PDP Presents

In 2009 Philadelphia Dance Projects launched Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents, a presenting series featuring dance performances, workshops, and “Informances” by individual dance artists and companies. This dance-focused series provided an adventuresome series in contemporary dance within a broader local and global context through 2014. In 2015 the series was curtailed due to diminished funding support. PDP continues to do special Projects in presentation under PDP Presents.

2017 PDP WOLF-IN-SKINS Dance/Opera Creative Residency with choreographer CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS and composer GREGORY SPEARS

“Operatic elements tell the story while dance explores the dreaminess of the mythology…it’s a visual feast.” - Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer

If you were one of the lucky audience to see the Philadelphia Dance Projects’ sold out performances of Wolf-In-Skins, Act 1 in 2013 you know how exciting this work is!
A PDP special residency will begin in 2017 and culminate with a script in hand presentation in the Fall when some of those marvelous singers, wolves and hounds, along with new puppets will return.
PDP has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a creative residency with choreographer, Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears to work towards finishing this wonderful dance opera.

“Dance and opera certainly have been blended over the centuries, but not often with the sort of intensive interaction demanded by [choreographer] Williams and composer Gregory Spears, both seemingly fearless about striking out in new direction.” David Patrick Stearns, Philadelphia Inquirer

“Operatic elements tell the story while dance explores the dreaminess of the mythology…it’s a visual feast.” - Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer

If you were one of the lucky audience to see the Philadelphia Dance Projects’ sold out performances of Wolf-In-Skins, Act 1 in 2013 you know how exciting this work is!

A PDP special residency will begin in 2017 and culminate with a script in hand presentation in the Fall when some of those marvelous singers, wolves and hounds, along with new puppets will return.

PDP has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for a creative residency with choreographer, Christopher Williams and composer Gregory Spears to work towards finishing this wonderful dance opera.

“Operatic elements tell the story while dance explores the dreaminess of the mythology…it’s a visual feast.” - Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer

If you were one of the lucky audience to see the Philadelphia Dance Projects’ sold out performances of Wolf-In-Skins, Act 1 in 2013 you know how exciting this work is!

A PDP special residency will begin in 2017 and culminate with a script in hand presentation in the Fall when some of those marvelous singers, wolves and hounds, along with new puppets will return.

Calendar Archive

SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance 2014

March 14, 2014 - 7:30pm

March 15, 2014 - 7:30pm

Nichole Canuso/ Philadelphia Super Group/Minneapolis

Jose Navarrete/San Francisco Elia Mrak/Seattle

Nora Gibson- Philadelphia / John Scott- Dublin, Ireland

February 27, 2014 - 7:30pm

February 28, 2014 - 7:30pm

March 1, 2014 - 7:30pm

Two choreographers on a shared program.

Philadelphia dancer and choreographer Nora Gibson will premiere Temporal Objects in which Gibson and collaborator, lighting designer Clifford Greer, combine forces again to integrate movement patterns and light, taking inspiration from fugue scores, romanticism, and perception of memory and time. “…severely focused intellectual beauty…” - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Performance Susan Rethorst: Moving In Philadelphia | THEN: A World Premiere

January 16, 2014 - 8:00pm

January 17, 2014 - 8:00pm

January 18, 2014 - 8:00pm

January 19, 2014 - 3:00pm

PDP presents THEN, the finale of Susan Rethorst/Moving in Philadelphia: 2013-2014, a year of creative events and performances in the region by iconic New York “downtown dance” artist Susan Rethorst. Choreographed exclusively for Group Motion and a stellar cast of dancer/creators, this new work features Lindsay Browning, Ellie Goudie-Averill, Gregory Holt, David Konyk, and Lesya Popil.

Informance Susan Rethorst: Moving In Philadelphia- Perceiving the 'Just This'-ness...

December 5, 2013 - 7:00pm

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 of Danspace Project; and Lois Welk, Executive Director of DanceUP.

Post-Informance book signing with Susan Rethrost.

PDP's Donor Appreciation Night

November 18, 2013 - 6:00pm

Guest of Honor Jonathan Stein

With special guests Germaine Ingram and Leah Stein
And a musical tribute by members of The Bearded Ladies