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Josh Millman takes a selfie with one of the cavorting lions dancing on Cherry Street in Chinatown. Millman and hundreds of others came to Chinatown late Monday evening to welcome the Year of the Pig.
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Philly welcomes Year of the Pig with lions, fireworks

Philadelphia's Chinatown celebration welcoming the Year of the Pig featured the Lion Dance performed by the Philadelphia Suns and members of Cheung's Hung Gar Kung Fu Academy.

5 years ago

Students at String Theory charter school dance an original choreography during a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
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Charter school intends to honor Philadanco dance founder

A pending String Theory charter school in West Philadelphia will be named after the African-American dance pioneer.

5 years ago

Seventh Principle will perform at the Free Library of Philadelphia's Central Branch on Sunday. (Courtesy of Seventh Principle)
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African music, dance kick off 2019 Sundays on Stage at Philly Free Library

The decades-old series “Sundays on Stage” begins 2019 season at Free Library of Philadelphia with Seventh Principle performing African music and dance.

5 years ago

Delaware Art Museum’s resident chamber ensemble, the Pyxis Piano Quartet, opens the museum's performance series. (Pyxis Piano Quartet/Facebook photo)
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Delaware Art Museum expands into music and dance performances

The Delaware Art Museum kicks off the New Year with art, music and dance as it opens the 2019 performance series tonight in Wilmington.

5 years ago

The bALLet program is housed at the Pennsylvania Ballet Academy in Camp Hill and is open to children of all abilities. (Keira McGuire/WITF)
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At all-inclusive ballet classes, ‘special things happen’ for children and parents

It took five years to find a ballet academy open to children of all abilities. Finally, at Pennsylvania Ballet Academy in Camp Hill the bALLet class was born.

5 years ago

Jessica Lang Dance performs
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Final call for Jessica Lang dance company

Jessica Lang Dance, a New York City company that has won the highest dance accolades, will fold in April.

5 years ago

BalletX dancers rehearse in their new space on Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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BalletX builds dance on Philly’s Washington Avenue

Ballet X, a contemporary ballet company, has put down roots in Philadelphia's industrial Washington Avenue corridor.

5 years ago

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Educators call for unity at Indigenous People’s Day celebration

Educators called for more awareness of indigenous cultures around the world at the 8th annual Indigenous People's Day celebration at Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia.

5 years ago

Monica Bill Barnes (right) and Anna Bass lead
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Sweatin’ to the oldies at Philly art museum

The Philadelphia Museum of Art opens its galleries to Museum Workout, a performance art aerobics class.

5 years ago

Young students work on a dance number during Hamilton Camp at Music Theatre Philly.
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Kids go ham for ‘Hamilton’ at Music Theatre Philly camp

A 'Hamilton' musical theater summer camp puts kids in the room where it happens.

5 years ago

Dancers from Brian Samders' Junk rehearse a scene from
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A journey through the mind of a Philly artist

A muralist and a choreographer turn a South Philly studio into a labyrinth of imagination.

5 years ago

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Burlesque: the history and a revival

Guests: Dustin Wax, Timaree Schmit The word “burlesque” likely conjure images of seduction and stript ...

Air Date: June 25, 2018 10:00 am

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Highlights from the 10th Annual Juneteenth Festival. (Photo Courtesy/Tieshka Smith for the Johnson House Historic Site, Philadelphia, PA)
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Celebrating Juneteenth at Philadelphia’s Johnson House

Just over a month ago, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum opened in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to the victims of white supremacy in the Unit

5 years ago

Eight musicians play on the chandelier as it moves over the stage, crowd and the Schuylkill River. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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PIFA’s Cristal Palace turns chandelier into carnival ride

Suspended from a crane meant for skyscrapers, the chandelier soars above the audience and across the night sky.

6 years ago

Performer Cathy Simpson (right) walks through her role as Mother Earth with choreographer/director Ann Carlson, whose work,
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Who shepherds whom? ‘Doggie Hamlet’ in Fairmount Park

A dance performance staged in an open field in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park will feature 40 sheep, three border collies, and four humans. Who shepherds whom?

6 years ago

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