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 8: Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko  Live Arts
eight choreographers / eight new works
Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C—see below), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
8: Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi  Live Arts
eight choreographers / eight new works
Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival.
8: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley  Live Arts
eight choreographers / eight new works
Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A—see below), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
8: Olive Prince and Shavon Norris  Live Arts
eight choreographers / eight new works
Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B—below), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
Cédric Andrieux  Live Arts
Jérôme Bel
Whether you’ve danced professionally, taken a dance class, or frankly worked any job in your life, you can’t help but empathize with the gloriously unglamorous details of the everyday existence of a dancer.
Dance  Live Arts
Lucinda Childs with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt
Three masters of minimalism, choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, collaborated to construct this seminal work of dance—one of the purest examples of interdisciplinary art-making ever created. An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, Dance is a bold statement on the very nature of movement.
Decadere  Live Arts
BoánDanz Action Company
It's an abandoned place, where abandoned people meet. They come wearing half underwear, half office clothes. They are trying to recreate the routines of their former lives—their work, their culture, their food, their speech, their dancing. They are being watched. They are speaking out on the microphone—where they become stars, where they reveal secrets, maybe sing a song.
Festival Plus  Live Arts
Dance by Lucinda Childs
Through a film series, lecture, moderated discussion, and a master class, Festival Plus programming for Dance offers audiences a deeper insight into the artist and her work.
Sanctuary  Live Arts
Brian Sanders' JUNK
This is where the lost take charge. Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the future, a group of people inhabit a blown out, old industrial architectural relic from the past.
TAKES  Live Arts
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
Enter a genre-bending exploration of dance, video installation, and film. Within a large cube wrapped in semi-transparent screens two dancers perform fragments from their lives. Captured by multiple video cameras, their actions are woven into an elaborate reel of "takes," and projected back onto the screens as large black-and-white films.
TAKES Daytime Installation  Live Arts
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
By day, visit the TAKES performance space, and following instructions spoken through an iPod, perform your own short duet within the cube. Sign up for a 15-minute slot for two and you will soon see yourself amidst the maze of images projected on the screens. You can come to the space at any time to observe, but you must reserve (see "Showtimes" section below) for your slot to partake in the interactive portion.