PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS presents DANCE UP CLOSE ‘26

Wednesday & Thursday March 18 & 19, 2026

Two choreographers share a program CURT HAWORTH and TAMMY CARRASCO

Curt Haworth will premiere work, Imperfect Circles (working title), set in the now, 2026, a time of fractured political upheaval when friends and family are separated by long distance, time, and work. It is about connections, lost, broken, and reconnecting again. It is about resistance. A stance against the winds that blow from Washington. It is about rising from the ashes and finding love and the creative spark again.

Tammy Carrasco will premiere A creature of the garden and cellar A danced duet, a fractured subject but one porous being, moves through the depths of interiority in ways that reside in and exceed the borders of the living room. Dancers engage vigorously with the varied terrain of the house, from descending into the darkness of the cellar, climbing into the dreams of the tower, and stepping out into the garden–surrounded by the ethereality of the creatures who reside there.