Newest Dance Press Releases for the Philadelphia Region
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MM2 Modern Dance Company presents its newest work “THREE” as part of
a Family Arts Academy workshop at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, June 2
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Invert! combines vertical flirtation, glittery sequins, feminist history, and a cordless power drill in an all-new evening of aerial dance theater. Tangle Movement Arts' seven-woman cast travels through simmering duets, a torch-song trapeze solo, a celebration of campy drag traditions, and a tribute to Rosie the Riveter complete with on-stage power tools. Tangle's kaleidoscope of bodies merge, fall apart, and climb to the Rotunda's 40-foot ceilings, interspersed with tango solos by Juilliard violinist Caeli Smith. Invert! will be performed at the Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street) on May 16, 17, and 18.
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RealLivePeople(in)Motion, a company known for creating accessible and inventive contemporary dance, takes on the workplace with their latest piece, The Jobs Project. With original music from composer Ilan Isakov (composer of the hit film, "Ai Wei Wei, Never Sorry") and set design by local artist Andrea Caldarise, the company transforms the Latvian Society into a space where audience members can absorb, laugh and reflect upon what work looks, sounds and feels like in Philadelphia today.
Seamlessly interwoven through the piece are the voices of the 25 working Philadelphians interviewed by director Gina Hoch-Stall: from CEOs to sanitation workers, all discuss their working lives and how their jobs affect their sense of identity. These interviews have inspired choreographic segments filled with heavy lifting, gestures honed by the precision of repetition, and physical explorations of how people respond to the question "what do you do?"
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Philadelphia choreographers Megan Mizanty and Rori Smith present their culminating master’s thesis, After Bodies, an evening-length performance featuring two dynamic new works. Both works engage bodies in a technology spiral, bodies being absorbed through the screens of increasingly present digital devices. Both choreographers investigate how the body’s sensuous experience is impacted: how we see, hear and speak about ourselves amidst the swell of mediating technologies.
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Welcome to a world where its inhabitants do not have love or compassion for one another. If you are found to have these qualities, you are deemed a threat to society and are executed. EvoL is a story that follows 5 citizens who are "infected" and try to conceal their emotions in order to survive. How can one cope living in such a place? Sacrifices have to be made. Vices are taken. But can they really survive living this way? Face death or fight for love. Choose.
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Don't miss Hold Me To This, featuring "Show Me Inside," Danielle Greene’s dance theater piece exploring the intersection between dreams and waking life; "Girls Grew Out of the Ground," Meredith Steinberg's vibrant quartet exploring our human desire for interpersonal impact and our need to feel more fully; and "Corporecord," Becca Weber's investigation of embodied memories at the intersection between somatic investigation and concert dance. These three world premieres highlight each artist's individual vocabulary while finding common ground in their investigation of authenticity in human interaction. This concert is the choreographers’ culminating work as MFA candidates in Temple University’s Boyer College Dance Department.
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Alchemy Dance Company will debut two new works at The Performance Garage March 1-3, 2013. The program will feature “I Am We”, a personal piece that looks inside the self, searching for the threads that connect us, along with “Follies”, an energetic romp with an edge.
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Roger Lee Dance returns to the Performance Garage this March with its sophomore concert series Take 2. The spring concert features four new works by Roger Lee and is dedicated to the company's late dancer and videographer Chris J. Brewer.
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Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers makes their Spring Philadelphia appearance at Drexel University’s Mandell Theater on Friday, March 22 at 8 PM and Saturday, March 23 at 3 PM and 8 PM. The program, ONE: Gifts from Afar, features the world premiere of One, an exploration of humankind’s rituals surrounding the drive to win. Offering contemporary, Zen-inspired works of poetic sensibility, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers will pair One with the return of its critically acclaimed work Mandala Project which serves as a complementary piece for the new work. Tickets starting at $27 are available on Dance Box Office. Mandell Theater is located at 33rd and Chestnut Streets.
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The Barnes Foundation presents an evening of dance, film, and music by Tori Lawrence + Co., Philadelphia’s up-and-coming modern dance company. The Company is collaborating with Brooklyn-based music ensemble Bing & Ruth and filmmaker Christopher Landy
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