performance archives
2012
Friday-Saturday*, May 4 & 5 at 8pm; Sunday, May 6 at
3pm
*reception to follow Saturday's performance
Tickets:
$15
www.headlong.org, 215.545.9195
Desire, a new show performed by the three Co-Directors of Headlong Dance Theater, and directed by K. Elizabeth Stevens, revolves around the dreamy, tender and sometimes heartbreaking impulses of a group of people inventing their own society; a group of lost souls trying “to make their community more so.”
Friday & Saturday, April 27 & 28 at 8pm
Ekilibre Dance Company will present two performances of the evening length work rrrojo,with the participation of dancers from the Dance Division of Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. A sensual work for eight dancers with original music by Maurice Fraga, rrrojo is an investigation about what the color red can mean to us: passion and loathing to flirtation and seduction. Included in the program will be the duet Vicky and Marty which was just premiered in New York City this past January. These performances represent the premiere of Ekilibre Dance Company in Pennsylvania.
Tickets: $15 at the door; $12 in advance;
$10 students/seniors
Purchase your tickets at www.ekilibre.info/Information.html
email ● info@ekilibre.info; phone ● 540.542.6539
Ekilibre Dance Company is a sponsered project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Friday, April 20 at 8pm, Saturday, April 21 at 6 & 8pm
The inaugural season of Roger Lee Dance kicks off with three performances here at the Performance Garage! The performances combine contemporary jazz dance with soul music to create a memorable, uplifting and entertaining experience for audiences of all ages. Roger Lee Dance premieres 5 new dance works featuring original music from Danny Horowitz, familiar soul classics and a gospel medley in honor of the late Whitney Houston. Click here for tickets.
Tuesday & Wednesday, April 17 & 18
Jeanne Ruddy Dance Performance Garage is proud to host the 4th annual Philadelphia Dance Showcase, which highlights the diverse range of dance being produced in Philadelphia. Philadelphia-based artists and companies are invited to perform work for local, national, and international presenters. The Showcase is a program of Dance USA/Philadelphia.
2012 Participating Artists: Pasión y Arte, Eleone Dance Theatre, Brian Sander's
Junk, MacArthur Dance Project,
illstyle and Peace
Productions, <fidget>, Olive Prince Dance,
Meg Foley/Moving Parts, Group Motion, Merián Soto Performance Practice, Da·Da·Dance Projects, Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble, anonymous bodies, Carbon
Dance Theatre, Movement
Brigade, Headlong Dance Theater, Rennie Harris RHAW, Megan Mazarick, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Miller+Rothlein, Koresh Dance Company, Nichole Canuso Dance Company
Friday, April 6, 7pm
The Wire Monkey
A Musical about Hope and TRANSformation
Book and Lyrics by Luke Allen
Choreography by Chantel Price-Brown
Tickets available in advance or at the door
$15.00 (Cash only)
Call 267-250-4449
Thursdays, March 22 & 29, 7:30pm
Fridays & Saturdays, March 23-24 & 30-31, 8pm
Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective will be presenting six evenings of Dance/Theater entitled Reflexions. Works will reflect outreach IPDC has done in Haiti, North Philly and New Orleans with children traumatized by natural and/or socio-economic disasters. Featuring new work from Stephen Welsh/Swerve, Charles Tyson’s Underground Danceworks, Monster Squad and several independent choreographers.
EXCITING UPDATES!!! *Special Guest Artists* Michael T. Roberts, Eisa Jackson of Underground DanceWorks, Itola Byrd, and SHARP Dance Company (featuring work by Kevin Ferguson of Doug Elkins Dance Company) The excitement just keeps building and building...don't miss this show!!!
Tickets: $20 at the door; $15 advance; $10 students/seniors
Order tickets online at www.danceboxoffice.com
Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective is a New Stages for Dance
recipient. The Performance Garage is a partnering venue in Dance/USA
Philadelphia's New Stages for Dance Initiative. Leadership support for the New
Stages for Dance Initiative is provided by MetLife Foundation.
Friday-Saturday, March 16-17, 8pm
Artistic Director Gail Vartanian of ContempraDance Theatre and Artistic Director Scott Park of Dangerous And Movin' Dance Company present an evening of eclectic dance. Each company will premiere riveting new dance works choreographed by the Artistic Directors. You will be mesmerized with an evening of exuberant choreography.
Tickets:
Adults $20 - Children $15 - Students $15 with ID
For more information call: 610.225.3007
e-mail: info@contempradance.com
or visit: www.contempradancetheatre.org
Order tickets online at: www.danceboxoffice.com
Thursday-Sunday, March 8-11, 7:30pm (Sunday at
2pm)
PDP Presents 2012:
LEAH STEIN DANCE
COMPANY’s 10th Anniversary in performance with
Poet Josey
Foo, Musician Toshi Makihara and other special guests.
tickets: $15-$25, available at www.danceboxoffice.com.
