2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

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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).
	A Broken World Xhale Dance Company The Xhale Dance Company is back for its third showing in the Philly Fringe Festival. The show will feature Michael Susten’s A Broken World (debuted at the Arts Bank 3/17) as well as some of Philadelphia’s most talented dancers, singers, composers, and choreographers! For more information visit www.xhaledance.com or www.youtube.com/xhaledancecompany.
	Absence/Presence Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross Come see inversions of reality in the choreography of Ellie Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross, two talented and technical female dancers and choreographers. This show combines sex, social activism, and poetry, creating an ideal experience for the intelligent dance lover as well as those who appreciate pure energetic movement.
	As Big As The World Keila Cordova Dances A basket of fruit. Crashing silverware. Four women come together for a party in this deconstruction voicing the silenced, unspoken, truthful aspects of the human heart. Keila Cordova Dances presents As Big As The World in a series of Philadelphia premieres including In REM, Chavela, and other works.
	Bang! Zoom! Pow! A Story of Broken Borders Tiffany Brooke Dow When forced to comply in a toxic environment, well-being suffers. An identity-questioning experience, life becomes a fight to prove your goodness. In this contemporary jazz and hip hop combo, you will be exposed to women in a negative web each trying to gain control of the situation and themselves.
	Black and Blue Every 9:secs Persona Zenobia Dance Ensemble Black and Blue Every 9:secs is a captivating celebration of femininity through dance, spoken word, monologues, and song, accompanied by the release of the novel Black and Blue Every Nine Seconds that inspired the signature piece. Please Note All performances for Black and Blue Every 9:secs have been cancelled.
	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.
	Celebrating the Beginning.... Finding the Purpose! Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble Join Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble as we celebrate our 5th anniversary season. Celebrate the beginning by enjoying past repertoire favorites from Zane Booker, Bill Thomas, artistic director A. C. Gilmore, and resident choreographer Shawn Lamere Williams. Find the purpose as we premiere new choreographic work by 2010 guest choreographer Meredith Rainey.
	Chrysalis Sisters' Sirens Come join Philly's newest burlesque troupe Sisters' Sirens as they become a part of the Fringe family. Their show Chrysalis mixes burlesque, trance music, film, and aerial work You won't wanna miss. Ages 21 and over.
	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.
	Elephant Kelly Bond We won't ignore you. We have a relationship. We are powerful. Sentimental. We transgress, practicing and perceiving aggression. We are you, and we are alien with all the potential to connect. Cryptic, valuable, subtle. Unaware of what is forgotten, we are patient and pliable. We are elephants, huge and hidden.
	Emergence MM2 There are numerous examples of emergence in nature. A flock of birds moving effortlessly as one or a school of fish moving together as though unified in a single thought. For dance, movement is orchestrated by underlying choreography. But what if structure is developed as a group with no single leader?
	Esther's Cavalcade of Stars Esther's Cavalcade of Stars Come join Esther’s Cavalcade of Stars in turning back the clock to an era of vaudevillian exuberance. Legs, lights, and modern dance grace the stage for your theater going pleasure. The variety show isn’t dead, folks! It was simply taking an extended powder.
	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.
	Flat Intersections Briel Driscoll, Colleen McNally, Nikki Roberts, and Tess Stumpf Exploring in exploration. Auditory collaboration. Natural pathways. Avoided mentality. Survival. Spaces of body. Between body. Around body. Confusing sensation. Mental process and physical experience. To read blog articles about this show, click here.
	Fresh Juice Mascher Dance Sip on this. Mascher Space artists-in-residence aren't afraid to make a splash! They'll serenade you with thoughtful, courageous, and innovative dance. Bring your favorite fruit and we'll squeeze it for your anxious taste buds.
	From the Inside [OUT] Between Movement Contemporay Dance Company Between Movement began its mission to present cutting-edge movement art, while bringing to the foreground controversial contemporary social issues. Every dance explores new dimensions of our diverse human struggles. But amidst the chaos, Between Movement bravely carves their own paths, yearning to reclaim our country, our futures, ourselves. Be moved.
	Goose Feathers: Nursery Rhymes for kids over 18! KineticArcitecture Esteemed photographer Alan Kolc and Burlesque & Butoh’s love-child, choreographer Rob Davidson (“His perky tutu and nipple rings did the trick,”New York Times), team for this sensual exhibition/performance. Kolc and KineticArchitecture use beloved rhymes to explore identity, acceptance, and snack time! To read blog articlse about this show, click here.
	...i learned not to kneel... and other advice from brilliant women MegLouise Dance . . . vibrantly saturated movement delivered through intimate channels with heartfelt honesty . . . dancers bend time and space as tremors ripple from their necks into their thighs, as they race like skipping stones across the stage . . . delicious, bold, and personal. fueled by the writings of ntozake shange, mary oliver, and anne sexton . . To read blog articles about this show, click here.
	I saved this for you Colleen Hooper and Liz Reynolds The evening begins with a dance performance on the sidewalk and then travels into the theater. This transition highlights the contrast between open outdoor space and protected, personal space. Inside, the work explores displacement, concepts of home, and what it means to create a place for yourself in the world.
