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

Being/With: Live

A participatory movement and storytelling experience invites geographically separated strangers to connect with one another through live performance and virtual technology.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Michael Kiley

Michael Kiley is a composer, sound designer, performer, and educator working in dance, theater, and public installation.

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Grants & Grantees

TAKES Discovery Grant

Nichole Canuso and her collaborators created TAKES, an interactive environment that applied the cinematic notion of the "take" to the world of dance.

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Event

Where is my B-O-D-Y New York City Public Sharing

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Raphael Xavier

Raphael Xavier (Pew Fellow, 2013) has practiced "breaking," an acrobatic street dance style commonly known as breakdancing, since 1983.

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Questions of Practice

*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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Grants & Grantees

Urban Echo

Leah Stein, the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, and composer Pauline Oliveros collaborated on a new music and dance work.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

jumatatu m. poe

A young choreographer who has already produced provocative, experimental dance works, Poe (Pew Fellow, 2011) is the founder of dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.

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Event

Free Simulcast Screening of Supper, People on the Move at Independence Mall

A simulcast of the Supper, People on the Move performance at the Icebox, screened outdoors at Independence Mall, free and open to the public.

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Grants & Grantees

Threads of History: Resurrection of a Textile

Classical Indian dance, performed by the Dancing Monks of Assam, brings to life the stories embedded in an ancient textile from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Linda Caruso Haviland

Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland, associate professor at Bryn Mawr College, is the founder and director of its dance program as well as the chair of the arts program.

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Midway Avenue

Canuso's new solo work Midway Avenue built on research initiated with UK-based choreographer Wendy Houstoun, premiered in May 2014 as part of FringeArts' year-round programming.

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Event

The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020 Live Preview

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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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News

On Stage This Fall: Immersive Works from Artist Tania El Khoury, Choreographer Boris Charmatz at the Barnes Foundation, International Contemporary Ensemble at Christ Church and More

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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Event

Dancing Diplomats

*Dancing Diplomats* follows choreographer Taras Lewyckyj's work with Ukrainian artist Anatoly Kryvochyzha, whose choreography was blacklisted by the USSR in 1977.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nora Chipaumire

Born in Zimbabwe and based in New York City, Nora Chipaumire creates work that challenges and embraces stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body.

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Grants & Grantees

ear-whispered: works by Tania El Khoury

The immersive installation work of Lebanese artist Tania El Khoury is highlighted in a multi-part performance project that shares the narratives of Syrian citizens and refugees and addresses displacement, oppression, and justice.

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