May 20, 2025 by Megan Bridge

Chloe Marie’s ‘For Now !’ Dance with space to dream, and a light, comforting touch

Megan Bridge sees ‘For Now !’ by Chloe Marie, which debuted at Christ Church Neighborhood House April 30. Performed by seven dancers, with music and conversational voice of the creator interwoven, the piece generates space for rumination of your own place and space, says Bridge, as well as space to absorb your immediate surroundings – the sights sounds and emotional thrust of people performing – and the audience participating by extension.

May 19, 2025 by Cindy Stockton Moore

Movement towards Freedom – Brendan Fernandes at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Cindy Stockton Moore writes about Brendan Fernandes, a multi-talented artist who was in residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2024, and whose work can be seen there until Aug. 25. Fernande’s art involves choreographing dance and movement as well as making sculpture.

January 22, 2024 by Virginia Maksymowicz

Headlong dances with Marie Laurencin at the Barnes Foundation

Virginia Maksymowicz sees a performance at the Barnes Foundation resulting from a collaboration between the Barnes and Headlong Dance Theater, wherein three dancers interacted with and responded to the works of Marie Laurencin in a dance choreographed by Headlong’s David Brick and Norma Porter.

August 7, 2023 by Andrea Kirsh

William Edmondson’s ‘Monumental Vision’ at the Barnes Foundation

Andrea Kirsh visits the Barnes Foundation to see William Edmondson: A Monumental Vision full of limestone sculptures from the respected Nashville Artist. This is the first major exhibition outside of Nashville in a decade, cause for major celebration. See it before it closes September 10th, 2023.

April 19, 2023 by Alex Smith

Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take at Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art

Alex Smith experiences Carolyn Lazard’s Long Take, an immersion in sound, poetry and dance in a darkened ICA with black screens alive with white words of poetry and the sounds of bodies moving but unseen.

November 30, 2020 by Kemuel Benyehudah

Urban Movement Arts (UMA), nourishing Philly House Dance culture and surviving the pandemic

In this new post, Kem gives a brief history of Philly House Dance culture and speaks with Urban Movement Arts, an organization teaching House Dance history and keeping the culture alive through dance education.

October 1, 2020 by Logan Cryer

‘Honey Honey,’ a film by Ninth Planet, Attic Youth Center, and You!

Logan Cryer interviews co-founder & co-artistic director of Ninth Planet Nia Benjamin about their collaboration with Attic Youth Center, “Honey Honey.” Originally a stage play, the project has morphed into a community-sourced film.

May 15, 2020 by Ron Kanter

Art provides imaginative space for children, PCCY’s Picasso Project shows the way

Public Citizens for Children and Youth’s Picasso Project rounds up excellent art projects for your wee ones and children of all ages in their downloadable art ed at home toolkit.