The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Dance Advance

Dance Advance seeks to contribute to the cultivation of an artistically dynamic environment for dance in Southeastern Pennsylvania, and has created this site in order to further the dialogue that connects all of us in the field of dance arts.

Pictured is a photo of the dance theater work Faktor T, created across 2007 and 2008 in Philadelphia and in Poland which engaged the Polish group Dada von Bzdülöw of Gdansk with Philadelphia dancer Bethany Formica. The article Embedded—and in bed—with Faktor T by Anna Drozdowski, which chronicles Anna’s role as “embedded” observer during the year-long rehearsal process and subsequent tours of the work in Poland and the U.S. is now posted in “Moving Gestures” under Document(s) in the Publications & Research section of our website.

Document(s) comprises a library of commentary on people and issues in the dance field. This repository of interviews and editorials by writers and thinkers on dance includes writing commissioned by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Each article in the Document(s) section is formatted as a pdf for ease of printing. We hope you will enjoy reading these articles and the ideas they contain.

The 2010 Funding Cycle

The deadline for the 2010 funding cycle has passed. Guidelines and applications are available online at Program Guidelines for your reference.

danceworkbook

danceworkbook is a series of web based and DVD-ROM publications produced by Dance Advance. Please click here for a copy of press release for further information.

This series establishes a body of reference material concerned with interrogating a variety of choreographic processes — stages of creation and development that form the “back story” to the finished dances audiences see in performance. The debut work in this series is Braiding Unbraiding Rebraiding: Headlong Dance Theater examines artistic process in collaboration with Tere O’Connor.

Photo at top: Factor T. Photo: Gabriel Bienczycki.