The Five Spot

1993

$20,000

To commission a new work for the company by Urban Bush Women choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, entitled The Five Spot, inspired by the 50's jazz club. It will be set to a compilation of period jazz, with collaboration from poet/writer Hattie Gossett and visual artist Treva Offutt. Project dates: Sept.1993-May 1994.

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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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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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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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Midway Avenue by Nichole Canuso Dance Company

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

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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Discussion Series

A series of discussions will be held with acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz and various artists and cultural practitioners.

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Grants & Grantees

Ally

Ally is a performance-as-exhibition, conceived by MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni in collaboration with pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin and contemporary dance artist Stephen Petronio.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Reggie Wilson on the “Cultural Retentions” of Sacred Spaces

Choreographer Reggie Wilson discusses his approach to choreographing and curating dance in religious spaces with Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher.

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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Judson Dance Theater

Wendy Perron, former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company presents a slide lecture on this pivotal moment in dance history.

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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Performances

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design presents acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz's experimental performance piece Levée des conflits, as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival.

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News

On Stage This Fall: Immersive Works from Artist Tania El Khoury, Choreographer Boris Charmatz at the Barnes Foundation, International Contemporary Ensemble at Christ Church and More

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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

Thomas DeFrantz

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology and teaches in dance and African and African-American Studies at Duke University.

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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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Grants & Grantees

Midway Avenue

Canuso's new solo work Midway Avenue built on research initiated with UK-based choreographer Wendy Houstoun, premiered in May 2014 as part of FringeArts' year-round programming.

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Endless Shout: Virago-Man Dem In-Process Showings by Cynthia Oliver

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents in-process showings of Cynthia Oliver’s dance-theatre work Virago-Man Dem, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Faustin Linyekula

Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula is a leading contemporary African choreographer and the founder of Studios Kabako.

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thINKingDANCE.net

Dance artist and writer Lisa Kraus developed ThinkingDance.net, an online project that covers the landscape of dance in the Southeastern Pennsylvania region.

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