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May 5, 2011

PHILADANCO! The Philadelphia Dance Company at the Kimmel Center

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 12:23 am

Kimmel Center presents
PHILADANCO
Featuring the Philadelphia premiere of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

Milton Myers: Violin Concerto
Christopher Huggins: Cottonwool
Ray Mercer: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Rennie Harris: Philadelphia Experiment

Beloved for its dazzling, visceral style and devotion to promoting African-American traditions in dance, Philadanco returns to the Kimmel Center with works by stellar contemporary choreographers, including the Philadelphia premiere of Ray Mercer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, based on the controversial 1967 film.

‘The company style…is visceral…fierce and sensuous by turns…elegant and ingratiating.’ —New York Magazine

Following the May 6 performance at the Perelman Theater stage, Philadanco will participate in an Artist Chat moderated by Joan Myers Brown.

May 1, 2011

ELEONE DANCE THEATER-LAST NIGHT!!!

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 3:45 pm

15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

15th Anniversary Season

Get your tickets now for our 15th Anniversary Spring Concert,The Elements “Earth, Wind, Fire & Eleone!” and please join us for our 15th Anniversary Crystal Gala Reception ” Moving and Dancing into Gtreatness” .

March 14, 2011

Simians, Sonso and Pierrot – 2011 New Edge Residency

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 11:10 am
Simians, Sonso and Pierrot
Directed by Marcel Williams Foster
Original Music by Aya Nishina

This year the New Edge program will kickoff with Marcel Williams Foster, who was described as a “comic delight” for his co-production (with Hyphen-Nation Arts) of  ’The Jane Goodall: Experience.’ He will debut a piece that delves deeper into the labyrinth of the zany world of science and his experiences as a chimpanzee researcher with the Jane Goodall Institute and a Great Ape zoo. The story begins with a mischievous, Signing chimpanzee who decides to play matchmaker for the most unlikely couple: Pierrot, the famed clown, and Sonso, an ambitious Primatologist. Two improbable lovers spin a web of stunning dance, (mis)communication and the impossible task of living in the boundary between fact and fiction.

February 10, 2011

Discount for Super Heroes

Filed under: Events — Tags: , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 6:06 pm

Super Heroes Who Are Super! Black History Month Special Spectacular

Super Heroes Who Are Super!, an outrageous word-for-word staged reading series of classic Marvel and DC comic books named Best In Philly 2010 by Philadelphia Magazine, celebrates Black History Month with an all African-American cast performing the first comic to feature a black superhero as leading man… Jungle Action #6 featuring The Black Panther! Sound like a serious and important event that you can’t miss?  Starring Carlo Campbell and a host of talented local actors.
 
 February 12

10:30pm

 Plays & Players Theatre

1714 Delancey Place;

drinks will be served!

Regular tickets $12; enter code BRONET upon purchase and receive $2 off at www.savethedayproductions.org or by calling 800-595-4TIX.
 
 Discount also available at the door by mentioning Brothers Network.

February 9, 2011

OBAMA: Straight No Chaser

Filed under: Events — Tags: , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 10:34 am

“[A] captivating, humorous, dramatic and cutting edge conversational one-man play.”
Written and directed by Maurice Brian Henderson
Monday, February 21 – 7pm – Theater – $10 Admission
Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th Street
Critical Praise for Philly’s best-selling, award-winning & critically acclaimed playwright
“erudite vocabulary” – Los Angeles Times “in capable hands” – Amsterdam News
“transfixed by Henderson” – Phila. Daily News “good preparation for the craft” – New York Times
“tells old tales about past times” – Phila. Tribune “telling of our stories unique” – Harlem News
Contact: Maurice Henderson (267) 230-0317 & (215) 820-7571 or mauricebrianhenderson@yahoo.com

February 8, 2011

CHOREOGRAPHER/COMPOSER FORUM

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 2:41 pm
SAVE THE DATE! CHOREOGRAPHER/COMPOSER FORUM
On Tuesday March 1st from 5:30 – 7:30pm Dance/UP and the American Composers Forum Philadelphia Chapter will host Composers & Choreographers: Zooming in on Collaboration.  In the interest of fostering new collaborative relationships between composers and choreographers in the Philadelphia region, this forum will focus on the commonalities and differences between artists and their processes. Panelists will discuss their personal experiences with respect to both the creative and pragmatic negotiations of collaboration.  Speakers include Manfred Fischbeck, Andrea Clearfield, Vince Johnson, and Brandon Shockley.  Free to ACF Members and DancePass holders – all others $5.  Click here for more info and to register.

