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PHILADANCO

PHILADANCO! RE

RE-vived and Archived, RE-visited and RE-constructed

Friday
Apr 22, 2022
Sunday
Apr 24, 2022
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Overview

 Acclaimed Philadelphia dance company PHILADANCO! ignites the Perelman stage for a new, innovative performance, RE (RE-vived and Archived, RE-visited and RE-constructed). The performance will feature refreshed and re-staged pieces including, Ulysses Dove’s “Bad Blood,” Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s “The Walkin’, Talkin’, Signifying Blues Hips, “Lowdown Throwdown,” Rennie Harris’ “Wake Up,” and Ray Mercer’s “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”

 Across the nation and around the world, PHILADANCO! is celebrated for its innovation, creativity, and preservation of predominantly African-American traditions in dance. This spring season, the company has rejuvenated critically acclaimed treasures from its cannon of dance pieces by visionary Black choreographers in a multitude of genres.

 

“Our company is over 50 years old with choreographic treasures that deserve to be maintained. Many of the works of Black choreographic geniuses are not documented or are negated just as is so much of our history. This season we are dedicated to preserving the rich history of these works by showing them to a new generation of dance lovers.”
– Joan Myers Brown, Founder and Executive Artistic Director of PHILADANCO! 

“[Joan Myers Brown has made] an artistic haven for African-American dancers and choreographers to innovate, create and share their unique visions with the national and global dance communities.”
– President Barack Obama

"The company is in peak form—dancer for dancer, probably the best-trained, certainly the most versatile, dance company in Philadelphia."
– The Philadelphia Inquirer

Perelman Theater

Inside the Kimmel Center

300 S Broad St

Philadelphia, PA 19102

Run Time:
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER - 15:00
BATTYMOVES - 28:00
Intermission
BAD BLOOD - 14:50
WAKE UP - 21:35

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