Brenda Dixon Gottschild book talk in Mt. Airy

12 Feb 2012
14:00:00 - 15:00:00

The Big Blue Marble bookstore

Sunday, February 12, 2012

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Brenda Dixon Gottschild will be discussing her book about PHILADANCO founder Joan Myers Brown. To learn more about this recently released bio-history, click here.

551 Carpenter Ln.
Philadelphia, PA 19119
215-844-1870
For more information on the bookstore, click here.

Dance

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Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

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Branch Dance Series

Merián Soto continued to develop the Branch Dance Series, a deeply meditative, multimedia performative process that became the basis for her piece in the 2009 FringeArts Festival.

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News

In Print: The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

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Pennsylvania Ballet Presents "In the middle, somewhat elevated" at "50th Finale" Celebration

Pennsylvania Ballet will perform In the middle, somewhat elevated by choreographer William Forsythe as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. The Ballet originally acquired this piece for performances in 2010, with Center support.

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Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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Pew Fellows News: CAConrad Receives Lambda Literary Award, Leroy Johnson’s Work at the Barnes Foundation, Stacy Levy’s Installation Enlivens the Schuylkill River, and More

Our June Pew Fellows news roundup highlights awards and honors for artists in film, poetry, and media arts; a memorial concert that pays tribute to a beloved Klezmer musician; and several new print and musical releases.

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Rhythmning & Improvising History

Germaine Ingram, a 2010 Pew Fellow, collaborated with improvisational dancer and choreographer Leah Stein in a year-long laboratory to explore rhythm and improvisation practices.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Reggie Wilson on the “Cultural Retentions” of Sacred Spaces

Choreographer Reggie Wilson discusses his approach to choreographing and curating dance in religious spaces with Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher.

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Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation: Work-In-Progress

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Susan Foster

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Sam Miller

Sam Miller is the former president of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and currently serves on the Board of Amrita in Phnom Penh. He served as a Center dance panelist and LOI panelist in 2013, Pew Fellowships evaluator in 2014, and Pew Fellowships Panel Chair in 2015.

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The Partita Project

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Cynthia Ling Lee

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