For more than 20 years, NY Dance Exchange has been bringing Big Apple dance experimenters here, and sending local emerging artists up to the Joyce-Soho. CEC executive director Terri Shockley calls the Exchange "a great opportunity to see what other emerging artists are doing, especially those from New York, which still is the world dance capital." Then she laughs, adding, "Although Philadelphia is gaining on them."

New Yorker Molly Rabinowitz presents a multimedia work called "Comfort" (about, well, things that make us comfortable) set to Yugoslavian Goran Bregovic's tango music. You'll also see "White and German: Shitsoco-coco" by dancer Rachel Lund and experimental theater artist Chris J. Giarmo. New Yorker Richard Rivera, formerly of Ailey II, sets the relationship between movement and mood to Spanish vocal music and salsa.

Local Lisa Kraus, CEC's New Edge Dance resident, shows an excerpt from Tracing Lineage, a film she made with Carmella Vassor-Johnson. In Lineage, Kraus explores her own movements by describing who taught the moves, and how these tie her into modern dance history. Her fellow dancers honored her with a Rocky at Fringe 2004 for one version of this.

After 13 years in Europe, Karl Schappell returns to Philly (he performed with many local troupes including Melanie Stewart's and Terry Beck's), sharing from his Automatic Bastard (directed and co-authored by Northern Ireland's Niall Rea), described as autobiographical postmodern cabaret. Philly's gaining, indeed.

NY Dance Exchange, Sat., Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $8-$10, Community Education Center, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911.