Wolf Humanities Center Year of Choice Presents PHILADANCO Participatory Workshop
- Wolf Humanities Center
- Wolf Humanities Center
- Visiting Artists Grant
The Wolf Humanities Center will bring the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) to Penn for a participatory workshop with faculty, students, staff, and the general public. The workshop will involve collaborative bodily exploration of the issue of Choice, the theme for the Center’s 2020/20201 Academic Year, and will include dialogue among choreographers, dancers, and participants, experiments involving all, and discussion of the problems encountered. The goal of this project is to introduce embodied learning and knowledge into the way we explore the annual theme of Choice, and to do so with a Philadelphia-based dance group in order to think across faculty, students, and members of the general public, and with our bodies, about the question of choices dancers and choreographers make. PHILADANCO was founded in 1970 by Joan Myers Brown. Created out of a need to provide opportunities for black dancers, who were systematically denied entrance in many local dance schools, it has since has grown into a professional dance company that is recognized across the nation and around the world for its artistic integrity, superbly trained dancers and electrifying performances.