GRANTS & GRANTEES

Eric Schoefer

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Dance

Grants & Grantees

New Work with the 2nd Generation Silver Belles

Jaye Allison collaborated with the 2nd Generation Silver Belles tap group to create a new work honoring the five original Silver Belles.

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Susan Rethorst: Inquiring Mind/Choreographic Mind

Bryn Mawr College's retrospective introduced local audiences to Rethorst's work and featured a series of public events, all of which provided unique windows into Rethorst's methodology.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Megan Bridge

Dance and choreographer Megan Bridge co-directs < fidget >, a platform for her collaborative work with composer, designer, and musicologist Peter Price.

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RoseAnne Spradlin

RoseAnne Spradlin is a New York City-based choreographer whose work explores body consciousness and innovation of structural forms in contemporary dance.

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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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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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The Partita Project

Choreographer Lisa Kraus developed a postmodern dance featuring a live violin performance by musician Diane Monroe.

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SaltSoul

A new multimedia dance work by Jungwoong Kim examining the universality of sudden loss and trauma.

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Gender, Traditions and Techniques in Flamenco

Michelle Heffner Hayes will provide context for the development of flamenco as a technique, its gendered conventions, and the standardization of its norms.

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News

International and US Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Ryan Eckes, Leah Stein, and Rea Tajiri

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that three Pew Fellows have been selected for international and US artist residencies, a program supported by the Center’s ongoing partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities and with the MacDowell Colony.

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Pew Fellows News: Jennifer Higdon Awarded Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, King Britt’s Orchestral collaboration, Plays from Jennifer Kidwell and Bruce Graham in the News, and More.

This month’s Pew Fellows news includes new exhibitions and performances from coast-to-coast, critically-acclaimed plays, and a national award in music composition.

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In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park

Audiences experience Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park in new ways as a series of site-responsive, outdoor performances present the works of pioneering post-modern choreographer Trisha Brown.

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Joan Myers Brown & the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance

Brenda Dixon Gottschild completed research and writing for her book, which tells the story of Joan Myers Brown and the previously unwritten 20th-century dance history of black Philadelphia.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Thomas DeFrantz

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology and teaches in dance and African and African-American Studies at Duke University.

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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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Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Choreographer and Movement Artist Lela Aisha Jones

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Lela Aisha Jones on the importance of “creative spirits” in her family, what motivates her to create, the Philadelphia arts scene, and more.

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Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs is one of America's most important modern choreographers and an original member of the Judson Dance Theater in New York.

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John Jasperse's Fort Blossom

Bryn Mawr College presented noted contemporary choreographer John Jasperse's Fort Blossom Revisited, created in 2000 and previously performed only at The Kitchen in New York City.

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The School for Temporary Liveness

An eight-day pop-up performance experience, presented in the format of a school that occupies the Philadelphia Art Alliance building, features artists Nora Chipaumire and Isabel Lewis and generates new forms of spectatorship and participation.

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Event

Pennsylvania Ballet: William Forsythe's Artifact Suite

Artifact Suite by choreographer William Forsythe features 29 dancers in choreography that pushes them beyond their perceived physical limits, demanding sharp timing, precise syncopation, and coordination.

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