PONYA
ANKOLE is a BIPOC-owned Queer Circus Arts and Wellness Community hailing from Lenape Territory now known as the boogey-down Bronx, NY. “PONYA” (Swahili for heal, cure) tells 3 stories of how black bodies and Queer identities are stigmatized in Western medicine. This performance combines Aerial Circus, dance and theater. Story 1 pays tribute to Henrietta Lacks (she/her), a black woman who sought treatment for cervical cancer in 1951. Scientists used…
Pirate Queens
In this relatively true story, we follow the 18th-century tale of Mary Read, a woman dressed as a boy since childhood. The day she is captured by pirates, she meets Anne Bonny. The two share a unique, piratey love story until their end. In Pirate Queens, three players perform the entire play on a three-foot-by-three foot old, wooden crate. Using only their bodies in this small space, they mime all…
PINCH
PINCH is an experimental dance work that blurs the fine (story)line between preparedness and chaos in the American psyche. This is not a drill. With humor, poetics, and absurdity, a trio of characters keep asking: Who taught you to move safely? What contradictions are held in your sense of security? Tina Bararian, Avery Gerhardt, and Sacha Vega collectively devised and perform PINCH. Invested in probing their learnings around emergency responses,…
Piip and Tuut at Concert
In the show two clowns go to a concert hall for a fun-filled night of slapstick, songs, and acrobatic mischief. Piip and Tuut are two janitors who tidy the concert hall before and after each performance. One day, they are surprised to realize that theyve left their supplies on the stage but the concert is about to start! This clown-duo appears in the lights and puts up a show unlike…
Phone Claw for Mister
This piece is an interrogative: a construction that conveys the force of the questions that we face every day upon clocking in, or upon cogging in, as part of THE MACHINE: We really do just show up every day to do this again, what the hell? Cotton is no longer the fabric of our lives. So What is? What is the grand material of today? When does something become so…
Perimeter Printmaking: The City’s Edge
Come make your own unique handmade letterpress map of the Philadelphia perimeter and Delaware River watershed during a Walk Around Philadelphia workshop @ Cherry Street Pier! it’s FREE / pay-what-you-wish and easy and takes just a few minutes. Drop in anytime 5-7pm on Wednesday evenings throughout the Festival, and consider joining us for other upcoming events including any of the 12 walk segments around the entire city border Sept 6-29th
perennial, and other works for dance
This multimedia production features the world premiere of perennial, an art film by collaborators Elliot deBruyn (cinematographer), Erin Busch (composer), Savannah Green (lead dancer), Jerard Palazo (supporting dancer), and Sean Bailey (audio engineer). Largely filmed in the Wissahickon, the film follows lead dancer Savannah through various states of reality and dream state, and is meant to abstractly illustrate the experience of processing grief over time through dissociation and memory. The…
P(O/U)NK
P(O/U)NK is an exploration of black queer anarchism through movement and sound. Seals and his collaborators wrestle with the fugitivity of black queer liveness to reckon with violent pasts and imagine liberated futures. P(O/U)NK uses movement and sound to create a landscape of improvisational practices/promiscuous futuring/emergent strategies towards dispelling shame associated with touch and illuminating a unified culture of black queer legacy. What does it mean to show affection, exhibit…
Owen Corey and James Ofalt Punch Each Other in the Dick Until One Submits, Again
Philadelphia actors Owen Corey and James Ofalt will punch each other in the dick until one submits, again. One night only, sellout expected.
Our Innocence
Rose Lee’s “Our Innocence.” Undress Your Assumptions. Embrace the Sacred. Rose Lee’s Our Innocence is a multimedia performance that shatters expectations and invites a voyeuristic glimpse into the most intimate corners of self-discovery. Through song and captivating visuals, this show weaves a tapestry of personal diary entries set to music, exploring the intersection of sex, faith, and vulnerability. Facing radical honesty and reclaiming the body as a vessel for self-discovery…
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