All attitudes, all the shapeliness, all the belongings of my or your body or of any one’s body, male or...
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Merilyn Jackson has written on dance for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1996 and writes on dance, theater, food, travel and Eastern European culture and Latin American fiction for publications including the New York Times, the Warsaw Voice, the Arizona Republic, Phoenix New Times, MIT’s Technology Review, Arizona Highways, Dance, Pointe and Dance Teacher magazines, and Broad Street Review. She also writes for tanz magazin and Ballet Review. She was awarded an NEA Critics Fellowship in 2005 to Duke University and a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for her novel-in-progress, Solitary Host.
Nothing becomes a legend like getting two National Medal of Arts awards from two different presidents. As Philadanco! founder, Joan...
Some years ago, I wrote, “Dance has the power to stir the viewer’s innermost longings and outermost visceral reactions. Few...
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear . . . Marina Warner, From The Beast to...
Philadelphia Ballet’s annual New Works series opened its 2023 season with a program called “Forward Motion” at the Kimmel Cultural...
Over the decades, the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) has presented music and dance events in the East entrance’s Great...
