Henrik Eger talked to the founder of Dance Affiliates about the inner workings of the international dance scene in these more economically strapped times.
View More “IT ONLY GETS HARDER”: Randy Swartz on the dance scene in economically strapped timesCategory: Dance
Coverage of dance, movement, and related performance art in Philadelphia.
Can Movement Be Delicious? Eiko Otake in search of deliciousness in movement and life
Eiko will introduce and explain the philosophy of Delicious Movement as a quiet, slow-paced, creative practice available to everyone
View More Can Movement Be Delicious? Eiko Otake in search of deliciousness in movement and lifeBalletX Shines at Art After 5
The performance encapsulated the company’s signature combination of strong technique and quirky choreography.
View More BalletX Shines at Art After 5New season of NICE AND FRESH brings dance, theater, and NYC comedy
SmokeyScout Productions’ Nice and Fresh performing arts series is like a mini Fringe Festival each month
View More New season of NICE AND FRESH brings dance, theater, and NYC comedyThe Fringe in nine and a half hours: the Phindie Fringe Bike Tour Diaries (part two)
Nine point five hours, five pieces of theater, ten bicyclists, and no great plan on how we’re gonna eat: that was the format for day two of PHINDIE’S OFFICIAL FRINGE BIKE TOUR.
View More The Fringe in nine and a half hours: the Phindie Fringe Bike Tour Diaries (part two)LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86
The topic of Annie Wilson’s LOVERTITS is the female body. But the bodies are at turns irreverent, nonchalant, non-sexualized.
View More LOVERTITS (Annie Wilson): 2014 Fringe review 86SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84
In SPLICE, a single flat wave of board whoops its way through the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, which consists of about four rooms, vaguely defined by false walls.
View More SPLICE (Leah Stein Dance Company): Fringe Review 84WHAT NARWHALS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE (Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins): Fringe Review 77
Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins set their work in Lee’s living room of her small home in South Philly in the on-and-off tradition of the Rowhouse Fringe.
View More WHAT NARWHALS TALK ABOUT WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE (Grace Mi-He Lee and Leslie Elkins): Fringe Review 77#SHAMANICINTERFACES (Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater): Fringe Review 76
Attempting to embrace “the space between…the familiar and unfamiliar” dancers run rampant through five “interfaces” of movement in #SHAMANICINTERFACES.
View More #SHAMANICINTERFACES (Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater): Fringe Review 76RESURRECTION ROOM (Gunnar Montana): Fringe Review 75
At last year’s Fringe Fest, we entered a blood-splattered BASEMENT filled with all the torment of a broken heart. Gunnar Montana brings us into a shiny, neon-galactic RESURRECTION ROOM this year.
View More RESURRECTION ROOM (Gunnar Montana): Fringe Review 75FROM OUR LIVING ROOM (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe Review 74
FROM OUR LIVING ROOM comprises five original pieces—four duets and one solo—choreographed and performed by the all-female members of the emerging company Birds on a Wire.
View More FROM OUR LIVING ROOM (Birds on a Wire Dance Theatre): Fringe Review 74AFTER THE SUMMER SUN (BalletFleming): Fringe Review 72
Award-winning choreographer and artistic director Christopher Fleming has created a beautiful program of new works to open BalletFleming’s 2014-15 season.
View More AFTER THE SUMMER SUN (BalletFleming): Fringe Review 72BROKEN ROAD (Joanna McBride): Fringe Review 71
A thought-provoking performance, BROKEN ROAD explores the tension that tears apart families. Choreographer Joanna McBride uses ballet-inspired movement, drawing from her own experience to drive…
View More BROKEN ROAD (Joanna McBride): Fringe Review 71NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MOTH (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge): Fringe Review 64
Flynn and VanDenend Sorge captured the spirit of the Fringe season by experimenting within their art form as they intimately shared their pasts.
View More NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MOTH (Megan Flynn & Teresa VanDenend Sorge): Fringe Review 64PROJECT – THROUGH AN APERTURE (Exosphere): Fringe Review 62
This project consists of six short dance films—three by collaborators Ashley Searles and Wim Winklewagon, and three by Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company with Carmella Vassor-Johnson.
View More PROJECT – THROUGH AN APERTURE (Exosphere): Fringe Review 622014 Rocky Awards – Winners!
Unlike other awards that have a panel of judges or votes by the public, each 2013 recipient has the honor of bestowing a 2014 Rocky to an individual they feel represents the best of Philadelphia dance in the previous season.
View More 2014 Rocky Awards – Winners!NECESSARY EFFORTS (The Naked Stark): Fringe Review 54
What is necessary? In NECESSARY EFFORTS, the mixed-bill production by The Naked Stark, the answer offered is the work of making.
View More NECESSARY EFFORTS (The Naked Stark): Fringe Review 54BALLETX AT THE BRIDGETTE MAYER GALLERY (BalletX): Fringe Review 49
BALLETX’s intimate performance featured a company dancer and performers from Murmuration, a dynamic and experimental ensemble.
View More BALLETX AT THE BRIDGETTE MAYER GALLERY (BalletX): Fringe Review 49WOULD I LIE TO YOU? (RealLivePeople): Fringe Review 26
Compelling in its investigation of untruths, half-truths, white lies, omissions, and embellishments, WOULD I LIE TO YOU? left me with questions. What is a lie? Is something a lie if we lie only to ourselves?
View More WOULD I LIE TO YOU? (RealLivePeople): Fringe Review 26TWENTY LOOKS OR PARIS IS BURNING AT THE JUDSON CHURCH (XS) (Trajal Harrell): Fringe Review 25
Trajal Harrell’s TWENTY LOOKS comes in a selection of lengths and sizes, and although the Presented Fringe version of his solo show runs extra small, at a mere 25 minutes to a 25-person audience (hence the XS in the extended title), you will be reminded that good things come in small packages.
View More TWENTY LOOKS OR PARIS IS BURNING AT THE JUDSON CHURCH (XS) (Trajal Harrell): Fringe Review 25