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| Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia Live Arts
Bang on a Can
Ten hours of nonstop music at the World Café Live.
Buy one ticket and come and go all day long to this glorious collision of musical styles by today's most adventurous players and composers—from around the globe and around the corner. As artistically inclusive as it is audience-friendly, the Marathon is a wild gathering of genres, styles, innovation, and radically new sounds, delivered as one open mega-concert.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Release: Vijay Iyer Live Live Arts
Vijay Iyer
“Pianist Vijay Iyer['s] keyboard prowess and epic vision place him in a category by himself among jazz soloists.”
Chicago Tribune
Live Arts and the Eastern State Penitentiary co-present a concert by jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer. Iyer will play in conjunction with the ongoing film installation Release, for which Iyer composed the music.
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| Stew and The Negro Problem Live Arts
Stew
Led by Stew and Obie award-winning Heidi Rodewald, this Afro Baroque cabaret ensemble is coveted for their literate precision, sly humor, and deep emotional resonance, hovering between the divergent worlds of rock and theater.
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