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Author: Chuck Schultz

Educated at the Delaware College of Art and Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the University of Pennsylvania, Chuck Schultz is a painter and sketch artist with a love of dance and theater. Check out his work at yochuckart.blogspot.com.
Features Reviews Theater

Performance in Sketch: NICE AND FRESH (Automatic Arts)

Chuck Schultz February 28, 2017 No Comments

Last weekend Moving Arts of Mount Airy witnessed a gathering artists connecting subjects to their own artistic voices

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Dance Features Reviews

Dance in Sketch: MALPASO DANCE COMPANY (NextMove Dance)

Chuck Schultz February 21, 2017 No Comments

The Cuban dancers of Malpaso Dance Company evoke the Cuban experience through an interplay of color and shadow.

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Features Reviews Theater

Theater in Sketch: THE ENCHANTED (IRC) and A DOLL’S HOUSE (Swarthmore)

Chuck Schultz February 12, 2017 No Comments

Comparinge the absurdist comedy of Giraudoux with the serious drama of Ibsen.

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Reviews Theater

ROMEO & JULIET (Media): A Rose of any other name

Chuck Schultz February 5, 2017 No Comments

The lights show a bare stage; the set is two dilapidated buildings with scaffolding. The curtains intermittently change from day to night with a transient…

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Features Theater

Dance in Sketch: DOUG VARONE AND DANCERS (NextMove)

Chuck Schultz January 24, 2017 No Comments

oug Varone and Dancers presented three different dances

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: Chris Davis in ONE-MAN APOCALYPSE NOW

Chuck Schultz January 17, 2017 No Comments

The setting is Vietnam and we are just waking up at the voice of Martin Sheen.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: ENTER LAUGHING (Players Club of Swarthmore)

Chuck Schultz January 14, 2017 No Comments

This meta-play within a play is clever and ridiculous.

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Dance Features Previews

Circus in Sketch: Previewing CIRQUE ELOIZE

Chuck Schultz January 10, 2017 No Comments

At a sneak peak of he cast of the circus that is coming to Merriam Theater January 13-14, 2017, Cirque Eloize performed for the kids of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and brought some real laughs and smiles for all.

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Features Theater

Pantomine in Sketch: SLEEPING BEAUTY (People’s Light)

Chuck Schultz December 28, 2016 2 Comments

Sleeping Beauty the Musical Panto by Peter Pryor and Samantha Reading expresses an ageless story. It is an artistic exploration into space, time, and sound.

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Dance Features

Dance in Sketch: More from Annie Wilson’s AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD (FringeArts)

Chuck Schultz December 13, 2016 No Comments

Events like AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD need to happen more often. It isn’t just dance; it is socially provocative artwork.

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Features Theater

Theater in Sketch: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (PAC)

Chuck Schultz December 6, 2016 1 Comment

Sketches of William Shakespeare’s ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL from Philadelphia Artists’ Collective.

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Dance Features

Dance in Sketch: AT HOME WITH THE HUMORLESS BASTARD

Chuck Schultz December 4, 2016 No Comments

“Is this a dance performance or a social experiment?”

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Dance Theater

Theater in Sketch: JEAN & TERRY

Chuck Schultz December 1, 2016 No Comments

Philadelphia artist Melissa Krodman and long-time collaborator Kelly Bond enter the mind’s eye for an experimental new play.

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Dance Features

Dance in Sketch: Koresh Artists’ Showcase November Series

Chuck Schultz November 21, 2016 No Comments

Drawing dance is a challenge. It is difficult to capture gesture, for example, because it is always changing. Modern dance provides a new means to an abstracted form of story telling. Each performance left me with a different feeling: bizarre, savage, sweet and tender, sensual, and empowering.

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Dance Features

Dance in Sketch: Jérôme Bel (FringeArts)

Chuck Schultz November 13, 2016 No Comments

Witnessing Jérôme Bel’s dance I captured the representation of a baroque drama, an existential dance, and light and sound personified.

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Theater

Theater in Sketch: MOTHER COURAGE

Chuck Schultz October 24, 2016 No Comments

Some sketches of some Brecht.

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Features Music

Opera in Sketch: Giargiari Bel Canto Competition at the Academy of Vocal Arts

Chuck Schultz October 23, 2016 1 Comment

AVA students sing a single aria in competition with each other for prizes awarded by a professional panel of judges and by the audience themselves.

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Music

Opera in Sketch: BREAKING THE WAVES

Chuck Schultz October 8, 2016 No Comments

This opera was really something else. An adaptation by Mizzy Mazzolli (music) and Royce Vavrek (libretto) of a movie by Lars von Trier.

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Fringe Festival Theater

Fringe in Sketch: JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS

Chuck Schultz September 25, 2016 1 Comment

Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other

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Fringe Festival Museums Theater

Fringe in Sketch: THE EUMENIDES

Chuck Schultz September 21, 2016 No Comments

THE EUMENIDES was performed amid extraordinary ancient artifacts in the Penn Museum.

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