Information/Reservations:
215.546.2552.
Dancer/Choreographer LEAH STEIN has directed her
company for 10 years and been performing in the Philadelphia region, nationally
and internationally since the late-80’s. Stein will celebrate this milestone by
reprising solos, duets and small group works featuring present and past company
members and other artistic collaborators.
http://www.leahsteindance.org/
http://philadanceprojects.org
"Movement so satisfying on a moment-to-moment basis... the kind of work that
repays repeated viewing". - Phila. City Paper
"Intuitive, inventive, and
enticing," her dances "unfold like a free verse, ...with an underlying sense of
unity" - Dance Magazine
Leah Stein Dance Company is a New Stages for Dance
recipient. The Performance Garage is a partnering venue in Dance/USA
Philadelphia's New Stages for Dance Initiative. Leadership support for the New
Stages for Dance Initiative is provided by MetLife Foundation.
Saturday, March 3, 7:30pm
Alchemy Dance Company Fundraiser Performance
Tickets:$10 in advance through danceboxoffice.com
or $15 cash only at the door
Dance, Raffle, Prizes!
Alchemy's Fundraiser Performance will feature current and prior works by ADC in addition to presenting dance from other local artists including InMotion Dance Company, MM2 Dance Company, Kristin Narcowich, Putty Dance Project, and Jessica C. Warchal-King!
www.alchemydance.org, info@alchemydance.org
Saturday, February 18, 7:30pm
Philadelphia Dance Projects Dance Up Close 2012
Faye Driscoll
Informance: performance/video/artist/audience conversation,
curated by choreographer, Meg Foley
Tickets: $15-$25 available on-line at www.danceboxoffice.com
Info/Reservations: 215.546.2552, www.philadanceprojects.org
Experience contemporary dance up close with PDP. Explore the trends and insights into the heart and mind of one of today’s most adventuresome choreographers, Faye Driscoll (New York). Faye Driscoll, originally from Venice Beach, CA, was hailed as "1 of 25 to watch out for in ‘08," by Dance Magazine. Her second evening length work 837 VENICE BOULEVARD was named "one of the top five dance shows of the year" by the New York Times and received a 2009 NY Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award. (www.fayedriscoll.com) “Ms. Driscoll is fascinating in that she makes such utterly original work. It doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.” - New York Times
Children of Rwanda
A showing of photographs by Jano Cohen
Joined by Rebecca Davis
Friday, February 17, 7:30-9:30pm
FREE, wine and cheese reception
Donations will be accepted payable to Rebecca Davis Dance Company to pay school tuition for children in Rwanda. RSVP’s are appreciated but not required. Call Jano at 610-639-3356 or email janocohen@gmail.com. janocohenphotography.com, www.rebeccadavisdance.com.
Tickets available online at http://www.showclix.com/event/75044 or at the door.
Sunday, January 29, 8pm
In Performance:
New Works by the SHMD 2011-12 Choreographers Project
Bronwen MacArthur ~ Gabrielle Revlock ~ Raphael Xavier
Tickets: $15; $10 for DancePass holders, seniors and students with ID
Influenced by the 48 Hour Film and Theater Projects, "48 Hours" at SHMD was adapted to the Choreographers Project by alumna Devynn Emory to challenge residents to explore new ways of creating dance. Each choreographer assembles a "mission package" – a specific set of directions for a short work – to be created over 48 hours. By random drawing, each choreographer then chooses two other residents to create and present the work. Choreographers do not perform their own mission packages. The experiment pushes the residents to confront and explore specific boundaries guided by their own artistic visions.
For more info or tickets contact: Susan Hess Modern Dance
215-275-1800, hessdance@aol.com, or www.hessdance.org
2011
Work(s) on View2:
Friday, December 9, 5pm
Two weeks of master classes with Peggy Baker culminates with Work(s) on View2, an informal showing of choreographic sketches by Peggy Baker and performed by Bethany Formica, Greg Holt and Shannon Murphy. This showing is free of charge. Please RSVP by phoning Dance Advance at 267-350-4970.
Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2011 - Gabrielle Revlock and Lionel Popkin on a shared program.
Friday, November 18 - 7:30pm
Saturday, November 19 - 2:00pm & 7:30pm
Tickets:
$15
For more info, click here.
Gabrielle Revlock’s “SHARE” is one droll take on a contemporary generation’s obsession with sharing personal biography and its impediments to intimacy. Through highly original dance moves, pattern, set and musical score, Revlock has created a dance/performance work of refreshing delight performed by Revlock, Gregory Holt and Bonnie Friel.
Set around an enormous elephant costume, Lionel Popkin’s quartet “There Is An Elephant In This Dance” looks at issues of how a singular body can house multiple histories and the difficulty of aligning oneself with a single cultural identity. Choreographer/performer Lionel Popkin, will be joined by “Bessie” Award winning dancer Carolyn Hall and the inimitable Ishmael Houston-Jones, all slyly interrupted by a local guest dancer Zornitsa Stoyanova, set to an original score by Robert Een. See a review here.
