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[ September 27, 2021 ] Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Debut at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center Friday, Oct 22 Happening in Philly Dance
[ September 27, 2021 ] Boyer College of Music and Dance, Dance Department presents George Staib’s fence, Oct 29-30 Happening in Philly Dance
[ September 23, 2021 ] I Stand on the Shoulders of Giants: Rennie Harris’ Lazarus Reconnects Me to Childhood Memory Helanius J. Wilkins
[ September 21, 2021 ] Ani/Malayaworks’ Nanay: How To Hold and Be Held Mads Klemm
[ September 20, 2021 ] Mariana Valencia’s dance rhapsodies & polemics on AIR Lewis J Whittington

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Debut at Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center Friday, Oct 22

September 27, 2021 0

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) announces its first domestic tour since the pandemic with a debut evening-length performance at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center. KYL/D. one of the country’s premier contemporary Asian-American dance companies celebrates the [...]
Boyer College of Music and Dance, Dance Department presents George Staib’s fence, Oct 29-30

September 27, 2021 0

The Temple University Dance Department is pleased to announce that this year’s annual Dance Alumni Showcase will feature an evening-length work by George Staib and his company staibdance. Several current dance students will join the [...]
Dancefusion & Movement Migration present DANCE VOICES, Oct 1 & 2

September 13, 2021 Comments Off on Dancefusion & Movement Migration present DANCE VOICES, Oct 1 & 2

Dancefusion, Philadelphia’s dynamic modern dance repertory company will present DANCE VOICES in collaboration with Movement Migration from Charlotte NC and New York City. The program will feature both companies with three in-person performances the last [...]
Expansions Contemporary Dance Ensemble is Bridging the Distance, Sept 9-Oct 3

September 4, 2021 Comments Off on Expansions Contemporary Dance Ensemble is Bridging the Distance, Sept 9-Oct 3

“Bridging the Distance,” Expansions Contemporary Dance Ensemble’s offering for the 25th Philly Fringe Festival, takes its audience on a tour of site-specific dance that ranges from a sculpture garden in Chestnut Hill to a skate [...]
Nichole Canuso Dance Company premieres Being/With, Sept 9 – Oct 2

August 20, 2021 Comments Off on Nichole Canuso Dance Company premieres Being/With, Sept 9 – Oct 2

Being/With, a new piece by Nichole Canuso Dance Company and curated and presented by FringeArts, is a performance installation that aims to ﬁnd new ways of connecting communities and individuals through a coordinated personalized experience [...]
Choreographer Shannon Murphy’s Home in the Dark, September 18-20

August 13, 2021 Comments Off on Choreographer Shannon Murphy’s Home in the Dark, September 18-20

Philadelphia choreographer Shannon Murphy, trusts her gut. She is known for her “beautiful, tense, and complex performances,” to quote Courtney Colón in The Dance Journal. Her collaborators, some of the most dynamic veteran performers in [...]

9th Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission to feature Myzrie House, by movement artists Mark Wong and Nicole Burgio, Oct 15 & 16

by Press Release in In The Spotlight Comments Off on 9th Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission to feature Myzrie House, by movement artists Mark Wong and Nicole Burgio, Oct 15 & 16

The Temple University Department of Dance, Institute for Dance Scholarship, is delighted to present the ninth Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission, Myzrie House, by movement artists Mark Wong and Nicole Burgio. Two people are thrust into a [...]

Philadelphia Dance Projects kicks off its 25th Anniversary year with If Walls Could Dance, Oct 22-23

September 18, 2021 Comments Off on Philadelphia Dance Projects kicks off its 25th Anniversary year with If Walls Could Dance, Oct 22-23

Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP) kicks off its 25th Anniversary year with If Walls Could Dance, a two-night [...]

The Cannonball Festival is making a huge splash at this year’s Philly Fringe 2021

September 13, 2021 Comments Off on The Cannonball Festival is making a huge splash at this year’s Philly Fringe 2021

by Steven Weisz for The Dance Journal The Cannonball Festival officially started on September 9th but I still managed to catch up online with Ben Grinberg, co-founder of Almanac Dance Circus Theater, who partnered up with MAAS to create an independent hub of activity during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. He was gracious with his time to answer my questions about Cannonball Festival. which runs through October 2nd, and what it would be offering audiences and [...]

