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

Malavika Sarukkai in "The Eternal River—A Journey in Bharatanatyam"

Malavika Sarukkai, a leading Bharatanatyam dancer who challenges traditions of Indian classical dance, performed at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in April 2014.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ty Boomershine

Boomershine has presented his work at Movement Research and Danspace Project, and he arranges and develops workshops and creative/educational residencies for and with Lucinda Childs.

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Grants & Grantees

Tar

Choreographers Charles O. Anderson and Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe developed a new dance work that reinterprets southern folklore.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Bill T. Jones

Bill T. Jones is an artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, as well as the founder of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and executive artistic director New York Live Arts.

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Grants & Grantees

Lie to Me and Shorter Stories

Miller Rothlein commissioned choreographer Antony Rizzi to create a multidisciplinary work inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Neta Pulvermacher

Neta Pulvermacher is artistic director of the Ben Gurion University Dance Company in Beer Sheva, Israel, and professor of dance at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

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Grants & Grantees

Facing Front: The Duets of Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Drozdowski, a curator of performance, will host European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kyle "JustSole" Clark

Kyle "JustSole" Clark is a dancer and choreographer with expertise in hip-hop and street dance. He is the founder and artistic director of Just Sole Street Dance Theater.

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Event

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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “Re-Enchanting” Public Space Through Dance

Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”

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Event

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ronald K. Brown

Dancer and choreographer Ronald K. Brown is the founder of Brooklyn-based contemporary dance ensemble Evidence, A Dance Company.

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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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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jérôme Bel

An experimental choreographer, Bel provokes his audiences with witty, cerebral presentations that pose questions about virtuosity and the nature of dance.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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Grants & Grantees

TAKES

Conceived by Canuso and multimedia director Lars Jan, Nichole Canuso and Lars Jan's multimedia dance work was presented at the 2010 FringeArts Festival.

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