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Madeline Shuron Dance Theater
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An investigation into artistic “hustle culture,” self worth, and the potentiality of lifecycles, i don’t have the right words for it yet examines the nature of performance through the world’s greatest shapeshifter: the frog. Through puppetry, movement, storytelling, and song, Shuron weaves a deft web, asking the audience and artist to question their role in performance.
Madeline Shuron is a participant in Philly Fringe Postcards, peer-to-peer review experiment created for the 2025 Fringe by Savannah Reich.
With over 100 offerings from rebellious circus, delicious dance, fearless theatre and activist art to workshops, parties, and more Cannonball pushes the boundaries of live performance at four different venues this Fringe. Come as you are and stay past bedtime at cannonballfestival.org.
PWYC Options $5+
Venue: Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater 
September 11, 2025 6.30pm
1219 Vine Street
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 18, 2025 5.00pm
1219 Vine Street
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
September 21, 2025 2.00pm
1219 Vine Street
General Admission: $25
PWYC Options
About the Artist
Madeline Shuron (they/she) works at the intersection of scholarship and performance, attempting to break down the audience-performer relationship through movement, text, puppetry, clowning, and film. Her work has been witnessed at FringeArts (PHL), Temple University (PHL), Bryn Mawr College (PHL), the MAAS Studio (PHL), the Lawrence Art Center (KS), Random Access Gallery (NY), Dance Studies Association, and Post45:Contemporaries. They have also given lecture-demonstrations at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and the American College Dance Associations 50th Anniversary Conference. Madeline holds an MFA in Choreography and Performance from Temple University. Previous Fringe pieces include a puppetry-dance trio ICH GLAUBE DAS IST WAS KUNST IST, ensemble-dance piece SPIEGEL SPIEGEL and solo clown show WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS; OR, WHY NOT CHOOSE ME?
- Madeline Shuron Performermeshuron@gmail.com
- Caitlin AlvarezOutside Eyecaitlinalvarezh@gmail.com
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This event is appropriate for ages 13+
Adult Language
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