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Re-imagining Flamenco: Rosario Toledo and Pasión y Arte at the First Philadelphia Flamenco Festival

This two-week celebration of flamenco featured films, master classes, a symposium, and performances of work by Rosario Toledo.
April 4, 2012
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What Have We Done?—“Beyond the Bones Revisited (2002/12)”

Branches are the dead parts of the tree....branches can also be used to build.
April 4, 2012
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A Dark, Dismembered Happening

The ghosts of an earlier generation’s Happenings were awakened by a new work, Still Life, by the renamed Miller Rothlein company (formerly MIRO Dance Theater).
April 3, 2012
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Group Motion Presents Spring Fest

Manfred Fischbeck, artistic director of Group Motion Dance Company and cornerstone of the Philadelphia dance community for over forty years, presents an improvised score.
March 30, 2012
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A Straightforward Evening of Hip-Hop: With surprising realizations, nonetheless

Even in tightly choreographed phrases, each "lady of RHPM" played with the choreography in her own way.
March 22, 2012
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Moving Pictures: Cardell Dance Theater’s ‘Excerpts’

In "Ciudad Evita," Silvana Cardell’s knack for crafting a story and the dancers’ commitment to their characters bring the images to life.
March 22, 2012
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Contemplative and Connected: Leah Stein’s Singular Aesthetic

Philadelphia Dance Projects organized a retrospective of Leah Stein’s work, celebrating her eponymous troupe’s tenth anniversary.
March 16, 2012
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Heaven, Earth, and Everything Between

Handel’s Messiah is big and divine. In trying to match its lofty heights, Weiss instead showed his own humanity.
March 15, 2012
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