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A handful of companies emerged in Philadelphia in the 1990s creating experimental performance.These ensembles inspired and challenged one another and contributed to a rich exchange across dance and theater.Two such groups launched training programs: Headlong Dance Theater, established in 1993, founded the Headlong Performance Institute in 2008, formerly accredited by Bryn Mawr College, and Pig Iron Theatre Company, started in 1995, opened the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training in 2011, affiliating with Philadelphia's University of the Arts in 2015 to offer an mfa in Devised Performance.Today an abundance of artists devise work in Philadelphia.Some are directly connected by lineages of this training.Others have come to the city to enter a hub of experimental, ensemble-generated performance.We, the coauthors, made our way to the city in the early 2010s, among the first students to train with these two companies.Inspired by our experience of Philadelphia's interconnected performance community, we composed a hyperlocal project of interviews considering preservation and
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