By Ellen Dunkel for the Inquirer Avatar has been a smash, breaking new technological ground (as well as box office records). Avatard, on the other hand, is more retro, revisiting a time of clunky video games. A modern dance created last year by Philadelphia-based dancer-choreographer Megan Mazarick and performed Friday night at Temple’s Conwell Dance [...]

By Merilyn Jackson | For The Inquirer This year’s installment of Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents opened Friday night with part one of the Local Dance History Project/Next Up series, tracking the city’s dance past into the future – what was, who was, what will be, and who will be dancing it. In a preshow video [...]

Interview conducted by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal The Philadelphia Dance Journal was fortunate enough to be able to interview Terry Fox, Executive Director of Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP), as the organization gets ready to kick off their 2010 season in Philadelphia! [Dance Journal] Can you tell us a little about how Philadelphia Dance [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) announced its second annual dance series, Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010, to be held February 26 – March 20. Following 2009’s highly successful inaugural series, this year’s presentation highlights trends in contemporary dance by offering a look back and a look ahead. The series will feature performances, film events, workshops, discussions [...]

In 2003 Gretjen Clausing, Program Director, Scribe Video Center and Terry Fox, Director, Philadelphia Dance Projects, teamed up to co-curate “Motion Pictures.” Now in its 7th year, it has become a unique mini-festival that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for dance, highlighting the power of image and motion in both. [...]

By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer In the monthlong series Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents ’09 curated by Terry Fox, local dance was mixed with the programs of companies from Minneapolis, San Francisco, Seattle, and New York. High points were Headlong Dance Theater’s perspicuous body language and Zane Booker’s and Mathew Janczewski’s multivalenced choreography. Keely Garfield’s [...]

Booker Explores Intimacy In ‘Seven Stories Of Love’ By Lindsay Warner, The Bulletin During this week of February, everyone is busy trying to define love. But a trip to the local card store is a frustrating exercise; how are you supposed to say how you truly feel about a loved one through someone else’s cutesy, [...]

By Ellen Dunkel For The Inquirer By the middle of the evening, it all became clear that nothing was clear. Headlong Dance Theater’s 1994 piece “Take 3″ offered a humorous explanation of experimental dance. The piece featured three performers (codirectors David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith) wearing knit hats and headphones, each taking a [...]

On Saturday, January 31st, 2009 at 7:30pm, Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) will kick off their 2009 season with an Informance by Jennifer Monson at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia. PDP Presents annual series strives to give fresh insight into adventurous dance trends by showcasing local artists alongside their national peers. Jennifer Monson and [...]

PHILADELPHIA –The SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance has announced its 2009 artists who will be presented in Philadelphia as part of the Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents ’09 series (January 31 – February 28). On February 27 and 28 at Temple University’s Conwell Dance Theater, 2009 SCUBA Artist Charles O. Anderson and his company Dance [...]