Numen

Group Motion Dance Company

2006

$20,000

Group Motion Dance Company commissioned Numen, a new dance work by Argentinian choreographer Oscar Araiz, presented as part of the evening-length program Cell: Movement in Restricted Spaces.

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Madhusmita Bora

Born and raised in Assam, India, dancer Madhusmita Bora is co-artistic director of the Philadelphia-based Sattriya Dance Company.

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Rio Sakairi

Rio Sakairi is artistic director at The Jazz Gallery, a performance space in New York where she has helped to identify and nurture jazz artists since 2000.

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Grants & Grantees

Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul

Live performances, a radio documentary series, and a media-rich website explore the roots of gospel and its influence on secular popular music.

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A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach: Epiphanytide

Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the second of three concert series as part of 1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach.

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Superterranean: Section, Void

Pig Iron Theatre Company's Section, Void installation at Cherry Street Pier serves as a companion piece to Superterranean.

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Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and So Percussion

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a concert with the ensemble So Percussion.

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Martha McDonald

Martha McDonald is an interdisciplinary artist whose performances and installations feature handcrafted costumes and objects.

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News

Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Drexel University Westphal College

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design fosters the study, exploration, and management of the arts: media, design, the performing, and visual.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Finale at Union Transfer

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival culminates in an all-day celebration in and around Union Transfer.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Dancer taisha paggett on the Relationship Between Art and Politics

Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett discusses how her artmaking engages with the “political landscape of being.”

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In Plain Air

The world premiere of a new composition from Phyllis Chen and Nathan Davis inaugurates the newly installed pipe organ at the historic Christ Church.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with "From Strayhorn to Cecil: Jazz Innovation in America," featuring David Hajdu, John Szwed, and 2010 Pew Fellow Orrin Evans.

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Questions of Practice: Guitarist Nels Cline on Virtuosity

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”

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Grants & Grantees

Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl

Pew Fellow Geoff Sobelle and theater artist Charlotte Ford presented a post-apocalyptic absurdist tale of human extinction.

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New Work by Martha Clarke

Martha Clark's dance-theater work was inspired by photographs by Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Helen Levitt.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Leah Stein

Stein’s choreographic practice integrates improvisational methods in site-specific works that illuminate the connections among the body, sound, location, and audience.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stephen Petronio

Stephen Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body.

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Sight/Sound/Symphony: Beethoven’s Seventh with visuals by Refik Anadol

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Matthew Dirst

Matthew Dirst is a conductor, harpsichordist, organist, and music pedagogue. He is founder and artistic director of Ars Lyrica Houston.

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