Philadelphia Dance Projects

Supporting contemporary dance through projects that encourage artists and audiences to more fully participate and engage in the experience and pursuit of dance as an evolving form.

PDP Presents DANCE UP CLOSE 2013/14

SUSAN RETHORST: MOVING IN PHILADELPHIA 
perceiving the ‘just this’-ness…

INFORMANCE    Thursday, December  5, 2013    7PM
Artist/Audience conversation with preview performance excerpts by Group Motion and discussion with Susan Rethorst, Manfred Fischbeck, Director of Group Motion, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Executive Director Danspace Project and Lois Welk, Executive Director, DanceUP  - At the Performance Garage

PERFORMANCE  Thursday – Sunday, January 16-18  8PM,
January 19, 2014  3PM

A Premiere with Group Motion - At the Arts Bank
PDP presents the finale to a year-long range of creative and performance activities in the Philadelphia region with new work by venerated New York “downtown dance” artist Susan Rethorst choreographed for Group Motion and its indy cast of dancer/creators including David Konyck, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Gregory Holt, Lesya Popil and others.

NORA GIBSON  - Philadelphia / JOHN SCOTT – Dublin, Ireland

PERFORMANCE  Thurs. February  27, Fri. February 28th, Sat. March 1, 2014 at 7:30PM 
Two choreographers share an evening program.
WORKSHOP with John Scott, Director of the Irish Modern Dance Theatre
Saturday, March 1  1-3PM - At the Performance Garage. 

SCUBA  National Touring Network for Dance

NICHOLE CANUSO/ Philadelphia           SUPER GROUP/Minneapolis 
JOSE NAVARRETTE/San Francisco      ELIA MRAK/Seattle
PERFORMANCE Friday, March 14 &  Saturday, March 15  at  7:30PM  at Conwell Dance Theater 
Philadelphia Dance Projects continues to present exciting contemporary dance work through its partnership with the SCUBA Touring Network, where emerging to mid-career dance artists begin to tour nationally - and this year for the first time audiences will have the chance to see artists’ work from all four partner cities.  

SUBCIRCLE PERFORMANCE (a premiere)

Thurs. - Sat. April 3 - 5  at 7:30 PM  at the Performance Garage
Choreographer Niki Cousineau and Composer/Designer Jorge Cousineau, as Subcircle, create poetical and moving theatrical works that focus on the space where performance happens.

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