by Deena Moore for The Dance Journal With the creation of MM2 Modern Dance, Steven Weisz, Artistic Director, decided to offer a new type of platform for college age dancers to both develop choreography as well as showcase their works. Weisz goes on to elaborate, “We try to provide them the opportunity and resources needed, [...]

When you move around the globe as much as Eun Jung Choi has–she’s lived in her native Seoul, as well as New York, San Diego, Colorado, North Carolina, Philly, and takes frequent trips to Mexico–you tend to lose stuff. Eun Jung’s new work All My Socks Have Holes, which will be featured in the 2010 [...]

“I’m more interested in performing than choreographing,” says Bethany Formica, who will be dancing in Marianela Boán’s new piece for the Live Arts Festival, Decadere. “I ended up choreographing because otherwise you have no ownership over y…

On May 25th starting at 10:00 am, Philadelphia hoofer, Robert Burden will begin his 24 hour “tap journey”.  Why would this Artistic Director of Tap Team Two, with a BFA in Jazz Dance from the University of the Arts and a protege of LaVaughn Robinson and Germain Ingram, choose to take on such a venture? [...]

By Bill Hebert for the Dance Journal On Saturday, February 6th at 7:30 Winged Woman Dance will perform their piece titled Residue as part of the Annenberg’s “By Local” series. Winged Woman Dance is a Philadelphia based ensemble founded by Tina Heuges Bracciale, that is dedicated to in-depth collaborations between visual artists, musicians and dancers. [...]

Vertex:: an interaction point, an intersection where particles collide and meet. Vertex: a turning point Multiple points of views and many layers will be created with a live video performance that will intercept several figures moving in a restricted space, those images will be projected at a different location of the performing space. The piece [...]

Philadelphia- New York City’s Choreographic Sketches, extends its 2009 Series IV to the Philadelphian audiences, featuring and debuting new works by nine emerging African Diasporic choreographers and their companies, from New York City, Washington DC and Philadelphia, under the series curator’s vision of Jo Anna Hazel Norris the Founder/ Director of Choreographic Sketches. The series [...]

By Kate Miller, Live Arts & Fringe Blog “Choreographing a dance, for me, is figuring out what my body wants to do,” says Christina Gesualdi, cofounder of Pink Hair Affair, a nine-member dance collective from Philadelphia whose show POOF! debuts at this year’s Philly Fringe. It’s a revealing comment about a creative process that is [...]

by Nick Gilewicz for Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe A diving scholarship brought Les Rivera to Philadelphia. But once he came to the city, he started to hit the clubs where, as a hip hop dancer, he’d battle other people on the floor. One night he met a guy, who told him about this [...]

By Merilyn Jackson, For The Inquirer “Dance-driven” nEW Festival opens. Good dance just keeps sweeping into Philadelphia – and sweeping us off our feet (or onto them; see below). This week it’s the nEW Festival, Melanie Stewart’s now-six-year-old brainchild. What began as an artists’ cooperative with workshops and classes for dancers at the University of [...]