PDP Presents

In 2009, Philadelphia Dance Projects launched Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents, a presenting series featuring dance performances, workshops and “informances” by independent dance artists and companies. The second annual series, Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010 featured a look back and a look ahead, pairing the next wave of contemporary dance artists with influential choreographers from the 1970’s and 80’s Philadelphia dance scene. This new dance focused series is proving to be great success in presenting adventuresome contemporary dance in a broader local/global context.

Dance Up Close 2011 - 2012

Experience contemporary dance up close with PDP as we explore the trends and insights into the hearts and minds today’s most adventuresome choreographers as Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2011-12 features performances by Gabrielle Revlock (Philadelphia) and Lionel Popkin (Los Angeles), LEVYdance (San Francisco), Faye Driscoll (New York) Leah Stein Dance Company (Philadelphia) and Holly Johnston’s Ledges & Bones (San Francisco).

venues | The Performance Garage and Conwell Dance Theater
curator | Terry Fox, Philadelphia Dance Projects& Meg Foley, Moving Parts
phone | (215)546-2552

List of Events:

FOR DETAILED INFORMATION PLEASE CLICK ON THE TITLE OF THE EVENT

Calendar

LEVYdance

Friday, February 10, 2012 - 7:30pm

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$20 $15 students/seniors $10 DanceUP

Choreographer, Benjamin Levy creates a new relationship between audience and performer that heightens and activates the role of the viewer. ROMP seats dancers and audience members together at banquet tables, providing a familiar setting for everyday interactions to transform.

Artists

LEVYdance Artistic Director Benjamin Levy

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LEVYdance Artistic Director Benjamin Levy has been awarded the honors of “Top 25 Choreographers to Watch in 2004” by Dance Magazine and a Goldie Award by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Levy’s choreography has been presented at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Zellerbach Playhouse, ODC Theater, The Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Cowell Theater, Dance Place, Joyce SoHo, and internationally at VDU University in Kaunas, Lithuania and the Internationale Tanzmesse Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. He has taught master classes and been in residence at the Juilliard School, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet BFA and Training Programs, the University of Utah, University of California Santa Barbara, SUNY Purchase, San Jose State University, University of California Berkeley, George Washington University, and DeSales University. Levy has also been commissioned to create new work for companies including Scottish Dance Theatre and Santa Barbara Dance Theater.

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Location:

Conwell Dance Theater

NE corner of Broad and Montgomery Streets

Philadelphia, PA

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Intensive Workshop with Choreographer Faye Driscoll.

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 1:00pm

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 1:00pm

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 1:00pm

3 day-workshop $60 or $50 for DancePass (including Informance admission)

February 17 -19 Fri-Sun Presidents Weekend 1-4PM

Fri. at Philadanco Studio, 9 N. Preston St

Sat & Sun at Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St.

Location:

Philadanco Studio

9 N. Preston Street

Philadelphia, PA

Phone: (215) 546-2552

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The Performance Garage

1515 Brandywine Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Phone: (215) 546-2552

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Informance with Faye Driscoll, curated by Choreographer Meg Foley

Saturday, February 18, 2012 - 7:30pm

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$15 or $10 for DancePass

Faye Driscoll, originally from Venice Beach, CA, was hailed as “1 of 25 to watch out for in ‘08,” by Dance Magazine. Her second evening length work 837 VENICE BOULEVARD was named “one of the top five dance shows of the year” by the New York Times and received a 2009 NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. In 2009 Driscoll’s dance video LONELINESS was on display at the New Museum’s ‘Younger Than Jesus‘ Triennial Exhibit, featuring 25 international artists under the age of 33.

Artists

Faye Driscoll

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Location:

Performance Garage

1515 Brandywine St.

Philadelphia, PA 19130

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Morning Technique Class with Sean Feldman

Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:00am

Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - 10:00am

Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 10:00am

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:00am

Friday, March 9, 2012 - 10:00am

Monday, March 12, 2012 - 10:00am

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 10:00am

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 10:00am

Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 10:00am

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 10:00am

$15/class | $10 w/DancePass | All 10 classes $75

March 5-16, Mon-Fri 10AM-Noon at Philadanco Studios, 9 N. Preston St.

Artists

Sean Feldman

Location:

Philadanco Studios

9 N. Preston St.

Philadelphia, PA

Phone: (215) 546-2552

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Leah Stein Dance Company’s 10th Anniversary

Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 7:30pm

Friday, March 9, 2012 - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 7:30pm

Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 2:00pm

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$20 Thurs & Sun | $15 DancePass | $25 Fri & Sat

With Choreographer Sean Feldman, Poet Josie Foos, Musicians Toshi Makihara and Sarah Cunningham among other special guests.

Dancer/Choreographer Leah Stein has directed her company for 10 years and been performing in the Philadelphia region, nationally and internationally since the late-80’s. Stein will celebrate this milestone in PDP Presents 2012 by reprising solos, duets and small group works featuring present and past company members and other artistic collaborators.

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Leah Stein Dance Company’s 10th Anniversary

Location:

The Performance Garage

1515 Brandywine Street

Philadelphia, PA 19130

Phone: (215) 546-2552

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SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance 2012

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 7:30pm

Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 2:30pm

$20 | $15 students/seniors | $10 DancePass

featuring Holly Johnston’s Ledges & Bones Dance Project (San Francisco) and Gabrielle Revlock (Philadelphia)
March 16 & 17, Friday at 7:30Pm Sat. at 2:30PM

For more information please check out www.scubadance.us.

