New Work

2002

$10,000

This project will support the creation of a new work based on a collection of Italian folk tales, investigating nonverbal storytelling and theatrical techniques.

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Dance

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Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Reggie Wilson's Stamped Stomped Stumped

Through the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents a new work by choreographer and Guggenheim Fellow Reggie Wilson.

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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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Grants & Grantees

Lucinda Childs' Dance

FringeArts presented Lucinda Childs's Dance at its 2010 festival and organized a film series about the life and career of Childs and collaborator Philip Glass.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Boris Charmatz

Boris Charmatz is a choreographer, dancer, and director of Musée de la danse (Museum of Dance).

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Meg Foley

Foley, a 2012 Pew Fellow, explores how every movement, no matter how ordinary or seemingly inconsequential, informs a responding movement, and so on, in an ongoing creative feedback loop.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on Creating a Museum of Dance

Choreographer Boris Charmatz on how Musée de la danse is considering what a collection can be in the field of dance.

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Reggie Wilson

Reggie Wilson is the artistic director of Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group, where he presents his unique blend of African and post-modern dance styles.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Grants & Grantees

Supper, People on the Move

This large-scale performance, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015. The second performance will be simulcast live for a public audience at Independence Mall.

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FringeArts

FringeArts presents, develops, and commissions a range of high-quality contemporary performing and visual arts in Philadelphia.

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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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The Dance Apocalypse at New York Live Arts

Gabrielle Revlock shares a solo version of her recent duet with Nicole Bindler, about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Foster

Dr. Susan Leigh Foster is a choreographer, dancer, and scholar. Her "danced lectures" became a launching point for the third iteration of the Center's danceworkbook series.

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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020 Live Preview

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Toni Shapiro-Phim

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

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News

On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Community Workshops

A series of community dance workshops will be held as part of Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design's Center-funded project Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits.

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Grants & Grantees

Artifact Suite

Featuring Forsythe's signature choreography, this production pushed the physical limits of Pennsylvania Ballet dancers, demanding sharp timing, precise syncopation, and coordination.

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Kulu Mele: *Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas*

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble presents Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas, a dance program with a selection of works from Ogun & the People.

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Susan Rethorst: Inquiring Mind/Choreographic Mind

Bryn Mawr College's retrospective introduced local audiences to Rethorst's work and featured a series of public events, all of which provided unique windows into Rethorst's methodology.

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