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Category: Dance

Coverage of dance, movement, and related performance art in Philadelphia.

Arts Dance Interviews

Twenty years of Headlong Dance Theater

Christopher Munden April 4, 2012 No Comments

Through its nearly twenty-year history, Headlong Dance Theater has been stretching boundaries. Stylistically, the company has incorporated such movement backgrounds as ballet, jazz, Bharata Natyam,…

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Dance Previews Theater

Wild Bunch in Wild Punch in Kensington

Christopher Munden November 23, 2011 No Comments

California transplant John Rosenberg opened the Papermill Theater in an old (you guessed it) paper mill in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia in 2010. Since then, it’s…

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Annie Wilson in Kensington.
Dance Interviews

Annie’s Got a Brand New Bag: See It at the Philly Fringe

Josh McIlvain September 1, 2011 No Comments

Annie Wilson is a local dancer-choreographer-performer-art maker type who has been making her presence known these past several years since graduation from the University of…

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Dance Interviews

Personal Thoughts Made Physical: Jaamil Kosoko talks dance, poetry, and the Gemini Show

Josh McIlvain May 31, 2011 No Comments

Philly-based choreographer and dance impresario Jaamil Olawale Kosoko is a busy man these days—creatively, curatorially, and administratively. He recently changed the name of his company…

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paying for music for a dance performance
Dance Features

Dance and Music Rights, or When Were You Planning To Pay For That Music, Friend?

Josh McIlvain April 10, 2011 No Comments

In the not distant past, I was watching a dance performance, which I was enjoying, and I couldn’t help thinking—if this dance company was caught…

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philadelphia theater and Newt
Dance Features Theater

Lessons from Newt Gingrich: or how we in the theatre and dance communities can stop acting like losers and learn to make the nation love us

Josh McIlvain March 22, 2011 1 Comment

How often have you heard that performing arts are dying, that we’re a niche market, that you can never make a living off of it,…

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this somehow represents meta theater in Philadelphia
Dance Features

Meta is Dead. Long Live Meta.

Josh McIlvain March 15, 2011 No Comments

I want to talk about shows in theatre and dance that deal with the audience head on. In other words, works that acknowledge the existence…

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conceptual dance philadelphia
Arts Dance Features

Conceptual Dance and Star Power

Josh McIlvain February 21, 2011 No Comments

My dance vocabulary is limited, so please forgive me as I redefine terms for my own benefit. When I say conceptual dance, I am referring…

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Arts Dance Previews

The Right Moves: BalletX’s Summer Series at the Wilma Theater

Christopher Munden July 26, 2009 No Comments

Perhaps it was a natural cultural chauvinism that kept me away from ballet for so long, even as my sister danced her way through elementary…

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