Artists

Gabrielle Revlock and Holly Johnston

Gabrielle Revlock has received support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the nEW Festival and the New Edge Mix, and is currently a 2nd-year Resident Artist in the Susan Hess Choreographers Project. She is the recipient of a 2010 Rocky Award and her collaboration with
Nicole Bindler, “I made this for you.” won a finalist prize in the 2011 A.W.A.R.D. Show! Her work has been shown at various venues including the Joyce SoHo (NYC) and the Korzo Theater (The Hague, Netherlands). As a dancer, she has worked with many local and international choreographers including Isabelle Chaffaud and Jérôme Meyer (Netherlands), Sean Feldman (UK), Willi Dorner (Austria), Katsura Kan (Japan), Suzanna Linke (Germany), Mark Dendy, Jane Comfort, Robert Battle, Jeanne Ruddy, Lisa Kraus, Myra Bazell, Leah Stein, Jumatatu Poe, Meg Foley and Matthew Neenan for the Opera Company of Philadelphia. www.manodamno.com.

“eccentric and often original choreography” - Philadelphia Inquirer

“Revlock has an inventive arsenal of quirky, disquieting movement, articulated with arresting panache…” - thINKing dance

HOLLY JOHNSTON is the artistic director of LEDGES AND BONES, a bi-city contemporary dance company working in both Los Angeles and San Francisco. LEDGES AND BONES promotes cultural consciousness, open dialog, and social justice through live performances, education, and other public forums. Her choreography has received critical acclaim for “turning the body into a dangerous machine” -Los Angeles Times. Johnston has received awards from The Maggie Alesse National Center for Choreography, The Zellerbach Foundation, The Joyce Theater A.W.A.R.D.S. Show Grant/Los Angeles, Lester Horton Awards for Outstanding Performance for her solo “experiment one” and was named by Dance Magazine as one of their “25 to Watch” in 2007.

Her work has been commissioned and she has been artist in resident at numerous colleges and universities around the United States including having been guest artist at Stanford University as a contributing choreographer to Stanford production of the Cinderella Principle by Robert Moses, UCLA, Cal State Long Beach, Dance New Amsterdam, San Jose State, Idyllwild Arts Academy, UC Irvine and several others . She has performed in corporate industrials for Mercedes, Union Pacific Railroad, Volkswagen, The Ritz-Carlton (Cayman Islands), String Theory CD Release (Singapore Tour) and The Grammy’s. http://ledgesandbones.org

“Johnston is a fearless and fluid dancer” - Dance Magazine

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Gabrielle Revlock in "Share" PDP presents 2011

Location:

Conwell Dance Theater

NE corner of Broad & Montgomery Sts.

Philadelphia, PA

Phone: (215) 546-2552

See map: Google Maps

Calendar Archive

Gabrielle Revlock and Lionel Popkin on a shared program.

November 18, 2011 - 7:30pm

November 19, 2011 - 7:30pm

November 19, 2011 - 2:00pm

Gabrielle Revlock’s “SHARE” is one droll take on a contemporary generation’s obsession with sharing personal biography and its impediments to intimacy. Through highly original dance moves, pattern, set and musical score, Revlock has created a dance/performance work of refreshing delight performed by Revlock, Gregory Holt and Bonnie Friel.

Set around an enormous elephant costume, Lionel Popkin’s quartet “There Is An Elephant In This Dance” looks at issues of how a singular body can house multiple histories and the difficulty of aligning oneself with a single cultural identity. Choreographer/performer Lionel Popkin, will be joined by “Bessie” Award winning dancer Carolyn Hall and the inimitable Ishmael Houston-Jones, all slyly interrupted by a SPECIAL GUEST HEATHER MURPHY, set to an original score by Robert Een.

Motion Pictures Dance on Film & Video

October 5, 2011 - 6:30pm

October 5, 2011 - 8:00pm

October 6, 2011 - 6:30pm

October 6, 2011 - 8:00pm

Now in its 10th year Philadelphia Dance Projects’ MOTION PICTURES has become a mini-festival, unique to Philadelphia, that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for dance, by highlighting the power of image in motion. Motion Pictures is co-curated by Gretjen Clausing, Executive Director Philly CAM and Terry Fox, PDP Executive Director.

MOTION PICTURES’11 will feature four different programs of shorts, features and an “informance” artist/audience conversation with Filmmaker, Nadine Patterson

SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST CLASS with Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion

September 15, 2011 - 11:00am

Co-hosted by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philadelphia Dance Projects

Thursday, September 15, 2001 11am-1pm
At Philadanco Studios, 9 N. Preston Street (One block west & one block north of 40th and Market Streets)

“..voluptuous yet formalist movement choices..” Claudia La Rocco, New York Times

SCUBA National Touring Network for Dance

March 18, 2011 - 7:30pm

March 19, 2011 - 2:30pm

IdiosynCrazy Productions (Philadelphia), Amelia Reeber (Seattle) and Little Seismic Dance (San Francisco)

Ameilia Reeber will perform her solo “this is a forgery” (excerpt). A multi-media look at how our lives unfold in the flux of what we seek, what we receive and how we respond, this is a forgery is the latest from one of Seattleʼs most powerful choreographic voices—one that blends virtuosity with a knack for exploring personal discovery onstage in a manner that is genuine, entertaining and often hysterically funny.

Katie Faulkner, Artistic Director of Little Seismic Dance Co., will perform a sensually dramatic duet “Until We know for Sure” with Brandon “Private” Freeman, and screen her “Izzie” Special Isadora Duncan Dance Award winning dance film short “Loom.”

Informance with Christopher Williams

March 12, 2011 - 7:30pm