Here’s 6 suggestions about what to see this weekend. There are more than 6 worthy possibilities, but we were too lazy to find them. The Gambling Room opens this weekend at the Papermill Theater, 2825 Ormes Street (in Kensington). Starring Dan Tobin, Calvin Atkinson, and Sebastian Cummings. Written and directed by John Rosenberg. May 18th through… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Dance
Jumpstart, A Recap of our Artist Interviews
Jumpstart, a showcase that identifies new and emerging talent, rocked the Painted Bride on Monday and Tuesday nights. We at FringeArts Blog had the pleasure of interviewing each of the lead artists who created and are performing short works. Here’s a quick run down of the artists and shows with some choice quotes and links… Read more »
Look, The FringeArts Building Is Well On Its Way
Nick Stuccio, president and producing director of FringeArts, surveying the good work. A view from a bridge.
Doing The Invert: Tangle Movement Arts Brings Their Style Of Circus To The Rotunda
“I discovered a radical potential in circus arts to challenge our assumptions about relationships, gender, and what bodies can do.” Tangle Movement Arts has been creating a distinctive brand of circus-dance-theater for the past few years now, and from May 16 to 18, they will be taking over The Sanctuary at the Rotunda with their… Read more »
Jumpstart Rejects Live At Mascher
What’s better than black market performing arts? Ben Grinberg and Mascher Space Co-op have put together their own performing arts showcase of performers and creators who were not chosen for the official Jumpstart here at FringeArts (Monday May 13 and Tuesday May 14 at 7pm at the Painted Bride). What a fantastic idea! As FringeArts… Read more »
Marina Libel and The Supervisors
“If you think of a gesture as a word or of a dialogue as a movement phrase, the performance can open up new possibilities.” Here comes Marina! On May 13 and 14, FringeArts presents our second annual Jumpstart, a showcase designed to identify new and emerging talent in the field of live performance. 2013 will… Read more »
A public service announcement from PDDC
Mike Gerkovich makes zines and they are like roadside lookout areas: created in collaboration with members of the cultural arts program at the Philadelphia Developmental Disabilities Corporation (PDDC), each page makes you pull over, take a look, and wonder how each frame of vision marries the other to form one magnificent gorge you never knew… Read more »
Illadelph or Portlandia?
Ellen Freeman is a freelance writer and former Festival Blog intern who is based in Oregon. Remember the segment Adam Carolla used to do on the radio show Loveline called “Germany or Florida?” Oh, you had better things to do at 11:00 pm on weekdays than listen to ecstasy-addled sexually-active teens discuss their problems with… Read more »
This Is a Squid Dancing to Cypress Hill
Well, squid cells, anyway. To kick off your morning, and clear out the cobwebs. –Nick Gilewicz h/t to This is Colossal
Because Y’all Love Naked Bodies So Much I Decided To Ref A Game of Skins vs. Skins
Because the press has failed to remark on the penetration of au naturel into this year’s Live Arts and Fringe shows (read my sarcasm, then read the Inquirer’s most recent article on the same), I’ve decided to introduce a resolving flavor to the chatty pot of “No clothes; oh no!” “Take it off!” “You want… Read more »
No Snooze in This News
Spooky spooktacular! Not really. But after the jump, coverage of Fringe in cemeteries, my friend Cherri interviews Jumatatu Poe for KYW, some top picks from our media posse, and more. Rounding up the roundups again, here we go:
Le Grand Rehearsals
In addition to talking with rehearsal director Sarah Gladwin Camp earlier in the week, blog contributor Marina Kec also chatted up Le Grand Continental rehearsal assistants Jacelyn Biondo, Gabrielle Revlock, and Rhonda Moore about working with the motley crew of awesome people who will seize the Art Museum steps with dance one more time today,… Read more »
Le Grand Rehearsal Director: Sarah Gladwin Camp
Blog contributor Marina Kec talked to Sarah Gladwin Camp this week about Le Grand Continental, the energetic dance extravaganza taking to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the 2012 Live Arts Festival. Over 150 performers from different walks of life and with varying levels of dance experience will band together this weekend,… Read more »
“The Middle of the Alphabet”: A Conversation with BodyFields Performance Collective
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 »
S.O.A.R.ing through Philly Fringe
“I didn’t start dance classes until I was 11 years old. I had two girl cousins who always took dance, and they got me into it at family dinners and holidays. We were always making dances.” Her cousins—one now a nurse, another a salesperson for a medical supply company—may have introduced her to dance, but… Read more »
