Fall 2019
This Fall, PDP is
pleased to announce that we are participating in the BILATERAL Exchange - now
in it’s 11th year - offering this wonderful opportunity for local
artists. In the New Year, PDP will present work of over ten local artists,
along side of some out-of-towners.
Please join us to
see what these most excellent dance artists have been up to….
BILATERAL:
Budapest/Philadelphia Dance Artists Exchange
Philadelphia
choreographer/performers Paige Phillips and
Annie Wilson will participate in the
2019 BILATERAL: Budapest/Philadelphia Dance Artists Exchange in Budapest
September 30 to October 22. The artists will be hosted by Műhely Alapítvány/Workshop
Foundation. The Exchange
is a cultural and creative residency with the intent to reveal the experience
of dance artists in both cities, as well as build connections between the two communities.
Jungwoong Kim, Ellie Goudie
Averill, Cole Highnam, Seth Wenger perform excerpt of JUNKSPACE choreographed by Tori Lawrence in PDP’s
“Danube/Schuylkill” Fall 2018 photo credit: Vance Gellert
PDP
Presents 2020
PDP will revive
its popular PDP Presents Dance Up Close series
of performances, “informances,” workshops and film screenings in Winter/Spring
2020. Stay tuned…
PDP Presents is made possible with support from the William Penn Foundation.
THANKS! to everyone for participating PDP’s Old City Arts History Project Symposium on February 23
Read about it on Broad Street Review here.
The OLD CITY ARTS HISTORY PROJECT 1975-1980:
With a Discovery Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia Dance Projects has begun to research the legacy and history of artists and their activities, who were living and working in Old City circa 1975-1980.
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 to date have included identifying the artists, neighbors, audiences and others who shared in the experience of Old City as an organic arts phenomenon. We have been working with scholars, artists and community partners as advisors and participants in research process.
Discovery Project Team:
Terry Fox, PDP Director
Jeff Cain, Project Manager
Brett Mapp, Community Liaison, Director of Operations Manager Old City
Ishmael Houston-Jones, Faculty ETW at NYU, UArts, Curator Danspace
Melissa Rachleff-Burtt, NYU Steinhardt Faculty NYU, Co-Curator Exit Art Margaret Winslow, Curator Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum
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 by The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage.
Your
contribution to PDP will directly assist in presenting local artists in
PDP Presents 2020. Please donate now. Thank you.
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