Expelled: A Comedic Journey
A Stand-up Comedy show about one person’s spiritual journey, from breaking the law, to backpacking across Mongolia, living in a Zen Monastery in Japan, dealing with heartbreak, becoming a Jazz guitarist, only to wind up finding true love in the most unexpected of places. Andrew Steiner is an internationally touring comedian, and won best comedy show at Pittsburgh Fringe in 2019. Featuring Francesca Maglione. Musical accompaniment by Alan Silverman.
Everything After
An improvised performance delving into the aesthetics of healing from trauma. Six dancers and a musician follow movement and music scores abstracted from PTSD therapies to uplift the labor of survivors. Rather than staging moments of violence, revenge, or catharsis the performers take the subtlety of healing as a new territory to explore as they wind their way through a projected installation of domestic scenes. We are not defined by…
Feeling Red
Feeling Red brings color to movement and dance. Choreographer, Savi Stevenoski, sees color when listening to music. A phenomenon know as synesthesia. Red is deep and soulful. Red is a big, broad, strong color that symbolizes much more than anger and love. Feeling Red transcribes the color red into movement, into something that the dancers and audience are able to feel.
Effigy
A forgotten Founding Father, a black Union soldier, and a modern-day campus trapped between precedent and progress. How does the telling of our history change it – or change us? A triptych set in the crucible of the American South, Effigy explores our fractured legacy of riot, race, and revolution.Playwright Laura Anthony’s natural, overlapping dialogue shifts seamlessly through the stories of an overlooked revolutionary, a wounded Union soldier, and a…
Facepaint
“A priest walks into a bar… he looks around at the awful decor, and says to the bartender, “my child, you must repaint!” In a world premier of this new play, Harold, a recently married professional clown, dons the titular facepaint as a tribute to the life of his best friend at his funeral. He soon discovers, however, that his facepaint will not come off. This revelation sends him and…
Eat Me Baladi
An evening of two artistic explorations that investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement/dance and food. Leila Delicious & Mette Loulou von Kohl will share their works in conversation to probe the spaces of dissonance and familiarity between their individual experiences in relating to their bodies as Palestininans.
Disassembled: Lives taken Apart and examined through new music for Piano, Cello, Flute and Voices
Disassembled: Lives taken Apart and examined through new music for Piano, Cello, Flute and Voices is a concert presented by Philadelphia-based artists Cathy Mazza and Mike Leibowitz. New and old music will explore the themes of detachment and loss, and navigating through the onset and duration of the Covid pandemic. New compositions by Leibowitz and Mazza juxtaposed with Brahms; scored for piano, cello, flute and women’s voices.
Dirt Trip
“A hilarious, finely tuned absurdist” (TheaterJones) and “one of the most exciting and hilarious performance artists around” (ArtSpace), Alex Tatarsky shares revelations from their ongoing research into the territory between clowns and compost. Linking American pop-cultural angst over the evil clown to efforts to banish garbage and urban blight, Tatarsky examines our fears of figures and substances which suggest transitional, ambiguous, and disordered states. Contents include: the ballad of an…
Fair Trade
Is Trust given freely, or earned over time? Is Fairness judged on a geological timescale or in the span of a second? How much can you get in exchange that birthday present you got from your least favorite aunt? Fair Trade is the first in a series of experiments from critically acclaimed Interactive Experience Makers Jessica Creane (Know Thyself, Chaos Theory, Schrödinger’s Cat) and Yannick Trapman-O’Brien (The Telelibrary, Undersigned), designed…
Creature: A Movement Meditation
A short dance film and an invitation to move: this creature draws you out, barefoot, into wet grass, squidgy mud, running water. Let your feet, then your body, respond to the feel: sliding, squishing, flowing. Open the door to your inner animal and respond to the sensations, to the textures, to your instincts. Creature: A Movement Meditation is a digital dance offering that invites participants to join Kalila Kingsford Smith in…
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