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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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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Grants & Grantees

Lie to Me and Shorter Stories

Miller Rothlein commissioned choreographer Antony Rizzi to create a multidisciplinary work inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka.

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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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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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Izu House Project

Roko Kawai and a team of collaborators traveled to Japan to develop the dance/sound piece Izu House.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

Curator Ruth Estévez on why the practice of restaging may be both “interesting” and “dangerous.”

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Crossroads of Dance and Visual Art

Setting the stage for the performances of Trisha Brown's Early Works at the Barnes Foundation, Susan Rosenberg, scholar-in-residence at the Trisha Brown Dance Company, offers an overview of Brown's career at the crossroads of dance and visual art.

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Diane Ragsdale

Performing arts expert Diane Ragsdale, a frequent panelist and keynote speaker at arts conferences, is pursuing a PhD in cultural economics at Erasmus University in the Netherlands.

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Jennifer Monson

Choreographer and performer Jennifer Monson is the founder of New York City-based iLAND: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance.

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News

International and US Artist Residencies Awarded to Pew Fellows Ryan Eckes, Leah Stein, and Rea Tajiri

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is pleased to announce that three Pew Fellows have been selected for international and US artist residencies, a program supported by the Center’s ongoing partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities and with the MacDowell Colony.

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action is primary: Dinner Parties

Part performance, part discussion, and part party, these events invite attendees to discuss the project's improvisational practice.

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Endless Shout

This timely, interdisciplinary, experimental series of dance, music, poetry, mixed media installations, and interactive programs—from acclaimed artists and scholars such as choreographer taisha paggett, designer Raul de Nieves, and composer George Lewis— invites audiences to consider African American performance aesthetics and the role of performance in museum spaces.

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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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2006–07 Choreographers Project

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

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The Quiet Circus: Reflection Event 3

Headlong presents a reflection event, part of a series of happenings occurring alongside the project’s ritual performance practice.

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Threads of History: Resurrection of a Textile

Classical Indian dance, performed by the Dancing Monks of Assam, brings to life the stories embedded in an ancient textile from the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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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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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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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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Exploration of Voice and Choreography with Pauline Oliveros

Leah Stein Dance Company conducted on a year of research and training with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, who coined the practice of "Deep Listening."

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