New site specific work

1993

$10,000

To research and develop a new site-specific performance. The choreographer will work with 5 dancers, sculptor Edward Dormer, percussionist Toshi Makihara, and 12 additional performers. Project dates: Sept. 1993 - Aug. 1994.

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Dance

Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Reciprocal Relationships with Communities

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol on creating group performances based on reciprocal relationships with communities.

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Pennsylvania Ballet: William Forsythe's Artifact Suite

Artifact Suite by choreographer William Forsythe features 29 dancers in choreography that pushes them beyond their perceived physical limits, demanding sharp timing, precise syncopation, and coordination.

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News

Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso and Jennifer Kidwell

Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso (2017) and Jennifer Kidwell (2016) have been awarded artist residencies to cultivate in-progress works during the summer of 2020.

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Master Class Two with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at Drexel University on March 15.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is founding artistic director of Urban Bush Women, a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change.

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Danny Yung

Since the late 1970s, Danny Yung has established a reputation as one of Hong Kong's most influential and pioneering artists.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Founded in 1994 by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is one of the country’s foremost contemporary Asian American dance companies.

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Steppes

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented a home season program featuring Ukrainian costumes and live music by violinist Vasyl Popadiuk.

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Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller

A retrospective surveys Ed Emshwiller’s expansive career in film, video, and visual art, introducing the artist’s groundbreaking work to a new generation of audiences.

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Supper, People on the Move at Drexel University URBN Center Annex

Following a national tour, Silvana Cardell’s large-scale performance Supper, People on the Move returns to Philadelphia with three performances at Drexel University.

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The School for Temporary Liveness

Presented by University of the Arts School of Dance, The School for Temporary Liveness mobilizes educational structures to generate new forms of knowledge and spectatorship.

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In the middle, somewhat elevated

The Pennsylvania Ballet acquired William Forsythe's contemporary dance masterpiece In the middle, somewhat elevated.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

royal hartigan

royal hartigan is a percussionist, pianist, and tap dancer. He has studied and performed the music of Asia, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and the Americas, and is versed in the traditions of African American blues, gospel, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. He served as a Center Performance panelist in 2014 and a Performance LOI panelist in 2015.

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Raphstravaganza: An Urban Kinetic Experience

Leading hip-hop artist Raphael Xavier brought together masterful street performers, extreme BMX riders, acrobatic contortionists, and live music by saxophonist and composer Bobby Zankel for a contemporary circus-style performance in City Hall's courtyard that paid tribute to the soul of the urban street.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 3

Headlong presents the third performance in its series of River Charrettes, featuring artist Martha McDonald and Headlong co-founder David Brick, who will lead an audience through the grounds of The Andalusia Foundation.

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Kazimir's Colors

Pennsylvania Ballet presented the American premiere of Mauro Bigonzetti's Kazimir's Colors, inspired by the Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich.

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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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Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)

A series of performances curated by award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson explores the African American religious experience and Philadelphia’s historic religious sites, in a collaboration between Partners for Sacred Places and Philadelphia Contemporary.

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Exploration of Voice and Choreography with Pauline Oliveros

Leah Stein Dance Company conducted on a year of research and training with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, who coined the practice of "Deep Listening."

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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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