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.

Grants & Grantees

SoMoS

SoMoS, the culmination of Merián Soto's ambitious Branch Dance series, encouraged audiences to participate in meditative movement with the dancers.

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News

Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Awarded Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, King Britt’s Orchestral collaboration, Plays from Jennifer Kidwell and Bruce Graham in the News, and More.

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes new exhibitions and performances from coast-to-coast, critically-acclaimed plays, and a national award in music composition.

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Event

Flamenco's Influence on Visual Arts and Popular Culture

Four flamenco scholars weigh in on the connections between flamenco and popular culture in varying historical contexts.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Leah Stein

Stein’s choreographic practice integrates improvisational methods in site-specific works that illuminate the connections among the body, sound, location, and audience.

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Grants & Grantees

Fail Better

Nichole Canuso Dance Company engaged in an exploratory project with a team of collaborators to develop a multidisciplinary dance-theater work inspired by Samuel Beckett's play Act Without Words I.

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Questions of Practice

*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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Pennsylvania Ballet Performs Trisha Brown's O zlozony/O composite

As part of Bryn Mawr College's ongoing retrospective, Trisha Brown: In the New Body, the Pennsylvania Ballet performs Brown's O zlozony/O composite, becoming the first US ballet company to perform Brown's choreography.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Annie Wilson

Investigating what she describes as “public vulnerability and intimacy,” Wilson’s performance work intertwines experimental dance, humor, feminist practice, and audience interaction.

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Facing Front Part Two: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Germaine Ingram

At age 33, Germaine Ingram (Pew Fellow, 2010) took up dance under the tutelage of a Philadelphia tap legend, the late LaVaughn Robinson (a 1992 Pew Fellow).

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Grants & Grantees

action is primary

Centering on Foley's improvisational performance practice, action is primary will feature photographic, moving-image, sonic, and written documentation of up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15 p.m.

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Exploration of Voice and Choreography with Pauline Oliveros

Leah Stein Dance Company conducted on a year of research and training with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, who coined the practice of "Deep Listening."

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Reciprocal Relationships with Communities

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol on creating group performances based on reciprocal relationships with communities.

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Event

Master Class with Rosario Toledo

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

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Grants & Grantees

Mash-Up Body Lab

Kate Watson-Wallace worked with four dancers in a research project that embraced, appropriated, and layered movements found in online and pop culture ephemera, in order to develop new types of "21st-century" dance.

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The Flight Attendants

Jumatatu Poe developed The Flight Attendants, a satirical commentary on the service industry, during summer workshops with members of his company, idiosynCrazy productions.

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ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Bryn Mawr College

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury on April 9.

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Crimean Tatar Cultural Recovery

Research into Crimean Tatar choreography through an engagement with indigenous choreographers in Lviv, Ukraine expands the repertoire of this American-Ukrainian dance ensemble.

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