Posts Tagged ‘ Melanie Stewart ’

Deborah Hay Solo Festival

Nov 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Archived Articles

Judson era dance luminary, Deborah Hay, spends a week in residence in Philadelphia, PA. November 6th – 11th, 2012. She will offer a workshop to professional dance artists at Mascher Space Cooperative and student participants from University of the Arts. The week will culminate in a festival co-produced by thefidget space and Mascher Space Cooperative [...]



Inside Mixed Drinks: A Dancer’s Perspective

Oct 15th, 2012 | By | Category: What Kat Saw

By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Today I take off my critic’s hat to make a confession: I don’t really like taking risks.  Being an artist, this puts me at a significant disadvantage.  Art, after all, is all about venturing into the great unknown to try something new.  Nonetheless, performance opportunities for tap dancers [...]



POD serves up some Mixed Drinks

Oct 14th, 2012 | By | Category: Bill Hebert's Behind The Lens

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 [...]



POD – Four Philadelphia Choreographers Collaborate On A Season Of Premieres

Sep 23rd, 2012 | By | Category: Archived Articles

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 [...]



The nEW Festival selects 2011-2012 Choreographers

Apr 6th, 2011 | By | Category: Artist News

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 [...]



Philly artists make trouble with Rowan dancers

Nov 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Archived Articles

Dance-making and trouble-making are more fun with others. Collaborating with professional guest artists, Rowan University students created three unique, movement-driven performances with shared themes that have become one dance production: Making Trouble. Performances are December 9 – 12, 2010; Thursday – Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 3pm in Tohill Theatre. Rowan dance faculty [...]



THE nEW FESTIVAL’s 7TH Annual Summer Intensive

May 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Dance Education

The dance-driven artist-fueled nEW Festival celebrates its 7th year with a series of community classes and an evening of fresh dance at the The University of the Arts (UArts) School of Dance, from June 1 – 18, 2010.  The nEW Festival supports choreographic research and professional development for resident artists though bi-annual residencies including daily [...]



The nEW Festival sails into its 7th season!

Dec 18th, 2009 | By | Category: For Immediate Release

The dance-driven artist-fueled nEW Festival sails in to its 7th year with a series of community classes and an evening of fresh dance at the The University of the Arts (UArts) School of Dance, from January 4 – 10, 2010.  The nEW Festival supports choreographic research and professional development for resident artists though bi-annual residencies [...]



Melanie Stewart takes on Jekyll and Hyde

Oct 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Archived Articles

Exploring a new approach to the classic “Jekyll and Hyde” story, Rowan University’s Department of Theatre & Dance brings two internationally-acclaimed theatre artists to campus for an experimentaln and original work, The Last Days of Dr. Jekyll. Performances are November 12 – 15, Thursday-Saturday at 7 and 9 pm and Sunday at 3 pm, in [...]



Kill Me Now: Q&A with Melanie Stewart and John Clancy

Aug 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Partner Publication - FringeArts

by Andrew Zitcer,  Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog Photo by Alan Kolc At Melanie Stewart‘s new show Kill Me Now, you, the audience, will get to decide the fate of aspiring dancers during a live “reality” competition. The stakes will be high, folks, so you better be prepared. In order to make sure you [...]