A Weather Forecast!

The Cultural Arts Center's fabulous dance teacher Joanna Quigley helped us to create this video exploring all the beautiful and terrifying climate events that nature can throw at you....

A Weather Forecast! from Joanna S. Quigley on Vimeo.

Free Movement Specialists Visit the Cultural Arts Center!

Today members of Free Movement Specialists, led by Joanna Quigley, led two dance workshops at the Cultural Arts Center focused on both exploring new dance techniques and improvisational movement. We learned new dance moves like "Hot Child in the City," "Easy Knees" and "The Blowhole."

You can view even more photos on the Flickr site of The Arc of Philadelphia and PDDC.

Free Movement Specialists, INC. at the Cultural Arts Center!

On Monday, March 26, dance company Free Movement Specialists, INC., featuring Cultural Arts Center dance teacher Joanna Quigley, will lead two workshops at PDDC focusing on exploring new dance techniques and audience interaction.

Free Movement Specialists, INC. is happy to guide you on a journey to being free - free of all technique, all pre-existing dance crazes and all worries of what you really look like when dancing in public.

The workshops are open to the public and are scheduled for 10-11:30 AM and 12:30 – 2:00 PM in the lower level Cultural Arts Center. PDDC is located at 2350 West Westmoreland Street in Philadelphia.

Anyone and everyone is invited to join us!

Happy Halloween from the Cultural Arts Center!

Today we had a costume dance party led by our fabulous dance teacher Joanna Quigley. Check out our amazing home-made costumes!


Freddy as Kid of Kid'n'Play


Tyree, Tom, David, Pietro and Joanna


Ashley as a witch


Joanna and Keith cut a rug


Tom as Batman


Joanna, Madeline, Tyree, and Jason as Magneto

Dance Class!

The Cultural Arts program has a new dance teacher, Joanna Quigley. Here's some pictures from her afternoon dance class today.

"House of Dreams" Debut

Our play, House Of Dreams, premiered at The Rotunda in West Philadelphia yesterday to a very supportive and receptive audience.

It encompasses the main goals of the program by showcasing the various creative talents of the individuals within the Cultural Arts program through acting, writing, performance art, choreographed movement, live and recorded music, 2 and 3 dimensional visual art, and multimedia outlets, all under the umbrella of theater.

The project was headed by Jerry Perna, Michael Gerkovich, and Alie Vidich, with the rest of the Cultural Arts staff contributing in a strong way. Linda Price and Gina Renzi facilitated its creation.


Richard contributed a great deal of his creative energy to this project. He played beautiful songs for the audience as the cast took their places backstage.


Mike S. narrates.


Eyes in the dark, at the bottom of the sea


The cast focuses their collective energy to become The Blob


David emerges from a dinosaur egg.

Special thanks to Nofre Vaquer for taking these photographs!

House Of Dreams opens Saturday!

House Of Dreams, the play we've been working on throughout the summer, will be premiering this Saturday, September 25th at The Rotunda (4014 Walnut Street, West Philadelphia) at 1:00pm. We look forward to once again sharing our work with the community.





http://www.therotunda.org/calendar/house-of-dreams/

Chinese Ribbon Dancing

Our dance teacher Alie Vidich has been teaching us Chinese Ribbon dancing in conjunction with our humanities program.

First Friday Dance

We danced the night in style at "Enchanted Evening," our First Friday dance. Great music, raffles, a photo shoot and pizza were enjoyed by all. Special thanks to our St. Joe's volunteers.

Dancing

In photos: Danny, Darlene, Brenda and her brother.

Video of the Chicken Dance

The Chicken Dance

Murph and Brenda Dance Video

Dance with Alie

The Cultural Arts Center is so happy to have Alie Vidick coming on Fridays to teach us dance and movement. Everyone loves the exercise and Alie's enthusiasm. We are hoping to have a short routine down by the Golf Outing in October.