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 [...]
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 (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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
