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.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Martha McDonald

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

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Event

Re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia: Marty Pottenger's #PHILLYSAVESEARTH

Through the ongoing Center-funded project re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Art Center presents #PHILLYSAVESEARTH by performance artist and theater director Marty Pottenger.

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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Bassist, composer, and Pew Fellow Jymie Merritt discusses the early influence of Duke Ellington on his artistic practice, his interest in digital composition tools, and more.

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Marýa Wethers

Marýa Wethers is a dancer, curator, and producer based in New York.

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Christopher Rountree

Christopher Rountree is the founder, artistic director, and conductor of the Los Angeles-based classical music ensemble Wild Up and artistic director of SILENCE, an interdisciplinary ambient music series.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans (Pew Fellow, 2010) never stops thinking about the traditions and evolution of jazz music, as well as renewing jazz's legacy in the African-American community.

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Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is a dancer and professor in the department of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

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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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Edisa Weeks

Edisa Weeks is a choreographer, educator, and director of DELIRIOUS Dances, a performance group that creates intimate environments that merge theater with dance.

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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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Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghani is a multi-media artist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on the City as Subject

Visual artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on creating work within and for an urban environment.

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Event

PRISM Quartet Master Class and Panel Discussion with Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, and John Schaefer

This event features saxophonists/composers Liebman and Osby, and WNYC's John Schaefer, as they address the unique challenges of collaborating across genres.

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Grants & Grantees

Sounds of the Circle

A new evening-length suite by master jazz musician Odean Pope evokes the “distinctive sonic environment” of North Philadelphia and the mid-20th-century innovators who helped build Philadelphia’s jazz legacy.

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Event

Modupúe | Ibaye: The Philadelphia Yoruba Performance Project Media Archive Exhibition

As part of Intercultural Journeys’ Center-supported Modupúe | Ibaye project, a three-day exhibition examines the history and contemporary expressions of Yoruba-rooted practices

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News

Pew Fellows News: Pepón Osorio Named a 2018 USA Fellow, Kukuli Velarde’s First West Coast Exhibition, Afaa Michael Weaver’s Work Featured in New Book

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stuart Carden

Stuart Carden is a Chicago-based freelance director specializing in new plays and ensemble-devised works. Carden served as a 2014 Center LOI panelist in Performance and a 2015 panelist in Performance.

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Event

SaltSoul

A new multimedia dance work by Jungwoong Kim examining the universality of sudden loss and trauma.

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The Body Lautrec

Independent theater artists Mary Tuomanen and Aaron Cromie collaborate on their first full-length theatrical work, The Body Lautrec, to explore the life of French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival TAPAS Performances

Flamenco master Rosario Toledo will present a series of performances entitled TAPAS: the culmination of a month-long residency with Philadelphia artists Eun Jung Choi, Meg Foley, and Germaine Ingram.

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