Daily News | 5 ways arts leader Randy Swartz, who retired during the pandemic, influenced dance in Philadelphia
For more than 50 years, Randy Swartz was a huge part of Philadelphia’s dance scene, introducing companies from all over the world to audiences at the Walnut Street Theatre, the Prince, and for many years, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.That year should have included the U.S. premiere of MOMIX’swhich Swartz co-commissioned.
He would go on to present more than 200 companies in 2,500 performances in a program that was at various times called Dance Celebration and NextMove Dance. The first dance company Swartz booked was the Paul Taylor Dance Company, and he invited them back frequently to perform at Philadelphia venues. Other frequent visitors included the Martha Graham, David Parsons, the Dance Theater of Harlem, MOMIX, and Pilobolus.
“And the same thing with Eliot Feld back in the day, when he would bring his company to Philadelphia first and the next week be at the Joyce [Theater in New York].”
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