	In Honor Of. . . . The Jessica Karrat Dance Scholarship Fund The seventh annual Jam for Jess dance performance will honor dancers who have passed away or have survived a serious illness. The show will raise money to help dancers continue their dance education and follow their dream. We will have performances ranging from ballet to hip hop.
	In White Rooms Vada Dance Collective Experience modern dance, live music, and art at Studio 34 with Vada Dance’s engaging In White Rooms. Choreographers Rebecca Moyer and Katie Kasari collaborate with local artists to create a one-of-a-kind dance performance that blends powerful imagery, stunning physicality, and mixed media in an intimate and vibrant setting.
	Japan House/Philadelphia Leah Stein Dance Company Leah Stein and percussionist Toshi Makihara take you on a dance journey through the 17th century Shofuso Japanese House and Garden in Fairmount Park. Follow the American and Japanese dancers as they incorporate the site and its Senju paintings into choreography that expresses cultural synergies through movement and sound. To read blog articles about this show, click here.
	Joint Concert Dancefusion & 360 Dance Company Dancefusion, celebrating 23 years of dance, will feature the reconstruction of Pauline Koner's legendary solo The Farewell by Janet Pilla to Gustav Mahler's The Song of the Earth.
	Life . . . thus far KAOS DAnceCo. Life...thus far. A series of effervescent movement through the stages of life, from birth and infancy through geriatrics and death. Involves an exploration of the ups and downs, the good times and the bad, the struggles and the miracles that life presents to us.
	Meld Pink Hair Affair Pink Hair Affair presents three delicious evenings inspired by the fusion of dance and other art mediums. Enjoy with an eclectic artistic appetite as the choreographers blend their talents with painters, graphic designers, musicians, and actors to cook up fresh entrées in Philadelphia’s melting pot of creativity.
	NEWances Artistry Dance Company & coEXISTdance NEWances: Small, essential particles of detail. Dispersed! Beautiful intricacies bounce amongst coEXISTdance and Artistry Dance Company as they soar into the Philadelphia dance scene. NEWances twists and teeters along themes of change and the influence of time, past and present. Glance. Snap. Slide. Peel. Come discover.
	Pastforward Kim Portis Pastforward puts you right in the middle of a high school reunion in all its awkward glory. Come for the party and stay to watch the humor, grace, and honesty of Kim Portis's choreography in this dance theater piece made for geeks and prom queens and alike. *Please Note* All performances for Pastforward have been canceled
	Phase II Dangerous and Movin' Dance Company dAm, a Philadelphia-based contemporary dance company, is back with the premiere of Phase II. Humans are quite the destructive kind, and like glass, once cracked they will eventually break. Your security has been breached, and the quarantine has begun. Now, initiate Phase II.
	Picking Up Pieces Abby Shunskis We're exploring the moment when you're facing the next step, reliving the journey, and asking what's next. We take pieces of our lives, good and bad, and see how they fit as we learn to accept inevitable changes. Never losing who we were, but adding to who we will be.
	Questioning Drive Project ALT Circus artists and dancers Christine Morano and Erica Saben (The Give and Take Jugglers) display a series of works in progress exploring the motivation behind movement. Questioning what makes a skill an art form or simply a trick, this show merges traditional objects with nontraditional movement vocabularies on the ground and in the air.
	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.
	SCORCH Scorch The ladies who brought SimpLaFire (2009) present a show that literally sets the stage on fire! Top avant-garde female artists and musicians integrate fire with dance, acrobatics, flow-arts, and sculptures to create a mind-blowing multisensory experience.
	Source Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company Four dancers soaked in water meet the decaying space of a historic 1900s power plant. Tori Lawrence has choreographed a distinct piece that explores the deep connections between water and movement. Source reveals the mysterious, unspoken bond shared among four women through a poetic language of movement, film, costume, and space.
	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.
	the evolution of this moment Stuff of Us Do you ever wonder what brought you to this moment? How you discovered the best way to tie your shoes? When that shirt became your favorite? We do. Join us as we use movement and film to capture the essence of the moments that have shaped us.
	"The Initiative" plus excerpts from “Nightmare Returns" pillardance company pillardance company presents The Initiative, a music-driven collection of works with refreshing choreography and some killer dancing. Soundtrack by Slipknot, Fiona Apple, and Tom Gabel, among others. Also presenting excerpts from Nightmare Returns, our abnormal and eerie upcoming holiday show based on The Nightmare Before Christmas.
	The Requisite Movers FlyGround/Brownbody Join Deneane Richburg and FlyGround’s Lela Aisha Jones on a movement excursion. FlyGround’s Street Grace dissects and merges TransAfro movement cultures in the US and beyond, while lusciously smearing in contemporary modern movement experiences of release. Richburg examines the act of moving above, beneath, through, and at times despite opposing socio-cultural currents.
	Unraveling the Lace Blind Faith Project and Maria Urrutia Unraveling the Lace illuminates women and their battles with societal oppression in the early 1900s. Movement metaphors are used to explore picketing, persecution, and the marital meat market. Two distinct works produced by Blind Faith Project’s artistic directors Tiffany Delio and Daniela Galdi and independent artist Maria Urrutia.