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.

Event

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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News

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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From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow

Tempesta di Mare presented a concert series of baroque interpretations in collaboration with the Philadelphia Singers.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jenny Gersten

Jenny Gersten is producing consultant for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in New York.

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Frank Zappa – The Yellow Shark

The Philadelphia premiere of The Yellow Shark celebrates the genre-defying compositional work of maverick American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa.

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Grants & Grantees

BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle

Part play, part sporting event, part anthropological study, this physical theater work examined rites of passage.

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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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jérôme Bel

An experimental choreographer, Bel provokes his audiences with witty, cerebral presentations that pose questions about virtuosity and the nature of dance.

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Event

LIVE REMIX: Stage Adaptations in the New Media Age

LIVE REMIX is a three-part event guest curated by Tom Sellar, including a discussion with director Ivo van Hove, part of a series of programming related to the Center-funded performance of Ivo van Hove's work After the Rehearsal/Persona.

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Grants & Grantees

Trisha Brown: In the New Body

A retrospective of selected dances by Trisha Brown, an internationally known leader of post-modernism and an enduring renegade whose work has rarely been seen in Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice

The Paradox of Dancing in a Museum

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, philosopher Marie Bardet reflects on the presumed “paradoxical” idea of dancing in a museum.

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Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde Opening Reception and Performance

An opening reception for University of the Arts’ Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde highlights three of Philadelphia’s major composers: Vincent Persichetti, George Rochberg, and George Crumb.

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Charles Sheeler: Fashion, Photography, and Sculptural Form Performances

The Michener Art Museum presents a series music performances and dance workshops that capture the spirit of the 1920s.

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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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Grants & Grantees

Algorithmic Theater 

Theater artist Annie Dorsen will interrogate the consequences of digital communication and confusion about appearances, illusions, fakes, and copies in a new piece developed during a multi-year residency at Bryn Mawr College.

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Philadelphia Real Book Concerts - New Music in Jazz and Blues

Legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians—including guitarists Pat Martino and Monnette Sudler, pianist Dave Burrell, and saxophonist Jimmy Heath—will headline a four-part concert series inspired by the first published collection of compositions by the city's jazz artists.

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Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at New York Theatre Workshop

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Wilhelm Bros. & Co. to create this action-opera about Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Questions of Practice

Opera Philadelphia Director David Devan on Going Digital and “Inclusive and Equitable Artistic Practice”

Opera Philadelphia Director David Devan spoke with us about the company's shift toward digital programming and their approach toward inclusivity and equity.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Lumi Tan

Lumi Tan is curator at The Kitchen in New York, where she organizes exhibitions and produces performances with artists across disciplines and generations.

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Grants & Grantees

Candide

John Caird's adaptation of Voltaire's classic satire Candide received its American regional theater premiere.

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