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Ballet X: Work by Booker and Neenan
Searching for meaning in modern dance
(without program notes, yet)
Watching Giselle’s Room was like hearing poetry in a foreign language. But two works by Ballet X co-artistic director Matthew Neenan caused no such confusion. Ballet X, more accustomed to Neenan’s individual style and tone, gave superb performances of both pieces.
Ballet X: Giselle’s Room, by Zane Booker; Duet From Cali and Steelworks, by Matthew Neenan. November 6-9, 2008 at Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce). (215) 917-1513 or www.balletx.org.
Ballet X: Giselle’s Room, by Zane Booker; Duet From Cali and Steelworks, by Matthew Neenan. November 6-9, 2008 at Wilma Theater, 265 S. Broad St. (at Spruce). (215) 917-1513 or www.balletx.org.
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Pennsylvania Ballet's "Balanchine and Tharp'
One more cause for euphoria
It’s too bad the Pennsylvania Ballet didn’t stage these pieces after the election— because regardless of the outcome, these performances would have restored anyone’s faith in humanity. You can’t feel anything less than admiration after watching a corps of young people dancing with such pure elation, so fluid, lovely, and promising, as they moved in perfect unison.
Pennsylvania Ballet: “Balanchine and Tharp. ” October 29-November 2, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust St. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
Pennsylvania Ballet: “Balanchine and Tharp. ” October 29-November 2, 2008 at Academy of Music, Broad and Locust St. (215) 551-7000 or www.paballet.org.
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Ellen Forman Memorial Concert
Ellen Forman's body language, fondly recalled
As founder of the South Street Dance Company in the early ’70s, the late Ellen Forman introduced Philadelphia to post-modern dance. The humor, romanticism and ebullience that marked her life and work were appropriately recalled in a studio dedication in her honor.
Ellen Forman Memorial Dance Studio opening. October 3, 2008 at Mandell Theater, Drexel University, 33rd and Chestnut Sts. (215) 895-2787 or www.drexel.edu/comad.
Ellen Forman Memorial Dance Studio opening. October 3, 2008 at Mandell Theater, Drexel University, 33rd and Chestnut Sts. (215) 895-2787 or www.drexel.edu/comad.
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Scrap's "Tide' at Fringe Festival (2nd review)
Energy vs. environment on South Street
In Isaiah Zagar's mosaic garden on South Street, dancers perilously climbed and danced off walls of embedded bottles and ceramics in the early evening, when subtle lighting added a mysterious glow to the performance.
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React/Dance's South Philly Tour, at Fringe Festival
Beyond gentrification's reach
React/Dance, led by Jacelyn Biondo and Kristen Shahverdian, took its dancers and audience on a tour of South Philly, with nary a chic restaurant or much of a sign of gentrification in sight.
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"Car' at Fringe Festival
All the world's a garage
In Car, director/choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace took audiences of three or four in a car ride within a parking garage— an ambitious, aggressive and sometimes violent experiment.
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Dorner's "Bodies in Urban Spaces' at Fringe Festival
Willi Dorner's Pied Pipers of Center City
The Vienna-based choreographer Willi Dorner unleashed 20 highly charged dancers onto the streets of Center City in a series of engaging tableaux, as if some nuclear accelerator had beamed their piled bodies into niches and doorways.
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Keila Cordova's "Janet 2.0' at Fringe Festival
A parody with teeth
Keila Cordova's political send-up was smart, amusing and prescient too, given Sarah Palin's sudden ascent.
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Leah Stein's "Urban Echo' at Fringe Festival
Singers, dancers, generations: Breaking the city's boundaries
Urban Echo: Circle Told was perhaps the most transfixing event of Philadelphia's recent Fringe Festival: a brilliant melding of two different generations of artists who share defining commitments to improvisation, as well as a spiritual connection between their creative souls and their external environments.
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Scrap's "Tide' at Fringe Festival
The roar of the city, the peace of the garden
Amid mirrors, trash and other lost objects of urban life strewn about Isaiah's Magic Garden, Myra Bazell's Tide reflects a world in which humans have disconnected from the natural environment. It's a treasure hunt for performers and audience alike.
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