the in-between
A durational dance art installation that explores naming the present, imaginary, and real in all its complexity. A ritual for right now, as we re-learn to congregate in spaces together. What is going on within and in-between us? All is allowed in the performer’s improvisational score: grief, joy, curiosity, shyness, confusion, lostness, peace, stillness, escape. You are allowed to think and feel all you need to, too. You can stay…
Water On The Pier
WATER ON THE PIER is an immersive public art installation that combines large-scale video, a massive soundscape and interactive elements driven by the ebbs, flows and forces of the Delaware River. Cherry Street Pier sits in the heart of Philadelphia’s docklands that were a center of the city’s industrial revolution. It considers how climate conditions we face today are the consequence of decisions made then about urbanization, industrialization and sustainability….
VFF
In times like these, it’s good to have a VFF. VFF explores friendship through one-hour video chats. Only 20 people can take part in these one-on-one experiences (one per day), hanging out over FaceTime with award-winning performance artist and actor Brian Feldman (#txtshow, Dishwasher, Wawa® Shabbawa). What is a friendship worth? How do we make friends? What does being friends actually mean? Brian explores these questions and more by offering…
Twelfth Night
When Viola is shipwrecked in an unfamiliar land, they disguise themselves as a man setting off a chain of events that lead them, and everyone they encounter, on an exciting and often hilarious journey of self discovery in this well-loved Shakespeare comedy. This production explores, explicitly and in depth, the beautiful and exciting journeys of all of the characters in this heartwarming and raucously funny play, to discover who they…
Unorthodox Methods of Cosmic Flight
What is escapism? What is home? How do you build a slingshot big enough to shoot yourself into the cosmos? Theatre meets visual installation meets gallery in this devised production, inspired by visual artist Ilya Kabakov’s work, “The Man Who Flew Into Space from his Own Apartment.” A comical journey of begrudging allies and a few irreverently handled Big Questions, this show guarantees a little bit of paint and no…
The Wasp’s Nest
Welcome to The Wasp’s Nest, a devised sitcom-style presentation about a zany group of magical beings. A motley crew of Pearl, Fiorella, and unlucky Lucifer struggle with a seemingly simple task: what to do with a community garden? Spoiler Alert! It gets messy.
Rhopalocera: a digital opera (New-work-in-progress)
As quarantine hits, a newly single person mistakenly receives a terrarium and several caterpillars. Containment and cocoon collide as metaphor and consequence in RHOPALOCERA: a digital opera. This piece was conceived during containment, as meditation through music and movement to ask: what are we becoming? A piece developed remotely and in it’s first phrase of development. Original score by Laura Lizcano, camera trickery and acting devloped by Paul Deichmann and…
Harvest Moon
JCWK Dance Lab’s Harvest Moon is an evening-length, virtual, new music and dance collaboration premiering in conjunction with the astronomical calendar’s Harvest Moon. Over the past seven months, dancers and musicians employed the serendipitous and unpredictable nature of the internet to engage Zoom as a compositional and choreographic tool. Harvest Moon reflects on lunar cycles, cultural anthropology, the spiritual philosophy that human bodies are microcosms of the universe, and the…
ReVisioning the Arts Podcast
ReVisioning the Arts is a podcast focused on inclusivity and egalitarianism. The show has two primary focuses: offering strength and encouragement to struggling artists and dreaming up new models that would support as many people as possible in making their art. Listen in for conversations on resilience, tenacity and philosophical soul tending. We talk about cultivating a resilient mindset, detaching success from popularity and staying clear in our reasons for…
New World Rising!
The year is 2022, and as you know, it is the final decade for humans to redress our impact on the planet. Since you attended an eye-opening environmental lecture several years ago, you have joined the fight against the many-headed hydra of climate change with increasing fervor. But no matter how many marches, letters to politicians, protests, donations, and local and global campaigns you organize, it seems the forces against…
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