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Apr 25, 2021 · For more than 50 years, Fischbeck worked as a teacher, director and celebrated contributor to the contemporary experimental dance and performance scene in Philadelphia and internationally. He died at age 80 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center on March 17, 2021.
May 18, 2021 · Manfred Fischbeck passed away March 17. His impact and legacy for dance in Philadelphia lives on. I spoke to many of his dancers and friends and went back through dozens of my own and other articles to choose high points of Fischbeck’s life and work.
With heavy hearts, we wish to inform all of you who have not yet heard, of the death of Manfred Fischbeck, our beloved Co-founder and Co-Director of...
Oct 5, 2024 · News director Greg O’Brien said a colleague died following a medical emergency in the newsroom Friday. The sudden death of a “beloved” employee who worked behind the scenes in CHCH TV’s ...
Apr 1, 2021 · Manfred Fischbeck, 80, of Philadelphia, a celebrated avant-garde dancer who blended improvisation, multimedia, and technology into intercultural dance performances, died Wednesday, March 17, of a ruptured aortic aneurysm at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
- Gary Miles
Manfred Fischbeck is the artistic and executive director of Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater. Originally from Berlin, Germany, he studied literature and theater at the Freie Universitaet and was professionally engaged as an actor in theater and film before he moved to dance and joined the Modern Dance Company Gruppe Motion Berlin. In 1968 ...
May 4, 2021 · Manfred Fischbeck, a celebrated avant-garde dancer who held well-regarded performances and workshops in the Philadelphia area and who was a lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences’ department of theatre arts, died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm on March 17.
