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

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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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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival TAPAS Performances

Flamenco master Rosario Toledo will present a series of performances entitled TAPAS: the culmination of a month-long residency with Philadelphia artists Eun Jung Choi, Meg Foley, and Germaine Ingram.

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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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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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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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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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In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company: Performances in Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park Conservancy presents a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances in various locations in Fairmount Park and along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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Available Light

Experience this monumental and deeply-realized artistic encounter of dance, light, sound, and architecture on a scale not seen since its premiere 30 years ago.

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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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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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22nd New Edge Residency

Theater artist Justin Jain, theater artist Adrienne Mackey, and choreographer Olive Prince developed new work in the CEC’s New Edge Residency program.

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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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Parallel Destinies

Parallel Destinies was a collaborative multidisciplinary dance piece that commemorated the nine Africans enslaved in George Washington's house during his presidency in Philadelphia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the arts of Southeast Asia.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Art and Advocacy

Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.

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Master Class with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at the Annenberg Center on March 14.

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Performance Lecture by Malavika Sarukkai at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Bhratanatyam dancer and choreographer Malavika Sarukkai will present a performance lecture that ties the language of Indian classical dance to its interpretation in the visual arts.

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Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself

Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself allowed Nichole Canuso to reevaluate her choreographic practice, mentoring under U.K.-based dancer Wendy Houstoun.

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The School for Temporary Liveness

An eight-day pop-up performance experience, presented in the format of a school that occupies the Philadelphia Art Alliance building, features artists Nora Chipaumire and Isabel Lewis and generates new forms of spectatorship and participation.

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