Coverage of dance, movement, and related performance art in Philadelphia.
For the past 8 years, the ETC. Performance Series has provided local dancers with a supportive environment in which to experiment, try out new ideas and strut their stuff.
View More November 2014 Showcase (ETC Performance Series): Camaraderie, innovation, and tap
FringeArts’ monthly Scratch Night is a great place to see inventive performance art in an embryonic form.
View More Scratch Night returns to FringeArts
On November 8, 2014, join Phindie for Bike Tour 2.0, which will take viewers to experience the Near Northeast’s idiosyncratic, cutting-edge arts!
View More PHINDIE BIKE TOUR 2.0: Kensington Arts
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 times
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 life
The performance encapsulated the company’s signature combination of strong technique and quirky choreography.
View More BalletX Shines at Art After 5
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 comedy
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)
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 86
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 84
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
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 76
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 75
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 74
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 72
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 71
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 64
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 62
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!
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 54