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

Firebird: Reimagined

Russian folktales and South African music and puppetry united in a multidisciplinary interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's composition for the 1910 ballet The Firebird, featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning South African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and larger-than-life puppets by Janni Younge of South Africa's renowned Handspring Puppet Company.

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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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Scenes View 2

BalletX commissioned Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo to create a new dance work that combined sharp movements, dynamic athleticism, and classical ballet vocabulary.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Simon Dove

Simon Dove is an independent curator and educator, and a co-curator of Crossing the Line, the annual trans-disciplinary fall festival in New York City.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Nora Chipaumire on a Dancer’s Skin

Choreographer Nora Chipaumire discusses the “baggage” audiences project onto a dancer’s appearance.

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Lie to Me and Shorter Stories

Miller Rothlein commissioned choreographer Antony Rizzi to create a multidisciplinary work inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Maria Bauman

Maria Bauman is the founder and artistic director of MBDance, which has received Harlem Stage Fund for New Work awards through the Jerome Foundation, among other honors. Bauman served on the Center's Performance panel in 2014 and 2015.

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Bharatanatyam Master Classes with Malavika Sarukkai

Bharatanatyam dancer Malavika Sarukkai will offer three public master classes, open to local dancers for participation and the general public for observation.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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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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TAKES Discovery Grant

Nichole Canuso and her collaborators created TAKES, an interactive environment that applied the cinematic notion of the "take" to the world of dance.

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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020

A new performance work by pioneering postmodern choreographer David Gordon creates a multi-city experience by connecting live performers at Christ Church’s Neighborhood House in Philadelphia with a simultaneous video stream of performers in Manhattan.

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News

Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score”

In September 2016, with Center support, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score."

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The Life of a Just Sole

Bringing together some of hip-hop's most influential pioneers, Clark will present what he calls his "physical autobiography" in a dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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News

Pew Fellows News: CAConrad Receives Lambda Literary Award, Leroy Johnson’s Work at the Barnes Foundation, Stacy Levy’s Installation Enlivens the Schuylkill River, and More

Our June Pew Fellows news roundup highlights awards and honors for artists in film, poetry, and media arts; a memorial concert that pays tribute to a beloved Klezmer musician; and several new print and musical releases.

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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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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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The Flight Attendants

Jumatatu Poe developed The Flight Attendants, a satirical commentary on the service industry, during summer workshops with members of his company, idiosynCrazy productions.

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Susan Rethorst/Moving in Philadelphia: 2013–2014

Philadelphia Dance Projects and Group Motion Multi Media Dance Theater present the finale of Susan Rethorst/Moving in Philadelphia: 2013-2014, a world premiere work by choreographer Susan Rethorst.

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