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A 13,000-square-foot studio theater dedicated to modern dance, the Performance Garage serves both as home to the Jeanne Ruddy Dance Company and as a starting point for smaller, emerging and less advantaged companies. It houses dance classes, rehearsal space and an intimate performance theater.

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    Performance Garage

    1515 Brandywine Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19130

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      06/07/12- 06/21/12	Dunham Technique Workshop Performance Garage Dunham Technique Workshop Presented by Saroya Corbett Dance Projects at Performance Garage June 7-June 21, 2012 Come and experience a beginner to intermediate workshop in Dunham Technique, the technique created by the legendary Katherine Dunham. The workshop is taught by certified Dunham Technique instructor, Saroya Corbett.
      06/08/12	Cross-Rhythms: An Evening of Tap Dance and Jazz Music Performance Garage Cross-Rhythms: An Evening of Tap Dance and Jazz Music Presented by Lady Hoofers at Performance Garage June 8, 2012 Produced by tap dancer and choreographer Pamela Hetherington, the concert will feature new works by professional tap dancers Michele Dunleavy, Pamela Hetherington, Germaine Ingram, and Darrell Williams, along with Philadelphia-based modern dancer Leah Stein and London-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Suparna Banerjee. Live jazz accompaniment will be provided by the Jon Katz Quartet, vocalist Dena Underwood and other special musical guests. Please come for a dynamic and exciting evening of tap...
      06/08/12	Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance Performance Garage Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance Presented by Lady Hoofers Society at Performance Garage June 8, 2012 Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance will be presented one night at the Performance Garage. Produced by tap dancer and choreographer Pamela Hetherington, the concert will feature professional tap dancers Michele Dunleavy, Germaine Ingram, and Darrell Williams, along with Philadelphia-based modern dancer Leah Stein and London-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Suparna Banerjee. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by the Jon Katz Quartet and other special musical guests.
      06/14/12- 06/16/12	Avalanche Performance Garage Avalanche Presented by Headlong Dance Theater at Performance Garage June 14-June 16, 2012 When you’re young, performing is often competitive. Dance team. Beauty contests. Acting auditions. If you keep performing, you find something new. Something bigger and wilder and more ordinary. You find your actual body.

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  • Upcoming Events

    06/07/12- 06/21/12	Dunham Technique Workshop Performance Garage Dunham Technique Workshop Presented by Saroya Corbett Dance Projects at Performance Garage June 7-June 21, 2012 Come and experience a beginner to intermediate workshop in Dunham Technique, the technique created by the legendary Katherine Dunham. The workshop is taught by certified Dunham Technique instructor, Saroya Corbett.
    06/08/12	Cross-Rhythms: An Evening of Tap Dance and Jazz Music Performance Garage Cross-Rhythms: An Evening of Tap Dance and Jazz Music Presented by Lady Hoofers at Performance Garage June 8, 2012 Produced by tap dancer and choreographer Pamela Hetherington, the concert will feature new works by professional tap dancers Michele Dunleavy, Pamela Hetherington, Germaine Ingram, and Darrell Williams, along with Philadelphia-based modern dancer Leah Stein and London-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Suparna Banerjee. Live jazz accompaniment will be provided by the Jon Katz Quartet, vocalist Dena Underwood and other special musical guests. Please come for a dynamic and exciting evening of tap...
    06/08/12	Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance Performance Garage Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance Presented by Lady Hoofers Society at Performance Garage June 8, 2012 Cross-Rhythms - An Evening of Tap Dance will be presented one night at the Performance Garage. Produced by tap dancer and choreographer Pamela Hetherington, the concert will feature professional tap dancers Michele Dunleavy, Germaine Ingram, and Darrell Williams, along with Philadelphia-based modern dancer Leah Stein and London-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Suparna Banerjee. Live musical accompaniment will be provided by the Jon Katz Quartet and other special musical guests.
    06/14/12- 06/16/12	Avalanche Performance Garage Avalanche Presented by Headlong Dance Theater at Performance Garage June 14-June 16, 2012 When you’re young, performing is often competitive. Dance team. Beauty contests. Acting auditions. If you keep performing, you find something new. Something bigger and wilder and more ordinary. You find your actual body.

