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2024-25 Season
Masquerade& TheHarlemRenaissance A Glimpse into past performances at the Koresh Dance Company and Quintessence Theater Group. ARTSI Philly Gathering: Pasquale, People, and Priest. 2025 TheMasquerade & The Harlem Renaissance Koresh Connects The Masquerade @ South Philadelphia Mummers Museum in 2025. FIRE! A World Premiere By Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, Paul Oakley Stovall; Dir. Raelle Myrick-Hodges Choreography by…
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival and 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
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 Hugo, Les Misérables adapted to the stage a grand scale depiction of the Paris Commune of 1871 for the public as the greatest French revolutionary moment of all time. Phantom…
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Philadanco!
By Way of The Funk(2024) From the 2023 Moving… Beyond Forward To the 2024 Winter Program- Our Voices, Our Choices Return to the Perelman Theater, December 2024 for Philadanco!, “Our Voices, Our Choices…This Is Us!” in many ways prepared the audience to discuss the work of choreography that channels a civil movement and educates audiences…
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A Critical Analysis
Paul Taylor Dance Company brought me to his autobiography, Private Domain. Bridging theater and dance on stage to critique with live sketches to support the art criticism. The objective was to critique a diversity of artists from a critical point of view. With each artist on stage came a sentimental bearing on the everyday gestures,…
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THERE
The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver Roger Pearson “Artist and Poet, Etel Adnan, one of the leading intellectual figures of the day.” The Sea Voyage, Philadelphia Artist Collective Fringe 2019 In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other Where are we? where? There is a where, because…
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Opera.
Opera Philadelphia : Festival O23 Unholy Wars Karim Sulayman Raha Mirzadegan John Taylor Ward Mary Kouyoumdijan Coral Dolphin The 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 gathered on the objectionable military support of industry from institutions…
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A Classic New Yorker Cartoon
A Live Performance, You Have To Be There to experience it. Experience the music, In 2017, The Summer Series at the Mann Center presented A Space Odyssey. Honoring the legacy of Colonel Guion Bluford, Jr. the first African American in space, and a World Premiere by Nolan Williams Jr. “Hold Fast to Dreams,” in steadfast…
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Theatre 23/24 Season
COST OF LIVING Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, 2024 production at the Philadelphia Theater Company. The movement on stage was reframing the issue of mobility. We are interested in her ideas of identity. Care takers articulated class disabilities on stage, similar to how social class effectively labels a persons value by ableism. Fringe Festival Rhythm…
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Virtual Culture: Live Performances, Social Distance, and Live Streamed Events
Eyes On The Prize Hallowed Ground Director Sophie 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 Speech Theater Sanctuary City In 2021, as theaters were…