Following are two audience members’ accounts of “SoMos,” a large-scale site-specific work choreographed by Merián Soto.  “SoMos” was performed in the North Philadelphia barrio as part of Taller Puertorriqueño’s free performance series, Café Under the Stars: Spotlighting the Arts in El Barrio. photos by Lindsay Browning Reflection 1 by Robert Bingham, a Doctoral Fellow in [...]

Taller Puertorriqueño  presents Merián Soto’s Triangulations: Revisiting OYWPP at the Lorenzo Homar Gallery, from Dec 7,  2012 – January 19, 2013.  Triangulations is presented as part of Taller’s 2012-13 series of exhibitions titled Claiming Spaces. The opening reception will take place Friday Dec 7 from 5:30-8PM.   Admission is FREE.  The Lorenzo Homar Gallery is located [...]

Photo credit: Lindsay Browning By Alexi Davenport for The Dance Journal Choreographer and associate professor of dance at the Esther Boyer College of Music & Dance at Temple University, Merián Soto offered a culmination of her seven year work on the Branch Dance Series with the presentation of Somos. Staged in an abandoned parking lot [...]

Renowned choreographer Merián Soto presents the culmination of her 7-year Branch Dance Series with the monumental SoMoS, bridging nature and the urban landscape, in the North Philadelphia barrio on October 12, 2012, as part of Taller Puertorriqueño’s free performance series, Café Under the Stars: Spotlighting the Arts in El Barrio. This large-scale work features three [...]

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, [...]

Merián Soto/Performance Practice announces Wissahickon Reunion,  a one-year cycle of 4 Branch Dance performances  that will take place in Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Park.  The series, will  consist of four outdoor performances, one each season spanning from  October 2011- June 2012.   The first performance, Fall, will take place at Bluebell Meadow on Sunday October 23 , [...]

by Nicholas Gilewicz for Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog photos by Bill Hebert One of the Live Arts Festival highlights with Philadelphia origins is Merián Soto’s new work Postcards from the Woods. A professor at Temple University and a long-time member of the dance community in both Philadelphia and New York, Merián’s no stranger [...]

by Nicholas Gilewicz, Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog Photos by Bill Hebert Two Fridays ago I had the luck of attending a special preview of Merián Soto’s Postcards from the Woods, premiering at the Live Arts Festival next month. After the jump, some thoughts and pics from the preview event. Merián encouraged the audience [...]