The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance
Raphael Xavier
_d2o1088.jpg
Raphael Xavier. Photo by Steven Gunther.
A practitioner of hip-hop dance since 1983 and a 2013 Pew Fellow in the Arts, Raphael Xavier brings a wide range of experience to the stage. He specializes in breaking (widely known as breakdancing), a street dance form he has taught to new generations of hip-hop enthusiasts for years in order to keep its history alive. "As a traditional folk art, it's important to disseminate hip-hop dance and culture in as many ways as possible," he says. His performance, The Unofficial Guide to Audience Watching Performance (TUGTAWP), is autobiographical and presents a running story in which Xavier is both narrator and dancer. Renowned artist and Bessie Award-winner Ralph Lemon acted as a guest rehearsal coach, helping Xavier to push the boundaries of hip-hop. TUGTAWP toured to the Dance Center at Columbia College in Chicago.
-
event-contentre-place-ing-philadelphia-reggie-wilson-039-s-stamped-stomped-stumped
-
organization-contentdrexel-university-westphal-college
-
people-contentmadhusmita-bora
-
grant-contenturban-echo
-
grant-contentthe-life-of-a-just-sole
-
grant-contentles-escailles-de-la-memoire-the-scales-of-memory-
-
people-contentkate-watson-wallace
-
grant-contentsomos
-
grant-contentin-motion-in-place-trisha-brown-dance-company-in-fairmount-park
-
people-contentlela-aisha-jones
-
event-contentthe-philadelphia-matter-1972-2020-panel-discussions
-
question-of-practice-contentquestions-of-practice-choreographer-boris-charmatz-on-how-the-museum-is-the-body-in-dance
-
grant-contentraphstravaganza-an-urban-kinetic-experience
-
grant-contentsaltsoul
-
question-of-practice-contentthe-sentient-archive-bodies-performance-and-memory
-
event-contentphiladelphia-flamenco-festival-vengo-performance-featuring-rosario-toledo
-
question-of-practice-contentquestions-of-practice-pew-fellow-hellmut-gottschild-on-a-life-of-dance-with-tania-isaac
-
event-contentin-the-new-body-pennsylvania-ballet-performs-trisha-brown-039-s-o-zlozony-o-composite
-
news-contentcenter-funded-projects-from-madhusmita-bora-al-bustan-seeds-of-culture-orchestra-2001-penn-museum-in-the-new-york-times-npr-hyperallergic-amp-amp-more
-
people-contentsam-miller