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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

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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

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Cliveden's Living Kitchens: Mid-Century Modern

Cliveden presents an event exploring the mid-century architecture of the historic site with 1960s-themed food, pop-up shops, board games, and television shows.

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News

Leah Stein Dance Company Performs in San Francisco

Leah Stein's Center-funded project Battle Hymns, set to an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, was remounted in San Francisco in the spring of 2013.

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Philadelphia Real Book Concert: Telling the Story

Jazz Bridge presents a performance featuring bassist Christian McBride and guitarist Monnette Sudler.

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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection Panel Discussion I

In conjunction with Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society presents a panel discussion.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Enid Mark

Enid Mark (1932–2008) was a visual artist and a 2001 Pew Fellow.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Terri Lyne Carrington's Money Jungle

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with Grammy winner Terry Lyne Carrington performing selections from her album Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue.

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Grants & Grantees

Advancement Grant: People's Light

People's Light received an Advancement grant to conduct in-depth market analysis and develop the company's approach to diversifying its programs, attracting new audiences, and deepening relationships with existing audiences.

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Grants & Grantees

Rising Sun – Artists and an Uncertain America (working title)

Two historic museums will commission and present the work of 30 contemporary artists to address the canon of American art.

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Grants & Grantees

The Women's Mobile Museum with Zanele Muholi

South African photographer Zanele Muholi creates a mobile exhibition space and engages with 10 Philadelphia women in telling their own stories through self-portraits and portraits of women in the participants’ lives.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Andy Chan Donald

Andy Chan Donald is the associate artistic director at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, overseeing the production of the mainstage season and the development of new work.

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action is primary: Exhibition and Performances

Meg Foley presents an exhibition of improvisational research and performance documenting up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15pm.

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Grants & Grantees

Braiding / Unbraiding / Rebraiding

Headlong completed a five-month-long research and choreographic project with choreographer Tere O'Connor.

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Questions of Practice

Pigeons: Dan Byers

"I curate for curious people. I curate for people who love some other field or subject the same way I love art. I curate for those people who need to be won over, but are willing."

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Midway Avenue in New York

Philadelphia choreographer Nichole Canuso presents a solo performance, originally Center-funded, that uses personal reminiscences and universal yearnings to explore the relationship between memory and self.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Melanie Bilenker

Melanie Bilenker (Pew Fellow, 2010) translates the historic art of Victorian hair jewelry into work that reflects upon the contemporary era.

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Grants & Grantees

Plus Ultra: Awakening the Mercer Museum Core

The Mercer Museum’s collection of pre-industrial American material culture is reinterpreted through new installations in two currently unused rooms in the century-old museum.

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Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary at Booklyn Art Gallery

A selection of collaborative works on paper and textile created by participants of Swarthmore College’s Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary project is on view at Booklyn Art Gallery.

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Grants & Grantees

The Persians

Ellen McLaughlin's adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus included original music by sound designer Daniel Kluger.

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Pig Iron: I Promised Myself to Live Faster

Conceived by Co-Artistic Director Dito van Reigersberg and directed by Dan Rothenberg, this new work builds on Pig Iron's longtime fascination with characters that live on the margins of society.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Ralph Lemon on Ephemerality

Choreographer Ralph Lemon talks about ephemerality in relationship to his work in the dance field, and the complexity of memory.

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