Do-It-Yourself Workshops are Open To All Philadelphia Area Households Headlong Dance Theater announces Do-It-Yourself-With-Headlong, an unprecedented opportunity for area residents to create self-produced shows in their own homes under the guidance of one of Philadelphia’s most innovative performance companies. Headlong will offer a series of three free workshops open to all Philadelphia area households on [...]

Headlong Dance Theater returns to the stage this May with a new show, DESIRE, directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens, and performed and co-conceived by Headlong co-directors Amy Smith, Andrew Simonet, and David Brick. The piece will be at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street, one of my favorite places, May 4 and 5 at 8pm [...]

Headlong Dance Theater is seeking four Philadelphia households to participate in This Town Is A Mystery, a groundbreaking new performance project that will premiere during the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. This unprecedented project will journey into four households, transforming each home into a  theater and the household members into performers. Headlong is looking for [...]

At a public panel discussion in Rapid City, South Dakota, National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman announced that the agency will award 863 grants to organizations and individual writers across the country. The awards total $22.543 million, encompass 15 artistic disciplines and fields, and support projects in 47 states, the District of Columbia, [...]

“Welcome to the Jet Propulsion Laboratories 2011 Rover Driver Conference! Please register, put on your name tag, and get your group ready for action. Engineering, Coding, Landing Apparatus, and Sustainability. There’s work to do.” Red Rovers, by the imaginative Philadelphia-based Headlong Dance Theater, in collaboration with visual artist Chris Doyle, explores the lives of robots [...]

By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer Philadelphia’s dancers have built a community that’s the envy of other cities around the country. A Washington City Paper article last month cited Headlong Dance Theater as a ringleader, quoting one of its founders, David Brick, as saying, “You have to figure out how to do things on your [...]

Who doesn’t like a cool silhouette am I right? This is an image from week 1 of Sam-Gam Bam! During the show at Drexel’s Mandell Theater you’ll see Headlong Dance Theater, Three Aksha and Group Motion perform together in a triple-bill of classical and experimental American and South Indian dance. There is still three chances [...]

Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Executive Director of the Philadiction Movement and 2011 Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in DC, is curating a new set of works here in Philadelphia – The Gemini Show: A Cabaret of Daring Dirty Duets. Celebrating all the characteristics of a Gemini, Kosoko has organized a [...]

From September 2 – 17, the annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival will celebrate its 15th Festival year with 16-days of nonstop groundbreaking performances and wild creativity. The Festival features cutting-edge dance, theater, music, and interdisciplinary works by renowned artists from the U.S. and international contemporary arts scene. A platform for daring, innovative, and highly interdisciplinary [...]

Nine local dance artists and organizations receive $929,000 in funding The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance has awarded a total of $929,000 to nine outstanding and adventurous dance projects. The grantees represent four dance companies, two presenting organizations, and three individual artists. Dance Advance director Bill Bissell commented, “This year’s grantees [...]