Effigy
A forgotten Founding Father, a black Union soldier, and a modern-day campus trapped between precedent and progress. How does the telling of our history change it – or change us? A triptych set in the crucible of the American South, Effigy explores our fractured legacy of riot, race, and revolution.Playwright Laura Anthony’s natural, overlapping dialogue shifts seamlessly through the stories of an overlooked revolutionary, a wounded Union soldier, and a…
Facepaint
“A priest walks into a bar… he looks around at the awful decor, and says to the bartender, “my child, you must repaint!” In a world premier of this new play, Harold, a recently married professional clown, dons the titular facepaint as a tribute to the life of his best friend at his funeral. He soon discovers, however, that his facepaint will not come off. This revelation sends him and…
Eat Me Baladi
An evening of two artistic explorations that investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement/dance and food. Leila Delicious & Mette Loulou von Kohl will share their works in conversation to probe the spaces of dissonance and familiarity between their individual experiences in relating to their bodies as Palestininans.
Disassembled: Lives taken Apart and examined through new music for Piano, Cello, Flute and Voices
Disassembled: Lives taken Apart and examined through new music for Piano, Cello, Flute and Voices is a concert presented by Philadelphia-based artists Cathy Mazza and Mike Leibowitz. New and old music will explore the themes of detachment and loss, and navigating through the onset and duration of the Covid pandemic. New compositions by Leibowitz and Mazza juxtaposed with Brahms; scored for piano, cello, flute and women’s voices.
Dirt Trip
“A hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (TheaterJones) and “one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around” (ArtSpace), Alex Tatarsky shares revelations from their ongoing research into the territory between clowns and compost. Linking American pop-cultural angst over the evil clown to efforts to banish garbage and urban blight, Tatarsky examines our fears of figures and substances which suggest transitional, ambiguous, and disordered states. Contents include: the ballad of an…
Fair Trade
Is Trust given freely, or earned over time? Is Fairness judged on a geological timescale or in the span of a second? How much can you get in exchange that birthday present you got from your least favorite aunt? Fair Trade is the first in a series of experiments from critically acclaimed Interactive Experience Makers Jessica Creane (Know Thyself, Chaos Theory, Schrödinger’s Cat) and Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (The Telelibrary, Undersigned), designed…
Creature: A Movement Meditation
A short dance film and an invitation to move: this creature draws you out, barefoot, into wet grass, squidgy mud, running water. Let your feet, then your body, respond to the feel: sliding, squishing, flowing. Open the door to your inner animal and respond to the sensations, to the textures, to your instincts. Creature: A Movement Meditation is a digital dance offering that invites participants to join Kalila Kingsford Smith in…
Daughter of the Sea
Laura Lizcano will be presenting a preview of the music from her upcoming album Daughter of the Sea as a series of three intimate performances, featuring Erin Busch on cello, Jake Kelberman on guitar, and Lizcano on vocals and ukulele. Written largely during quarantine, Daughter of the Sea is an internal look into Lizcano’s life, addressing a wide range of topics from breaking generational traumas and grapplingwith immigrant identity, to…
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time: hopefully !!!
“Crackhead Barney can be a coon! Sometimes! Or most of the time! Sometimes she can be annoying and loud and soft and very impatient and can’t tell a joke and gets mad at the little things! But wait I will have friends to help me clear out my intestines but there may be a lot of shit that the audience can’t handle !!” Called “the greatest performance artist of…
creativeWorks
We are foraging the cosmos for pretty things, relics of beauty, or just plain old byproducts of well-intentioned effort. Forget what your neighbor says, we live in an age of wonder–time to celebrate that fact with some sheer beauty. Go to https://creativeworks.io to join us!
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