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  • Past Events

    06/07/12- 05/24/12	Encore Mashup Performance Garage
    05/25/12	Performance Garage Open House Performance Garage
    05/20/12	Gleekercise, Spring 2012 Edition Performance Garage
    05/11/12- 05/13/12	SAUDADE [saw?dad?i] - The Love that Remains Performance Garage
    05/04/12- 05/06/12	Desire Performance Garage
    04/20/12- 04/21/12	Roger Lee Dance Performance Garage
    03/24/12	Broadway Lights Workshop Performance Garage
    03/22/12- 03/31/12	Reflexions Performance Garage
    03/16/12- 03/17/12	Two Nights, Two Eclectic Dance Companies Performance Garage
    03/15/12	An Open Studio Showing of Jeanne Ruddy's Game Drive! Performance Garage
    03/08/12- 03/11/12	Leah Stein Dance Company 10th Anniversary Performance Garage
    03/03/12	Alchemy Dance Company Fundraiser Performance Performance Garage
    03/03/12	African Groove Workshop Performance Garage
    02/25/12	Brazilian Samba Dance Class with Angelica Cassimiro Performance Garage
    02/18/12	PDP Presents an Informance with Choreographer Faye Driscoll Performance Garage
    01/22/12	Jamming in January: Taste of Philly Dance Fitness Party Performance Garage
    01/13/12	Performance Garage Open House Performance Garage
    12/15/11	Gleekercise Performance Garage
    11/18/11- 11/19/11	Choreographers Lionel Popkin and Gabrielle Revlock Performance Garage
    11/13/11	Just Dance: Lady Gaga Hip-Hop Workshop Performance Garage
    11/10/11	PARADE: Dance, Costumes and Fashion Merge Performance Garage
    10/27/11- 10/30/11	Carbon Dance Theatre Presents Swan Songs Performance Garage
    10/13/11- 10/16/11	Fresh Juice & The Requisite Movers Performance Garage
    10/05/11- 10/06/11	Motion Pictures Performance Garage
    10/04/11- 10/08/11	"Time" - Modern Infused/Jazz Influenced Dance Performance by the Blind Faith Project Performance Garage
    10/01/11- 10/02/11	POST Open Studio Tour Performance Garage
    09/14/11- 09/17/11	Deer Head Performance Garage
    09/04/11- 09/06/11	Whiskey and Elephants Performance Garage
    09/02/11- 09/03/11	Inescapable Foreboding Performance Garage
    08/26/11	Philly Fringe Preview Performance Garage
    07/30/11	The Something Society in Blossom: An Evening of Works in Progress Performance Garage
    07/16/11	One Word Performance Garage
    06/11/11- 06/12/11	In Performance: The 2010-2011 Choreographers Project Performance Garage
    05/19/11- 05/22/11	The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni Performance Garage
    05/19/11- 05/22/11	The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni Performance Garage
    05/13/11- 05/14/11	Underground DanceWorks (UDW) and Monarch Dance Company Present: 11 Performance Garage
    04/23/11	Happy Hour with the Barre Boys: An Evening of Men in Dance Performance Garage
    04/14/11	Hip-Hop Masterclass Performance Garage
    03/24/11- 04/02/11	illReality & Curt Haworth Performance Garage
    03/20/11- 02/20/11	Tap Teaser on Tour Performance Garage
    03/20/11	Tap Teaser & Hope Dances Presents: Tap Teaser on Tour Performance Garage
    02/08/11- 02/11/11	Balé Folclórico da Bahia in Philadelphia 2011 Performance Garage
    12/11/10- 12/12/10	In Performance: 48 Hours 2010 Choreographers Project Performance Garage
    12/04/10	Alchemy Dance Company Performance Fundraiser Performance Garage
    11/27/10	Fourth Wall Art Salon Performance Garage
    11/04/10- 11/05/10	Give and Take Performance Garage
    10/22/10- 10/24/10	Revelation Performance Garage
    09/15/10- 09/18/10	Boat Hole: Another Evening of Outrageous Short Comedies by Josh McIlvain Performance Garage
    09/11/10- 09/12/10	This Art Burning Performance Garage
    09/07/10- 09/10/10	Dirty Dozen Performance Garage
    09/05/10- 09/06/10	The Initiative Plus Excerpts from Nightmare Returns Performance Garage
    09/03/10- 09/04/10	Flat Intersections Performance Garage
    04/29/10- 05/01/10	Only Sleeping Performance Garage
    03/15/10	Open Studio Showing Performance Garage
    03/12/10- 03/13/10	PDP Presents 2010: Red Thread (World Premiere) Performance Garage
    03/05/10- 03/06/10	Local Dance History Project with Jano Cohen, Terry Fox and Next Up with Chris Yon Performance Garage
    01/08/10	Open Studio Showing Performance Garage
    11/21/09- 11/22/09	Habiba Presents Oriental Dance with Cassandra Performance Garage
    11/14/09- 11/15/09	Meditation: Free Weekend Urban Retreat Performance Garage
    10/03/09- 10/04/09	Flatland... and Other Small Worlds Performance Garage
    09/18/09- 09/19/09	Same Spirit Different MovementFest Performance Garage
    09/11/09- 09/12/09	Something Striking Performance Garage
    09/06/09	Enlightenment Performance Garage
    09/04/09- 09/05/09	Out of the Rose Performance Garage
    04/15/09- 04/26/09	Jeanne Ruddy Dance Ninth Concert Season Performance Garage