Collaborators & Colleagues

Ana Janevski

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30 Nov 2016

Ana Janevski is Associate Curator in the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, where she recently co-organized the performance series Words in the World. She was previously Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland, where she curated the large-scale exhibition As Soon As I Open My Eyes I See a Film, which dealt with the topic of Yugoslav experimental film and art of the 1960s and 70s, and edited a book of the same title. In 2010 Janevski co-curated the first extensive show about experimental film in Yugoslavia at the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, This Is All Film! Experimental Film in Yugoslavia 1951–1991. She also co-curated, with Pierre Bal-Blanc, the performance exhibition The Living Currency. In 2015, Janevski served as an LOI panelist in Performance.

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For the Sake of Our Sisters: The Liberian Women's Chorus for Change in Concert

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Radio Silence Broadcasts

Mural Arts Philadelphia presents seven Radio Silence broadcasts hosted by artist Michael Rakowitz, April 15–May 27.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving November Concert

Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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Lydie Breeze Cycle: Home

EgoPo Classic Theater presents Home, the third part in Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy.

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Facing Front Part Two: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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Raphstravaganza: An Urban Kinetic Experience

Leading hip-hop artist Raphael Xavier brought together masterful street performers, extreme BMX riders, acrobatic contortionists, and live music by saxophonist and composer Bobby Zankel for a contemporary circus-style performance in City Hall's courtyard that paid tribute to the soul of the urban street.

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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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Representing the Veteran Experience

Following Tuesday's performance of Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, veterans will speak about the challenges of representing their experiences artistically.

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Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline curates a concert experience inspired by Philadelphia’s rich musical history and Cline’s acclaimed concept recording, Lovers, performed by a specially assembled jazz orchestra.

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Body of Text

Choreographer Nichole Canuso and her ensemble will engage in an interdisciplinary discovery process with an oral historian, a writer, and a vocal teacher to develop new performance techniques that integrate movement, voice, and personal history.

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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center, Inc., best known as a presenting organization and home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet, is one of the most well-attended cultural venues in Philadelphia.

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Kulu Mele: *Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas*

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble presents Wemilere: Parade of the Orishas, a dance program with a selection of works from Ogun & the People.

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Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer

Philadelphia Folklore Project’s Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer presents a one-night-only, world-premiere concert of new compositions.

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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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Sophia's Forest

This multidisciplinary chamber opera for mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and string quartet will focus on the experience of childhood and feature a mechanical, electronic sound-generating sculpture that will grow from a small music box into a seven-foot tall object as the performance unfolds, creating a riveting visual and musical experience.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part II

Part II of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1896–Present as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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Breath Beneath

PRISM Quartet presents a pilot performance for its discovery project Breath Beneath—an investigation of the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and durational visual art.

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Color Theory Concert: PRISM Quartet and Partch

A series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color," including a performance with Grammy-award winning ensemble Partch.

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Mariam Ghani

Mariam Ghani is a multi-media artist, writer, and filmmaker.

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Destiny Estimate

Playwright MJ Kaufman debuts an experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music.

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