GRANTS & GRANTEES

Eric Schoefer

1999 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 1999
Dance

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Supper, People on the Move

Supper, People on the Move, a large-scale performance by choreographer Silvana Cardell, inspired and informed by the immigration process, will premiere in June 2015.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Judy Hussie-Taylor

Judy Hussie-Taylor has served as Executive Director of Danspace Project, a New York City venue for independent experimental choreographers, since 2008. Hussie-Taylor served as a Pew Fellowships panelist in 2012 and 2013, a Performance LOI panelist in 2014, and as the Performance panel chair in 2015.

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Endless Shout: Jumatatu Poe's Let 'im Move You: A Study and This Is a Success

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a performance of Pew Fellow Jumatatu Poe’s Let ‘im Move You, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation

A new performance work draws from the J-Sette dance form, examining “team” in performance and exploring the rhythms of pop and club music.

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Philadelphia Museum of Dance

In Drexel University Westphal College's Philadelphia Museum of Dance, choreographer Boris Charmatz transforms the Barnes Foundation with a one-day free exhibit of live dance.

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Guinea Residency

Kùlú Mèlé embarked on a two-week residency in Conakry, Guinea with traditional artists Mariama Touré and M'Bemba Bangoura.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body: Proscenium Works, 1979–2011

Bryn Mawr College presents 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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ty Boomershine

Boomershine has presented his work at Movement Research and Danspace Project, and he arranges and develops workshops and creative/educational residencies for and with Lucinda Childs.

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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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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Community Workshops

A series of community dance workshops will be held as part of Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design's Center-funded project Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble promotes artistic exchange and dialogue between Ukrainians and the global community through dance.

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Rhythmning & Improvising History

Germaine Ingram, a 2010 Pew Fellow, collaborated with improvisational dancer and choreographer Leah Stein in a year-long laboratory to explore rhythm and improvisation practices.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

royal hartigan

royal hartigan is a percussionist, pianist, and tap dancer. He has studied and performed the music of Asia, Africa, Europe, West Asia, and the Americas, and is versed in the traditions of African American blues, gospel, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. He served as a Center Performance panelist in 2014 and a Performance LOI panelist in 2015.

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Carmina Burana

Leah Stein Dance Company fused improvisational dance with live music to create a new interpretation of composer Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana.

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Ogun & the People

Through movement and music, a new interpretation of a traditional Afro-Cuban Yoruba parable takes shape, under the direction of Dorothy Wilkie, and during a company residency with the Cuban performance troupe Ballet Folklórico Cutumba.

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Linda Caruso Haviland

Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland, associate professor at Bryn Mawr College, is the founder and director of its dance program as well as the chair of the arts program.

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action is primary

Centering on Foley's improvisational performance practice, action is primary will feature photographic, moving-image, sonic, and written documentation of up to 750 dances, which Foley performs on a daily basis at 3:15 p.m.

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2006–07 Choreographers Project

Susan Hess Modern Dance continued its annual Choreographers Project program for four emerging independent choreographers.

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Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a curator and has been a guest contributor to Center publications.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “Re-Enchanting” Public Space Through Dance

Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”

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