Collaborators & Colleagues

Susanna Sloat

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30 Nov 2016

Susanna Sloat is a writer, editor, and arts consultant in New York City who has written about a diverse range of dance. She is the editor of Caribbean Dance from Abakuá to Zouk: How Movement Shapes Identity (winner of the de la Torre Bueno Prize for 2003) and of Making Caribbean Dance: Continuity and Creativity in Island Cultures. She served as a Center panelist in dance from 2009–10 and as a LOI panelist in 2011.

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SaltSoul

The universality of sudden loss and trauma will be examined in this multimedia dance theater work integrating Kim's heritage in traditional Korean dance with Western dance, improvisation, music, and found sound, to be developed in collaboration with Marion Ramírez, Germaine Ingram, Merián Soto, and Korean musician Gamin Hyosung Kang.

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Crossing

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers developed a new contemporary dance work that explores the significance of “crossings.”

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Questions of Practice

Pew Fellow of the Week: An Interview with Choreographer Nichole Canuso

Choreographer and performer Nichole Canuso on improvisation, audience participation, and what she describes as “the kinesthetic intellect.”

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The Life of a Just Sole

Bringing together some of hip-hop's most influential pioneers, Clark will present what he calls his "physical autobiography" in a dance-theater performance blending street dance techniques with spoken word narration and video.

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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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Megan Bridge

Dance and choreographer Megan Bridge co-directs < fidget >, a platform for her collaborative work with composer, designer, and musicologist Peter Price.

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Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself

Directing My Dancers/Directing Myself allowed Nichole Canuso to reevaluate her choreographic practice, mentoring under U.K.-based dancer Wendy Houstoun.

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Facing Front Artist Talk: Building Performance

Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion will have spent the week with 35 Philadelphia-based artists, curators, and writers in an intensive workshop on process. This last day of the session will open a window into their work and process, allowing for time to talk formally and informally about how we build performances.

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This Town Is a Mystery

Headlong Dance Theater brought dance directly into the private homes of Philadelphia citizens, where the members of those households became the dancers.

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Still Unknown

Nicole Cousineau collaborated with seven local performance artists to create an immersive dance-theater work.

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Leah Stein

Stein’s choreographic practice integrates improvisational methods in site-specific works that illuminate the connections among the body, sound, location, and audience.

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Faith Project/The Door Performances

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Lectures Judson Dance Theater

Wendy Perron, former member of Trisha Brown Dance Company presents a slide lecture on this pivotal moment in dance history.

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Boris Charmatz

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

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Supper, People on the Move at La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival

Choreographer Silvana Cardell's Supper, People on the Move travels to the experimental theater La MaMA in New York City, as part of the 2016 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival.

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Trisha Brown In the New Body Classes

To acquaint Philadelphia dancers with Trisha Brown's explorations, a series of free classes and workshops will be offered at area Universities and art spaces.

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Philadelphia Flamenco Festival TAPAS Performances

Flamenco master Rosario Toledo will present a series of performances entitled TAPAS: the culmination of a month-long residency with Philadelphia artists Eun Jung Choi, Meg Foley, and Germaine Ingram.

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Questions of Practice

Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing

Artist Sarah Crowner questions the idea of a painting as “fixed and static,” and proposes that a painting is “an archive of all the actions and gestures that surround it.”

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thINKingDANCE.net

Dance artist and writer Lisa Kraus developed ThinkingDance.net, an online project that covers the landscape of dance in the Southeastern Pennsylvania region.

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Mash-Up Body Lab

Kate Watson-Wallace worked with four dancers in a research project that embraced, appropriated, and layered movements found in online and pop culture ephemera, in order to develop new types of "21st-century" dance.

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