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Rennie Harris Puremovement. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Rennie Harris Performance Retrospective

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Robert Battle Commission

Lisa Kraus, The Partita Project, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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The Partita Project

Leah Stein Dance Company, Carmina Burana, 2006. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Carmina Burana

Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Crossing, 2007. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Crossing

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

Milford Graves, Beyond Polymath, sculpture detail. Photo courtesy of Ars Nova Workshop.
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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

Allyson Mitchell and Deirdre Logue, Killjoy’s Kastle, audience members participate in a conversation regarding their tour. Photograph by Tony Coelho.
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Killjoy’s Kastle

Beth Sholom Synagogue exterior, Elkins Park, PA. Photo by Lazlo Regos, courtesy of Beth Sholom Synagogue Preservation Foundation.
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David Hartt: The Histories (Le Mancenillier)

Billie Holiday meets a sergeant and other soldiers at the South Broad Street USO, 1943. Photo by John W. Mosley.
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Black Lives Always Mattered!: Hidden African American Philadelphians in the Twentieth Century

"Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 in Philadephia," 4th Liberty Loan Parade, 1918, Collection of Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of The College of Physicians/Mütter Museum.
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Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19 in Philadelphia

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, studio staff Joy O. Ude and Avery Lawrence print Will Stokes Jr.’s Hidden. Photo by Carlos Avendaño.
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Art in Process

Colored People Time: Banal Presents installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo by Constance Mensh.
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Colored People Time: Mundane Futures, Quotidian Pasts, and Banal Presents

"Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy," "A Great Day in Philadelphia: Jazz Rules!," 1995. Photo by Elena Bouvier.
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Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy

"Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project," extract from the reconstructed Constitution of the state of Louisiana, portraits of the distinguished members of the Convention & Assembly,1868. Photo courtesy of the National Constitution Center.
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Reconstruction and the Fourteenth Amendment Project

Maryanne Amacher’s Intelligent Life cover,  circa 1982. Photo courtesy of Bowerbird.
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Maryanne Amacher: Perceptual Geographies

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, "Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?." Photo by Paul B. Goode.
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Deep Blue Sea

Pig Iron Theatre Company, Love Unpunished, set designed by Mimi Lien. Photo courtesy of Pig Iron Theatre Company.
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Superterranean