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

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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News

Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Event

Contemporary Flamenco, Cultural Legacy + Experimental Imperative with Michelle Heffner Hayes

Michelle Heffner Hayes will lead a discussion on the history of flamenco and its cultural significance in its contemporary form.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Stephen Petronio

Stephen Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body.

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Grants & Grantees

Exploration of Voice and Choreography with Pauline Oliveros

Leah Stein Dance Company conducted on a year of research and training with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, who coined the practice of "Deep Listening."

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Event

Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Crossroads of Dance and Visual Art

Setting the stage for the performances of Trisha Brown's Early Works at the Barnes Foundation, Susan Rosenberg, scholar-in-residence at the Trisha Brown Dance Company, offers an overview of Brown's career at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

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News

Pew Fellows News: James Ijames Wins Kesselring Prize, Susan Lankin-Watts Premieres Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer, Alex Da Corte’s Carnegie International Installation Featured in ARTNEWS, and More

In October, our Pew Fellows news roundup includes a Bessie Award and Kesselring Prize, the premiere of a new musical composition, artists on tour around the country, and more. See the latest updates in our news roundup below.

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Grants & Grantees

The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance

The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance is autobiographical and presents a running story in which Xavier, a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, is both narrator and dancer.

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Commissions of Work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Helen Pickett

BalletX presented the world premiere of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Still@Life and Helen Pickett's Union.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble

Founded in 1969, Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble seeks to preserve, present, and build upon the dance and music of Africa and the African Diaspora.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

taisha paggett

taisha paggett is a Los Angeles-based artist whose individual and collaborative work for the stage, gallery, and public space takes up questions of the body, agency, and the phenomenology of race and gender. In 2015, paggett served as a Performance LOI panelist.

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Grants & Grantees

In the middle, somewhat elevated

The Pennsylvania Ballet acquired William Forsythe's contemporary dance masterpiece In the middle, somewhat elevated.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Nicole Cousineau

Nicole Cousineau (Pew Fellow, 2007) makes multimedia dance theater based in strong, rigorous movement investigation.

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Event

Levée des conflits: Professional Workshop Preview

In advance of the September workshops with Boris Charmatz, project co-directors host an informal professional preview for dance and performance artists .

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Maria Bauman

Maria Bauman is the founder and artistic director of MBDance, which has received Harlem Stage Fund for New Work awards through the Jerome Foundation, among other honors. Bauman served on the Center's Performance panel in 2014 and 2015.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Danny Yung

Since the late 1970s, Danny Yung has established a reputation as one of Hong Kong's most influential and pioneering artists.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Germaine Ingram

At age 33, Germaine Ingram (Pew Fellow, 2010) took up dance under the tutelage of a Philadelphia tap legend, the late LaVaughn Robinson (a 1992 Pew Fellow).

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News

On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Leah Stein

Choreographer Leah Stein (2018) spoke to us about the origins of her site-specific choreography, her present-day process, and the “inexhaustible” qualities of Philadelphia.

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Event

Person of the Crowd: Film Screenings

The Barnes Foundation will screen a series of films depicting modern life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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