Another piece of Newsworks’s coverage of This Town is a Mystery is this excellent interview with Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith of Headlong Dance Theater, and with the Aryadareis themselves. Watch: This Town is a Mystery opens Friday, September 7 and runs every night of the festival. Locations vary, but all will be revealed to… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Headlong Dance Theater
We’ve Been Curbed
Well, not curbed, thank the gods. But Curbed Philly has a really nice piece on Headlong Dance Theater’s 2012 Live Arts Show, This Town is a Mystery. Check it out here. –Nicholas Gilewicz This Town is a Mystery runs September 7 through 22 at four different households throughout Philadelphia. All shows 7:00 pm; $35.
Besties! Charlotte Ford and Headlong
Actually, do they hang out? I don’t even know. But in the department of PHILLY IS SO REAL, the arbiters of the very best of us, Philadelphia Magazine, gives the propers where the propers are due in their Best of Philly 2012 issue. BEST DANCE COMPANY: Headlong Dance Theater, with a plug for their 2012… Read more »
Slightly Less Mysterious: Headlong’s 2012 Live Arts Show
At the 2012 Live Arts Festival, Headlong Dance Theater is taking it way indoors with This Town is a Mystery. Motivated by the fight against urban anonymity, this performance takes place in four different Philadelphia households, performed by the families that live therein. To get us started down this path, the show’s blog introduces us… 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 »
Mission to Mars: The First Rover
Before the 2011 Live Arts Festival show Red Rovers, before the rovers Opportunity and Spirit crawled all over the Martian surface for years, and before the launch of their predecessor, Sojourner, there was a man. His name was Barnes. John Barnes. In college, we had long, meaningful discussions about religion, politics, and whether he could… Read more »
More Press!
And the champagne bottle won’t smash on the bow of the 2011 Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe until tomorrow! >>>For Philadelphia Magazine, Victor Fiorillo writes up ten of the most talented Live Arts and Philly Fringe artists, including Geoff Sobelle (Elephant Room), Sebastienne Mundheim (Paris Wheels and The Ready-Maids present . . . Not… Read more »
KadmusArts Interviews Headlong’s Amy Smith
All our Live Arts folks are giving interviews all over the place! If you didn’t watch the interview with Julian Crouch, you should. And today, check out KadmusArts’s interview with Amy Smith of Headlong Dance Theater, which is presenting Red Rovers OH MY GOD THE FESTIVAL STARTS THIS WEEK. Red Rovers runs September 2 through… Read more »
The Weekender: What You’re Doing and Why
Guys. We’re halfway through July. How did that happen already? Ponder the complexities of time dilation. >>>Thursday: It’s Bastille Day! In honor of French national history, a variety of bars are participating in the Fairmont French Fling Bar Crawl. From The Belgian Café to Bridgid’s Bar and Restaurant, drinks and celebrations abound. Swing by for… Read more »
The Weekender: What You’re Doing and Why
Ooooh, weekend picks are back? Yes they are! We have lines on nice things you should do. Here’s a couple like-duh events for this weekend: >>>Long-time Live Arts fave Headlong Dance Theater (Red Rovers in 2011) teams up with Group Motion and Three Aksha to offer Sam-Gam Bam! this weekend and next. Quoth David Brick:… Read more »
Live Arts Festival Chatter
A couple items worth your while: Before Cankerblossom rocks Christ Church at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Pig Iron’s spend this weekend finding out whether it will play in Peoria La Jolla. Sarah Laeuchli, the La Jolla Playhouse‘s artistic intern (she’s also serving as script assistant on their production of Cankerblossom), had this to say… Read more »
Loving Headlong Dance Theater’s “More” Just A Little More
In 2007 when NY choreographer Tere O’Connor provoked Headlong Dance Theater co-directors David Brick, Andrew Simonet and Amy Smith to put their 17 years of collaboration on hold and work independently from one another on a new piece, he probably could’ve never predicted that three years later the project—which was called More and premiered at… Read more »
Christ Church Renovations Promise More Than Just Air Conditioning
All I’ve heard about Christ Church‘s Neighborhood House lately has been about the air conditioning. Bryan Clark and Deborah Block both played it up when I spoke with them about Theatre Exile’s June fundraiser, and past Theatre Exile patrons (as well as our Live Arts & Philly Fringe audience) may remember some great artistic experiences,… Read more »
Hybridge Arts Collective’s First Last Monday
There’s a new collective in town. They go by the name of Hybridge Arts. This Monday the 28th they’re kicking off with their first Last Mondays event at 7pm at Broad Street Ministry. Hybridge Arts was recently formed by all-star alumni of the Headlong Performance Institute (HPI), which is starting its third year of intensive… Read more »
Drink Beer with Live Arts and Philly Fringe Artists
It’s that time of the year again, Philly Beer Week! We talked to past and present Live Arts and Philly Fringe artists about their favorite local brews and bars, plus what they’re up to this summer (besides boozing). Bonnie Quick Favorite local beer: Philadelphia Brewing Company’s Joe Porter Favorite place to drink: “My friend’s roof… Read more »
