Lew’s Danceland

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Pennsylvania Ballet Artistic Director Ángel Corella launched his Director’s Choice Digital season online, with broadcast films of the company’s premiere works.  Corella spoke about the current programming […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Philadanco dancers Janine Beckles and Joe González returned to the stage via Livestream broadcast from the Annenberg Center’s Harold Prince Theater stage in a program of solos […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is an expansive retrospective of the artist’s artwork co-presentation of by The Whitney Museum in New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  It […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal | photo credit: Erik Carter Jaamil Olawale Kosoko’s American Chameleon is a continuing remote symposium of text, artwork, research, and discussion about many of the artist’s central […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal One of the breakouts hits of the 2020 Virtual Fringe is ‘Fun With Dick and Jane: working title’ a 40-minute film recorded in the FringeArts Sound Stage […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Filmmaker David Gordon, a founding member of the legendary 60s dance collective at the Judson Church, established his own successful itinerant company for several years before leaving […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal As the Coronavirus rages on, colleges and universities have been pressured to re-open their campuses, most designing a hybrid model of operation – a combination of in-person […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Since 1996, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival has occurred on a variety of venues throughout the city with a panorama of shows and events in every performing arts […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal In a wide-ranging interview from her home in West Philadelphia, Philadanco founding artistic director Joan Myers Brown talks about the dance industry during the pandemic, racial equality, […]

by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal The groundswell of solidarity across racial lines for the Black Lives Matter movement has galvanized the national push for police reform in the wake of the brutal […]