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.

Grants & Grantees

Civilian/Warrior

Multimedia artist Tobin Rothlein created an interdisciplinary work combining dance, documentary film, and multi-screen video projections to address modern war culture.

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Ars Nova's New Paths Festival Presents Peter Brötzmann at the German Society of Pennsylvania

Jazz artist Peter Brötzmann offers a solo performance inspired by the German Society's Horner Library.

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Caroline, or Change

This production was the Philadelphia premiere of Caroline, or Change, a musical by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori.

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Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso and Jennifer Kidwell

Pew Fellows Nichole Canuso (2017) and Jennifer Kidwell (2016) have been awarded artist residencies to cultivate in-progress works during the summer of 2020.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa

The PRISM Quartet presents the world premiere of new works composed and performed by Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa.

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PRISM Quartet Workshop with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Greg Osby, and Matthew Levy

Speakers Rudresh Mahanthappa, Greg Osby and Matthew Levy share their thoughts on record production and establishing artistic identity.

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ARC

An evening-length performance suite brings together the drumming traditions of tabla from North India and taiko from Japan with contemporary dance and Japanese butoh.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Actor Dulé Hill on Nat “King” Cole’s “Quiet Revolution”

Actor Dulé Hill describes why the simple act of “being” can be an “act of quiet revolution.”

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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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Person of the Crowd: Tania Bruguera’s Displacement

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera will present her 1998 performance work Displacement.

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Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, curator Carlos Basualdo contemplates the idea of a museum as a choreographic score.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Home

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Home, the third part in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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Applying for a 2019 Pew Center Grant: What’s New This Year

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to share our 2019 grant application guidelines and to announce updates to our grant making.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Michèle Steinwald

Michèle Steinwald is an independent curator and dance producer, and former assistant curator for the performing arts at the Walker Art Center.

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Pew Fellows News: Sonia Sanchez Wins Wallace Stevens Award, Glenn Holsten’s Wyeth Documentary Makes PBS Debut, David Hartt’s Solo Exhibition at Art Institute of Chicago, and More

In September, Pew Fellows from across all art disciplines were nationally recognized for their work, launched new and innovative projects, and received prestigious honors and awards. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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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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Emerging Voices: Art Song and Social Connection

A concert series curated in collaboration with tenor vocalist Nicholas Phan illuminates the evolution of art song and how the form, with its intersection of poetry and music, remains a powerful vehicle for social exchange.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part II

Part II of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1896–Present as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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