semi-Finals held in January in Philadelphia, PA. Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) was presented with the Outstanding School Award for [...]

Delaware County, ballerina Ms. Esmiana Jani, age 18, of the Academy of International Ballet (AIB) in Media was recently offered and has accepted a position with the Washington Ballet. The Washington Ballet Company in the Disctirct of Columbia is one of the major professional ballet companies in the country. For Esmiana, this will be a major step [...]

Glenside native Phoebe Gavula, age 16, a student of Metropolitan Ballet Academy, begins her “dream come true” as a member of Pennsylvania Ballet 2 Local ballerina Phoebe Gavula, age 16, of Metropolitan Ballet Academy (MBA) in Jenkintown, achieved the statistical equivalent of signing with the Phillies last month when she landed a professional contract with [...]

Peter Weil in Excursions, YAGP 2011 Phoebe Gavula (Glenside) Wins Top Honor in Philadelphia Regional Semi-Finals; Peter Weil (Jenkintown) and Kamryn Baldwin (Blue Bell) Win Second Place Honors; Artistic Director Lisa Collins Vidnovic Wins the Outstanding Teacher Award in Philadelphia 18 Students Perform in New York City Finals and MBA Children’s Ensemble Places in Top [...]