The Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO!) was founded in 1970 byJoan Myers Brown. Created out of a need to provide performance opportunities for Black dancers, who were then systematically denied entrance in many local dance schools and had even fewer professional performance outlets.
PHILADANCO! has since grown into a professional dance company that is recognized across the nation and around the world for its artistic integrity, superbly trained dancers, and captivating performances.Established on principles of providing opportunity, inclusion, and hope, PHILADANCO! bridges cultural divides and consistently performs before sold-out audiences of people from diverse ethnicities and communities.
PHILADANCO! has since grown into a professional dance company that is recognized across the nation and around the world for its artistic integrity, superbly trained dancers, and captivating performances.Established on principles of providing opportunity, inclusion, and hope, PHILADANCO! bridges cultural divides and consistently performs before sold-out audiences of people from diverse ethnicities and communities.
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PHILADANCO! celebrates our re-opening at the Kimmel Cultural Campus in a not-to-be-missed premier weekend! Featuring world premiere works from Bakari Lindsay, Co-founder of Toronto-based dance company Collective of Black Artists, Vietnam's Thang Dao, Broadway's Ray Mercer, and emerging choreographer Kathy Smith.
At PHILADANCO!, Dance Education programming cultivates and develops young, emerging dancers and choreographers. Our commitment to expanding knowledge and access to dance arts throughout local, regional and national communities is achieved via community-based activities and initiatives.
PHILADANCO created DANCO 2 (D/2) Apprentice Company as a result of foreseeing the need to cultivate young aspiring dancers (ages 15-23) who demonstrated promise and the desire for a professional dance career.Through an extensive evaluation process, members of D/2 are selected and then trained in professional level classes.
PHILADANCO created DANCO 2 (D/2) Apprentice Company as a result of foreseeing the need to cultivate young aspiring dancers (ages 15-23) who demonstrated promise and the desire for a professional dance career.Through an extensive evaluation process, members of D/2 are selected and then trained in professional level classes.
In 1970, Joan Myers Brown founded PHILADANCO! to address the lack of professional opportunities for dancers of color in the Delaware Valley.
Thanks to her determination and the support of funders and donors for 50 years, PHILADANCO! has become a premier Philadelphia cultural institution, performing for over 100,000 people across the country and around the world each year, with thousands of alumni represented in dance, the arts, business, education, and government around the world.PHILADANCO! relies on charitable contributions to support its artistic and educational work.
Thanks to her determination and the support of funders and donors for 50 years, PHILADANCO! has become a premier Philadelphia cultural institution, performing for over 100,000 people across the country and around the world each year, with thousands of alumni represented in dance, the arts, business, education, and government around the world.PHILADANCO! relies on charitable contributions to support its artistic and educational work.
Opened in the fall of 1960 by Founder/Director Joan Myers Brown, the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts (aka Dance Arts) offers high quality dance training, directed at creating generations of well-disciplined dancers with ideals and goals of proficiency in dance or professional aspirations in the field.
Reviews (6)
Emerson B.
Jul 13, 2019
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Trudy Major
Jan 04, 2019
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I give Philadanco 5 stars!
My daughter n I love to dance.
My daughter started at Philadanco at the age of 4.
She took ballet and she still do ballet at Philadanco at the age of 8.
She's working on her 5th recital.
Doing Ballet, Jazz and Tap!☺
I have taken a few Tap classes at Philadanco myself.
We have so much fun!
My daughter n I just love this dance school.
The staff and teachers are friendly, caring and patient and will work with you at wathever level you at from the beginning level or advance they make you feel comfortable and welcomed.
It's really a great dance school.
My daughter n I love to dance.
My daughter started at Philadanco at the age of 4.
She took ballet and she still do ballet at Philadanco at the age of 8.
She's working on her 5th recital.
Doing Ballet, Jazz and Tap!☺
I have taken a few Tap classes at Philadanco myself.
We have so much fun!
My daughter n I just love this dance school.
The staff and teachers are friendly, caring and patient and will work with you at wathever level you at from the beginning level or advance they make you feel comfortable and welcomed.
It's really a great dance school.
Femi Tilley
Aug 01, 2018
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I love philidanco ,the dance teachers are awesome and I love that the owner was born in the time of segregation, so she created a dance school for colored woman . Even though she created it for that reason we still accept all races we are not racism. So I really suggest philidanco if you like to dance and perform on stage at the recital
Marreshia Hunley
Jul 21, 2018
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Shawn Carter
Jul 01, 2018
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Jeff Story
Jun 26, 2018
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Experience was euphoric, sublime, existential and frankly, phatt! My main reason for writing this review is that this gifted troupe needs and deserves the attention.
That being said, a Google donation to the company would form the basis of a product placement paradigm far more constructive than that of a Google app creepily following me to work. Gentlemen, manners please?
That being said, a Google donation to the company would form the basis of a product placement paradigm far more constructive than that of a Google app creepily following me to work. Gentlemen, manners please?
