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Joan Myers Brown’s company of dancers were midway through a European tour when the pandemic struck. “It was a 15-city tour but after the fifth performance, I knew we had to get home before the borders closed,” Myers Brown said. “But I still had to pay the dancers for the whole tour.” The coronavirus-related economic impact on the arts community has been life altering. For Myers Brown, founder and artistic advisor of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PhilaDanco!), it meant keeping performers on the payroll (the dancers are paid a yearly salary), while adapting to a new norm of pirouettes gone virtual. ....
Transcending movement Principal dancers from Philadanco! perform and discuss their discipline with choreographer Dawn Marie Bazemore and Penn’s Jasmine Elizabeth Johnson, Deborah Thomas, and doctoral candidate Dixon Li. Philadanco! performing Oshun. The March 3 performance was revised for length and number of dancers. (Image: Julianne Harris) Known as a river deity in the Yoruba tradition of West Africa, Oshun is venerated as the embodiment of the female spirit and celebrated throughout the Black diaspora with gold, copper, honey, and the color yellow. In a live virtual Wolf Humanities Center event, Dancers’ Choices, and Choreographers’ Choices, principals from Philadanco! paid homage to the deity with a modern dance performance of “Oshun” choreographed by Dawn Marie Bazemore, Rowan University assistant professor and former company member. The March 3 performance shortened and revised for ....
February 22, 2021 The senior diver and Aces captain, a four-time PIAA District 1 and PIAA Class 3A state meet qualifier, set the Lower Merion pool record Feb. 9 with a mark of 291.00. She finished in third place at the PIAA District 1 3A championships Feb. 20 at North Penn High School. Next fall, she will be diving for North Carolina State University. Lower Merion diving coach Carol Gibbone said, “Amari is a very bright and energetic young lady with many notable talents and invaluable attributes, and she finds great assurance in her belief in God and our Lord Jesus Christ who supplies strength in all her achievements, and encouragement her in moments of doubt. ....