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.
Bill: Tina, [...]

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 less about [...]

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 other [...]

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 the Arts [...]

Judith Jamison, the artistic director of the world-renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and a Philadelphia native, will receive the newly named Anne d’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence at the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia’s 26th Annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, May 15.
Members of Ailey II will perform during the event to be [...]

Nora Gibson Performance Project is dedicated to presenting contemporary dance as a unique visual experience. Themes explored are socially relevant and reveal the poetry in the everyday. NGPP’s current body of work delves into the conundrum of white-collar professionals in America: the trade-offs between high-performance achievement and personal sacrifice.
Nora Gibson is a Philadelphia based dancer [...]

The Philadelphia-based, professional dance company, Tap Team Two & Company, Inc. was founded by Robert Burden and Arthur Taylor in 1988. They use street tap, better known as hoofing, as the basis of their choreography. Robert and Arthur received BFAs from the University of the Arts, specializing in Dance, Jazz Theater and Theater Arts. They [...]

WHYY radio features Rennie Harris on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, broadcast on February 12, 2009.
North Philadelphia native, hip hop dancer and choreographer, RENNIE HARRIS, comes in to talk about his work, “100 Naked Locks,” that will premiering at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center Friday, February 20th.
Interview question posed by Steven Weisz from [...]