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

Grants & Grantees

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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Event

Red-Eye to Havre de Grace at Walker Art Center

Thaddeus Phillips teams up with the Minneapolis-based musical duo Jeremy and David Wilhelm to create an action-opera centered on the odd details surrounding Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious last days.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thomas J. Lax

Thomas J. Lax was appointed associate curator of media and performance art at the Museum of Modern Art in May 2014. For the previous seven years, he worked at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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News

In Galleries and Neighborhoods This Spring: Horticultural Society Spotlights Urban Farming, Mauricio Kagel's Zwei Mann Orchester, Penn Museum’s Reimagined Middle East Galleries, and More

Spring is here, with a range of exciting Center-supported exhibitions and public programs.

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Event

Mendelssohn Club Open Rehearsal

Get a sneak peek at a rehearsal of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia for an introduction to the world of choral music.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Orchestra 2001

Orchestra 2001 is dedicated to performing and promoting the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Vijay Iyer

MacArthur Fellow Vijay Iyer is a critically-acclaimed jazz pianist and composer.

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Grants & Grantees

El Viaje (The Journey)

Percussionist Pablo Batista will blend traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and contemporary Western instrumentation, Afro-Caribbean choreography and evocative multi-media imagery in a performance that will tell a story of the spiritual and cultural resilience of those forced to emigrate from Africa to the Americas and re-establish themselves with dignity.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Maria Hassabi on Dancing in Museum Spaces

Choreographer Maria Hassabi on how performance work changes from a theater to a museum setting.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Girard College

Girard College is a five-day boarding school for academically capable first-through-twelfth-grade students from families with limited financial resources.

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Grants & Grantees

Advancement Grant: Opera Philadelphia (2016)

Opera Philadelphia will implement a new business and program model that will feature an annual season-opening, multi-venue festival, launching in fall 2017, supported by new marketing strategies and a broad range of performance offerings designed to draw audiences from both inside and outside the regional metropolitan area.

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Grants & Grantees

The White Lama

A multimedia performance work featuring a new composition by American composer Philip Glass and Tibetan musician Tenzin Choegyal, and performed by actor Kevin Joyce, examines the adventurous life and death of early 20th-century explorer, mystic, and author Theos Bernard.

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News

Ten Publications from Center-Funded Projects Reflect on Monuments, American History, and More

Ten books preserve, extend, and elevate the ideas embedded in projects that explore Black Americans’ experiences, environmental design, the graphic novel format, and more.

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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

Macbeth

FringeArts presents South African theater artist Brett Bailey's adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, performed by the performance group Third World Bunfight.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Elizabeth Huston

Elizabeth Huston is a harpist, educator, and producer of contemporary performance events.

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Event

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

Fairmount Park Conservancy presents a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances in various locations in Fairmount Park and along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

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SaltSoul

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

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Avital Ronell

Avital Ronell is the author of numerous substantial works and one of the major forces in contemporary literary criticism and philosophy.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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