Same Old Story

1994

$5,000

To support the creation of a dance theater adaptation of the play Same Old Story by Franca Rama in collaboration with director/designer Niall Rea and composer Mick Rossi. Project dates: Nov. 1994 - May 1995.

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Dance

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Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself

Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself allowed Nichole Canuso to reevaluate her choreographic practice, mentoring under U.K.-based dancer Wendy Houstoun.

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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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Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble promotes artistic exchange and dialogue between Ukrainians and the global community through dance.

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Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory)

Les escailles de la memoire (The Scales of Memory), a dance collaboration that explores African-American and African cultures, was presented by Bryn Mawr College's Performing Arts Series.

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Supper, People on the Move

This large-scale performance, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015. The second performance will be simulcast live for a public audience at Independence Mall.

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The Dance Apocalypse

Gabrielle Revlock will developed a new dance-theater work with past collaborator Nicole Bindler that explored the nature of creative collaboration, as well as themes of gender, competition, and spectacle.

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Where is my B-O-D-Y Philadelphia Public Sharing

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The Life of a Just Sole

Bringing together some of hip-hop's most influential pioneers, Clark will present what he calls his "physical autobiography" in a dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller

A retrospective surveys Ed Emshwiller’s expansive career in film, video, and visual art, introducing the artist’s groundbreaking work to a new generation of audiences.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Ally

A performance-as-exhibition that reimagines the traditional retrospective, conceived by MacArthur Fellow Janine Antoni in collaboration with choreographer Anna Halprin and dance artist Stephen Petronio during a residency at The Fabric Workshop and Museum.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Cómplices

The all-female ensemble of Pasión y Arte will explore conflicting definitions of the 21st-century woman in its first outside commissioned work, choreographed by Rosario Toledo.

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Master Class with Rosario Toledo

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with dancer Rosario Toledo.

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The Philadelphia Matter – 1972/2020 Screening at Neighborhood House

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New Work by Martha Clarke

Martha Clark's dance-theater work was inspired by photographs by Diane Arbus, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Helen Levitt.

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Let ‘im Move You: This is a Formation: Work-In-Progress

jmatatu m. poe presents a work-in-progress performance of Let 'im Move You: This is a Formation at Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center.

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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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Free CardioCreativity classes from the creators of Dance Apocalypse

Professional dancers Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler, creators of The Dance Apocalypse, will lead participants through an all-levels class that includes wild music, hearty laughter, and opportunities to create.

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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Kazimir's Colors

Pennsylvania Ballet presented the American premiere of Mauro Bigonzetti's Kazimir's Colors, inspired by the Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich.

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