Drift, Guillermo Ortega Tanus´ culminating work as MFA candidate in Temple University’s Boyer College Dance Department, will be performed on November 16 & 17, 2012 at Conwell Dance Theater. Drift is a dance-theater work that transports the audience to both real and psychological spaces of two women bonded by sisterhood. The work explores the conflict [...]

A good portion of what I do as a performance photographer has a lot to do with timing and anticipation. Not coming from a performance background it has been watching and photographing various styles of dance, everything from hip hop, modern to ballet to develop a basic understanding of anticipating and being able to identify [...]

POD (Point of Departure) served up an awesome show over the weekend “Mixed Drinks” pairing 30 different choreographers with a composer.  The extra twists were each choreographer didn’t receive their music till the evening before, had only 2 minutes each to show their stuff and some choreographers were paired with the same composer/score of music [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

On April 14, 2012 at 7:30PM, Studio 34 will present JUXTaPOSE as a part of its Second Saturdays Series. JUXTaPOSE is a performance series curated by Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and produced by James Peniston, the Co-Founder of Studio 34. Picking up where Nicole Bindler left off over a year ago with her StudioSeries, Kosoko has [...]

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 [...]

Philly PARD offered up a most tasty Mixed Grille last evening with the continuation of their popular dance series and the presentation of four delectable new works from a most formidable cast of Philadelphia dancers. The evening started with the audience sitting in an intimate space with the arrival of trays of votive candles and [...]

FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival is a weeklong festival focused on improvisation that will occur for the first time ever on January 10th-16th. Is improvisation an obscure niche? Or is it a practice that trickles, gushes, and spills in all directions, saturating the work of performance artists of various aesthetics, generations, mediums, [...]