Dance in Public Places at The Gallery at Market East – February 2011

Filed under: Events — Tags: , , , — Justin S.M. Bryant @ 2:16 pm

This February, Philadelphians will have the opportunity to see dance happen, right where they shop, eat, and work!  How?  Dance in Public Places, a new program by Dance/UP, is taking dance to the streets…ok well… the mall actually…

Twenty-four dance companies from the Greater Philadelphia region will transform a retail space on the 3rd Level of The Gallery at Market East with movement. The public will have the opportunity to view their live dance rehearsals 10am-7pm Monday – Saturday, February 1-26. And it’s FREE! Find out who is dancing when here. 

In our mall residency, we are pleased to be joining How Philly Moves.  The mural is being built in a retail space across the way.  Come check out both!

A wide range of dance styles will be featured from hip hop company olive Dance Theater to New York City Ballet soloist Christopher Fleming’s new company BalletFleming. Enjoy tap by Tap Team Two and Tap Teasers, flamenco by Pasion y Arte, and vintage dance styles by Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance Co. Watch Kùlú Mèlé African Dance & Drum Ensemble and Fiddlekicks Appalachian clogging rehearse to live music!  Philadelphia favorites Koresh Dance Company, Group Motion, Leah Stein Dance Company and Meredith Rainey’s Carbon Dance Theater are among the contemporary dance companies that will fill the space with new work and new ideas.  Check out the full schedule.

January 12, 2011

Theatre: RACE

Filed under: Article,Events — Tags: , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 12:10 pm

The Brothers’ Network hosts
Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Night Out

Join us for a pre-performance VIP cocktail reception and regional premiere of David Mamet’s play ‘RACE’ at the exclusive Suzanne Roberts Theater.
Pulitzer Prize Award-winning playwright and Tony nominee David Mamet tackles the biggest four-letter word of all: RACE! Two lawyers, one black, one white, find themselves defending a wealthy white executive against the charge of raping a young black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved, emotions bubbling just beneath the surface explode!

February 4, 7:00pm

http://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/2011/race.html

Tickets can be purchased by calling The Brothers’ Network at 267.480.7074

January 8, 2011

Why Whitewash N-Word from ‘Huck Finn’?

Filed under: Article,Column — Tags: , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 5:41 pm

January 6, 2011

Jenice Armstrong
Philadelphia Daily News

Chad Dion Lassiter of the School of Social Policy and Practice shares his perspective on removing the word from future reprints of the historic novel.
Read Here.

January 4, 2011

Dance: Flatland

Filed under: Article — Tags: , , , — V. Shayne Frederick, Editor @ 4:42 pm

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FLATLAND 2010 is a physical theatre work that examines contemporary human (mis-)communication. This diverse cast of 11 athletic performers explores what happens to human relationships in a “flattened” world of abbreviation and oversimplification, where the sound bite supersedes substance and the instant message overpowers the intellectual one.

Directed by Jumatatu Poe and choreographed by Poe along with all the performers, FLATLAND 2010 is a reflective musing on the American Millenial generation. Join these 11 characters in their struggle for depth in two dimensions.

The Brothers’ Network will receive a special price for this amazing dance Premier featuring TBN Advisory Board Member, Justin Bryant!  TBN Members must use “BRONET” promotional code when purchasing ticket.

Harold Prince Theatre, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6219

Saturday, January 15, 2011

8 P.M.

One Performance Only!

To purchase call (215) 898-6702 and mention BroNet

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