Coverage of dance, movement, and related performance art in Philadelphia.
Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…
View More FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84
An autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.
View More WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82
THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships
View More THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80
the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to
View More PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79
The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.
View More BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76
Zornitsa Stoyanova asks us to consider the female body as embodiment of generations of ancestral procreation, a host for the alien parasites of new generations, and—through a glass, darkly—as a sexual object.
View More EXPLICIT FEMALE (Here[begin] Dance): 2016 Fringe review 73
Featuring young talents and Zlatina’s storytelling choreography, BARRY is a show with heart and love, quick on its feet.
View More BARRY: MAMALOSHEN IN DANCE (Asya Zlatina): 2016 Fringe review 65
The movement was very inspiring, and the diversity of the show was all encompassing.
View More Fringe in Sketch: FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT
The International Philly Fringe: A welcome to 28 countries
View More International Fringe 2016: A welcome to theater from around the world, including refugees
Brooklyn’s CATCH is a showcase for experimental artists in all genres—The Ed Sullivan Show on acid.
View More CATCH TAKES BOK (Catch and Thirdbird): 2016 Fringe review 59
A highly experimental, improvisational, and fascinating Fringe performance
View More WITH FLINT AND STEEL (Duende): 2016 Fringe review 57
Gunar Montana’s choreography is seriously energetic, more downright sexual than subtly sensual.
View More WROUGHTLAND (Gunnar Montana): 2016 Fringe review 55
An exploration of divorce and disconnection in the California desert.
View More PANDÆMONIUM (Nichole Canuso Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 42.2
A place where acrobatics meets theater, the theater meets the circus, and circus meets blue grass
View More EXILE 2588 (Almanac Dance Circus Theater): 2016 Fringe review 49
Consider the speculum a tool for looking inward in more ways than one.
View More SPECULUM DIARIES (Irina Varina): 2016 Fringe review 48
Bridging the gap between dance and physical theater, CARRIED AWAY delivers an exciting, heartfelt, and stimulating crowd-pleaser.
View More CARRIED AWAY (Brian Sanders’ JUNK): 2016 Fringe review 47
Tangle Movement Arts is back again with a thrilling Fringe Festival performance.
View More SURFACE TENSION (Tangle Movement Arts): 2016 Fringe review 46
Jerome Bel challenges our ideas of what a performance can be.
View More GALA (Jerome Bel): 2016 Fringe review 44
A testament to what Fringe can do: defy genre, defy theme, defy medium, and somehow still manage to be cohesive and emotionally haunting
View More PANDÆMONIUM (Nichole Canuso Dance Company / Early Morning Opera): 2016 Fringe review 42.1
Wilson and his dancers beautifully articulate humankind’s desire to belong.
View More CITIZEN (Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group): 2016 Fringe review 30