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.

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Where is my B-O-D-Y Philadelphia Public Sharing

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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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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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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

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action is primary: Dinner Parties

Part performance, part discussion, and part party, these events invite attendees to discuss the project's improvisational practice.

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Jennifer S.B. Calienes

Jennifer S.B. Calienes is an independent consultant and senior advisor for the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University, where she served as founding director (2004–14).

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The Philadelphia Matter – 1972/2020 Screening at Neighborhood House

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Facing Front: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to performances, the two-week period includes workshops on June 19–20.

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Ogun & the People: World Premiere

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble debuts Ogun & the People at the Annenberg Center.

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Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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Roko Kawai and a team of collaborators traveled to Japan to develop the dance/sound piece Izu House.

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Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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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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Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College’s performing arts series has been presenting innovative works in the Philadelphia area since 1984.

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