by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal photo by Bill Hebert Group Motion’s history is impressive: as a contemporary modern dance company founded in 1968, Group Motion has performed around the world and at many notable American institutions including Judson Church and Jacob’s Pillow. Its founders include Brigitta Hermann, Helmut Gottschild and Manfred Fischbeck and [...]
by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Last night’s performance by Tori Lawrence + Company at the Barnes was as much about negative space as it was about movement. In the two years since Lawrence’s graduation from Franklin & Marshall College, her company, which is comprised predominately of fellow graduates, has become known for its [...]
For Members Only, to be presented at the 2012 Philly Fringe Festival on September 22nd & 23rd, will offer audiences a first time collaboration by choreographers Lesya Popil and Eleanor Goudie-Averill, along with visual artist, papermaker and sculptor, Nicole Donnelly. Featured will be dancers Lindsay Browning and Hedy Wyland. All three artists explore ideas of [...]
Bodies of Text is a series of collaborative dance performances and art exhibitions tied to the book and its interdisciplinary interpretations. Premiering as a part of the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and its theme of Paris 1911, Bodies of Text is rooted in the idea of Art à la Rue and brings [...]
Rain Ross Dance and Stone Depot Dance Lab will premiere, at the Philly Fringe, Absence/Presence, a dance performance showcasing truly physical movement. Choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross explore political and historical subjects including social activism, identity vs. what we project to society, and technology and its affect on communication. The desire for contact and [...]
Group Motion will present new works by local choreographers at Spiel Uhr on Valentine’s Day weekend, February 13 & 14, 2010. Spiel Uhr, meaning “play clock” in German, features local choreographers and performers as they perform original dance works for the first time. The program starts at 8 p.m. at the Community Education Center Meetinghouse [...]
