Costuming and Re-Orchestration of the Carpathian Dances

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

2009

$40,000

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble represents Ukrainian culture through dance by drawing on various classical, contemporary, and folkloric styles. This grant supported the creation of new costumes and the re-orchestration of music for the company's Carpathian dances, which enhanced the artistic production capacity of the company.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Edisa Weeks

Edisa Weeks is a choreographer, educator, and director of DELIRIOUS Dances, a performance group that creates intimate environments that merge theater with dance.

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Grants & Grantees

Jérôme Bel and Jan Fabre Choreography

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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

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni creates work in performance art, sculpture, and photography.

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News

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

How does the body serve as a repository for knowledge? On June 26, 2018 we see the release of our latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Madhusmita Bora

Born and raised in Assam, India, dancer Madhusmita Bora is co-artistic director of the Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company.

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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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Event

Philadelphia Museum of Dance: manger Performances

In the first featured event of Drexel University Westphal College's Philadelphia Museum of Dance, choreographer Boris Charmatz examines the presentation of public performance in manger.

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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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Event

Master Class with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at Drexel University on March 15.

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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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Performance Lecture by Malavika Sarukkai at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bhratanatyam dancer and choreographer Malavika Sarukkai will present a performance lecture that ties the language of Indian classical dance to its interpretation in the visual arts.

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Gender, Traditions and Techniques in Flamenco

Michelle Heffner Hayes will provide context for the development of flamenco as a technique, its gendered conventions, and the standardization of its norms.

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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Peggy Baker

Peggy Baker is one of Canada's most treasured modern dancers and choreographers, and the artistic director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects.

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Grants & Grantees

Steppes

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

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Event

Supper, People on the Move

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Grants & Grantees

Bad Blood

Philadanco reconstructed Bad Blood, a highly physical and seldom-performed piece by Ulysses Dove, which premiered at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in April 2014.

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Event

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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Bharatanatyam Master Classes with Malavika Sarukkai

Bharatanatyam dancer Malavika Sarukkai will offer three public master classes, open to local dancers for participation and the general public for observation.

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