Work(s) on View: Interior Drama (1977) and Melody Excerpt (1977)
Friday, November 11,
5pm
Choreographed by Lucinda Childs. Restaged by Lucinda Childs
and Ty Boomershine. 1977: a year of some minimal importance in New York City. Introductory comments by dance writer and critic Marcia B. Siegel, who will also guide post-performance conversation. Performed by Megan Bridge, Marie Brown, Bethany Formica, Nora Gibson and Annie Wilson.
Work(s) on View is sponsored as a professional development activity by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. For more info, click here.
Carbon Dance Theatre presents Swan Songs
Thursday, October 27, 7:00PM
Friday, October 28 & Saturday, October 29, 7:30PM
Saturday, October 29 & Sunday, October 30, 3:00PM
Meredith Rainey's Carbon Dance Theatre presents 3 original works by Meredith Rainey, Matthew Neenan and Kate Watson-Wallace. Set to the last songs of classical and contemporary music artists such as Richard Strauss, Nick Drake, Amy Winehouse and Franz Schubert that explore memory and mortality through dance. The evening will also include the company premiere of Meredith Rainey's Through the Wake.
Tickets: $25, $20 Senior-62 & older, $15 Dance Pass holder/Student w/ID. To purchase, click here.
SHARP Dance Company presents Armilla
Friday October 21, 8pm (Q&A following performance)
Saturday October 22, 8pm (Reception following performance)
Sunday October 23, 3pm
Tickets available at: www.sharpdance.org
$25 Adults, $20 Senior/Dance Pass holder/Student w/ID
SHARP Dance Company is a nine member modern dance company which starts off its’ sixth season with new and exciting collaborative work from Guest Choreographer Steven Vaughn of Parsons Dance Company, Projection Artist Lauren Mandilian and Artistic Director Diane Sharp-Nachsin. In Armilla SHARP will premiere four new works including the multi-media premiere of Madness. SHARP will also be saying farewell to original company member Patrick Korstange in his retirement piece Everyday Boy.
Mascher's Fresh Juice and The Requisite Movers
Thursday, October 13 & Saturday, October 15, 8pm
Mascher's Fresh Juice -
Nicole Bindler & Gabrielle Revlock,
Gregory Holt,
Lawrence-Herchenroether Dance Company
Friday, October 14, 8pm & Sunday, October 16, 7pm
The Requisite Movers -
Saroya Corbett,
Lela Aisha Jones & FlyGround,
Deneane Richburg & Brownbody,
Dina-Verley Sabb-Mills
Saturday, October 15, 3pm
Mixer Matinee: Small parts of Big dances
FlyGround, Gregory Holt, LH Dance Co., & Brownbody
Tickets, for more info/reserve, click here:
$22 - Attend 2 separate performances of different titles
$15 - General Admission
$12 - Children 8 & over, Dance Pass, Seniors, Students
Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2011, Carbon Dance Theatre, SHARP Dance Company and Mascher's Fresh Juice/The Requisite Movers are all New Stages for Dance recipients. The Performance
Garage is a partnering venue in Dance/USA Philadelphia's New Stages for Dance
Initiative. Leadership support for the New Stages for Dance Initiative is
provided by MetLife Foundation.
The Blind Faith Project Dance Company presents Time
Saturday, October 8, 8:00pm
Tickets: $15, reserve at BlindFaithProject@hotmail.com
Choreographers Tiffany Delio and Daniela Galdi of The Blind Faith Project present Time, a compilation of choreography encompassing American history and reflections of life stages.
Opening the show with last year’s sold out Philly Fringe piece; The First Wave illuminates women during the Suffrage movement in the early 1900s with movement metaphors put to song genres such as folk, jazz and trip-hop music, to signify picketing, persecution and the fight for political equality.
A premiere of their newest work, The Chair Theory, will make its debut at the show. In this piece, the choreographers experiment with a reversal of the individual life span separated into stages that serve as significant memories in life. See poster here.
PDP Presents Motion Pictures
Wednesday, October 5, 6:30pm & 8:00pm
Thursday, October 6, 6:30pm & 8:00pm
Tickets:
$10, $15 for both shows on Wed. or Thurs.
Tickets online at www.DanceBoxOffice.com
For info/reserve: 215.546.2552 or info@philadanceprojects.org
Intermission between programs each night will include free popcorn and drinks, our latest You-Tube faves and a Special Video Installation by Kathy Rose.
Wednesday, October 5 at 6:30PM
BREATH MADE VISIBLE* is an insightful documentary into the life and career of Anna Halprin, the groundbreaking dance pioneer, who at 90 years old is still breaking new barriers. GROUP MOTION/FRIDAY NIGHT is a charming and straightforward documentary of Group Motion’s Friday Night Workshop that has been in session for over 35 years!
