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…
Finding Joy: Dance Therapy
Lead by a certified Dance/Movement Therapist. This workshop will be open to performers, artists, and producers looking to dive into some creative wellness. This safe space will promote creativity while also providing space to overcome internal struggles as an artist and encourage performers to return to play in their creative modalities.
Gender Performance Exploration
THIS IS NOT A DRAG SHOW If you come expecting one, you will be very, very, very disappointed. Instead, come and explore what it means to YOU to perform gender! Whether that’s heightening your current gender identity, dipping your toes into what you consider to be the ‘opposite’ of your identity, or finding a blend of every gender identity all at once! All drag performance is gender performance, but not…
Intro to Butoh
Mitsu Salmon will lead an introduction workshop to Butoh, which is a contemporary avant- garde dance form that emerged after WWII in Japan and connects movement to imagery. In this workshop, you will learn a quick overview of Butoh and some basic exercises. We will work with guided movement and structured improvisation. Salmon was in a Butoh company, Ima Tenko and Kiraza for three years in Japan and will draw…
Slimy Fractal Conspiracy
A poet and educator/youth worker with 15 years of experience (Elisabeth Layne) partners up with a writer-director-performer and youth worker (Gum Preston) to make an original work of conceptual performance art for/with children. Together, we are AGENCY Agency, and we believe that transgressive performance art is already central to how children play together. We want to celebrate that creativity and see if we can learn from it. The Slimy Fractal…
The Fool’s Yoga
The Fool’s Yoga © is a physical embodiment practice that combines the practice of Clown with Yin Yoga, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and Guided Meditation. This innovative approach benefits people from all walks of life, offering stress relief, creativity, and a playful approach to mindfulness. Through the lens of the Fool, participants will learn to be more emotionally in touch, share their authentic selves, physicalize mindfulness, and more. Join…
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