One of the ways in which Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year is by working with contemporary choreographer Mark Morris on the creation of an original Center-funded dance piece made for the ensemble.  He will also design the costumes.  

Front (left to right): Germaine Ingram, Kate Watson-Wallace, Nina Martin. Back (left to right): Josie Smith (Center Program Specialist in Dance), Megan Mazarick, David Konyk, Kristen Shahverdian, Mark Taylor, Bill Bissell (Center Dance Director), Jacelyn Biondo. Photo by Rebecca Bryant.

At the end of March through the first week of April, I had the opportunity to join in part two of the “Texas Time Out” professional development practicum trip coordinated by Dance Advance to Marfa, Texas. Working with Nina Martin (choreography, performance), Mark Taylor (somatic body work), and Suzanne Carbonneau (dance writer and thinker) and several Philadelphia dance artists, we spent time in the studio, toured the Judd Foundation, engaged in many lively discussions, and experienced the vast Texas landscape through hikes and a sunset meditation.

Dance Advance is pleased to announce that "Capturing the Tone, Celebrating the Work,"a conversation between choreographers Wendy Rogers and Sara Rudner has been recently posted on our website. This article is located in the Publications & Research, Document(s), Dance Odyssey on the Dance Advance website. Read this conversation here, or find it yourself in this section of our website.

                                                             photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou from the thINKingDANCE website

Learn about the career trajectory and the aspirations of Artistic Executive Director of Pasión y Arte, Elba Hevia y Vaca, in a recent interview of Elba by Lynn Matluck Brooks, at thINKingDANCE.net. In this interview, Elba discusses the recent evolution of flamenco both in Philadelphia and in Spain, the upcoming Flamenco Festival that comes to Philadelphia later this month, and her ideas for the direction Pasión y Arte is headed next. Click here to find more information on this upcoming festival, and here to learn more about Pasión y Arte.

You can read the interview at thINKingDANCE.net, by clicking here.

On the thINKingDANCE.net website, you can read about the recent week-long residency at Bryn Mawr college of the John Jasperse company that culminated in the remounting of ground-breaking Fort Blossom by John Jasperse. Coverage of the Fort Blossom residency on thINKingDANCE.net consists of posts by the following authors:

1. Ellen Gerdes' notes on the residency symposium
2. Julie Diana's response to viewing open rehearsal
3. Megan Bridge and Peter Price's review of the performance
4. Kirsten Kaschock's review of the performance