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@Regrann from @basheerj - When you see this kind of police work we must as a community celebrate and champion this type of behavior #GregoryKing #GoodCopsMatter - #regrann

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thINKingDANCE was started to catalyze conversation about dance and to develop the skills of dance writers in the Philadelphia area. Our initial year-long training scheme, funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, has included workshops with great visiting dance writers, monthly peer-critique sessions, and lots of editor/writer dialogue. In our first year, we published over two hundred articles drawing attention to Philadelphia’s robust and diverse dance community.

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Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company: Dancing Oral Histories | Gregory King | thINKingDANCE

Through all the years I’ve viewed his works, Bill T. Jones has exposed what lies at the underbelly of his explorations, never stopping to nurse the discomfort of disturbed viewers. Extolled with many accolades including the Kennedy Center Honor, a…

It was easy to forget I was at a dance performance!

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Rhizomas: A Lesson in Contrast | Gregory King | thINKingDANCE

Foreign to me I must admit. Butoh. Foreign. But my inquisitive self led me to Rhizomas: a performance art piece conceived by Butoh practitioner Ryuzo Fukuhara in collaboration with a local Philadelphia improvisational quartet, Wormhole Superette. Inside…

From the onset, it was hard not to notice the many contrasts, even if they were subtle. The chaotic strumming of each string, and the high pitch screeching echoing through the speakers were an anarchic counterpoint to Fukuhara’s orderly trancelike movement ritual. He moved lightly, yet with noticeable weight, carrying his pelvis low to the ground, often maintaining a rounded torso which acted as the anchor to his angular limbs.

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Talia Mason’s Onion Dances: Dancing Memories

photo credit Irina Varina by Gregory King for The Dance Journal The smell of onions dawdled in the air as I walked through the corridors of the Headlong

Red chested from her self inflicted beating, Mason lowered herself towards the floor and I couldn’t help but wonder if her body had become metaphoric memory – as if pounding here chest was an attempt to beat her memories into nonexistence.

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Queer Artists of Color: Why Their Works Matter | Gregory King | thINKingDANCE

These works by Powerhouse and Witherspoon were not just about queer pride, but about rejecting white heteronormative dominance by using the queer black body to illuminate queer black experiences.

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Mom brings back Opus Cactus, a piece from 2001, and makes the desert bloom.