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

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Public Talk with Marissa Perel and Brian Wallace

Curators Marissa Perel and Brian Wallace give an overview of Trisha Brown's work as it connects to the In the New Body performances at the Barnes Foundation.

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Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi is a Cyprus-born, New York-based artist and choreographer.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Kyle "JustSole" Clark

Kyle "JustSole" Clark is a dancer and choreographer with expertise in hip-hop and street dance. He is the founder and artistic director of Just Sole Street Dance Theater.

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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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Ogun & the People: World Premiere

Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble debuts Ogun & the People at the Annenberg Center.

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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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Cómplices by Rosario Toledo of Sevilla, Spain

Spanish dancer and choreographer Rosario Toledo choreographed an original dance for Pasión y Arte, marking the company's first collaboration with a major flamenco artist.

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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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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Art and Advocacy

Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Vengo Performance Featuring Rosario Toledo

Rosario Toledo performs Vengo, a piece that switches in and out of the flamenco idiom, originally created to be performed in the streets of her hometown of Cádiz, Spain.

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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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Brent Hayes Edwards

Brent Hayes Edwards is Peng Family professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking): Public Conversations

Partners for Sacred Places collaborates with Philadelphia Contemporary and Danspace Project to present a series of public conversations for Grounds That Shout! (And Others Merely Shaking).

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Anna Halprin

Anna Halprin is a pioneering choreographer whose work has led to a reconsideration of dance as an art form.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Dancer taisha paggett on the Relationship Between Art and Politics

Choreographer and dancer taisha paggett discusses how her artmaking engages with the “political landscape of being.”

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival Performances of Pastora

Flamenco dancer Pastora Galván performs in this self-titled work, choreographed by her brother, Israel Galván.

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The Flight Attendants

Jumatatu Poe developed The Flight Attendants, a satirical commentary on the service industry, during summer workshops with members of his company, idiosynCrazy productions.

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Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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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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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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