Briel Driscoll wears her hair parted down the middle, in two small buns behind and below her ears; it’s playful, I think. She shifts on the tufted cushion of a faux-Victorian couch to face Nikki Roberts, co-collaborator of movement group BodyFields Performance Collective whose Experiencing people as really kind of huge is part of this… Read more »
Posts By: Josh
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Jim Ludlum
The festival is coming! The festival is coming! Nothing but the glorious ravage of the redcoats of boredom from here on out. Maybe as a warm-up you’ve caught some previews, but either way now in two days it will be time to put your dog in a kennel, phone the babysitter, and devote the next… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Rabbi Rayzel Raphael
Once again, Wikipedia enlightens me and softens the slap of ignorance. Kabbalah, as defined by G-d-knows-who, is a mystical practice within Judaism meant to unlock ontological knowledge: why are we here? What is the purpose of life? Why does Madonna practice Kabbalah? I doubt Rabbi Rayzel Raphael will answer this last question in her 2012… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Douglas Repetto
If you haven’t already, check out the preview of Douglas Repetto and his mechanical foals we posted back in July. The video got me so geared up to create my own motorized colt: I’ve since knitted a foal-shawl, purchased several canisters of Gerber foal formula, and riffled through the local library’s baby name books (if… Read more »
Throwing It Out
Early this summer I set about making space in my childhood bedroom for more adult (read: terrifying) things: student loan bills, GRE study books, and the considerable anxiety of job applications. First, I set out to tackle the at-random piles of books that marked the floor space, the desk top, and my reading chair. Soon… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Donald Drake
Following our post about dance injuries and the importance of prevention rather than treatment, it’s safe to say that the blog audience recognizes that dance isn’t for bellyachers, or as former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Donald Drake asserts in the title of his 2012 Philly Fringe submit, Ballroom Dancing Ain’t for Sissies. Donald explains the show,… Read more »
Le Grand Continental: Voices from the Nosebleed Section
On August 7, Le Grand Continental held its first full-participant rehearsal: 150 volunteer performers from the Philadelphia area gathered in Penn’s Class of 1923 Ice Rink to practice for the September 8 and 9 shows at the 2012 Live Arts Festival. Like specters of actual spectators, bikes sat up in the stands and helmets looked… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: J. Michael DeAngelis
Their 2011 Philly Fringe submit X/Y was named one of the Top 5 Must Sees at Live Arts & Philly Fringe by 34th Street Magazine, so we know that The Porch Room Productions makes good art. Composed of co-writers J. Michael DeAngelis and Pete Barry, the production company is collaborating with The Underground Shakespeare Company… Read more »
The Photo That Launched A Thousand Ticket Sales
I am at a cafe because of an anointed brunette. I have driven across the city—Northern Liberties to the Italian market—and renegotiated time and place. She’s angelic, but she’s not churchly: in the photograph a trailing cord of electrical wire barely covers the nipples of her large breasts, and she holds a drill in front… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Tess Stumpf
Infatuation Dance Company will show Tickle Me Gray at this year’s 2012 Philly Fringe. The company, made up of recent grads and current students, promises a performance that will elicit from the audience the emotions one experiences while being tickled–joy so physically pleasurable, and then pain and annoyance that must be stopped. My question is,… Read more »
How Solos from Gdańsk, Burdag, and Warszawa Came To Be
Wislawa Szymborska, a Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, passed away in February of this year. I remember being introduced to her work in high school, after choosing at random a book of her poems from the town library. I read her, and forgot about her. But recently, thanks to the Poetry Foundation’s iPhone app, I began… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: David Orlansky, Joshua Levin, and Zachary Kind (BetaMale Productions)
A betamale is an underdog of sorts. At least when it comes to women (or men): seducing them, dating them, and avoiding being rejected by them are all difficult tasks for the betamale to master, or manage to do one time. Luckily, a betamale has the arts (and computer science), and this is a field… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Kristin Heckler
In light of crimes such as this one in Texas, Stop Kiss by American playwright Diana Son has remained markedly relevant since its 1998 debut. Two young women become lovers, and the play focuses on the violence ignited by a kiss they share. Follow the 2012 Philly Fringe production of Stop Kiss on Twitter, and… Read more »
Philly Fringe Vital Stats: Berger
No one’s quite as dedicated to their roles as the artists of eXposed Theatre Company’s 2012 Philly Fringe version of HAIR: The American Tribal Rock-Love Musical; they submitted their Vital Stats in-character, proving that life is a performance and you don’t ever leave the stage. Check out the group’s Facebook page, and then go to… Read more »
Call Me Crazy Dancers’ John Curtis On Music, Tap Dance, And Being Married To Your Co-Director
“The creative process for our show begins with the music,” wrote singer, dancer, choreographer, and NYC resident John Curtis, when we exchanged e-mails this past week. John is co-directing Call Me Crazy Dancers’ 2012 Philly Fringe submit Day for a Dream; a version of the show (titled Daydreams) is coming off a run at the… Read more »