Wednesday, October 5 at 8PM
The Making of “Tango Macbeth” - A PDP Informance with filmmaker Nadine Patterson, composer Lenny Seidman and choreographer Zane Booker. Excerpts and discussion about the new work in which a documentary film crew follows the creation of a new dance theater film piece, Tango Macbeth.
Thursday, October 6 at 6:30PM
SHORTS FEST features playful, place-based and layered works revealing the draw of dance to video, by videographers from Ireland, Canada, and the US including Philly locals Alex Tyson, Liz Goldberg and Kathy Rose.
Thursday, October 6 at 8 PM
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime in Dance. As the Merce Cunningham Company will disband at the end of this year, PDP invites everyone to revisit Charles Atlas’ beautiful and biographical portrait of Cunningham and his company over the years.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST)
Saturday & Sunday, October 1 & 2, 2011, 12-6PM
The Performance Garage is excited to be a community partner during POST as a part of the Fairmount Artist Network (FAN)! Get the inside scoop to the creative process of various local dance artists including:
Alchemy Dance Company
Xhale Dance Company
Kulu Mele African Dance and Drum Ensemble
SHARP Dance Company
Tangle Movement Arts
Bronwen MacArthur
Lela Aisha Jones
LOVE Arts
There will also be dance photography by Bill Hebert and Brian Mengini. Come check it out!
Philly Fringe at The Performance
Garage
For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at 215-413-1318
or visit www.livearts-fringe.org.
Philly Fringe-Infatuation Dance Company
presents:
Inescapable
Foreboding
Friday, September 2, 2011 at 7:30PM
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at
7:30PM
Tickets: $10
Those who experience Inescapable Foreboding leave realizing they aren’t alone in their thoughts and emotions. From pop to industrial, from hip hop to classical, Michael Jackson meets Marilyn Manson in a raw and ambitious retrospective. Original music compositions and editing by Kenneth Brown showcase collaborative work with the choreographer and dancers. With athleticism and force these ladies take over speaking their minds to be overwhelmingly desired with unspeakable truths. Check out the trailer: http://youtu.be/qdOJTj6nWD8
Philly Fringe-The Maeko Film Project presents:
Whiskey & Elephants
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 5:00 & 7:00PM
Monday, September 5, 2011
at 7:00PM
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 at 7:00pm
Tickets: $12
Combining film and movement, The Maeko Film Project presents a surreal journey through the darker crevices of the self, putting into light the illusions we create and dwell in. What are these silly lies we've been told and tell ourselves? http://maekofilmproject.com/
Philly Fringe-RenZoku DanceWorks presents:
Philly Phantasy
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:00PM
Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 3:30
& 8:00PM
Tickets: $12
Join Guy and his friends as he fights to save the world and defeat the darkness in his heart. Set as a tribute to the popular video game series Final Fantasy, Philly Phantasy follows the journey of seven dynamic characters as they get hooked in this epic tango of destiny.
Philly Phantasy is a New Stages for Dance recipient. The Performance
Garage is a partnering venue in Dance/USA Philadelphia's New Stages for Dance
Initiative. Leadership support for the New Stages for Dance Initiative is
provided by MetLife Foundation.
Philly Fringe-Hope Dances presents:
Show of Hope
Sunday, September 11, 2011 at
1pm & 5pm
Tickets: $15
Show of Hope is a show featuring a variety of different dance acts performing in solidarity for HOPE.
Featured guest artists include: Mindy Anne Kendi, Chesco Dance, Mixturez
Modern Dance, JovoDance, Monster Squad,
First Position
All proceeds benefit Hope Dances, a dance outreach program for special needs children.
Philly Fringe-Xhale Dance Company presents:
Underneath the Surface
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 8:00PM
Tickets: $20, $15 for Students
Underneath the Surface shows the different paths one may choose while exploring the things that affect the directions in which we move. The show will also include some of Philadelphia's most talented singers.
Philly Fringe-Smokey Scout Productions presents:
Deer Head
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 7:00PM
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 7:00PM
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 7:00PM
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:00PM
Tickets: $15
From the creators of Boat Hole (named one of 2010’s “10 Essentials at the Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe” by Philly Weekly) come 14 more outlandish short plays seamlessly staged into one evening of smart, edgy, and completely outrageous humor. And you don’t want to miss the tomato.
DDL Dance Works presents:
Blossom! An Evening of Work in Progress
Saturday, July 30, 8pm
FREE ADMISSION!!!
Please join us for a FREE evening of new dances by:
Ellen Gerdes
Jessica Warchal-King
Lora Allen
Kristin Narcowich
Mira Treatman
Darcy Lyons
Blossom! provides Philadelphia based dance artists with an opportunity to show new work and get feedback. Each choreographer will ask two questions of the audience about their current work. The audience has the option to answer anonymously, and the feedback will be returned to each artist following the show. Blossom! aims to emphasize the importance of artistic process, feedback, and community.
