Bone Song: A Polyphonic Singing Workshop
Old songs live in our bones. They know sorrow, joy, fear and anger. They know loss, and they know love. This workshop explores song in its most primal state: raw emotion sung from our bones and expressed through each voice’s unique cadence, tone and shape. We’ll work with our skeleton and vocal anatomy, open and explore places of resonance in the body, and find new pathways of connection between emotion,…
Let’s Get Real: Touring Your Solo Show on a Budget
Let’s be real, touring as a solo artist on a budget is hard. This panel of artists will offer individual perspectives from their experiences on the road, the highs, the lows, the financial realities and building relationships along the way. We’ll get into the nitty-gritty of pitching, fundraising, packing, traveling and marketing your show for both national and international tours. Have your burning questions ready for the panel as there…
Trinity & Natural Causes: A pairing of play readings
Join us for excerpt readings of two new plays: Nick Jonczak’s Trinity and Gum Preston’s Natural Causes, members of this year’s Text and Dramaturgy Cohort in partnership with Philadelphia Theatre Company! Trinity by Nick Jonczak – full reading on Sunday, September 29th @ 11AM:Following the gnawing death of his mother, Charlie escapes into the hardscrabble desert of New Mexico to hunt for his father. Guided by a bizarre trio of…
Investigations – a W.I.P. Showing
Brand new and super fresh works-in-progress presented in dance theater, clown, comedy, devised theater, and more. These are live performance investigations at their very earliest stages. Come support many Cannonball artists and their creative experiments!
Talking, moving, singing into Brutal Honesty
Brutal Honesty is a performance improvisation practice of spontaneous language in dance. It explores the notion of not censoring oneself and unearthing truths of the here and now. In our present world, where “alternative fact” is still a saying, and truth about anything is hard to find, this practice brings the question of what is real, and honest and true to the individual. The generation of language and movement initiates…
All-Levels Acrobatics as Community Action
Connecting and establishing trust with others is essential to our work of dismantling oppressive systems and building empowerment and sustenance in community. This all-levels workshop, taught by TransAcro- a radical circus collective that combats the cisheteropatriarchy through circus- will offer foundational group acrobatics as a method of developing our felt sense of safety and embodied creativity, as well as a concrete tool that can be used for political, social, and…
Game, Image, Task
(Game, Image, Task)/Technique is an approachable, training-agnostic way to view and create contemporary physical performance. It’s a framework that Ben has been researching in various contexts for the last few years, including through workshops at Pitch Catch Circus and at Breaking Walls Festival in Cairo, Egypt.Under this framework, we think of game, image, and task as three distinct modes of action in performance: what a performer does. These three modes,…
. . . of time . . .
… of time . . . is a durational installation dance performance performed by Vervet Dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Loren Groenendaal, Chloe Marie, and Kate Seethaler. These performers are also the cast of Vervet Dance’s contemporary choreography “Quartet for the End of Time” to premiere at the Icebox Project Space on November 22-23, 2024. This Cannonball Extension performance will reference some of the movement motifs and concepts of the evening length…
Cannonball Breakfast with Philly Dance Class Share
Rise and shine and come to class. In this dance(-ish) class, we will move to wake and warm the body from the ground up. Expect movement that loosens, lengthens and leads to an easy improvisation. There will be opportunities to work with a partner, touch optional, and then voila! on with your day. All levels of experience (including no experience) in dance are welcome to this class. Prepare for your…
DIY Analog Signal Interfaces and Performance
In this interactive workshop, participants will make an interface from household materials that modulates a simple analog synthesizer. The goal of the workshop is for participants to gain a feeling of access and intimacy with the signals they are modulating via a custom interface, to make an expressive interface, and to ease any discomfort or preconceived notions about who or what types of people get to work with electronics. The…
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