Also this issue: Learning to Fly Shelley Spector chats about her life, her art and her upcoming show. -Robin Rice Boxed In In a story of a con man turned boxer, Darin Strauss loses sight of the core of truth. -Justin Bauer First Friday Focus The Galleries at Moore | Temple Gallery | Ashley Gallery -Lori Hill Blind Date Two artists are grouped together for an exhibit at Seraphin Gallery. -Robin Rice East Meets Midwest Wisconsin artist T.L. Solien is featured in two gallery shows this month. -Susan Hagen

June 6-12, 2002

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Home Is Where I Am

When your identity is lost between who you are and whom you want to be, it's difficult, if not impossible, to know where you're going. Add the obstacles of learning to cope with a new culture and environment to an already complex struggle of discovery, and it becomes the interesting tale that Tania Isaac tells through movement.

In Isaac's new work, home is where I am, a semiautobiographical Caribbean experience is turned into a powerful story of an individual trying to keep her identity while transforming herself to fit into a new world. A combination of traditional and contemporary reggae, soca and modern dance helps create the feeling of displacement and isolation, sometimes with humorous undertones. Isaac, accompanied by other local dancers, brings new answers to the questions "what can you take with you when you leave" and "what do you find when you get there?"

Fri.-Sat., June 7-8, 8 p.m., $10, Community Education Center Meeting House Theater, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911.

—Morgen Rossmair