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BalletX presents four world premieres on film for its new subscription series
BalletX goes beyond
BalletX opens its 15th season virtually with a quartet of world premieres in film from choreographers as near as the company’s own star, Caili Quan, and as far as New Zealand’s Loughlan Prior. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2020: David Gordon presents ‘The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020’
The virtual dance company
Famed choreographer-director David Gordon revisits his 1972 dance production ‘The Matter’ with Philadelphia dancers and archival footage in this curated Fringe presentation. Jill Ivey reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2020: OhOk Performance Group presents ‘Do mirrors burn?’
Missing ourselves in others
OhOk Performance Group joins the Philly Fringe with an isolation-adapted video performance of ‘Do mirrors burn?’ that feels just right for quarantine. Corey Qureshi reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2020: Casual Fifth presents ‘Taiko and Dance’
Taiko takes Philly
For the Fringe, performance company Casual Fifth collaborates with mentors and friends to create ‘Taiko and Dance,’ a video presentation blending taiko, modern dance, and music. Kelly Conrad reviews.
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Philly Fringe 2020: JCWK Dance Lab’s ‘The Other Side of the Window Screen: HOMEbody’
The home we inhabit
Choreographer Jessica Warchal-King’s JCWK Dance Lab curates a web-based journey through the process of creating a dance that explores the idea of home at the 2020 Philly Fringe. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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A 1944 recording of Martha Graham’s ‘Appalachian Spring’ is streaming for free
Modern dance, then and now
Best known as a work for orchestra by American composer Aaron Copland, 'Appalachian Spring' originated as a ballet of the same name. A 1944 recording of this Martha Graham Dance Company performance is now streaming for free, and Melissa Strong says it’s worth revisiting.
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BalletX presents the Virtual Works & Process Series
Dance for our moment
Originally commissioned to be performed at the Guggenheim, this series of short dance films features BalletX artists finding their way on unexpected stages. Merilyn Jackson reviews.
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Works & Process Artists Virtual Commission Series presents ‘Storm’
Dancing when the days keep coming
‘Storm,’ a performance of the Works & Process Artists Virtual Commission Series, packs emotional punch into a short solo dance now streaming free on YouTube. Melissa Strong reviews.
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Liquid Loft presents ‘Foreign Tongues’ at the Kimmel Center
We are each other
In ‘Foreign Tongues,’ Austrian dance company Liquid Loft mingled with the audience to explore communication through space and gesture and the spoken word. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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The Pennsylvania Ballet presents ‘La Bayadère’
Here for the dancing
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents ‘La Bayadère,’ a classic tale of love and jealousy, betrayal and remorse set in a colonizers’ vision of an India that never was. Camille Bacon-Smith reviews.
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