Harvest Moon

May 6, 2024

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

May 6, 2024

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!

May 6, 2024

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…

The Floods

May 6, 2024

THE FLOODS is a massive video experience (96x20ft) in the Crane Icebox that immerses spectators in a kaleidoscopic journey in marshlands and industrial wastelands of the Anthropocene now being transformed by floods. The work addresses questions of land-use, industrial contamination and sea-level rise through richly layered images, sound and generated language. Viewers travel along the marshlands and industrial wastelands of our local watershed and others worldwide that are shaped by…

THE FLOODS LIVE PERFORMANCE

May 6, 2024

THE FLOODS is a massive video experience (96x20ft) in the Crane Icebox that immerses spectators in a kaleidoscopic journey in marshlands and industrial wastelands of the Anthropocene now being transformed by floods. It is created by artist/filmmaker Roderick Coover, composer Adam Vidiksis, and computation poet Nick Montfort. In this special live concert spectacle, drummer Vidiksis leads an ensemble of internationally-renowned musicians in an hour-long concert performance that responds in the…

The Choice

May 6, 2024

Pack a lunch for your kids while 10 months pregnant! Laugh with a middle-aged Australian mum!Panic about the future of the human race amidst climate catastrophe! Tell a woman what to do with her body! Join us as we decide whether or not to have children! Better yet, decide for us! Welcome to the womb where it happens: The Choice, an interactive theatre show by inFLUX, unpacks the decision to…

Study Hall: Comedy Inspired By Lectures

May 6, 2024

Study Hall is back live on stage for some in person lessons and laughs! Now in it’s seventh year, Study Hall invites guests from the world of academia and beyond to present short lectures on a topic from their field. After each lecture a cast of some of Philly’s best and funniest performers will use what they’ve learned (or didn’t) to improvise hilarious scenes right before your eyes! You’ll learn…

The Engine

May 6, 2024

The Engine is a solo dance that imagines: What if my body was a locomotive engine? Taking place outdoors, under the moon, along a trail that used to be what the French call chemin de fer (iron path/railway), this performance invites each of us to wonder about what propels us and where we’re headed. This original work is created and performed by Philadelphia-based dance artist Asimina Chremos, whose work “…reveals…

The Hazards of Love

May 6, 2024

“’Oh, the hazards of love.’You’ll learn soon enough The prettiest whistles won’t wrestle the thistles undone.” Margaret’s chance encounter with a wounded fawn in the wild leads her on a dark, magical journey where she’ll learn firsthand “The Hazards of Love.” Based on The Decemberists’ acclaimed concept album of the same name, The Hazards Of Love will be The Hum’n’bards’ return to album adaptation after the 2018 staging of The…

Squat Squad

May 6, 2024

Join Squat Squad’s Tommie, Sonja, Bino, & Agnes as they make their late night talk show debut! Watch as these earnest and good-hearted scammers discuss their schemes and misadventures in their attempts to literally keep a Victorian mansion’s roof over their heads. Do the antics and struggles of this squad composed of misfits and miscreants seem endearing? Are they historic preservationists? Philanthropic geniuses? Misguided fools? Tune in to decide for…

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