This Thursday and Friday night the dance troupe BLOOM! comes to the Arts Bank at The University of the Arts to perform CITY, which takes on the resurgence of European nationalist governments and the consequences of social conformity. This young group, largely based in Budapest, has been thrilling audiences with their humor, awareness, original movement,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Dance
Artists & Their Coffee: Amy Smith
Name: Amy Smith Company: Headlong Dance Theater Artistic occupation: Co-director of above [and choreographer and dancer] First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: Living in Seattle in 1990, and having espresso for the first time. In the mornings I would drink a quadruple shot of espresso and then go to my shitty job at a… Read more »
Dancin’ On Air: Pennsylvania Ballet Dancers Reveal How They Learned To Fly In Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan
In Pennsylvania Ballet’s upcoming production (and company premiere) of Trey McIntyre’s Peter Pan there is a lot of air time. But this air time is not just for the audience to say, “Wow, they’re flying,” but it is used to create a vertical canvas where much of the choreography and evocative imagery of the ballet… Read more »
Video Teaser For Séquence 8 by 7 Fingers
The Live Arts Festival is very excited to bring back the Montreal-based urban circus group 7 Fingers (Traces) for a U.S. premiere of their new show Séquence 8. Enjoy the trailer!
Theater Artist Justin Jain Plays The Field
“Making my work fit me is like wearing a well-tailored suit,” says Justin Jain of his art. “If it doesn’t fit well, it’s my fault.” Jain, a 30-year-old playwright, performer, and theater researcher, identifies the devised work of collaborative theater as the form that allows for the satisfying “well-tailored suit” self-expression he loves. In the… Read more »
Artists & Their Coffee: Meg Foley
Name: Meg Foley Company: Moving Parts/megfoley Artistic occupation: Choreographer First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: I only started drinking coffee on the daily about a year ago and the kick in the butt that comes with coffee was pretty revelatory for me. It is definitely a different boost than drinking mate or black… Read more »
Headlong’s DESIRE Arrives In May: A Quick Chat With Andrew Simonet
Headlong Dance Theater returns to the stage this May with a new show, DESIRE, directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens, and performed and co-conceived by Headlong co-directors Amy Smith, Andrew Simonet, and David Brick. The piece will be at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine Street, one of my favorite places, May 4 and 5 at 8pm… Read more »
Artists & Their Coffee: Mimi Lien
Name: Mimi Lien Company: Pig Iron Theatre Co. Artistic occupation: Set designer First experience with coffee that made you understand coffee: Tamping the espresso at the coffee shop I worked at through college. [Ed note: definition here.] Coffee you drink at home: Dark roast from various beaneries, including Gorilla Coffee, La Colombe, MUD. How you… Read more »
Nichole Canuso Dance Company takes TAKES to New York City in January
TAKES came into being during a residency at our Live Arts Brewery (LAB) and premiered at the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Next, Nichole Canuso Dance Company will present the piece in New York from January 5th – 8th at 3LD Art and Technology Center. Conceived by choreographer Nichole Canuso and multimedia director Lars Jan,… Read more »
Let Headlong give new meaning to your “home theater”
Most of us are familiar with the timeless device used in comedy scenes where the character, falsely believing to be alone at home, spontaneously busts a move, often half-clothed and singing along into an invisible microphone, before realizing that the stunt had been public the whole time, much to their own embarrassment and much to… Read more »
Emerging Methodologies: LAB Fellow, Mike Kiley, Delves Deep
The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), an organization dedicated to facilitating dialogue about and for dance professionals convened in Philadelphia just before Thanksgiving . CORD conferences take on various topics that usually center around a single theme. This year their website describes the content of the conference in the following way: With this joint… Read more »
At Home, Elsewhere
The best French bakery in Philadelphia, I believe, is Artisan Boulanger Patissier. It’s in Passyunk Square, a traditionally Italian neighborhood that’s now integrated with new Cambodian, Mexican, and Vietnamese immigrants. When we started talking around the office about At Home, Elsewhere, the spotlight series of the 2011 Live Arts Festival, the bakery is the first… Read more »
MM2′s Steve Weisz Insisted We Share This Pun
Quoth Steve: “MM2 Modern Dance hanging out at Philly Fringe.” That is all. –Nicholas Gilewicz
Gregory Holt Talks LAB (and His Fringe Show Opens Tonight!)
“I didn’t dance, and had no exposure to dance, until high school,” said Greg Holt, a Live Arts Brewery Fellow during the 2010-2011 program. His 2011 Philly Fringe show with Green Chair Dance Group, A Vegan Kid’s Dance for Adults with Nudity, opens tonight. The show also features Gabrielle Revlock and devynn emory. Greg was… Read more »
What “One Word” Reveals
ONE WORD, the 2011 Philly Fringe production from MM2 Modern Dance, seems like a simple idea: dancer-choreographers choose one word to inspire a piece. But according to the young dancers of MM2, choosing a word of personal significance reveals ever so much more than simply that word’s definition. “I wanted to do an emotional piece,”… Read more »
