PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS
FALL INFORMANCE SERIES A ZOOMING SUCCESS

Dancers in rehearsal of Christopher
Williams’ “Narcissus” screened in
PDP’s Informance, November 2020
“Lucky
for the rest of us, artists are unstoppable”
so The Inquirer
writer, Nancy Heller wrote in her Fall’20 Arts feature “Robust lineup for virtual dance” that included PDP’s Fall 2020 Informance
series. Through our mid-week series PDP has been able to bolster those working
in dance and provide interesting and inspiring content for audiences.
“The informance format works
wonderfully in a pandemic”
one audience member commented. And judging from audience and press feedback,
this opinion is shared by others, too.
In this pandemic
season, PDP has kept dance visible by providing lively and deep conversations
with Choreographers, Megan Mazarick, Tommie-Waheed
Evans, Christopher Williams and Amalia
Colon-Nava and Historian, Dr. Lynn
Matluck Brooks.

Gina Palumbo wrote
in The Dance Journal, “In the
end, we were given time to have our questions answered. I originally thought to
ask Tommie-Waheed Evans what his greatest test was, but instead asked what his
ultimate reward as a choreographer was in the artist’s hell on earth. He said
that he was most moved by his dancers’ hunger to continue working, despite the
circumstances.” I’ve learned many things in 2020, but I am certain of one thing:
Dancers
are here. They have never left, and they are ready to do the work.”

Excerpt from PITH, screendance by Amalia Colon-Nava
Look for PDP
Online Informances in the New Year….
It is our intent
to continue to support artists through Informances’
virtual artist/audience conversations into
Winter/Spring 2021. We anticipate that
we may be able to safely present live performances into the Fall of 2021. All
the online sessions are offered FREE or pay what you will.
With a grant from
Trust for Mutual Understanding PDP will
continue the BILATERAL: Budapest /Philadelphia Dance Artist Exchange and
look forward to hosting dance artists from Hungary, once travel is
unrestricted. Paige Phillips, Exchange
Artist’19 said, “By
participating in this program I joined a powerful, creative community. It was
wonderful to meet artists in Budapest that had previously been to Philadelphia,
and to realize how many meaningful connections have been made between
choreographers living in the two cities.”

Tori Lawrence’s JUNKSPACE in PDP Presents DANCE UP CLOSE January
2020 photo: Jano Cohen
PLEASE
CONTRIBUTE TO PDP’s ANNUAL APPEAL ‘20
This season of
uncertainty has presented PDP with additional obstacles in our mission to
support contemporary dance in Philadelphia. This difficult economy will impact
the year ahead, too. It will prove challenging in terms of continuing to
support the presence of dance in our city, as everywhere.
At the forefront
of these challenges is an even more competitive environment for ever-dwindling
funding resources and recognition. Nevertheless we remain steadfast.
With your continued support we look to the
full return of PDP Presents DANCE UP CLOSE,
the BILATERAL Exchange, and PDP’s education
and history projects.
Your
donation will help us match a recent grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
PDP continues to need and welcome your support. THANK YOU.
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Terry Fox,
Director & PDP Board: Jeff Cain, Chair, Chris Deephouse, Treasurer, Eun
Jung Choi, Curt Haworth, Stacey Mann, Guillermo Ortega, Alexis Pappas, James
Shelly, Jonathan Stein, Joan Myers Brown, Member Emerita.
PDP gratefully acknowledges support from The William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial, Vanguard Charitable Foundation, Covid-19
Arts Aid PHL, many Individual Donors and community partner Philadanco and Muhely Alapitvany/Workshop Foundation.

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