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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The Quiet Circus: Weekly Performances

Headlong presents outdoor performances every Saturday at the Washington Avenue Pier along the Delaware River.

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Grants & Grantees

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Brenda Dixon Gottschild

Dixon Gottschild’s 50-year career as a writer and cultural scholar surveys the presence and influence of the black dancing body in America, in what she calls “choreography for the page.”

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The Lives of Giants by the Khmer Arts Ensemble

Bryn Mawr College's Performing Arts Series presented a month of free events to expand audience's knowledge of Cambodian dance, music, and culture that culminated in a performance of The Lives of Giants by the Khmer Arts Ensemble.

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Battle Hymns

Leah Stein choreographed a dance to an original score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang that eventually toured to San Francisco.

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Megan Bridge

Dance and choreographer Megan Bridge co-directs < fidget >, a platform for her collaborative work with composer, designer, and musicologist Peter Price.

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Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation: Work-In-Progress

jmatatu m. poe presents a work-in-progress performance of Let 'im Move You: This is a Formation at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

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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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Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born, New York-based artist and choreographer.

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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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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

Dorothy Wilkie

Dorothy Wilkie's (Pew Fellow, 2007) choreography involves the re-staging and re-choreographing of traditional West African and Afro-Cuban dances.

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Faith Project: Open Studios

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers will hold a series of open studio events to present in-progress excerpts and discuss the evolution of Faith Project.

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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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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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News

Pew Fellows News: Raphael Xavier’s Hip-Hop Practice in Visual Art Exhibition, James Ijames’ ‘Kill Move Paradise’ at The Wilma Theater, and Leah Stein’s Site-Specific Dance at Woodmere Art Museum

This month, Pew Fellows offer premiere performances and exhibitions with works in photography, film, theater, dance, and music.

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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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Grants & Grantees

SaltSoul

The universality of sudden loss and trauma will be examined in this multimedia dance theater work integrating Kim's heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound, to be developed in collaboration with Marion Ramírez, Germaine Ingram, Merián Soto, and Korean musician Gamin Hyosung Kang.

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Private Places

jumatatu m. poe's Private Places examined everyday interactions with service providers through the choreography of J-Sette, an underground dance style.

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Susan Rethorst and Group Motion Event

In perceiving the "just this"-ness, Group Motion Dance Company shares a preview of a new work by choreographer Susan Rethorst.

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