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Dorner's "Bodies in Urban Spaces' at Fringe Festival
Willi Dorner's Pied Pipers of Center City
The Vienna-based choreographer Willi Dorner unleashed 20 highly charged dancers onto the streets of Center City in a series of engaging tableaux, as if some nuclear accelerator had beamed their piled bodies into niches and doorways.
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Keila Cordova's "Janet 2.0' at Fringe Festival
A parody with teeth
Keila Cordova's political send-up was smart, amusing and prescient too, given Sarah Palin's sudden ascent.
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Leah Stein's "Urban Echo' at Fringe Festival
Singers, dancers, generations: Breaking the city's boundaries
Urban Echo: Circle Told was perhaps the most transfixing event of Philadelphia's recent Fringe Festival: a brilliant melding of two different generations of artists who share defining commitments to improvisation, as well as a spiritual connection between their creative souls and their external environments.
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EgoPo's "Woyzeck' (2nd review)
Suffering without end (or even religion)
Between them, director Brenna Geffers and Dan Hodge create a terrifying atmosphere that builds up slowly in intensity, forcing you to confront your despair and question your faith in humanity. I doubt that even Barack Obama would find any hope in this production.
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Simone Dinnerstein: A concert not to miss
Advance notice: Simone Dinnerstein in full flower
The young pianist Simone Dinnerstein makes a practice of playing complicated works and making them look easy.
Scrap's "Tide' at Fringe Festival
The roar of the city, the peace of the garden
Amid mirrors, trash and other lost objects of urban life strewn about Isaiah's Magic Garden, Myra Bazell's Tide reflects a world in which humans have disconnected from the natural environment. It's a treasure hunt for performers and audience alike.
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"Gee's Bend: Architecture of the Quilt' at Art Museum
The revolutionary quilting women of Gee's Bend, Alabama
In a small, isolated Alabama community, unschooled women for years have made quilts worthy of Klee and Mondrian— breathtaking testimony to the innate human desire to create something pleasing to the eye out of nothing.
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Turner and Morandi at the Met in N.Y.
Two deeply contrasting shows of work by the 19th-Century English master J. M. W. Turner and the 20-Century Italian Giorgio Morandi pose in different ways the modern problem of the sublime, and with it our own understanding of— and existence in-— the natural world.
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Pinter's "Hothouse' at Lantern Theater
Pinter vs. Orwell:
An early Harold Pinter play reveals a flawed but prophetic work that, unlike most revivals, has as much to say about our times as its own.
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Center City Opera's "ConNEXTions' (2nd review)
Operas that ought to be musicals
Center City Opera Theatre performed parts of three new operas at the recent Philadelphia Fringe Festival. It's an estimable service, but I wonder whether these works stand a chance for future performances.
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