Choreographers Project and Masters Exchange with Ralph Lemon

Susan Hess Modern Dance

2010

$30,000

With a history of over 30 years of serving dancers, choreographers, and performance artists in development of their movement practice, Susan Hess Modern Dance (SHMD) hosted Bessie Award winner Ralph Lemon in a weeklong Masters Exchange residency, investigating choreographic process with the three participant artists of the 2010–11 Choreographers Project. A prolific dance artist and the recipient of an inaugural United States Artists Fellowship in 2006, Lemon's career crosses genres and intercultural interests. He has also developed a significant body of writing and has a strong record of multidisciplinary collaboration. SHMD invited the public to view a select number of the sessions with Lemon to get a glimpse of the choreographic process at work.

Recipients

Susan Hess Modern Dance

Dance

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Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking): Public Conversations

Partners for Sacred Places collaborates with Philadelphia Contemporary and Danspace Project to present a series of public conversations for Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking).

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Ally

A performance-as-exhibition that reimagines the traditional retrospective, conceived by MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni in collaboration with choreographer Anna Halprin and dance artist Stephen Petronio during a residency at The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Dorothy Wilkie

Dorothy Wilkie's (Pew Fellow, 2007) choreography involves the re-staging and re-choreographing of traditional West African and Afro-Cuban dances.

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Artifact Suite

Featuring Forsythe's signature choreography, this production pushed the physical limits of Pennsylvania Ballet dancers, demanding sharp timing, precise syncopation, and coordination.

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Brindabani Jatra: Weaving Dance and Divinity

In conjunction with Threads of History: Resurrection of a Textile, dance artist Madhusmita Bora presents a classical Indian dance performance in collaboration with the Dancing Monks of Assam on their first US tour.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Dancer taisha paggett on the Relationship Between Art and Politics

Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett discusses how her artmaking engages with the “political landscape of being.”

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Steppes

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented a home season program featuring Ukrainian costumes and live music by violinist Vasyl Popadiuk.

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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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Potluck and Dance Party with Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Cajun traditions, blues, and R&B. On Saturday, December 13, Zydeco Crossroads and Allons Danser welcome zydeco musicians Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys to Norristown's Holy Saviour Club for a holiday potluck and dance party.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is Peng Family professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

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taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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Master Class with Rosario Toledo

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with dancer Rosario Toledo.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Crossroads of Dance and Visual Art

Setting the stage for the performances of Trisha Brown's Early Works at the Barnes Foundation, Susan Rosenberg, scholar-in-residence at the Trisha Brown Dance Company, offers an overview of Brown's career at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

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Levée des conflits: Professional Workshop Preview

In advance of the September workshops with Boris Charmatz, project co-directors host an informal professional preview for dance and performance artists .

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Grants & Grantees

In the middle, somewhat elevated

The Pennsylvania Ballet acquired William Forsythe's contemporary dance masterpiece In the middle, somewhat elevated.

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Kate Watson-Wallace

Kate Watson-Wallace is a Philadelphia-based choreographer, 2007 Pew Fellow, and the co-director of anonymous bodies.

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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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Trisha Brown: In the New Body

A retrospective of selected dances by Trisha Brown, an internationally known leader of post-modernism and an enduring renegade whose work has rarely been seen in Philadelphia.

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Available Light

Experience this monumental and deeply-realized artistic encounter of dance, light, sound, and architecture on a scale not seen since its premiere 30 years ago.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

RoseAnne Spradlin

RoseAnne Spradlin is a New York City-based choreographer whose work explores body consciousness and innovation of structural forms in contemporary dance.

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