Posts Tagged ‘ Olive Prince ’

Kun-Yang Lin Dancers and the creation of ONE

Mar 18th, 2013 | By | Category: Lew's Danceland

by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers are premiering ONE: Gifts from Afar by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin at the Mandell Theater this week on the same bill as Lin’s 2011 piece, The Mandala Project. Twice this month, Lin, his dancers and Ken Metzner, executive director of the company, opened their rehearsals for their [...]



Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers moves to Mandell Theater with World Premiere on March 22 & 23

Jan 24th, 2013 | By | Category: Archived Articles

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers makes their Spring Philadelphia appearance at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater on Friday, March 22 at 8 PM and Saturday, March 23 at 3 PM and 8 PM. The program, ONE: Gifts from Afar, features the world premiere of One, an exploration of humankind’s rituals surrounding the drive to win. Offering contemporary, Zen-inspired works [...]



REVIEW: Merián Soto’s SOMOS

Oct 16th, 2012 | By | Category: Reviews

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 [...]



Merián Soto to present the culmination of her 7-year Branch Dance Series with the monumental SoMoS

Sep 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Dance Updates

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 [...]



Drexel Dance Ensemble Up Close

Feb 5th, 2012 | By | Category: Bill Hebert's Behind The Lens

Back with another Photo Column AND with a feature image premiering and currently showing only here on the Dance Journal from the recent Drexel Dance Ensemble Winter Concert Performance “Snapshots”. The feature image is from a piece titled “Sea of Glass” which premiered at the Singapore Youth Festival International Night and was choreographed by Olive [...]



REVIEW: Ties That Bind at the Bride

Dec 5th, 2011 | By | Category: Reviews

By Merilyn Jackson FOR THE INQUIRER “Ties that Bind,” seen at the Painted Bride over the weekend, exemplified, through the choreography of three Philadelphia dance makers, just how this  dance community creatively pools its resources. The first two works, by Jennifer Morley and Olive Prince, employed rigging hanging from the fly and told stories, while [...]



By Local Collaboration

Oct 20th, 2011 | By | Category: Bill Hebert's Behind The Lens

Hua Hua Zhang Visual Expression in collaboration with Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers presenting “Two Hands” This week’s image depicts a collaboration between two artists Hua Hua Zhang Visual Expression and Kun-Yang Lin & Dancers. The piece brought together the worlds of puppetry and dance in a truly beautiful & breathtaking collaboration. Just by looking at the image [...]



Philly choreographer dances with art at Rowan

Oct 18th, 2011 | By | Category: Artist News

A former Rowan faculty member returns to present an original dance piece, in conjunction with the exhibition at the Rowan University Art Gallery, on Wednesday, October 26 at 7 pm. Olive Prince – an award winning, Philadelphia-based dancer/choreographer and experimental video artist who has taught at Rowan – offers this unique performance, which integrates with [...]



Merián Soto – Performance Practice announces Wissahickon Reunion

Oct 13th, 2011 | By | Category: Archived Articles

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 , [...]



Poetic Passageways in Philadelphia’s Magic Garden

Aug 31st, 2011 | By | Category: Partner Publication - FringeArts

The mosaic corridors of Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, Isaiah Zagar’s non-traditional visionary art environment, will come to life through a series of exquisite, evocative vignettes on September 8 and 9 at 6:00PM and 8:00PM. In Poetic Passageways, choreographer/dancer Olive Prince (Olive Prince Dance and Drexel University), composer/musician Christopher Farrell (Rit Mo Collective and Temple University), and [...]