Rennie Harris’ PureMovement brings it back home with Lifted
Choreographer Rennie Harris’ Philadelphia hometown fans and dance colleagues filled the lobby of the Annenberg Center for the first of three performances of his dance-theater
Lewis Whittington is an arts journalist based in Philadelphia. He started writing professionally in the early 90s as a media consultant for an AIDS organizations and then as a theater and dance reviewer for the Philadelphia Gay News. Mr. Whittington has covered dance, theater, opera and classical music for the Philadelphia Inquirer and City Paper.
Mr. Whittington’s arts profiles, features, and stories have appeared in The Advocate, Dance International, Playbill, American Theatre, American Record Guide, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, EdgeMedia, and Philadelphia Dance Journal. Mr. Whittington has received two NEA awards for journalistic excellence.
In addition to interviews with choreographers, dancers, and artistic directors from every discipline, he has interviewed such music luminaries from Ned Rorem to Eartha Kitt. He has written extensively on gay culture and politics and is most proud of his interviews with such gay rights pioneers as Frank Kameny and Barbara Gittings.
Mr. Whittington has participated on the poetry series Voice in Philadelphia and has written two (unpublished) books of poetry. He is currently finishing Beloved Infidels, a play about the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. His editorials on GLBTQ activism, marriage equality, gay culture and social issues have appeared in Philadelphia Inquirer, City Paper, and The Advocate.
Choreographer Rennie Harris’ Philadelphia hometown fans and dance colleagues filled the lobby of the Annenberg Center for the first of three performances of his dance-theater
Philadelphia Ballet followed up its run of Swan lake this month with a challenging triple bill of ballets by George Balanchine, administered a corporate grant
On a cold Philadelphia night in late February, the CHI Movement Arts Center in South Philadelphia was filled to audience capacity for the first time
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre embarks on a national tour this month. This weekend, it will be at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia
The legendary Les Ballets Trocadero De Monte Carlo breezed into Philadelphia on the first leg of their national tour to take the Annenberg Center stage.
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It was one of the year’s dance moments in Philadelphia when Joan Myers Brown gave a heartfelt shoutout to the 75 Philadanco on the December
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky premiered The Nutcracker in Russia’s Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg in 1892. Since then, its many iterations have filled theaters with multigenerational
by Lewis J Whittington for The Dance Journal Koresh Dance Company was back on the Suzanne Roberts Theatre stage for the first time in two