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…
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…
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