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Millwood Justice Residence, designed by Minerva Parker Nichols, Narberth, PA. Photo by Elizabeth Felicella.
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Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

Sun & Sea (Marina), opera-performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė, La Biennale di Venezia, 2019. Photography by Andrej Vasilenko, courtesy of the artists.
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Sun & Sea

Yesterday Tomorrow, created and directed by Annie Dorsen, presented at La MaMa, New York City, 2016. Photo by Maria Barnova.
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Algorithmic Theater

The Crossing, Farming, 2023, Bucks County. Photo by Peter English.
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Farming

Pew Fellow Yolanda Wisher in Be Holding, 2023, Girard College, Philadelphia, PA. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
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Be Holding

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers founding artistic director Kun-Yang Lin, at the company's Chi Movement Arts Center. Photo by Rob Li.
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WHERE IS MY B-O-D-Y

Once on This Island, 2018, costumes by Clint Ramos, Circle in the Square Theatre. Photo by Joan Marcus.
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The Tattooed Lady

Pew Fellow Jennifer Kidwell, Superterranean, Pig Iron Theatre Company, 2019. Photo by Johanna Austin.
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The Path of Pins or The Path of Needles

TOWN, 2022, Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA. Photo by John C. Hawthorne.
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TOWN

Wilma Theater HotHouse members during workshop for The Cherry Orchard with Dmitry Krymov, 2018. Photo by Kristin Finger.
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The Cherry Orchard

Miller Rothlein, Lie to Me and Shorter Stories, 2006. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
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Lie to Me and Shorter Stories

Nichole Canuso Dance Company, Fail Better, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Fail Better

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, the break/s. Photo by Umi Vaughan.
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The Breaks

Pennsylvania Ballet soloist Lillian Di Piazza and principal dancer Zachary Hench in Jerome Robbins’ In the Night. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
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Jerome Robbins’ In the Night

Tobin Rothlein, Civilian/Warrior.
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Civilian/Warrior

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Lavanya: Graceful Expressions of the East

Gabrielle Revlock in residency during the 2011 Choreographers Project. Photo by Bonnie Friel.
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2006–07 Choreographers Project

Christ Church, Philadelphia. Photo by Tom Crane. 
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The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020

Curtis students Abigail Fayette and Jean Kim in a Curtis 20/21 performance. Photo by Pete Checchia.
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Rehearsing Philadelphia, new commission by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Rand/Goop, 2019, painted wood, found objects, embedded video. Photo courtesy of The Fabric Workshop and Museum. 
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: Blood Moon

Nichole Canuso, The Garden, 2013. Photo by Yi Zhao.
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Being/With: Live

Mushroom playwright Eisa Davis with a community stakeholder in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, mushroom growing house. Photo by Bobby Plasencia.
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Mushroom

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Photo by Jessica Griffin.
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis 2.0

Haitian band Lakou Mizik, part of WXPN's Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans project. Photo by Maxence Bradley.
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Kanaval: Haitian Rhythms and the Music of New Orleans