About the Curator: Darcy Lyons was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She studied ballet and modern dance extensively with the faculty of Moving People Dance Theatre. She received a B.F.A in dance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in May 2010. She choreographed nine dance works, several dance films, and a dance installation prior to graduation. She recently relocated to Philadelphia and started her own dance company, DDL Dance Works.
MM2 Modern Dance
Company presents
ONE
WORD
Saturday, July 16, 8:00pm
Tickets:$10
purchase online on DanceBoxOffice.com,
$12 at the door, day of
performance.
SPECIAL OFFER: Save an
additional 20% Off General
Admission when buying online. Enter
COUPON CODE: mm2
8 Choreographers, 8 Dancers,
One Word
From the very beginning when the first words were uttered, the ability to
communicate has played an important role in our world. Whether within our own
thoughts, spoken or written, words have the power to transform the
world we live in. Love, laughter, heroism, friendship, and virtually
every emotion we feel as human beings can be inspired by words.
Unfortunately, fear, anger, and hatred, can also be invoked. Language is
at its best when used to inspire others to find the best in
themselves. For this performance, 8 choreographers and 8 dancers create new movement based on a single word with the power to transform.
Thursday and Friday, June 23 & 24
The Philly Tap Challenge is dedicated to keeping Philadephia's tap dance community alive and vibrant. We hope you will join us.
Thursday, June 23, 8pm
Cost: $15 suggested donation, or pay what you can.
Info: pamelamh4@gmail.com or phillytapchallenge.webs.com
The Philly Tap Challenge is opening up with a TAP JAM, where improvisations meet and thrive. Experiencing a tap jam is akin to Jazz music lovers enjoying the nite out. Killer live music by the Francois Zayas trio. You never know who will come through to the jam! Some surprise tap guests will be there - (hint, one of them has a tap shoe named after him). SO DON’T MISS IT!
Friday, June 24, 7:30pm
Cost: $15
Info: newleja@yahoo.com or phillytapchallenge.webs.com
Come experience the Amateur Showcase, featuring YOU the Tap Dancing Community and the Philly TAP Idol dance battle. The Amateur Showcase is
an opportunity for all levels of tap dancers to perform on stage in front
of a live audience and share, even experiment or preview choreographic
works. The Philly Tap Idol 'Challenge’ Competition (the audience chooses
winners) takes place during this Showcase.
Saturday and Sunday, June 11 & 12, 8pm
Tickets $15 ($10 - DancePass, seniors and students with ID) Conversations with the audience follow the performance.
IN PERFORMANCE
THE SHMD CHOREOGRAPHERS PROJECT 2010-2011
Bronwen MacArthur,
Gabrielle Revlock,
Raphael Xavier
Resident choreographers Bronwen MacArthur, Gabrielle Revlock and Raphael Xavier bring their latest work to the Performance Garage after an exciting spring of artistic development. In March, the residents worked with Guggenheim Award-winning performance artist Ralph Lemon in a three-day Masters Exchange work session that challenged their concepts of boundaries and risks. May saw all three residents presenting in the Dance Affiliates/Joyce Theater Foundation A.W.A.R.D. Show, where Gabrielle was chosen as a runner-up with her piece “I Made This for You.”
For more info or tickets contact:
Susan Hess Modern Dance
508 Spruce
Street, Phila. PA 19106
215-275-1800, hessdance@aol.com
http://hessdance.org/in-performance/
Thurs.-Sat., May 19, 20 & 21, 8pm
Sun., May 22, 2pm
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com, group rates available
or visit www.gjruggieroproductions.org
For info call: 215-598-3727
G.J. Ruggiero presents:
The Servant of Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni
A comic masterpiece of commedia d'ell arte theatre, its rollicking plot and stunning characterizations has thrilled and kept audiences laughing since its 1753 premiere in Venice.
Saturday, April 23, 8pm, $10
Barre Boys Presents: Happy Hour - An evening of Men in Dance!
For info: 484-744-7436, www.barreboys.com.
Tickets are on sale now online: www.danceboxoffice.com
Barre Boys will present an evening of men in dance! The evening will feature a variety of artists performing ballet and contemporary work! In addition to the performances, the evening will include an exhibit of images from the Barre Boys work! Also, there will be raffle/auction items and more! All proceeds go to Hope Dances, a dance outreach program for special needs children! Please join us for this extraordinary event!!! Artists include: Ja' Malik, Charles Tyson, Jr., Alex Crozier Jackson (solo choreographed by Christopher Fleming), Andrew Pap, Eng Matthews, Tommie-Waheed Evans, X-Hale Dance Co.
Monday and Tuesday, April 18 & 19
Jeanne Ruddy Dance Performance Garage is proud to host the third annual Philadelphia Dance Showcase, which highlights the diverse range of dance being produced in Philadelphia. Philadelphia-based artists and companies are invited to perform work for local, national, and international presenters. The Showcase is a program of Dance USA/Philadelphia.
