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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

Event

NY Phil Biennial Presents Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Originally commissioned by Mendelssohn Club, for world premiere performances in Philadelphia in April 2014, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform Wolfe's new work as part of the upcoming NY Phil Biennial.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dixon Gottschild’s 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page.”

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Grants & Grantees

Advancement Grant: Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis will design and implement a new curriculum that provides graduates with the entrepreneurial and business skills necessary to forge effective careers within the rapidly changing classical music field, including coaching in how to produce, promote, and present their own music in innovative ways.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Arts Leader Sam Miller on Risk and Artistic Process

Arts leader Sam Miller talked with the Center about the relationship between risk and artistic process.

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Grants & Grantees

Lucinda Childs' Dance

FringeArts presented Lucinda Childs's Dance at its 2010 festival and organized a film series about the life and career of Childs and collaborator Philip Glass.

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Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Free Youth Art Classes

Mural Arts, through their work with Cohabitation Strategies on the Restored Spaces Initiative, is hosting a series of Tuesday/Thursday workshops at their newly-opened, temporary community space and a strategic hub in South Philadelphia.

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Grants & Grantees

Body Against Body

Painted Bride Art Center presented the seminal duets of Bill T. Jones and the late Arnie Zane—challenging works that remain some of the most significant examples of postmodern dance to date.

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Funeral for a Home: Waste Management and Revolution Recovery Tour

Explore the "wastestream" of contemporary Philadelphia and tour the facilities of Waste Management and Revolution Recovery.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Arden Theatre Company

With support from the Center, the Arden has integrated visually dazzling video design into live productions and enhanced its work for young audiences.

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News

New Center-Funded Publications from the ICA and the Free Library of Philadelphia

Commemorating the first major survey of artist Barbara Kasten's work, on view at the ICA, Barbara Kasten: Stages is now available. Edited by curator Judith Tannenbaum in conjunction with the exhibition at the Free Library of Philadelphia, the vividly-illustrated publication Framing Fraktur reinterprets and reframes fraktur.

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Framing Fraktur

Framing Fraktur explores the relationship between traditional fraktur and the work of seven contemporary artists presented through two simultaneous exhibitions this spring. The exhibition will be mounted at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Parkway Central Library, and is free and open to the public.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Thomas Jefferson University

Since 1824, Thomas Jefferson University has offered the highest level of education to students pursuing careers in bioscience and medicine.

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Questions of Practice

Inside the Institute of Contemporary Art: Q&A with Amy Sadao

Institute of Contemporary Art director Amy Sadao talks with us about what it means to be contemporary, the impact of social and political movements on curatorial choices, and the importance of institutional collaboration.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the arts of Southeast Asia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stephanie Richards

Stephanie Richards is an avant-garde trumpeter and composer who has become a prominent voice in the New York experimental scene, collaborating with improvisational pioneers including Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, and Anthony Braxton.

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Grants & Grantees

Funeral for a Home

Temple Contemporary celebrated the life of a single row home before it was razed, in an effort to generate critical thinking, discussion, and action around issues of housing redevelopment and preservation in Philadelphia.

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AUX Performance Space Presents niv Acosta and Jumatatu Poe

The concluding performance of Jamillah James' AUX Curatorial Fellowship includes new dance performances by New York-based choreographer and dancer niv Acosta, and Philadelphia-based choreographer and dancer Jumatatu Poe.

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Grants & Grantees

Artist Residency with Sarah Sze

The Fabric Workshop and Museum received support a two-year artist residency with Sarah Sze—a MacArthur Fellowship recipient known for her dazzlingly intricate, site-specific installations.

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Ars Nova Workshop

Ars Nova Workshop, a free jazz and experimental music presenter, has programmed nearly 700 events since 2000, often in atypical settings.

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Questions of Practice

Alex Torra Zero Cost House Interview

Pig Iron Theatre Company member Alex Torra talks about the experience of performing for Japanese audiences after premiering Zero Cost House in the United States.

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