By Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal At the Conwell Theater on the Temple University campus, Philadelphia Dance Projects is presenting sections from Wolf-In-Skins, a dance-opera by New York-based choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears. The libretto by Williams, is based on ancient Welsh myths, set in a medieval courtly drama and an untamed [...]

Photo credit: Lindsay Browning By Alexi Davenport for The Dance Journal Choreographer and associate professor of dance at the Esther Boyer College of Music & Dance at Temple University, Merián Soto offered a culmination of her seven year work on the Branch Dance Series with the presentation of Somos. Staged in an abandoned parking lot [...]

By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Friday night’s performance at the Christ Church Neighborhood House was the first in a three week series produced by Melanie Stewart Dance Theater.  Although the evening featured new works from several familiar names in Philadelphia’s dance community, including Beau Hancock and Eun Jung Choi, its title—Point of Departure—proved [...]

Point of Departure (POD), a collection of performances from four Philadelphia choreographers premieres at Christ Church Neighborhood House Theatre on October 5-7 and 19-21, 2012.  The POD collaborators have designed two programs that highlight the departure points, the individual methods and ideas each artist used to create, while finding common ground in their works’ depth [...]

Renowned choreographer Merián Soto presents the culmination of her 7-year Branch Dance Series with the monumental SoMoS, bridging nature and the urban landscape, in the North Philadelphia barrio on October 12, 2012, as part of Taller Puertorriqueño’s free performance series, Café Under the Stars: Spotlighting the Arts in El Barrio. This large-scale work features three [...]

REVIEW: Philadelphia Dances (Selected works) Arts Bank, June 16, 2012 by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Photos by Bill Hebert The choreographers who presented work in Philadelphia Dances at the Arts Bank, are all dynamic in their own right as experimenters and in their respective commercial entities. The collective’s concert at the Arts Bank, [...]

Merián Soto/Performance Practice announces Wissahickon Reunion,  a one-year cycle of 4 Branch Dance performances  that will take place in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park.  The series, will  consist of four outdoor performances, one each season spanning from  October 2011- June 2012.   The first performance, Fall, will take place at Bluebell Meadow on Sunday October 23 , [...]

The nEW Festival has announced the participants selected for the 2011-2012 Choreographers Program: Jung-Eun Kim, Daniele Strawmyre, Beau Hancock, and Jodi Obeid.  These artists were chosen from a pool of 29 applicants for their professionalism and creative potential within the field of dance.  Each choreographer will participate in nEW’s Artist Retreat at Silo Farms in [...]

The critically-acclaimed and internationally active Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is pleased to announce its 2011 home season show, offering its striking East-West mixes and featuring a world premiere of “Mandala Project” at The Painted Bride Art Center in Philadelphia on February 10, 11 and 12, 2011 at 8pm.  This year’s concert follows two consecutive seasons of [...]