Now in its 11th year, MOTION PICTURES has become mini-festival exploring the intersection of dance and video. This year’s festival is co-curated by PhillyCAM Executive Director Gretjen Clausing and Philadelphia Dance Projects Executive Director Terry Fox. Motion Pictures has been a PDP presentation that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects continues to present exciting work through its partnership with SCUBA Touring Network, an opportunity for local, emerging to mid-career dance artists to begin to tour nationally while offering audiences the chance to see artists’ work from around the country. In 2013, this exchange takes place between Philadelphia’s Green Chair Dance Group and [...]

By Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal At the Conwell Theater on the Temple University campus, Philadelphia Dance Projects is presenting sections from Wolf-In-Skins, a dance-opera by New York-based choreographer Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears. The libretto by Williams, is based on ancient Welsh myths, set in a medieval courtly drama and an untamed [...]

In partnership with Philadelphia Dance Projects, Dances Made to Order will offer up its first Philadelphia edition on August 22, 2012. Dances Made to Order is a dance film/video festival available exclusively online at DancesMadeToOrder.com. Every month, Dances Made to Order features three talented artists who each rise to the challenge to create a five-minute [...]

When most folks think of March Madness even if not a sports fan you think of college basketball and the NCAA tournament right? Well in my almost 10 years of shooting dance i’ve never seen such a crazy busy month chock full of awesome dance. I mean with so much going on it’s hard to [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects presents, in partnership with the Boyer College of Music & Dance, the 7th annual SCUBA performances featuring choreographer/dancers GABRIELLE REVLOCK (Philadelphia) and HOLLY JOHNSTON’s Ledges & Bones Dance Project (San Francisco) on Friday March 16 at 7:30PM and Saturday, March 17 at 2:30PM at Conwell Dance Theater, NE corner of Broad Street [...]

To use a sports comparison when I shoot I usually prefer to be a pocket quarterback letting things develop in front of me and not a scrambling quarterback making things happen on the move. This is not to say during some performance shoots, especially and mainly during dress rehearsal runs, that I don’t move around [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects honors a landmark year for a movement pioneer with Leah Stein Dance Company’s 10th Anniversary, an expansive program that reflects on the company’s past and contemplates the road ahead through duet and small group works. During each performance, to be held March 8–11 at the Performance Garage (1515 Brandywine St., Philadelphia), Philadelphia [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) is kicking off 2012 with a series of performances, an informance and a variety of classes and workshops, which will feature local, national and international, contemporary dance artists.  Featured choreographers and artists will include, LEVYdance (San Francisco), Faye Driscoll (New York), Leah Stein Dance Company (Philadelphia), Sean Feldman (UK) and Holly [...]

San Francisco-based LEVYdance returns to Philadelphia with the local premiere of ROMP, an immersive experience where audience and performers inhabit the stage together, raising the stakes for live performance and creating a welcoming environment that is charged with possibility. Their last appearance in Philadelphia was in 2008 with Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents. Artistic Director Benjamin [...]