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Marian Bantjes, Lost Child, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Graphic Artist Marian Bantjes on Textual Embellishment

Bob and Roberta Smith, MoMA WILL BE FREE (2011) and CREATING THINGS (2011), installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Bob and Roberta Smith on Art as Advocacy

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Figure 8, performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Photo © Thibault Gregoire, 2013.

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Questions of Practice: Dance Critic Claudia La Rocco on Dancing in Museums

Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.

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Transmitting Dance Across Generations: On the Making of A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78

Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.

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A Return to Simple Movement: Lucinda Childs and Judy Hussie-Taylor in Conversation

Rehearsal photo of Aaron Cromie and Mary Tuomanen's The Body Lautrec. Photo by Richard Termine Photography.

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Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Mary Tuomanen on Character

Untitled work by Bob and Roberta Smith, installed as part of Framing Fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Courtesy of the Free Library of Philadelphia.

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Questions of Practice: Artist Bob and Roberta Smith on Virtuosity

Mike Kelley, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #32, Plus, a Performa commission, curated by Mark Beasley. Photo by Paula Court. Courtesy of Performa.

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Act V: A Final Report: The Archive of Gestures by Jay Kirk

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Anna Halprin teaching Planetary Dance to Tamalpa Institute students, May 2015. Photo © Sue Heinemann.

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God Must be a Dancer

Aaron Cromie’s A Paper Garden, commissioned and produced for the American Philosophical Society Museum’s Greenhouse Projects. Photo by Brent Wahl. Pictured: Genevieve Perrier [in the dress] and Mary Tuomanen [in the hat].

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Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Aaron Cromie on Artistic Responsibility

Brent Wahl, At Odds with a Reflection, 2013, 20 x 30

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A Barbara Kasten-Inspired Disruption

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Reconstructie (1969), a morality, composed together with Louis Andriessen, Reinbert de Leeuw, Misha Mengelberg, and Jan van Vlijmen. Libretto: Hugo Claus, Harry Mulisch. Duration: 130 minutes. Photo by Maria Austria.

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An Introduction to Co-Authorship

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Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. In this version the dimensions are 32 by 28 feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. In her archive Childs refers to this as a “grid.” Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.

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An Introduction to Restaging & Reconstruction

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Ain Gordon during a creative residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, March 2015. Photo by Janelle Jones.

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An Experiment in Five Acts in Review: A Conversation with Ain Gordon

Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, GAMMAgreen/x-sea-scape, 2006, installation view, \Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany

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Questions of Practice: Philosopher Christoph Cox on Approaching Noise Music

Lucinda Childs’ Available Light in performance at the Drexel University Armory as part of the 2015 FringeArts Fringe Festival. Photo © Jacques-Jean Tiziou. Courtesy of FringeArts.

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Questions of Practice: FringeArts' Nick Stuccio on Curating Performance

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) presents the world premiere of Agua Furiosa from CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater in January 2016. Photo by Tyrone Domingo. Courtesy of CAP UCLA.

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Questions of Practice: Performance Curator Kristy Edmunds on Risk

Detail from the cover of the No Idea Is Too Ridiculous catalog, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2010.

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No Idea Is Too Ridiculous

Sam Miller, 2015. Photo courtesy of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

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Questions of Practice: Arts Leader Sam Miller on Risk and Artistic Process

From left to right: Jiri Zizka, Tom Sellar, Václav Havel, and Paul Wilson at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, May 26, 2010. Photo by Karl Seifert.

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Václav Havel on Leaving, Playwriting, and Politics

Anna Deavere Smith in Second Stage Theater’s production of Let Me Down Easy at Washington’s Arena Stage, December 31, 2010 to February 13, 2011. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Anna Deavere Smith on Let Me Down Easy

Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Neighborhood Convening, June 29, 2015. 632 Jackson Street. Photo by Steve Weinik. Courtesy of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

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Questions of Practice: Cohabitation Strategies on the Role of the Arts in Fostering Social Change

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The Wooster Group's version of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre. Pictured: Scott Shepherd and Kate Valk. Photo by Nancy Campbell.

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The Further Adventures of the Wooster Group's Kate Valk

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Works by Thomas Nozkowski on view at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, in 2009. Photo courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery.

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Painting and Its Exhibitions: Talking with Thomas Nozkowski and Robert Storr