New Paradise Laboratories' Freedom Club in New York Magazine and The Village Voice

20 Jan 2011

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New Paradise Laboratories' Freedom Club. Pictured: Mary McCool, Stephanie Viola, and McKenna Kerrigan. Photo by Nicole Adler.

New Paradise Laboratories' Center-funded production of Freedom Club was reviewed in New York Magazine and The Village Voice after traveling to New York City.

Scott Brown of New York Magazine said that Freedom Club "channels our abundant ambient insanity with profane elan and gut-shot black comedy." Read more >

In the Village Voice, Alexis Soloski said that "the play—via Whit MacLaughlin's fluent direction and Shaplin's lush language—makes many trenchant observations about politics, power, and resistance." Read more >

Grants & Grantees

SaltSoul

The universality of sudden loss and trauma will be examined in this multimedia dance theater work integrating Kim's heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound, to be developed in collaboration with Marion Ramírez, Germaine Ingram, Merián Soto, and Korean musician Gamin Hyosung Kang.

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This Town Is a Mystery

Headlong Dance Theater brought dance directly into the private homes of Philadelphia citizens, where the members of those households became the dancers.

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Sidi Larbi's Play and Shantala Shivalingappa's Namasya

International choreographers and dancers Sidi Larbi and Shantala Shivalingappa presented performances at FringeArts' 2011 festival, including the American debut of their duet Play.

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Michener Art Museum's "Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism" in the New York Times

Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism, which opens on March 1 at the Michener Art Museum, is featured in the New York Times.

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Event

The Barnes Foundation: African Textiles Past and Present

Alisa LaGamma, curator of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Met, discusses historical and contemporary African textiles and their use in contemporary art.

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Elephants on the Avenue: Poetry, Story Circle, and Paper Fan Making Workshop with Yolanda Wisher

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Whitman at 200 Artistic Commissions Cast a Legendary Writer in a New Light

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Zoe Strauss: Ten Years at ICP Media Mentions

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Intercultural Journeys

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Nichole Canuso's Midway Avenue in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Magazine, and More

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Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Pepón Osorio on the Role of the Arts in Expanding Dialogue Beyond the "Local"

Visual artist and Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio talks about the relationship between artistic practice and "the local."

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Tacita Dean

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Center Executive Director Paula Marincola Featured in Philadelphia Style Magazine’s “Give Back” Issue

Paula Marincola, executive director of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, is recognized in the November 2018 issue of Philadelphia Style Magazine.

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Grants & Grantees

Mixplace Studio

The Slought Foundation developed a research and mentoring initiative that partners West Philadelphia youth with architecture and design students from the University of Pennsylvania.

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