Set, Standard
Set, Standard is a commentary on art criticism. Using dance, text, and improvisation, this work satirizes the conflation between art criticism and personal critique by questioning what happens when our art is critiqued. Is our personhood being critiqued as well? When bodies become art objects, how does critique capture a moving body in space? Set, Standard originated as a choreographed hyperbolic fight between a visual artist and a dancemaker with…
BODY LOVE: Strength, Range of Motion, & Inversions
BODY LOVE: STRENGTH, RANGE OF MOTION, & INVERSIONS is part of a series of workshops Pig Iron will offer this fall to continue training the next generation of daring theater artists while our graduate program is paused. From August to December, beloved faculty and exceptional guest artists will lead masterclasses, training intensives, and skill-building workshops in the Pig Iron Studios for participants with a wide range of performance interests, from…
Songs of the Desert
Songs of the Dessert is a collection of personal musical reflections inspired by a magical place in California High Desert called Joshua Tree. Home to a unique plant of the same name, Joshua Tree has been awakening creative impulses in humans from the early days of Native Indians, who left their pictographs on the rocks, to the contemporary artists, architects, musicians and spiritual seekers. Joshua Tree’s name was made world-famous…
clapping for nature
What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale. Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting…
Caminé, caminé,y caminé, pero nunca llegué…
The story, originally written for the stage by Veronica Mercedes Ponce De Leon & Francisco Javier Carbajal, follows the abridged life of a young mexican punk rocker who seeks to find new opportunities across the Tijuana, Mexico border. Confusion and tragedy ensues which results in our protagonist being lost in the Mexicali desert. The cast is made up of members of the community that supports Ollin Yoliztlin Calmecac in their…
DeliaDelia! The Flat Chested Witch!
Amando Houser who is ‘particularly funny’ (Vulture) invites you to an unhinged and absurd clown hour of self discovery. Inspired by the “witch hunt” on trans rights in the United States. DeliaDelia is a witch from the swamps who happens to be as nasty on the eyes as she is on the basketball court. Cursed to find a husband by the stroke of midnight will she: find true love or…
GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking
Join us for the LIVE screening of GROUNDS THAT SHOUT!… and others merely shaking, a film documentary of the 2019 dance project curated by Reggie Wilson with choreography created by Fist and Heel Performance Group. This project featured eight local choreographers and dance groups at three historic churches in Philadelphia (St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Old Pine Street Church, and Mother Bethel A.M.E. church) and the spaces between them. The Fist…
Grief Embodied
Grief Embodied is a cathartic reckoning of performance art and abstract puppetry. A continuous non-narrative piece with no beginning or end, it unhesitatingly creates a dialogue for things we hardly know how to say. Five performers, each holding their own unique abstraction. Grief is formless, nothing at all, and something we can’t quite qualify. Glimpsed only from behind branches, or through windows, light streaming through. Ricocheting around a sharp and…
Existential Clowns Tuning into the Audience (it’s a workshop!)
“Existential Clowns Tuning into the Audience” is a two-hour workshop using group and solo games, exercises and improvisations to experiment with the comic relationship between performer and audience. We’ll explore concepts such as “playing at the speed of fun”, heightening your sensitivity to laughs, learning when to stay or go, complicity in competition, and using “failure” as your superpower. If you move in circles of clown, bouffon, drag, cabaret, stand-up,…
Embodied Poetry Generation
Embodied Poetry Generation (Analog AI) is a space and an experiment in world-building. It is a portal to a story that emerges from our collected fragments of memory. It is a score that auto-generates a script in word and movement from collective memory. We will take our fragments of memories and associations and collage them with movement via a score developed for this purpose. An unexpected collective narrative emerges spontaneously…
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