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Our Questions of Practice research series includes in-depth publications on issues critical to artistic practice that derive from our experience as cultural grantmakers. Explore our web-based and print publications here.

Books & Major Publications

In Terms of Performance, A Keywords Anthology

Books & Major Publications

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Books & Major Publications

What Makes a Great Exhibition?

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Pigeons on the Grass, Alas: Contemporary Curators Talk About the Field

Books & Major Publications

Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility

Books & Major Publications

Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation

Books & Major Publications

Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World

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danceworkbook: Susan Foster! Susan Foster! Three Performed Lectures

Programs at the Center

Shelf Life

Books & Major Publications

danceworkbook: Belonging and Solo: Roko Kawai

Questions of Practice

PMPY: Krithika Rajagopalan

Rajagopalan, associate artistic director and principal dancer of Chicago's Natya Dance Theatre, discusses her perspective on co-authorship—one that stands in relation to a time-honored form.

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Questions of Practice

George Lewis Co-authorship Keynote

"What is an author?" It is a question the composer George Lewis asks, via Foucault, in his keynote essay for our Questions of Practice series on co-authorship in artistic practice.

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News

In the News: Center-Funded Fringe Festival Productions Praised in The New York Times

Two Center-funded performance projects presented by FringeArts at the 2015 Fringe Festival—Available Light and After the Rehearsal/Persona—have gained positive reviews in The New York Times.

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Grants & Grantees

Izu House Project

Roko Kawai and a team of collaborators traveled to Japan to develop the dance/sound piece Izu House.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Yael Bartana

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News

Fellows Friday News: Awards for James Ijames and Jenny Sabin, David Scott Kessler Screens His New Film, Linh Dinh Publishes Book of Photos and Poetry

In this month’s Pew Fellows news, playwright James Ijames receives a Whiting Award, filmmaker David Scott Kessler presents a screening of his new film, and architect Jenny Sabin wins the 2017 Young Architects Program.

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The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance is autobiographical and presents a running story in which Xavier, a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, is both narrator and dancer.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jerome Chou

Jerome Chou is an urban planner, landscape architect, community organizer, and senior manager of international projects at Van Alen Institute.

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Event

Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal Virtual Discussion

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Questions of Practice

From "An Art of Refusal: Lucinda Childs' Dances in Silence, 1973–78" Suzanne Carbonneau

A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78 is a dynamic reexamination of the early dances of one of America's most influential contemporary choreographers. In this excerpt from the forthcoming multimedia online publication, dance critic and historian Suzanne Carbonneau reflects on beauty as refusal in Childs' work.

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Event

Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a concert with the ensemble So Percussion.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jeanne van Heeswijk

Jeanne van Heeswijk is a Dutch visual artist whose work centers on the complex relationship between public space and urban renewal.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Composer Andrea Clearfield

Composer and Pew Fellow Andrea Clearfield on what inspired her to dedicate her first opera to the life of an 11th-century Tibetan yogi, the influence of composer Margaret Garwood on her practice, and more.

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Grants & Grantees

RAIR: Live at the Dump

This interactive, site-specific program invited audiences to explore a Northeast Philadelphia recycling facility from the artist's perspective, with a series of films, performances, and discussions focused on increasing public awareness of the waste stream and the role of art in shaping social and environmental consciousness.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle Marathon

EgoPo Classic Theater presents the world premiere of Lydie Breeze Trilogy as originally intended: with all three parts performed successively in a nine-hour marathon performance.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans (Pew Fellow, 2010) never stops thinking about the traditions and evolution of jazz music, as well as renewing jazz's legacy in the African-American community.

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Grants & Grantees

Alien She

This nationally touring exhibition, presented at Vox Populi in spring 2014, is the first to critically examine the lasting impact that the Riot Grrrl movement has had on artists today.

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Mississippi Blues Project

WXPN produced a year-long performance series that brought authentic Mississippi blues to Philadelphia through live performances and radio broadcasts.

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The Andersen Project

Robert Lepage's multi-media theater work was inspired by stories written by famed Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.

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Breaking the Waves

The world premiere of a new chamber opera by composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, inspired by the 1996 film by Danish auteur Lars von Trier, tells the harrowing tale of a naive newlywed who has chosen to marry outside of her strict Calvinist community in coastal Scotland.

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