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Audiences take in Liberty To Go To See, 2015, at Cliveden’s Main House, an interactive dramatic event based on the Chew Family Papers, produced by the New Freedom Theatre and featuring a script created through a year-long partnership between Cliveden and the Philadelphia Young Playwrights.
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Six and Fours, Prison Anxieties, interactive, public installation created for the 2013 Chale Wote Street Arts Festival in Jamestown, Accra. Courtesy of the artist.
Chopin Without Piano at FringeArts, produced by Centrala, Warsaw, conceived and written by Michał Zadara and Barbara Wysocka, directed by Michał Zadara. Chopin performed by Barbara Wysocka. Photo by JJ Tiziou. Courtesy of Swarthmore College.
Rea Tajiri, 2015 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.
Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.
Dr. Anonymous at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in 1972. Photo by Kay Tobin, courtesy New York Public Library Collections.
Nouvelle Histoire collection, 2011, by Vlisco. Photograph by Carmen Kemmink.
Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Trisha Brown’s O zlozony/O composite. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet.
Teresa Jaynes, Gift #4, 2016, silkscreen prints and cherry. Photo by Jennifer McTague.
Choreographer Faustin Linyekula, re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Arts Center. Photo by Jen Cleary.
Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio, Rope Dance, 2015. Photo by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
A “Poetry Bureau,” created by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA, Westwood Village, 2013. Featuring a group of volunteer poets who write a spontaneous verse for visitors, the bureau appears outside the theater prior to a related performance. Photo by Phinn Sriployrung 
PRESENT TENSE, performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Photo © Naoya Ikegani Saitama Arts Foundation, 2006.
The main building at Cliveden, constructed 1763–67. Courtesy of Cliveden. 
Stephen Petronio rendition of The Courtesan and the Crone by Anna Halprin, 2016. Exhibition detail from Ally, produced in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Photographed by Carlos Avendaño. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Vijay Iyer performing in Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 2016. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
Historic Germantown’s Second Saturday Festival. Photo by Jill Saul.
Pati Hill, Understanding Your Chinese Scarf, 1983, 15 black & white copier prints, original mats, entire grid: 48” x 98”, each print: 11 ⅛” x 15 ¾”. Courtesy of the Estate of Pati Hill.
Trisha Brown, Set and Reset. Photo by John Waite, courtesy of Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Community members partake in Mifflin Square Alliance Festival in September 2015, part of Mural Art Program’s Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge. Photo by Steve Weinik.
Hank Willis Thomas, Strawberry Mansion, 2011, installation view, Studio Museum in Harlem. Courtesy of Hank Willis Thomas and Wyatt Gallery.
Ensemble view, Room 21, south wall, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2016. Photo courtesy of The Barnes Foundation.
Photo by Dominic M. Mercier, Courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.