Dance Celebration presents Black Grace

Date: 
Thursday, February 12, 2015 - 7:30pm - Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 8:00pm
Location: 
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts 3680 Walnut Street
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19147
United States

Black Grace, New Zealand’s top contemporary dance troupe and winners of the Herald Angel Award at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, makes its Dance Celebration debut.

The company works through the prism of Pacific Islanders culture performing powerful and compelling choreography filled with physical prowess and stunning imagery by founder Neil Ieremia. “An aesthetic delight” (Badische Zeitung), Black Grace is “a polished, pungent, bone-crunchingly, physical and perfectly executed alchemy of music, muscle and motion.” (New Zealand Herald)

Performances will be held
Thursday, February 12 at 7:30 pm
Friday, February 13 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 14 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, February 14 at 8:00 pm

Tickets start at $20 and can be purchased over the phone through the Annenberg Center Box Office at 215-898-3900 or online at annenbergcenter.org.

Dance Celebration is presented by Dance Affiliates and Annenberg Center Live.

Categories
Event Type: 
Arts & Culture
Topic: 
Global Philadelphia Association
Topic: 
Philadelphia
Topic: 
Arts and Culture
Topic: 
Dance
Topic: 
Theater/Performance
Topic: 
Folk Arts/Culture
Global Region: 
Pacific Oceania
Global Region: 
American Samoan
Global Region: 
Australian
Global Region: 
Marshallese
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New Zealander
Global Region: 
Samoan