nEW 2009

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre

2009

$25,000

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre presented the 2009 nEW Festival, a program that supports choreographic projects through rehearsal and production processes, comprised of community classes, workshops, and informal showings. Throughout the year, nEW serves as an incubator for new work and offers some of Philadelphia's most innovative dance artists an opportunity to engage in choreographic research and development in a collaborative environment. During the showings, audience members are invited to preview the work, meet the artists, and learn more about the nEW Festival residency program.

Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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Event

The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 2

Headlong's second River Charrette will take place at RAIR and will address sustainability issues through art and performance.

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Event

Trisha Brown In the New Body: Proscenium Works, 1979–2011

Bryn Mawr College presents 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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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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Grants & Grantees

John Jasperse's Fort Blossom

Bryn Mawr College presented noted contemporary choreographer John Jasperse's Fort Blossom Revisited, created in 2000 and previously performed only at The Kitchen in New York City.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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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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Endless Shout

This timely, interdisciplinary, experimental series of dance, music, poetry, mixed media installations, and interactive programs—from acclaimed artists and scholars such as choreographer taisha paggett, designer Raul de Nieves, and composer George Lewis— invites audiences to consider African American performance aesthetics and the role of performance in museum spaces.

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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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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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Event

Free CardioCreativity classes from the creators of Dance Apocalypse

Professional dancers Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler, creators of The Dance Apocalypse, will lead participants through an all-levels class that includes wild music, hearty laughter, and opportunities to create.

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Grants & Grantees

Joan Myers Brown Book Research and Development

Gottschild conducted research for her book chronicling the life of African American ballerina Joan Myers Brown.

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Risk of Flight

BalletX commissioned choreographer Adam Hougland to create a new ballet for the company, featuring live music by cellist Zoë Keating.

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News

In Print: The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory

How does the body serve as a repository for knowledge? On June 26, 2018 we see the release of our latest publication, The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory.

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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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Event

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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Jungwoong Kim

Choreographer and dancer Jungwoong Kim was born and raised in South Korea, where he studied traditional Korean dance and martial arts, and now resides in Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Leah Stein

Choreographer Leah Stein (2018) spoke to us about the origins of her site-specific choreography, her present-day process, and the “inexhaustible” qualities of Philadelphia.

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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

Body Against Body

Painted Bride Art Center presented the seminal duets of Bill T. Jones and the late Arnie Zane—challenging works that remain some of the most significant examples of postmodern dance to date.

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