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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Iquail Shaheed

Dance Iquail's artistic director, Iquail Shaheed, seeks to create dance projects that tell stories not frequently heard in the performing arts, and to engage with audiences drawn from Mantua, the West Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up.

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Event

Raphael Xavier: The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

Dancer, choreographer, and 2013 Pew Fellow Raphael Xavier takes hip-hop techniques from the street to the stage and tells the autobiographical story defined by sacrifice, passion, and transcendence.

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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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The Dance Apocalypse by Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler

Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler star in this dance collaboration about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Grants & Grantees

Carnival, a New Work by Mark Morris

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble celebrated its 40th anniversary with the world premiere of Carnival, an original dance piece by contemporary choreographer Mark Morris.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born, New York-based artist and choreographer.

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Event

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Wendy Rogers

Wendy Rogers has choreographed and performed contemporary dances for over 40 years around the county, including California and New York.

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Event

Flamenco for Everyone with Michelle Heffner Hayes

During this interactive session with festival educational curator Michelle Heffner Hayes, Ph.D., participants will learn how to view and listen to a traditional flamenco concert.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Kiley

Michael Kiley is a composer, sound designer, performer, and educator working in dance, theater, and public installation.

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Grants & Grantees

Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits

Acclaimed French choreographer and experimental dancer Boris Charmatz visited Philadelphia for a residency and public presentation of his performance piece for 24 dancers, Levée des conflits (Suspension of conflicts), at Drexel's Mandell Theater, co-presented by FringeArts, in combination with a series of interpretive programs.

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Master Class with Israel Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Israel Galván at the Kimmel Center's Innovation Studio on March 12.

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Questions of Practice

What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, curator Carlos Basualdo contemplates the idea of a museum as a choreographic score.

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*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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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

Rosario Toledo performs Vengo, a piece that switches in and out of the flamenco idiom, originally created to be performed in the streets of her hometown of Cádiz, Spain.

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Grants & Grantees

Cell

Headlong created a dance-theater event designed to be experienced by one audience member at a time.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nora Chipaumire

Born in Zimbabwe and based in New York City, Nora Chipaumire creates work that challenges and embraces stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body.

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