Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents

Philadelphia Dance Projects

2008

$40,000

The Center provided support to Philadelphia Dance Projects to begin a presenting series featuring dance performances, workshops, and "informances" by individual dance artists. The series aimed to provide a platform for the presentation of adventurous contemporary dance. The series continues to run annually, and past performers have included internationally renowned choreographer and Pew Fellow Susan Rethorst, New York-based performance artist niv Acosta, and local dance artists Nichole Canuso and Nora Gibson, among others.

GRANTS & GRANTEES

Dorothy Wilkie

Dorothy Wilkie's (Pew Fellow, 2007) choreography involves the re-staging and re-choreographing of traditional West African and Afro-Cuban dances.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Neta Pulvermacher

Neta Pulvermacher is artistic director of the Ben Gurion University Dance Company in Beer Sheva, Israel, and professor of dance at Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

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Event

Pennsylvania Ballet Performs Trisha Brown's O zlozony/O composite

As part of Bryn Mawr College's ongoing retrospective, Trisha Brown: In the New Body, the Pennsylvania Ballet performs Brown's O zlozony/O composite, becoming the first US ballet company to perform Brown's choreography.

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Grants & Grantees

The School for Temporary Liveness

An eight-day pop-up performance experience, presented in the format of a school that occupies the Philadelphia Art Alliance building, features artists Nora Chipaumire and Isabel Lewis and generates new forms of spectatorship and participation.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Lela Aisha Jones

Jones is a movement performance artist who intertwines personal history, diasporic movement, social commentary, and interdisciplinary methods, drawing from, in her words, "the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness."

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ralph Lemon

Ralph Lemon, Artistic Director of Cross Performance, is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and visual artist dedicated to cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary work.

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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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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits

Acclaimed French choreographer and experimental dancer Boris Charmatz visited Philadelphia for a residency and public presentation of his performance piece for 24 dancers, Levée des conflits (Suspension of conflicts), at Drexel's Mandell Theater, co-presented by FringeArts, in combination with a series of interpretive programs.

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Event

Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

Rosario Toledo performs Vengo, a piece that switches in and out of the flamenco idiom, originally created to be performed in the streets of her hometown of Cádiz, Spain.

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In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park

Audiences experience Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in new ways as a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances present the works of pioneering post-modern choreographer Trisha Brown.

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Basil Twist's Petrushka

Annenberg Center Live presented Basil Twist's Petrushka and held workshops for local puppeteers, which included a tour of Twist's studio.

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action is primary

Centering on Foley's improvisational performance practice, action is primary will feature photographic, moving-image, sonic, and written documentation of up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15 p.m.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of La Curva

La Curva features Bacán's spare singing, Courvoisier's atonal and dissonant compositions, and Galván's score that employs rhythms from his own footwork.

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Midway Avenue by Nichole Canuso Dance Company

Philadelphia choreographer Nichole Canuso presents a solo performance that uses personal reminiscences and universal yearnings to explore the relationship between memory and self.

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Master Class with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at the Annenberg Center on March 14.

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New Work by Susan Rethorst

Group Motion, Philadelphia's oldest contemporary dance company, commissioned choreographer Susan Rethorst to create a new work for its dancers.

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Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation: Performance

J-Sette becomes the focus of the world premiere of jumatatu m. poe’s Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation at Painted Bride Art Center.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jennifer S.B. Calienes

Jennifer S.B. Calienes is an independent consultant and senior advisor for the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) at Florida State University, where she served as founding director (2004–14).

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Thomas DeFrantz

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology and teaches in dance and African and African-American Studies at Duke University.

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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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