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Please Touch Museum, American to Zanzibar, musical instruments popular in Muslim cultures. Photo courtesy of Please Touch Museum.
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Please Touch Museum

Bluebird, world premiere translation and adaptation by Lane Savadove of the 1908 children’s play L’Oiseau Bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck, 2009. Photo by Jules Victor.
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EgoPo Classic Theater

Guitarist Sonny Troy in performance at the 2015 Jazz Bridge Neighborhood Concert Series. Photo by Anthony Dean.
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Jazz Bridge

Pavi Jaisankar speaks at a SAADA Community Forum at the Asian Arts Initiative in front of a photograph of Dr. Anandibai Joshee, the first South Asian woman in the world to earn a degree in medicine, 2013. Photo by Vivek G. Bharathan.
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South Asian American Digital Archive

Gideon Turner in The Lamellar Project. Photo by Alex Harvery-Brown
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Tiny Dynamite

The sold-out audience at \Gospel Meets Symphony
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DataArts

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Center City Opera Theater

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Chamber Music Now

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The Design Center at Philadelphia University

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West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance

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Relâche

Jérôme Bel, Le dernier spectacle (The last performance), 1998. Photo by Herman Sorgeloos.
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Introducing Our Latest Publication: In Terms of Performance, a Keywords Anthology for Contemporary Cultural Practice

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

Fellows Friday: Q&A with Vocalist and Composer Tokay Tomah

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Ann Hamilton, habitus, 2016. Installation at Municipal Pier 9, made in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Photo by Thibault Jeanson.
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Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton, habitus, 2016. Installation at Municipal Pier 9, made in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. Photo by Thibault Jeanson.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Ann Hamilton on the Social Connotations of Cloth

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Elevator Repair Service's Gatz, Annie McNamara, Gary Wilmes, Scott Shepherd. Photo by Paula Court.
Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Elevator Repair Service’s John Collins on Process in Theater-Making

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Megawords newsstand, 2010. Photo courtesy of the artists.
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Megawords