Collaborators & Colleagues

Susanna Sloat

Updated
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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Projects on Tour: Center-Supported Works by Ann Hamilton, David Ludwig, Silvana Cardell, and more

After premieres in the Philadelphia region, Center-funded performances and exhibitions are reaching new national and international audiences in venues around the world.

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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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Endless Shout: Virago-Man Dem In-Process Showings by Cynthia Oliver

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents in-process showings of Cynthia Oliver’s dance-theatre work Virago-Man Dem, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Simon Dove

Simon Dove is an independent curator and educator, and a co-curator of Crossing the Line, the annual trans-disciplinary fall festival in New York City.

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Grants & Grantees

Steppes

Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presented a home season program featuring Ukrainian costumes and live music by violinist Vasyl Popadiuk.

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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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Ganga: Nitya Vaahini (The Eternal River) by Malavika Sarukkai

Having created this work over the course of a decade, Malavika Sarukkai pays homage to the sacred river Ganga and its importance in Indian culture, history, the environment, and spirituality.

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Grants & Grantees

Dream Dance: The Art of Ed Emshwiller

A retrospective surveys Ed Emshwiller’s expansive career in film, video, and visual art, introducing the artist’s groundbreaking work to a new generation of audiences.

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Private Places

jumatatu m. poe's Private Places examined everyday interactions with service providers through the choreography of J-Sette, an underground dance style.

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Let 'im Move You: This Is a Formation

A new performance work draws from the J-Sette dance form, examining “team” in performance and exploring the rhythms of pop and club music.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on How “The Museum Is The Body” In Dance

Boris Charmatz on how archiving dance happens in the body rather than in a museum.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

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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The Dance Apocalypse/Solos

Revisit Center-funded The Dance Apocalypse in Brooklyn with The Dance Apocalypse/Solos. Creators Gabrielle Revlock and Nicole Bindler describe the piece as " a radical challenge to the paltry circumstances in which artists seek funding and a heart wrenching end-of-the-world love story with pizazz."

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Collaborators & Colleagues

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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Grants & Grantees

Risk of Flight

BalletX commissioned choreographer Adam Hougland to create a new ballet for the company, featuring live music by cellist Zoë Keating.

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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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Basil Twist's Petrushka

Annenberg Center Live presented Basil Twist's Petrushka and held workshops for local puppeteers, which included a tour of Twist's studio.

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The Quiet Circus: River Charrette 4

Headlong presents the fourth and final performance in its series of River Charrettes, exploring Philadelphia’s watershed and urban expansion

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open notebook: crazy beautiful

Dancer, choreographer, and 2011 Pew Fellow Tania Isaac presented a performance installation in June 2013, at which audiences were encouraged to share their thoughts through photos, writing, and self-recordings.

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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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