Mariana Valencia’s dance rhapsodies & polemics on AIR

September 20, 2021 0

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal | Photo by Maria Baranova New York-based choreographer Mariana Valencia brought her 2020 solo show AIR to the Philly Fringe September 17-18 at the Drake Theater’s Proscenium Stage in Center City. For more than an hour, Valencia narrated her personal stories about growing up in Chicago’s Hispanic-American community in the 80s. Mariana Valencia started her dance career on a local Chicago TV show at age of three. [...]

Megan Bridge and Zornitsa Stoyanova’s Altered States: A Performance Conversation

August 12, 2021 Comments Off on Megan Bridge and Zornitsa Stoyanova’s Altered States: A Performance Conversation

By Isabella Mojares for The Dance Journal “Presence feels like opening my attention up to as much as possible” Earlier this month, Megan Bridge (Fidget) and Zornitsa Stoyanova (BodyMeld) hosted the US premiere of their [...]

Shayla-Vie Jenkins Leads Ceremonial Journey with On Buried Ground

September 14, 2021 Comments Off on Shayla-Vie Jenkins Leads Ceremonial Journey with On Buried Ground

by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal The Christ Church Burial Ground in Philadelphia’s Old City was the setting for Shayla-Vie Jenkins’ meditative, site-specific work, On Buried Ground. The performance took place Saturday evening, September 11, and was presented as part of this year’s FringeArts Festival. Subtitled Remember Them, the event beautifully combined performance and ritual. Jenkins, a performer who is eloquent in both word and gesture, served as poet, dancer, and spirit guide. The [...]

Reclaiming Bodily Freedom with Dara J. Meredith in The Bridge of Our Roots

September 19, 2021 0

by Gina Palumbo for The Dance Journal On Saturday, September 18th, I had the pleasure of seeing The Bridge of Our Roots, choreographed by Dara J. Meredith, at the celebrated Suzanne Roberts Theater. Meredith, whose own roots trace from Atlanta to Philadelphia, is a faculty member at Temple University and a full-time educator in the Philadelphia Public School System. In this evening-length work, Meredith brought to life the familiar studio and street styles of Philadelphia [...]

Ani/Malayaworks’ Nanay: How To Hold and Be Held

September 21, 2021 1

by Mads Klemm for the Dance Journal Ani/Malayaworks presented Nanay at Bartram’s Garden Community Boathouse as a part of the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The work was performed by a cast of Filipina/x dancers who shared stories of their Nanays (Tagalog for Mothers), immigration, colonization, and ideas of home. Ani Gavino directed Nanay with collaborators Isabella Mojares, Sevon Desemone Wright, E Fajardo-Canlas and Malaya Ulan. Upon entering the boathouse, the audience was met with a droning [...]

I Stand on the Shoulders of Giants: Rennie Harris’ Lazarus Reconnects Me to Childhood Memory

September 23, 2021 0

by Helanius J. Wilkins | reposted with permission for The Dance Journal Ahhhhhh… Mr. Ailey. Sitting on an angle – not quite in profile, introduces himself by saying “Hi. I’m Alvin Ailey, and I am a choreographer.” This is the scene of one of my earliest childhood memories. My eyes glued to the television screen; I was watching a PBS Special on the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. This PBS Special became a defining moment [...]

A Breath of Fresh Air: Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Presents inHale/exHale Performance Series

August 26, 2021 Comments Off on A Breath of Fresh Air: Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers Presents inHale/exHale Performance Series

by Olivia Wood for The Dance Journal Last night, August 25, 2021, I had the immense pleasure of attending KYL/D’s first live, in-person inHale/exHale showcase since the start of the pandemic. Over a year has passed since an audience gathered inside Chi Movement Arts Center, the company’s home on South 9th street, to watch dancers perform just an arm’s breadth away. Curator Evalina (Wally) Carbonell organized a superb lineup of international artists as well as [...]

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