Fringe Bytes: Grounded Aerial – Insectinside
August 29, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
For the Philly Fringe, Insectinside offers up a raw and volatile love story in a whirling fantasy insect realm. Presented by Grounded Aerial, it combines modern dance (ground) with uniquely rigged aerial elements (air) in equal parts with a cast of fifteen artists. The production incorporates silk artists, dancers, a stilt artist, actors, gymnastics, and bungee aerial, along with an original musical score. But if you are looking for a mini circus, then this is not the place. Rather, Insectinside is emotionally charged choreography amplified into the air.
Based in New York City, but with strong ties to the Philadelphia area, Insectinside ...
Fringe Bytes: Grounded Aerial – Insectinside
August 29, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
For the Philly Fringe, Insectinside offers up a raw and volatile love story in a whirling fantasy insect realm. Presented by Grounded Aerial, it combines modern dance (ground) with uniquely rigged aerial elements (air) in equal parts with a cast of fifteen artists. The production incorporates silk artists, dancers, a stilt artist, actors, gymnastics, and bungee aerial, along with an original musical score. But if you are looking for a mini circus, then this is not the place. Rather, Insectinside is emotionally charged choreography amplified into the air.
Based in New York City, but with strong ties to the Philadelphia area, Insectinside ...
Live Arts Spotlight: Brian Sanders’ JUNK
August 27, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
This is where the lost take charge.
Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the future, a group of people inhabit a blown out, old industrial architectural relic from the past. They have chosen this place as a safe-haven, looking to recreate something from the past that is missing from their lives: a previous, purer way of life—the ever-elusive sense of ...
Live Arts Spotlight: Brian Sanders’ JUNK
August 27, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
This is where the lost take charge.
Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the future, a group of people inhabit a blown out, old industrial architectural relic from the past. They have chosen this place as a safe-haven, looking to recreate something from the past that is missing from their lives: a previous, purer way of life—the ever-elusive sense of ...
Fringe Bytes: Flat Intersections
August 19, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
Flat Intersections culminates the work of four different artists (Briel Driscoll, Colleen McNally, Nikki Roberts, and Tess Stumpf) who are all working to emphasize one thing: exploration. They are exploring physical relationships of bodies, ignored questions, natural rhythms, and perceptions. Immersing themselves in such adventure undoubtedly has lead to new heights of understanding while further investigations surfaced. The work is daring, while satisfying curiosity.
Flat Intersections not only displays investigation through dance and physical movement, but also through other art media. Working alongside of such musicians as Jonathan Childs, Patrick Lamborn, and Bobby Szafranski, Flat Intersections displays the collaborative process as ...
Fringe Bytes: Flat Intersections
August 19, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
Flat Intersections culminates the work of four different artists (Briel Driscoll, Colleen McNally, Nikki Roberts, and Tess Stumpf) who are all working to emphasize one thing: exploration. They are exploring physical relationships of bodies, ignored questions, natural rhythms, and perceptions. Immersing themselves in such adventure undoubtedly has lead to new heights of understanding while further investigations surfaced. The work is daring, while satisfying curiosity.
Flat Intersections not only displays investigation through dance and physical movement, but also through other art media. Working alongside of such musicians as Jonathan Childs, Patrick Lamborn, and Bobby Szafranski, Flat Intersections displays the collaborative process as ...
Shameless self-promotion!
August 19, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
Dance Promotions, Dance Journal, MM2: Steve Weisz Is At The Center
–Nicholas Gilewicz, Live Arts & Philly Fringe Blog
Do you know our friend Steve Weisz? He’s one of the people in Philadelphia most committed to advancing dance. Steve runs The Dance Journal, an exceptionally comprehensive site for dance news in the city (and which, in the interests of full disclosure, also syndicates our dance stories thanks Steve!), itself an outgrowth of PhiladelphiaDANCE.org, a central location for all things dance in Philly.
Of particular note to you, Fringe participants, are the promotional tools that Steve has set up for you. The Dance Calendar ...
Fringe Bytes: Showcasing physical movement in Absence/Presence
August 8, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
Rain Ross Dance and Stone Depot Dance Lab will premiere, at the Philly Fringe, Absence/Presence, a dance performance showcasing truly physical movement.
Choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross explore political and historical subjects including social activism, identity vs. what we project to society, and technology and its affect on communication.
The desire for contact and connection interplay in these dance works, which include Ross’ Fresh Hell, a scintillating portrait of Dorothy Parker, and Goudie-Averill’s moving and personal new quartet, Convictions. This is a show for the dance lover as well as those who appreciate a pure energetic performance experience.
The show also features ...
Fringe Bytes: Showcasing physical movement in Absence/Presence
August 8, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
Rain Ross Dance and Stone Depot Dance Lab will premiere, at the Philly Fringe, Absence/Presence, a dance performance showcasing truly physical movement.
Choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross explore political and historical subjects including social activism, identity vs. what we project to society, and technology and its affect on communication.
The desire for contact and connection interplay in these dance works, which include Ross’ Fresh Hell, a scintillating portrait of Dorothy Parker, and Goudie-Averill’s moving and personal new quartet, Convictions. This is a show for the dance lover as well as those who appreciate a pure energetic performance experience.
The show also features ...
Fringe Bytes: DC Experimental Choreographer Kelly Bond premieres Elephant
August 4, 2010 · Posted by danceJournal ·
As September’s Philly Fringe creeps ever closer, experimental DC choreographer and performing artist Kelly Bond confirms the Philadelphia premiere of Elephant at FLUXspace. Hailedm as “jarring and insightful” by dance critic, dramaturg and professor, Kathleen Mattingly, on the cultural blog “Widening the I,” Bond’s contemporary performance work generates an intense physical experience for both audience and performer.
After presenting various stages of Elephant’s creation process through Movement Research in New York and at the Festival Particules in Geneva, Bond will share the completed work at FLUXspace, 3000 N. Hope St., on Friday, September 17th at 10pm, and Saturday, September 18th at ...
