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Author: Gregory King for the Dance Journal

Gregory King is visiting assistant professor and Consortium on Faculty Diversity fellow at Swarthmore University.
Dance Reviews

NOT A GIRL… NOT YET A WOMAN (Beyond Dance Company): Dance review

Gregory King for the Dance Journal June 29, 2016 No Comments

I have no doubt that Johnson and BDC will contribute to the dance scene in Philadelphia.

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Dance Music Reviews

SAAYUJA (THE MERGING) (Annenberg): A celebratory blend of Bharatanatyam and carnatic music

Gregory King for the Dance Journal May 9, 2016 No Comments

Part storytelling and part culture sharing, Saayuja was more than the merging of art forms, it was the intermingling of cultures and politics

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Dance Reviews

Philadanco (PIFA): Global artistry: four choreographers, one aesthetic

Gregory King for the Dance Journal April 23, 2016 No Comments

World renowned and locally grown Philadanco contributed to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts with nights of first rate dancing to sold out houses.

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Dance Reviews

ACTION IS PRIMARY #315 (Meg Foley/Moving Parts Dance): Dance review

Gregory King for the Dance Journal April 15, 2016 No Comments

The subtext of Meg Foley’s Action is Primary, is that in order for one to affect change, engaging in mobilization is of chief importance.

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Arts Dance Museums Reviews Visual

Graffito Works: Improvisation Leading PROCESSION: THE ART OF NORMAN LEWIS (PAFA)

Gregory King for the Dance Journal March 13, 2016 No Comments

The first comprehensive museum overview of influential artist Norman Lewis opened at PAFA with an improvisational dance performance.

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Dance Reviews

CHERCHEZ LA FEMME (femme. collective): Female Works Through The Eyes Of One Male Gaze

Gregory King for the Dance Journal February 16, 2016 No Comments

Archiving experiences of the female body, the Femme Collective not only revealed conditions of the feminist iconography, but was also staged potluck for sourcing the gendered self.

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Dance Reviews

Two Philadelphia Companies Shine at APAP 2016

Gregory King for the Dance Journal January 29, 2016 No Comments

Koresh Dance Company and Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers perform in a APAP showing.

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Dance

Fringe in the Market with Megan Flynn Dance Company

Gregory King for the Dance Journal January 14, 2016 No Comments

Fringe in The Market is a twice a month curated series aimed at introducing the general public to some of Philadelphia’s most innovative, interesting, and engaging performers.

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Dance Reviews

Bearded Magda and Boy Heroes at the First Scratch Night of 2016

Gregory King for the Dance Journal January 7, 2016 No Comments

A look at the first Scratch Night of 2016 at FringeArts.

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Dance Reviews

X-MAS PHILES (Philadanco): What’s in the box labeled X-mas Philes?

Gregory King for the Dance Journal December 12, 2015 No Comments

X-MAS PHILES is fun. But fun showed itself as a side-track.

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Dance Features

Joan Myers Brown Talks Christmas and THE X-MAS PHILES

Gregory King for the Dance Journal December 8, 2015 No Comments

Celebrating her 46th year as artistic director of the Philadelphia Dance Company, Joan Myers Brown continues to break barriers while preserving rich dance traditions.

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Dance Reviews

DANCO ON DANCO (Philadanco): Hits, Misses, and Slam Dunks!

Gregory King for the Dance Journal October 21, 2015 No Comments

Boasting a youth ensemble, an apprentice company and a main performing company, The Philadelphia Dance Company is committed to celebrating and preserving African American traditions in dance.

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Dance Music Reviews

BLACK MALE REVISITED (XPN/ Jaamil Kosoko): Fringe review 71

Gregory King for the Dance Journal September 25, 2015 No Comments

The dark space at the headquarters of Fringe Arts hosted a kaleidoscope of blackness. Sad blackness. Angry blackness. Rescued blackness. Incarcerated blackness. Lost blackness. Dead blackness.

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Dance Fringe Festival

Scratching The Surface: Scratch Night previews the 2015 Fringe Festival

Gregory King for the Dance Journal August 27, 2015 No Comments

Leading up to the Fringe a series of Scratch Night performances showed excerpts of self-produced work that will be presented at the festival.

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Dance Reviews

SUPPER, PEOPLE ON THE MOVE (Cardell): A topic tackled with great success

Gregory King for the Dance Journal June 28, 2015 No Comments

Supper, People on the Move was a well thought out and efficaciously executed choreographic project that called for us to carefully examine the paths people take to conquer new horizons.

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Dance Reviews

BLACK SWAN (Dance Iquail): Tutus as Afros just aren’t enough!

Gregory King for the Dance Journal March 3, 2015 No Comments

Dance Iquail used the tutu, which is an iconic costume in classical ballet, placed it atop the heads of the dancers and shifted its representation from a symbol of white ballet to a symbol of black pride.

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Dance Reviews

Temple University Dance Faculty Concert: Branches, boxing rings, and the boldly political

Gregory King for the Dance Journal February 2, 2015 No Comments

Temple’s faculty show featured works by current dance faculty and guest artist Andrea Miller of Gallim Dance

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(photo credit: William Frederking Photography
Dance Reviews

THE DELICATE HOUR (Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak): 60 minutes from memory

Gregory King for the Dance Journal January 26, 2015 No Comments

Shanahan writes that her research focuses on new movement language that expands the notions of body beyond those prescribed by Western approaches to dance. N

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Photo by Frank Bicking with Dancer, Andrea Romesser of The Koresh Dance School.
Dance

The Koresh Artist Showcase: A Slice For You, A Slice For Me!

Gregory King for the Dance Journal January 22, 2015 No Comments

On January 18, The Koresh Artist Showcase presented a variety of works that made it easy to remember why we love to watch dance in the first place.

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