2011 Participating Artists: Anne-Marie Mulgrew and Dancers, anonymous bodies, Da·Da·Dance Projects, Danse4Nia, Eleone Dance Theatre, <fidget>, Group Motion Dance Company, IdiosynCrazy Productions, Illstyle & Peace Productions, Jeanne Ruddy Dance, JUNK, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Leah Stein Dance Company, Merián Soto/Performance Practice, Olive Prince Dance, Pasión y Arte, SCRAP, Workshop for Potential Movement
Saturday, April 16, 7pm
$15 in advance, $20 at the door
Incite Artistry! presents "Our Movement... Our Way"
Incite Artistry! is a group of fabulous women who collaborated on pioneering a new dance collective in the Philadelphia area. Join us for our debut showcase called “Our Movement... Our Way” which will include new work choreographed and performed by the ladies of Incite Artistry!, as well as a special guest performance by the youth of the Dance Institute of Philadelphia (http://www.dip5900.com), vocal stylings of Amber Fisher-Brown and hosted by special guest Misia Denea (dancer, choreographer, spoken-word artist). Flyer attached... Hope to see you!
Friday and Saturday, April 8 & 9, 7pm, $15, students $12
-Collect all 9 character postcards circulating the city & receive $3 off
-Donate your Facebook status to promoting our show, bring proof & receive $2 off
For more info: www.choreosplatdanceworks.com
Choreosplat Dance Works premieres “What’s Been Done,” a gothic ghost story written by Artistic Director Kelly Turner. One realm, nine souls, and two great nights of an original fairytale. Come see five ghosts and a few additional other-worldly characters struggle to transcend as they dance without legs. The dancers who portray these tortured souls create strange and terrifying images as they writhe within the confines of their elaborate costumes. Choreosplat offers the audience a visceral, unique and highly visual experience as they are taken through a post modern twist on classic fairytales, where one constantly has to wonder… is this character a villain or a victim? See Dance Journal article.
Thursday through Saturday, March 24-26 and March 31-April 2, 8pm
General Admission $20, Dance Pass/Students $10, Group Specials $5. For reservations: 215-908-2550
Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective Presents:
Double Dance Feature
Curt Haworth's "Either/Or" and Vince Johnson/illReality Theatre's "Drunken Monkey"
Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective’s upcoming show, featuring the work of Curt Haworth and Vince Johnson/illReality Theatre, is a mesmerizing experience of dynamic dance and eclectic music played through a milieu of existential twist and absurdist trips.
"Either/Or" is an absurdist romp set to deconstructed text by Søren Kierkegaard and Samuel Beckett with music by Tim Motzer. The performers Bethany Bender, Leanne Grieger, John Luna, William Robinson, Annie Wilson, Zachery Svoboda along with the Indigenous Pitch Dance Collective: Genevieve Adams, Rachel Condello, Amaryah Ferry, Christine Herrman, move with athleticism mixed with sequential momentum and gesture.
"Drunken Monkey" is the mystically wicked alter ego of Vince Johnson and the illReality theatre crew. Five nomadic warrior monks make up the Drunken Monkey Clan: Knuggle Buckets Brown (Vince Johnson), Meow Hallelujah (Christine Gerena), Suave Electricity (Edwin Lopez), and the Mmm Yeah Dragon Whisperers (Brandon Shockley/guitar and Nezih Antakli/percussion). The clan takes audiences through a fantastical journey driven by pulsing dance, martial arts and music.
Double Dance Feature has received funding from the New Stages for Dance Initiative. The Performance Garage is a Partner in the New Stages for Dance Initiative, a program of Dance/USA Philadelphia. Leadership support for New Stages for Dance is provided by MetLife Foundation.
Saturday, March 5, 7pm, $20
Urban Fusion
Featuring Tournado Dance Company and The Training Company of Grace
A Dancing With Friends Production
Dancing With Friends was founded 20 years ago under the direction of Charles Wong and Marilynn T. Holmes. Their mission is to provide young talented dancers with a venue to showcase and share their skills, and to foster a deeper love and understanding of the Art of Dance as a form of human expression.
Saturday, February 26, 7:30pm, $10
Just Dance! presents:
Our History Celebration! From Slavery to Now
Just Dance! is an exciting, versatile, community-based dance company. This performance is sure to have something to please everyone. For more info or tickets: 267-515-8058, Just_dance2k7@yahoo.com.
January 7
Jeanne Ruddy Dance, APAP Showcase 2011
Open Showing w/costumes: 6:00
pm
$10 door fee
Significant Soil (second movement)
LARK (fourth movement)
2010
In Performance: 48 Hours
New Works by the SHMD 2010-11 Choreographers Project
Bronwen MacArthur ~ Gabrielle Revlock ~ Raphael Xavier
December 11 and 12, 7:30 p.m., at the Performance Garage
Tickets: $15 for adults; $10 for DancePass holders, senior citizens, and students with ID
Influenced by the 48 Hour Film and Theater Projects, "48 Hours" at SHMD was adapted to the Choreographers Project by alumna Devynn Emory to challenge residents to explore new ways of creating dance. Each choreographer assembles a "mission package" – a specific set of directions for a short work – to be created over 48 hours. By random drawing, each choreographer then chooses two other residents to create and present the work. Choreographers do not perform their own mission packages. The experiment pushes the residents to confront and explore specific boundaries guided by their own artistic visions.
