Robert Battle Commission

Koresh Dance Company

2006

$50,000

Koresh Dance Company commissioned a new work by contemporary dance choreographer Robert Battle that premiered during the company's 2006–07 season.

Recipients

Koresh Dance Company

Performance

Dance

Collaborators & Colleagues

Wayne Shorter

Since his emergence as a professional jazz saxophonist and composer in the 1950s, Wayne Shorter has earned a reputation as one of the most influential jazz musicians of our time.

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There

The Wilma Theater presents a world premiere adaptation of There by Lebanese American poet Etel Adnan.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Art and Advocacy

Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.

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Event

The Dance Apocalypse by Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler

Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler star in this dance collaboration about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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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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News

Projects On Tour: Pati Hill Exhibition, Thaddeus Phillips, Silvana Cardell Bring Work to New Venues

Following successful premieres in the Philadelphia region, several Center-supported performances and exhibitions are traveling to venues around the world.

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Event

action is primary: Dinner Parties

Part performance, part discussion, and part party, these events invite attendees to discuss the project's improvisational practice.

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Grants & Grantees

Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking)

A series of performances curated by award-winning choreographer Reggie Wilson explores the African American religious experience and Philadelphia’s historic religious sites, in a collaboration between Partners for Sacred Places and Philadelphia Contemporary.

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Person of the Crowd: Wilmer Wilson IV’s Channel

Interdisciplinary artist Wilmer Wilson IV will present his performance and sculpture work Channel.

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Words Adorned: Classical Arab Music and Poetry Reading

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture presents a classical Arab music and poetry reading in conjunction with the Center-funded project, Words Adorned: Andalusian Poetry and Music.

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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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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2019 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage today announced 39 grants today in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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Grants & Grantees

That Which Is Fundamental

The first multi-concert retrospective of Julius Eastman, an African American composer who was active internationally in the 1970s and 80s, but who died at age 49, included rarely-performed works that showcased the composer's broad compositional practice.

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Radio Silence: Listening Party

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents a public listening party to celebrate the launch of a multi-episode radio broadcast for Radio Silence.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Rethorst

Susan Rethorst (Pew Fellow, 2014) is an internationally renowned choreographer and teacher of choreography.

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Travis Preston

Travis Preston is dean of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Theater and artistic director of the CalArts Center for New Performance.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on How “The Museum Is The Body” In Dance

Boris Charmatz on how archiving dance happens in the body rather than in a museum.

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Clone of Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: St. Thomas Gospel Choir

In conjunction with its Center-supported project Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul, WXPN presents the St. Thomas Gospel Choir in concert at the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas.

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