Collaborators & Colleagues

Susan Warden

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Susan Warden is an independent choreographer who sat on the Center's 2009 dance panel. She served as artistic director for 940 Dance Company at the Lawrence (Kansas) Arts Center, and was the artistic director for Susan Warden Dancers, a regional touring company based in Kansas City.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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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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Grants & Grantees

Saayujya (The Merging)

Two of India's preeminent artists, Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna and bharata natyam dancer Priyadarsini Govind, will fuse classical South Indian music and dance in a world premiere that is the culmination of a two-year artistic collaboration, and is inspired by themes of liberty and freedom drawn from Philadelphia's history.

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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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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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In the middle, somewhat elevated

The Pennsylvania Ballet acquired William Forsythe's contemporary dance masterpiece In the middle, somewhat elevated.

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Peggy Baker

Peggy Baker is one of Canada's most treasured modern dancers and choreographers, and the artistic director of Peggy Baker Dance Projects.

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In the New Body: Deep Dive

In conjunction with the ongoing retrospective Trisha Brown: In the New Body, Bryn Mawr College hosts a master class with Eva Karczag.

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Cell

Headlong created a dance-theater event designed to be experienced by one audience member at a time.

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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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Le Cargo

In conjunction with its presentation of Brett Bailey's Macbeth, FringeArts presents Le Cargo, a dance work by Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula.

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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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Firebird: Reimagined

Russian folktales and South African music and puppetry united in a multidisciplinary interpretation of Igor Stravinsky's composition for the 1910 ballet The Firebird, featuring The Philadelphia Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning South African vocal ensemble Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and larger-than-life puppets by Janni Younge of South Africa's renowned Handspring Puppet Company.

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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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Danny Yung

Since the late 1970s, Danny Yung has established a reputation as one of Hong Kong's most influential and pioneering artists.

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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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Meg Foley

Foley, a 2012 Pew Fellow, explores how every movement, no matter how ordinary or seemingly inconsequential, informs a responding movement, and so on, in an ongoing creative feedback loop.

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3x3: Movement Voices for a Bharatanatyam Dancer

Viji Rao developed three distinctive works to expand her artistic roots in South Indian dance, based on incarnations of the Hindu goddess Devi.

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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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Expansion of stuporwoman

Isaac choreographed an evening-length, semi-autobiographical work about motherhood that combines American and Caribbean dance aesthetics.

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