For more info or tickets contact:
Susan Hess Modern Dance
508 Spruce Street, Phila. PA 19106
215-275-1800, hessdance@aol.com
www.hessdance.org
In Performance flyer
Alchemy Dance Company Performance
Fundraiser
December 4th, 8pm
Alchemy Dance Company will host a performance fundraiser featuring an eclectic blend of jazz, modern, and contemporary dance styles along with raffles and prizes. Don't miss a chance to win a generous gift certificate to Koresh School of Dance or special Alchemy merchandise!
All proceeds support Alchemy's current season and
programs.
Tickets are $10 and are available in advance via www.danceboxoffice.com.
Ticket sales at the door will be cash only.
Fourth Wall Arts Salon
Saturday, November 27th, 7pm
$15
Each month, the Fourth Wall Arts Salon provides a rich program of Fine Art, Music, Dance, Theatre, Poetry and Topical Lectures on Art and Culture to arts patrons and enthusiasts. Philadelphia artists and intellectuals of high caliber are asked to present or perform their work. They gain exposure to an ever broadening community of colleagues and progessionals, and in turn these communities are entertained, enriched and educated by their experience.
The last Salon of 2010 will feature Salon Host (and Philadelphia phenomenon) 'Just Greg' Corbin - founder of SpokenSoul215 and the Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement, Chana Rothman, Def Poetry Jam poet Black Ice, visual artist Theodore Harris, soul vocalist Rahnda Rize, a special presentation featuring Germaine Ingram, Bobby Zankel and John Dowell in "Riffing on the President's House", house band Jimmy Crack Corn (killin' it as always), and DJ Supreme will be in the house spinning. If you're around, not to be missed!
NEW TIMES: Doors open 7pm :: Arts Program 7:30pm sharp :: Artists Reception (food & open bar) 9-10pm
Click http://fourthwallarts.ticketleap.com/novembersalon/#/ for TICKETS ...this event will sell out.
November 4-5, 2010
Jeanne Ruddy Dance will host a two-night Fall Season at the Performance Garage on . . . more info
Friday October 22nd and Saturday October 23rd at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday October 24th at 3:00 p.m.
SHARP Dance Company presents "REVELATION"
Tickets, $20;
$15 for dancepass holders/students w ID/seniors
Addictive and thought provoking, SHARP Dance Company’s ten dancers will premiere five new pieces including the full length “Blind Faith” with co-choreographer and Parsons Dance Company member, Steven Vaughn. SHARP brings its addictive kinetic energy and collaborations with guest choreographer Kevin Ferguson and composer Jason Andrew for two intriguing new pieces. Come enjoy a night of SHARP’s “Meaning Behind Movement.” Photo: Ed Flores.
Tickets available at www.danceboxoffice.com.
Phone for info: 215-880-2306.
www.sharpdance.org
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance in association with the Dance Program of Sarah Lawrence College and choreographer Lucinda Childs presents at the Performance Garage:
more info . . . (opens in a new page)
Monday, October 18,
7:00 pm FREE
Radial Courses (1976)
Choreographed by Lucinda Childs
Revival & Reconstruction Directed by Keith Sabado
Lighting Design by Beverly Emmons
Program introduced by Suzanne Carbonneau
Post-performance discussion with Lucinda Childs and Keith Sabado
Monday October 18–Friday October 22,2010
10:30 am–12:30
pm, FREE
Master Classes with dance artist Ty Boomershine
Monday at Live Arts Studio,
Tuesday-F riday at Performance Garage
Please call 267-350-4975 to register. http://www.pcah.us/dance/Friday October 22, 4:00 pm, free
Open Showing & Dialogue, Interior Drama (1977)
Workshop participants led by Lucinda Childs and Ty Boomershine
October 1, Friday, and October 2, Saturday,
at 7:00 p.m.Just Dance! presents “A Celebration in Dance”
Tickets, $15
Just Dance! an exciting, versatile, community based dance company will be celebrating 21 years of dance. This performance is sure to have something to please everyone. For more info or tickets: 267-515-8058, Just_dance2k7@yahoo.com
Philly Fringe at The Performance Garage
For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at 215-413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org.
Philly Fringe-Flat Intersections presented by Briel Driscoll,
Colleen McNally, Tess Stumpf and Nikki Roberts
September 3, 2010, Friday at 7:30pm.
September 4, 2010, Saturday at 7:30pm
more info - contact Tess Stumpf at stumpf@temple.edu.
