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

John Jarboe

John Jarboe is a director, performer, curator, and writer. He has created over 10 original cabaret-plays with his company The Bearded Ladies, producing original work for Opera Philadelphia, Eastern State Penitentiary, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Event

Words Adorned: The Concert

Two new compositions by Arab-American composers Kareem Roustom and Kinan Abou-afach, performed by a classical Arab chamber ensemble and a Western choir for an invigorating cross-genre collaboration.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood is curator of international art and performance at Tate Modern.

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News

Grammy Awards go to Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet

Composer and Pew Fellow Jennifer Higdon (1999) and Center grantees The Crossing and PRISM Quartet are awarded 2018 Grammy Awards by the Recording Academy.

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Event

Master Class with Israel Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Israel Galván at Drexel University on March 11.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a composer, violinist, and bandleader who combines his classical training with hip-hop and Haitian influences.

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Grants & Grantees

Civilian/Warrior

Multimedia artist Tobin Rothlein created an interdisciplinary work combining dance, documentary film, and multi-screen video projections to address modern war culture.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Aaron Landsman

Aaron Landsman is a New York City-based playwright, actor, and teacher whose performance works combine formal experimentation and long-term community engagement.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Václav Havel

Václav Havel was a renowned playwright and political activist who became president of the Czech Republic in 1990, the country's first noncommunist leader since 1948.

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Event

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Arun Ramamurthy

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist, composer, and artistic director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective of forward-thinking musicians rooted in and inspired by the classical music of India.

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Grants & Grantees

Ally

Ally is a performance-as-exhibition, conceived by MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni in collaboration with pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin and contemporary dance artist Stephen Petronio.

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News

Making Big Ideas Happen: Project Grant Application Insights from the Program Directors

Bill Adair and Bill Bissell share insights into the Center’s grant-making process and discuss key elements of the grant application, including new questions about community-based work.

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Grants & Grantees

Breaking the Waves

The world premiere of a new chamber opera by composer-in-residence Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek, inspired by the 1996 film by Danish auteur Lars von Trier, tells the harrowing tale of a naive newlywed who has chosen to marry outside of her strict Calvinist community in coastal Scotland.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Matthew Dirst

Matthew Dirst is a conductor, harpsichordist, organist, and music pedagogue. He is founder and artistic director of Ars Lyrica Houston.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview With Poet Ursula Rucker

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jayce Ogren

Jayce Ogren is artistic director and conductor of Orchestra 2001

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College’s performing arts series has been presenting innovative works in the Philadelphia area since 1984

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Event

Leah Stein Dance Company: Voice and Movement Public Showing with Pauline Oliveros

A yearlong research project on voice and movement culminates in an open public showing and panel discussion with Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Stein, and the research ensemble.

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