My dancecard was definitely full this past weekend. It started off by watching the fabulous Drexel Dance Ensemble present their show “Shift” and then continued with two performances I photographed: the South Philly Salon presented by Melissa Diane (Jacelyn Biondo & Kristen Shahverdian) along with MM2 Modern Dance at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts [...]

With week #1 of Zornitsa Stoyanova’s work “shatter:::dawn” in the books and with week #2 on the way (May 27th – May 29th) I wanted to give a glimpse inside the work. Being a site specific work with special lighting I decided to add black & white special effects to the images not so much [...]

By Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Tomorrow night marks the opening of shatter:::dawn, the latest dance/installation venture from experimental movement artist Zornitsa Stoyanova.  Taking “intimate” to the extreme, the performance will accommodate just ten audience members each night and features a cast of five dancers including Stoyanova, Christina Gesualdi, Adam Kerbel, Mason Rosenthal and [...]

On Saturday, May 26th, 2012 at 8 p.m., Zornitsa Stoyanova, director of Herebegin Dance will perform her new solo Paper Duchess as part of Mixed Grille Performance Series hosted at PARD SPACE on 1720 Mt.Vernon St. in Philadelphia. Paper Duchess premiered at Falls Bridge Festival in January 2012, presented in the same bill with work [...]

fidget, a platform for the collaborative work of Megan Bridge, choreography and Peter Price, time-based media, will premiere situation:becoming, an evening length quartet performed by Megan Bridge, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Mauri Walton, and Annie Wilson at thefidget space in April and May 2012. There will be a total of seven shows, Thursday April 26th–Saturday April 28th [...]

My Generation is a new dance work, choreographed and directed by Kate Speer in collaboration with the dancers, that presents the high speed, plugged in lifestyle that so many twenty-somethings have adapted to in order to process the barrage of information and social networking that can connect them around the globe. Using high velocity and [...]

The NY Dance Exchange is the annual artists exchange between the CEC/Community Education Center and NYC based New Dance Alliance. The event presents an evening of dance and performance by an outstanding group of artists including up and coming and established artists from both cities. This season’s Exchange brings to Philadelphia dancers/choreographers Vanessa Anspaugh and [...]

PIMA Group announces the upcoming premiere performance of ohhorror, a live horror dance performance. Set to a score of  “found sounds”, ohhorroris the result of investigating horror films by Artistic Director, Melisa Putz. The performance conjures up nightmares, inner fears, demons and possessions with the campy and straightforward tactics and formulas used in horror films. [...]

by Mara Miller for Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog Zornitsa Stoyanova, Philadelphia-based choreographer and founder of Here[begin] dance company, was never really into contests. She had two professional athletes for parents and played her fair share of sports growing up, but “was never all that competitive.” In September, Zornitsa will challenge eleven other area [...]

The Joyce Theater Foundation (New York), in association with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and On the Boards (Seattle),announce the 12 choreographers in each of the four cities who will be participating in The A.W.A.R.D Show! 2009. The 48 participants were selected from a total of 218 applicants [...]