New Work by Martha Clarke

Jeanne Ruddy Dance

2008

$45,000

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Martha Clarke’s Sandman.

Jeanne Ruddy Dance commissioned a new work by choreographer and theatrical director Martha Clarke, a MacArthur Fellow and founding member of the dance-theater company Pilobolus. Inspired by photographs by Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Helen Levitt, the performance piece featured highly stylized costumes and masks designed by Jeffery Wirsig, with lighting by Peter J. Jakubowski.

Recipients

Jeanne Ruddy Dance

Dance

Performance

Grants & Grantees

Saayujya (The Merging)

Two of India's preeminent artists, Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna and bharata natyam dancer Priyadarsini Govind, will fuse classical South Indian music and dance in a world premiere that is the culmination of a two-year artistic collaboration, and is inspired by themes of liberty and freedom drawn from Philadelphia's history.

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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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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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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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Facing Front Part Two: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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News

Center-Funded Projects from Madhusmita Bora, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, Orchestra 2001, Penn Museum in The New York Times, NPR, Hyperallergic & More

A number of Center grantees have recently garnered national and regional media attention for their performances and exhibitions.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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

Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.”

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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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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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Grants & Grantees

Commissions of Work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Helen Pickett

BalletX presented the world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Still@Life and Helen Pickett's Union.

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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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Grants & Grantees

Basil Twist's Petrushka

Annenberg Center Live presented Basil Twist's Petrushka and held workshops for local puppeteers, which included a tour of Twist's studio.

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LaVaughn Robinson

LaVaughn Robinson (1927–2008) was a tap dancer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Linda Caruso Haviland

Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland, associate professor at Bryn Mawr College, is the founder and director of its dance program as well as the chair of the arts program.

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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Discussion Series

A series of discussions will be held with acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz and various artists and cultural practitioners.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Crossroads of Dance and Visual Art

Setting the stage for the performances of Trisha Brown's Early Works at the Barnes Foundation, Susan Rosenberg, scholar-in-residence at the Trisha Brown Dance Company, offers an overview of Brown's career at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

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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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The Quiet Circus: Weekly Performances

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

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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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