Life After Me
A solo requiem in five parts to honor the memory of a loved one lost to suicide. The music incorporates dozens of vocal layers and loops drawn from recent and ancient memory. The listener is immersed in a rippling world of impossible questions, eventually finding solace in simple melodies and hopeful reflections.
Last Call
Last Call is a multidisciplinary dance work developed by Natalie Gotter. With a soft premiere at the Going Dutch Festival in 2022, this work has been described as poignant and timely with a sense of deflective and defensive humor. This dance performance experience is a work that investigates perceptions, expectations, and embodiment of femme experiences in different iterations of night life. Who sets the rules of femininity and whose voices are heard…
In High Germany and The Parting Glass
The Irish Heritage Theatre presents Keith Conallen performing in two plays by Dermot Bolger. In High Germany, Eoin, an Irishman living in Germany, recalls a story of friendship and nostalgia for a football match from Euro ’88. Twenty years later Eoin returns to Ireland in The Parting Glass, where he is now part of a changing country caught up in a surging economic boom while also experiencing life altering personal events. The…
it’s better when you close your eyes
‘it’s better when you close your eyes’ A theatrical meditation on grief, depression, identity crisis, nostalgia, isolation in a pandemic and civil rights movement, fear and love. Through movement, theater and connection, the artists build their way through waves of emotion, heartache and pain in search of joy and human connection. Somehting that may be there all along, but harder to find that we think. BigKid Dance strives to…
I Hear You and I’d Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. Award-winning “Fringe Favorite” and Cannonball Festival Producer Almanac’s newest — and largest ever — ensemble acrobatic show explores the lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves. In I Hear You and I’d Like to Respond, artists and audiences alike board a metaphysical flight, traveling together to a…
I.D.: Intimate Deceptions
I.D.: Intimate Deception is an uncanny demonstration of sleight of hand, and psychological illusions performed in a close up setting. This 30 minute personal, blackbox show is not just about tricks, it’s about how magic can be used as metaphors for time, the significance of numbers, and connecting with strangers in surprising ways.
Imagination Playground
The “Imagination Playground” at Hatfield House created by Philadelphia-based choreographer Christina Castro-Tauser and visual artists Roger Wing, Bariq Cobbs, and Santi Castro, with performances by Expansions Contemporary Dance Ensemble, will combine sculpture and dance to inspire creativity, exploration, reflection, and community engagement. Imagination Playground” at Hatfield House will combine site-specific art and dance made with professional dancers and community members; and co-created dance, music, and art. Plus short works by…
high noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. in this speculative work of dance-theatre, a group of interdisciplinary Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger. using live electronic and folk music, archival video, dance and poetry, high noon casts a long shadow on the cowboy under the heat of an unrelenting sun. ABOUT HIGH NOON high noon is a new work of live performance produced…
Hello, How Are You?
A friend of a friend once was said to have scrolled through their phone wondering if any of their exes were still in love with them but safely downloaded a dating app instead. So now, how does one safely make it past the hellos? “Hello, How Are You?” follows the story of one black woman looking for love during what feels like the end of times. Will she backtrack and…
How to be an Ethical Slut
Experience the ride of your life as an unethical slut penetrates lies, STDs, triads, orgies, and love in her musical journey to becoming an Ethical Slut. Don’t miss this original one-woman cabaret-comedy show by and starring Brooke McCarthy. The Story: Blake has a problem – she is wrestling with a desire for a loving monogamous relationship…and so much more. Will Blake’s latest and more mature love interest Guy be the…
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