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Choreographer Faustin Linyekula, re-PLACE-ing Philadelphia, Painted Bride Arts Center. Photo by Jen Cleary.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Faustin Linyekula on Creating Accessible Art

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Janine Antoni, Anna Halprin, Stephen Petronio, Rope Dance, 2015. Photo by Hugo Glendinning. Courtesy of the artists and The Fabric Workshop and Museum.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Stephen Petronio and Artist Janine Antoni on Performance in a Museum Setting

Interview
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 
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visiting Scholar Kristy Edmunds on Philadelphia's Collaborative Arts Ecology

Interview
PRESENT TENSE, performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Photo © Naoya Ikegani Saitama Arts Foundation, 2006.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Writer and Dancer Wendy Perron on the Meaning of "Contemporary"

Interview
The main building at Cliveden, constructed 1763–67. Courtesy of Cliveden. 
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Cliveden's Libbie Hawes on Historical Interpretation for Contemporary Audiences

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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.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Choreographer Stephen Petronio on Performance and Ephemerality

Interview
Jymie Merritt, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Bassist and Composer Jymie Merritt

Interview
REDCAT hosts The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at California Institute of the Arts’ (CalArts) winter concert, 2016. Photo by Lawrence K. Ho, courtesy of CalArts. 
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Curator Ruth Estévez on Why Some Performances Should Remain in the Past

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Tiona Nekkia McClodden, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist and Filmmaker Tiona McClodden

Interview
Room 21 at The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Barnes Foundation’s Thom Collins on Unpacking the Museum’s Collection Through Performance

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Ryan Eckes, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Poet Ryan Eckes

Interview
Andrea Clearfield, 2016 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Questions of Practice

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Composer Andrea Clearfield

Interview
Francis Kéré, The Architecture of Francis Kéré: Building for Community, exhibition view with artist, 2016, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Photo by Tim Tiebout.
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Francis Kéré

Primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso, completed 2001. Designed by Francis Kéré, Burkinabe, active Berlin. Photograph by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk.
Questions of Practice

Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Interview
Adam Hougland’s Risk of Flight. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.
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Risk of Flight

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Nomad: The River

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Replaced Rituals

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Here Dance Film