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Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.

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Questions of Practice: Composer and Pianist Vijay Iyer and Librettist Mike Ladd on Multivocality

Holding It Down, Harlem Stage. Photo by Mark Millman Photography. Courtesy of Kimmel Center, Inc.

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Questions of Practice: Composer and Pianist Vijay Iyer and Librettist Mike Ladd on Improvisation

Dr. Anonymous at the American Psychiatric Association annual meeting in 1972. Photo by Kay Tobin, courtesy New York Public Library Collections.

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Interpreting History When the Record is Incomplete: Playwright Ain Gordon and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Nouvelle Histoire collection, 2011, by Vlisco. Photograph by Carmen Kemmink.

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Inside The Philadelphia Museum of Art: Q&A with Timothy Rub

Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in Trisha Brown’s O zlozony/O composite. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev, courtesy of Pennsylvania Ballet.

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Questions of Practice: Writer and Dancer Wendy Perron on Trisha Brown and the Body

Teresa Jaynes, Gift #4, 2016, silkscreen prints and cherry. Photo by Jennifer McTague.

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On Telling the Stories of the Disabilities Community: Artist Teresa Jaynes, Playwright Suli Holum, Writer Terry Galloway, and Art-Reach's John Orr

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Stephen Petronio on Performance and Ephemerality

Vijay Iyer performing in Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, 2016. Photo by Alexander Iziliaev.

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Questions of Practice: Composer and Pianist Vijay Iyer on Musical Lineage

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Historic Germantown’s Second Saturday Festival. Photo by Jill Saul.

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Inside Historic Germantown: Q&A with Trapeta B. Mayson

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.

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Who Gets to Be Contemporary? Brooklyn Museum's Catherine Morris and Arcadia Gallery's Richard Torchia on Pati Hill

Trisha Brown, Set and Reset. Photo by John Waite, courtesy of Trisha Brown Dance Company.

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Mind, Movement, and Memory: Douglas Crimp and Peter Eleey on Choreographer Trisha Brown

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.

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Questions of Practice: Cohabitation Strategies and Anthony Smyrski on Design in Contemporary Culture

Hank Willis Thomas, Strawberry Mansion, 2011, installation view, Studio Museum in Harlem. Courtesy of Hank Willis Thomas and Wyatt Gallery.

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Inside Philadelphia Photo Arts Center: Q&A with Sarah Stolfa

Ensemble view, Room 21, south wall, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 2016. Photo courtesy of The Barnes Foundation.

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Questions of Practice: Composer Jace Clayton and Barnes Director Thom Collins on the Making of Room 21

Photo by Dominic M. Mercier, Courtesy of Opera Philadelphia.

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Translating Film to the Stage: Composer Missy Mazzoli and Librettist Royce Vavrek on Breaking the Waves

Faustin Linyekula's Philly Files. Photo by Jen Cleary.

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Questions of Practice: Choreographer Faustin Linyekula on Theater and Civic Life

An overhead view of the PHS Pop Up Garden at the Viaduct Rail Park. Photo by Rob Cardillo.

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On Urban Parks and Civic Life: Insights from Leaders at PA Horticultural Society, Trust for Public Land, High Line, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

Tania Isaac, 2011 Pew Fellow, dancing in 2007.

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Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Tania Isaac on Audience Expectations

Pastor Harry Moore, Sr. of Mount Olive Baptist Church approaches the lectern remodeled with 3711 Melon Street’s front door, as his choir performs at the funeral service for the row home. Interior detail of Temple Contemporary’s publication for Funeral for a Home.

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"The Home Going Celebration": An Excerpt from Funeral for a Home

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