By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal An ambitious smorgasbord of Latin music and dance presented by Latin Fiesta in collaboration with Concilio, 1492: Music and Dance from Spain to the Americas, gave voice to an often overlooked sector of the arts community at the Suzanne Roberts Theater during the final week of this year’s [...]

by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal At the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, dance and physical theater are providing intriguing time-traveling moments. The opening dance event, Savion Glover’s DANCE SPACE, left audience members angry because they couldn’t see his whole body in motion for much of the time, but no such concerns in [...]

March 28th through April 27th, Philadelphia embarks on an month-long adventure as the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) asks audiences “If you had a time machine…” PIFA’s 2013 theme asks a diverse group of artists to make daring explorations of a specific moment in time and create exciting, thought provoking new works that [...]

By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal As a tap dancer and long time fan of Savion Glover, I was too star struck to do much more than nod when the legendary hoofer announced, some five years ago, that he wanted to do a show completely in the dark.  I was living in London at [...]

by Lewis Whittington for The Dance Journal The theme for PIFA is time travel and Savion Glover did a little of that with “DANCE SPACE”, a single performance directed by Chaney Chuck Buster Brown and Slyde. The high-concept was just a backdrop to the virtuoso tap star, who without doubt, is on his own time-space [...]

Photograph and review by Kilian Kröll for The Dance Journal For a second, an industrial lamp suspended from the ceiling flickers on and hums. And so opens Miro Dance Theatre’s PUNCH at the Kimmel Center’s Innovation Studio, two stories below the ground. What follows is a post-modern mash-up of themes and images inspired by Pulcinella, [...]

By Merilyn Jackson For The Inquirer Weather-wise, spring is returning to Philadelphia in fits and starts. But inside the Wilma Theater Wednesday night the stage bloomed with potted flowers, campy song, loopy dance, and ballooning boobies. In Proliferation of the Imagination, a featured event of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, those balloons actually [...]

As part of the upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA),  SHARP Dance Company will present a multi-media event of dance, digital projection and live vocalists all in an evening of Late Night Cabaret moments. Step back in time to 1900’s France,  with a full night of new dance work by SHARP Dance Companys [...]

Bodies of Text is a series of collaborative dance performances and art exhibitions tied to the book and its interdisciplinary interpretations.   Premiering as a part of the 2011 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts and its theme of Paris 1911, Bodies of Text is rooted in the idea of Art à la Rue and brings [...]

The upcoming Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) will hold the spotlight for three and a half weeks this spring (April 7 to May 1) boasting a slate of unprecedented dance programming—from the rare pairing of the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra to a world premiere by renowned hip-hop phenom, Rennie Harris to [...]