Collaborators & Colleagues

Roko Kawai

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Dance

References

Roko Kawai's Facebook page

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Supper, People on the Move: National Tour

Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move will tour the East Coast this fall with an international engagement in the Dominican Republic.

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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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Annie Wilson

Investigating what she describes as “public vulnerability and intimacy,” Wilson’s performance work intertwines experimental dance, humor, feminist practice, and audience interaction.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 3

Headlong presents the third performance in its series of River Charrettes, featuring artist Martha McDonald and Headlong co-founder David Brick, who will lead an audience through the grounds of The Andalusia Foundation.

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Silvana Cardell

Silvana Cardell is a choreographer, dancer and, educator, whose choreographic impulses are defined by her experience as an Argentine expatriate living, working, and raising a family in the United States.

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Hellmut Gottschild

Hellmut Gottschild is a seminal figure in Philadelphia dance, and was part of the first generation of Pew Fellows in 1992.

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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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News

Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body: Early Works

Bryn Mawr College presents two performances of Trisha Brown's pioneering Early Works, created between 1968 and 1975, blurring the boundaries between performance and visual art.

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Hema Rajagopalan

Hema Rajagopalan is a bharata natyam dancer, teacher, and choreographer, and the founder and artistic director of Natya Dance Theatre, a professional touring company and school that has specialized in bharata natyam for the past 40 years. Rajagopalan served as a 2015 LOI panelist in Performance.

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Iquail Shaheed

Dance Iquail's artistic director, Iquail Shaheed, seeks to create dance projects that tell stories not frequently heard in the performing arts, and to engage with audiences drawn from Mantua, the West Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up.

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Stephen Petronio

Stephen Petronio has honed a unique language of movement that speaks to the intuitive and complex possibilities of the body.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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Grants & Grantees

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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Drexel University Westphal College

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design fosters the study, exploration, and management of the arts: media, design, the performing, and visual.

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Bad Blood

Philadanco reconstructed Bad Blood, a highly physical and seldom-performed piece by Ulysses Dove, which premiered at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in April 2014.

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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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Maria Bauman

Maria Bauman is the founder and artistic director of MBDance, which has received Harlem Stage Fund for New Work awards through the Jerome Foundation, among other honors. Bauman served on the Center's Performance panel in 2014 and 2015.

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The Life of a Just Sole

Kyle “JustSole” Clark presents an autobiographical dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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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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