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 Fifty students and community members of all ages gathered in Amy E. du Pont Music Building on Friday, Feb. 15, to attend a free workshop presented by the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco), which was visiting the campus as part of UD’s Performing Arts Series.
The 11 a.m. workshop, which both entertained and educated audience members about the critically acclaimed dance troupe, was sponsored in part by UD’s Center for Black Culture and the Cultural Programming Advisory Board.
Joan Myers Brown, Philadanco founder, introduced the 13 members of Philadanco’s 16-member troupe who participated in the workshop, and she led the audience and dancers in routine warm-up exercises.
The dance troupe, which performed to a sold out audience later that evening in Mitchell Hall, invited eager workshop participants onstage to participate in stretching exercises, before the troupe performed “Rosa,” a ballet tribute to Rosa Parks, and “Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, but Ugly Is to the Bone.”
 Philadanco, famous for its vast dance repertoire ranging from the classical to the contemporary, ended the hour-long workshop with an informal discussion, which allowed the dancers to speak freely about their dance careers and answer questions.
The 2001-02 Performing Arts Series is made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware, as well as the generous support provided by Barba and Reynolds Insurance Agency, Embassy Suites—Newark/Wilmington South and Arby’s.
For more information on the Performing Arts Series, call (302) 831-8741, or visit the web site at [http://www.udel.edu/performingarts].
Article by Elisa Franco
Feb. 21, 2002
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