Winter 2019
Thanks to Everyone who contributed to PDP’s ANNUAL APPEAL.
PDP will continue to be able to deliver distinctive
inspiring performance events, and to provide unique opportunities for dance artists and audiences.
Ellie Goudie-Averill and Jungwoong
Kim in Tori Lawrence’s “JUNKSPACE” 2018 photo credit: Vance Gellert
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THE OLD CITY ARTS HISTORY PROJECT
Dancer/choreographer
Jac Carley in Jeff Cain’s “Living Room at The Bottom of the
Lake” at ETAGE 1977
PDP has received a Discovery Grant from The Pew Center for Arts &
Heritage to research the legacy and history of artists and their
activities, who were living and working in Old City circa 1975-1985. This
discovery process grows out of PDP’s Local Dance History Project (2010)- which pursued an understanding of
the roots of contemporary dance in Philadelphia. A significant number of dance
artists were at the core of founding and/or creating and presenting work
through Old City Arts during that era. Critical to understanding this evolution
is the interplay with other artists in other disciplines particularly music,
theater or performance art and the visual arts. By exchanging this information
and ideas about this history, artists and audiences may come to appreciate the
depth of work being created today, not only in terms of style and
interdisciplinary interaction, but also the social and urban nexus with which
art connects.
The Discovery process activities will entail identifying the
artists, neighbors, audiences and others who shared in the experience of Old
City as an organic arts phenomenon. We will be working with scholars,
artists and community partners as advisors and participants in research process.
A CALL for information, materials or personal stories for this history
project, please contact PDP.
OCA Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2110247489298667/
Email: info
philadanceprojects [dot] org
Support for the research and development of THE OLD CITY ARTS HISTORY PROJECT has
been provided
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