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Fringe Festival and Edinburgh International Festival
Compagnie des Perspectives 2016 Traveling Abroad to see a festival of art performances, comedians, plays, and everything from big to small. They filled every nook in bars as well as theaters with events, where artists took up space to present themes across the board. They presented programs that were free, the schedule of performances spanned…
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Theater in Sketch
In 2017, the most memorable live sketches featured the play HOW TO USE A KNIFE, starring Scott Greer and J. Hernendez. LES MISÉRABLES, 2017, The Academy of Music, Broadway Philadelphia. The biggest production, and the most memorable creation on stage. With the historical painting by Éugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading The People, the novel by Victor…
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Philadanco!
“By Way of The Funk” From the 2023 Moving… Beyond Forward To the 2024 Winter Program, Our Voices, Our Choices Returning to the Perelman Theater in December 2024 with a program, “Our Voices, Our Choices…This Is Us!” in many ways prepared the audience to speak on the work of choreography that informs about what the…
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2018
FringeArts 2018 and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival was on the forefront of contemporary performances in Philadelphia. Bridging theater and dance became a driving force to the emergence of style, genre, and fashion in volumes of visual storytelling. The stage, made it an acceptable place of diversity drawn from the art and culture from around the…
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Opera.
Festival O23 Unholy Wars Opera Philadelphia Karim Sulayman Raha Mirzadegan John Taylor Ward Mary Kouyoumdijan Coral Dolphin Recitation of the Crusades, through the music of Monteverdi’s Tancredi e Clorinda, the virtuosity of human emotion, unexpectedly anticipated a global protest, and an international summit on the military support of industry from institutions of power, and leaders…
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2022
Inspired by Ocean Waves choreography by Kun-Yang Lin; solo by Wally Digital Designs 2022 KYL/D Fish & Girl Koresh Dance Muse Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers Company (AMM&DCO) Project 35 Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at City Center Revelations Kun-Yang Lin and Dancers Spring 101 BlackStar Film Festival 2022 The African Desperate Martine Syms directed the feature…
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2020
In 2017, The Summer Series at the Mann Center presented A Space Odyssey. Honoring the legacy of Colonel Guion Bluford, Jr. that began with an abstract visual introduction of a cosmic view of space. It celebrated our Universe with a celestial themed program, and it intersects with our modern times. How in 2020, Covid-19 gripped…
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Theatre 23/24 Season
Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, 2024 production at the Philadelphia Theater Company. The movement on stage was reframing the issue of mobility, and their interest with issues of identity. Identifying with care workers articulated disabilities on stage, similarly how social class effectively labels a person. Fringe Festival | Rhythm Bath The set designer, Mimi Lien…
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2021
BlackStar Film Festival 2021, featured the documentary of Eyes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground directed by Sophia Nahli Alison Americans and to others as producers and writers, creative and management talent. They will bring their own stories and passions that will, after experimentation, failures and second opportunities, succeed. …-Henry Hampton’s 1992 PBS Annual Meeting Keynote…
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MASQUERADE
The open ended reality of the masked ball through the ages, eclipsed by the timelessness, Koresh Dance catapults its way into realms of a dream or fantasy. A dual presence on stage with live singing by Sage Deagro-Ruope, searching for something more human. Impressively standing together with this band of dancers, exploring the ribbons of…