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Terry Fox, Director of Philadelphia Dance Projects (PDP), is a former choreographer/dancer. She is on the Faculty in the Theatre & Dance Department at Rowan University, teaching in MA Arts Admin Program and has taught as guest instructor in the Dance Dept of the Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University.

Her curatorial activities include among others: guest curator for ArtPhilly2026, Curator for the Temple Dance@50 Exhibit, 2025, “Something Happens When Everybody Moves: Dance as ritual, protest, and aspiration” as part of the Philadelphia Museum of Dance at The Barnes, 2018 and co-curating PDP’s Motion Pictures, a dance on film/video series from 2002-2012, and DanceBOOM at the Wilma Theater in 2006 and 2007. For many years she served as an Artist Curator at the Painted Bride Art Center, where she founded the Dance With The Bride series. She was the Managing/Artistic Director of the Danspace Project in New York City 1984-1989. She has served on numerous boards and review panels.

In 2021 she was a member of the Arts & Culture Task Force for the City of Philadelphia, serving as Chair for the Individual Artists & Small Arts Organizations Committee.

As an artist she was one of the first in Philly to explore postmodernism with improvisational structures in performance, as well as a “pioneer” of the Old City District that later was developed as an arts district. (See Old City Arts History Project 1975-80 and the Local Dance History Project on PDP’s website.) Her dance work has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and presented by P.S. 122, NYC, the WPA in DC, and Tanzfabrik in West Berlin among other venues locally and nationally.

She has a BA from New York University and MA in Dance from Temple University, and she participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program and The American Dance Festival.

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