Collaborators & Colleagues

Jean Isaacs

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Jean Isaacs is the artistic director of San Diego Dance Theater and the founder of Trolley Dances. Although creating concert modern dance is her first love, she also works frequently in theater, opera, and as a dance educator. She served as a Center dance panelist in 2009.

References

San Diego Dance Theater website

Grants & Grantees

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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Collaborators & Colleagues

Nora Chipaumire

Born in Zimbabwe and based in New York City, Nora Chipaumire creates work that challenges and embraces stereotypes of Africa and the black performing body.

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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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crazy beautiful

Choreographer and Pew Fellow Tania Isaac (2011) presents an iteration of her Center-funded discovery project open notebook: crazy beautiful.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Boris Charmatz

Boris Charmatz is a choreographer, dancer, and director of Musée de la danse (Museum of Dance).

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Grants & Grantees

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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Endless Shout: Virago-Man Dem In-Process Showings by Cynthia Oliver

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents in-process showings of Cynthia Oliver’s dance-theatre work Virago-Man Dem, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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News

On Stage This Fall: Immersive Works from Artist Tania El Khoury, Choreographer Boris Charmatz at the Barnes Foundation, International Contemporary Ensemble at Christ Church and More

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Master Class with Pastora Galván

The Philadelphia Flamenco Festival offers a free master class with flamenco master Pastora Galván at the Annenberg Center on March 14.

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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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Boris Charmatz: Levée des conflits Performances

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design presents acclaimed French choreographer Boris Charmatz's experimental performance piece Levée des conflits, as part of the 2016 Fringe Festival.

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Faith Project

A new dance work contemplates the relationship between religious practice and contemporary dance, taking inspiration from exchanges with an interfaith group of community participants.

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Facing Front: Writing Dance

Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion lead a master class investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a performance can be made and what it might communicate to someone watching.

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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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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Jungwoong Kim

Choreographer and dancer Jungwoong Kim was born and raised in South Korea, where he studied traditional Korean dance and martial arts, and now resides in Philadelphia.

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Revival

Composer Phil Kline and choreographer Wally Cardona presented a new site-specific work at the Metropolitan Opera House.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar

Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is founding artistic director of Urban Bush Women, a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Hellmut Gottschild on a Life of Dance, with Tania Isaac

Pew Fellows Hellmut Gottschild and Tania Isaac sat down for an extended conversation about Gottschild’s artistic history and practice.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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Questions of Practice

*The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory*

The Sentient Archive: Bodies, Performance, and Memory, debuting June 26, 2018, gathers the work of leading cultural practitioners who theorize the body as a crucible of knowledge.

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