Philly Fringe-The Initiative presented by pillardance company
September 5, Sunday, at 5:00pm
September 6, Monday at 7:00pm
more info, contact Courtney Colon at pillardance@yahoo.com or www.pillardance.webs.com.
Philly Fringe-Dirty Dozen by The Field/Philadelphia
September 7, 2010, Tuesday at 7:30
September 10, 2010, Friday at 7:30pm.
more info, contact Kali Colton, The Field/Philadelphia Co-Director, at 215-468-8948 or thefieldPhila@gmail.com.
Philly Fringe-This Art Burning by composer Ellen Fishman-Johnson and poet Michael Heller
September 11, 2010, Saturday, at 7:30pm
September 12, 2010, Sunday, at 4:00pm.
Philly Fringe-Boat Hole presented by Josh McIlvain
September 15-18, 2010, Wednesday to Saturday, at 7:00pm.
Triple Threat Workshops
May 8, 2010: Saturday: 10:00am-1:00pm (ages 3-7)
June 12, 2010, Saturday: 11:00am-2:00pm (ages 8-10)
June 26, 2010, Saturday: 11:00pm-2:00pm (ages 11-13)
Melanie Briggs Casting in Philadelphia is offering non-profit workshops for children designed to combine all aspects of performing.
Workshops include:
one hour audition technique lesson on camera
one hour dance lesson and one hour voice lesson
For more information: phone: 267-886-8110
visit: www.melaniebriggscasting.com
e mail: melaniebriggscasting@gmail.com
FREE WEEKEND URBAN RETREAT
May 15, 2010, Saturday: 12-5pm
May 16, 2010, Sunday: 11am-4pm
Meditation: Discover Peace Within
Based on the Yoga Teachings of Sri Chinmoy
for more information: Call 215-425-3300
visit: www.philameditation.org
Subcircle presents Only Sleeping
April 29-May 1, 2010 at 8pm
Only Sleeping
a collaboration between Subcircle and Geoff Sobelle (Rainpan 43) with music by Mike Kileya dialogue between video and live performer/past and present/choice and inevitability
for more information visit: www.subcircle.org
Philadelphia Dance Showcase
April 12-13, 2010As an alternative to expensive booking conferences, Dance/USA Philadelphia hosts the Philadelphia Dance Showcase for presenters across USA and beyond, April 12-13, 2010 at the Jeanne Ruddy Dance Performance Garage. (map)
All Philadelphia dance artists on the PennPAT roster are invited to participate; four additional non-PennPAT slots are filled by lottery.
2010 Participating Artists:
Ballet X, Eleone Dance Theatre, < fidget >, Green Chair Dance Group, Group Motion Dance Company, Here[begin] Dance Company, Jeanne Ruddy Dance, Kate Watson-Wallace/anonymous bodies, Koresh Dance Company, Kulu Mele African American Dance Ensemble, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, Leah Stein Dance Company, Mano/Damno Projects by Gabrielle Revlock
The Philadelphia Folklore Project presents work-in-progress and public discussion: PARALLEL DESTINIES
April 9, 2010, 3-5 PM, Free
Sample the next stage of work by dancer/choreographer Germaine Ingram, composer/musician Bobby Zankel, and visual artist John Dowell as they collaborate in developing a multimedia performance piece commemorating the nine African Americans enslaved by President George Washington in the President's House at 6th and Market Street here in Philadelphia in the 1790s.
More information: Phone: 215.726.1106
Philadelphia Folklore Project Web Site
Email: pfp@folkloreproject.org
Philadelphia Dance Projects Presents 2010 at the Performance Garage
Feb 27, 2010
[re]generation / contemporary dance /past meets future
Feb. 26, 2010, Friday at 7:30PM
Feb. 27, 2010, Saturday at 2PM & 7:30PM
Local Dance History Project: Michael Biello & Dan Martin/Ishmael Houston Jones
Next Up: Otto Ramstad
Feb. 28, 2010, Sunday at 12-6PM
Local Dance History Forum
An all-day free event, the Local Dance History Project Forum features a dance class led by project artists and two panel discussions exploring Philadelphia’s contemporary dance scene in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.
March 5, 2010, Friday at 7:30PM
March 6, 2010, Saturday at 2PM & 7:30PM
Local Dance History Project: Jano Cohen/Terry Fox
Next Up: Chris Yon
March 10, 2010, Wednesday at 6PM
Open Master Class w/ Lisa Kraus, Vicky Shick & Eva Karczag
March 12, 2010, Friday at 7:30PM
March 13, 2010, Saturday at 2PM & 7:30PM
Red Thread (World Premiere)
Lisa Kraus, Vicky Shick, Eva Karczag with Meg Foley, Gabarielle Revlock, Michele Tantoco
For more info: 215-546-2552
info@philadanceprojects.org
www.philadanceprojects.org
1515 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19130-4002
215.569.4060
rentals@ruddydance.org