Walls Behind Walls

Eleone Dance Theatre

2007

$20,000

Eleone Dance Theatre commissioned choreographer Abdur-Rahim Jackson to create the new ballet Walls Behind Walls. Jackson’s new work combined ballet and hip-hop dance styles, and featured music by Groundtruther and Daft Punk. Walls Behind Walls premiered during Eleone's 2007–08 season and went on to become part of the company's touring repertoire.

Recipients

Eleone Dance Theatre

Performance

Dance

Event

Ganga: Nitya Vaahini (The Eternal River) by Malavika Sarukkai

Having created this work over the course of a decade, Malavika Sarukkai pays homage to the sacred river Ganga and its importance in Indian culture, history, the environment, and spirituality.

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Grants & Grantees

1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach

A recreation of 18 rarely-performed cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed as originally intended: in an arc spanning the Christian church calendar and the seasons.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Iquail Shaheed

Dance Iquail's artistic director, Iquail Shaheed, seeks to create dance projects that tell stories not frequently heard in the performing arts, and to engage with audiences drawn from Mantua, the West Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers

Founded in 1994 by choreographer Kun-Yang Lin, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) is one of the country’s foremost contemporary Asian American dance companies.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Meiyin Wang

Meiyin Wang is the associate artistic producer of The Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival and Symposium in New York, which presents new and cutting-edge theatrical work from the U.S. and abroad.

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Event

OutBeat Jazz Festival: Finale at Union Transfer

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival culminates in an all-day celebration in and around Union Transfer.

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Grants & Grantees

Tar

Choreographers Charles O. Anderson and Vincent Sekwati Koko Mantsoe developed a new dance work that reinterprets southern folklore.

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Trisha Brown: In the New Body

A retrospective of selected dances by Trisha Brown, an internationally known leader of post-modernism and an enduring renegade whose work has rarely been seen in Philadelphia.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Sing Freedom Sing Festival Finale Concert

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will premiere a new work by Philadelphia composer Uri Caine, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, guest soloists, a 250-voice gospel choir, and praise dancers.

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Grants & Grantees

The Quiet Circus

A 15-month-long series of performances and conversations held at sites along the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers explored the city’s maritime and industrial heritage while considering human interaction with an urban landscape, community, and the contemplative.

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Facing Front: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to performances, the two-week period includes workshops on June 19–20.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Matt Porterfield

Matt Porterfield has written, directed, and produced three feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011), and I Used To Be Darker (2013).

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on How “The Museum Is The Body” In Dance

Boris Charmatz on how archiving dance happens in the body rather than in a museum.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born, New York-based artist and choreographer.

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ear-whispered: A Conversation with Artist Tania El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts

In advance of the presentation of Embody the Art: Works by Tania El Khoury, Bryn Mawr College will host a conversation with El Khoury at Twelve Gates Arts.

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The Dance Apocalypse at New York Live Arts

Gabrielle Revlock shares a solo version of her recent duet with Nicole Bindler, about two female artists in a spectacle-driven world.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 1

As part of its year-long project, Headlong presents a series of River Charrettes—performances and participatory conversations—at various sites along Philadelphia's waterfronts.

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News

Tiny Dynamite’s US Premiere of Perfect Blue Showcases Two Actors on Two Continents, with One Live Internet Connection, July 14–23

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A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach: Trinity Season

Choral Arts Philadelphia presents the first of three concert series as part of A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach.

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