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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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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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"Factor T' at Fringe Festival
When a dancer asserts an idea in the program notes, and that idea is executed beautifully in performance, but the idea is not quite true, or even false –– has that artist succeeded or failed? That’s my question for Factor T, as performed by Poland’s Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre.
Factor T. Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre of Poland. Directed by Laszek Bzdyl; music by Mikolaj Trzaska. Through September 7, 2008 at Christ Church Neighbor
Factor T. Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre of Poland. Directed by Laszek Bzdyl; music by Mikolaj Trzaska. Through September 7, 2008 at Christ Church Neighbor
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Pink Hair Affair's "oOOoOoOo'
Pink Hair Affair’s sophomore effort at the Fringe Festival offered nine works— most of them playful, some of them breathtaking and ethereal. What the evening lacked was a unifying vision.
oOOoOoOo. Presented by Pink hair Affair through September 13, 2008 at Susan Hess Dance Studio, 2030 Sansom St. www.livearts-fringe.org/2008/details.cfm?id=5483
oOOoOoOo. Presented by Pink hair Affair through September 13, 2008 at Susan Hess Dance Studio, 2030 Sansom St. www.livearts-fringe.org/2008/details.cfm?id=5483
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Erica Saben's "Inside' at Fringe Festival
How can a body seem alive without moving? Through the demonic negation in her eyes, Erica Saben discloses her “Inside,” the title of her piece. This interiority has a voltage; it is charged, in her case, with psychic danger.
InFlux. Works in Progress by Mascher Space Cooperative, including “Inside,” by Erica Saben. August 29-31, 20087 at Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. www
InFlux. Works in Progress by Mascher Space Cooperative, including “Inside,” by Erica Saben. August 29-31, 20087 at Arts Bank, 601 S. Broad St. www
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Live Arts Festival's "Sea of Birds'
Sebastienne Mundheim’s Sea of Birds is a remarkable collaboration of music, dance, puppetry, theater, video— and engineering, too.
Sea of Birds. Created and directed by Sebastienne Mundheim; score by James Sugg; choreographed by Kate Watson-Wallace. September 2, 2008 at Ice Box Projects Space, 1400 N. American St. www.livearts-fringe.org/2008/details.cfm?id=2882
Sea of Birds. Created and directed by Sebastienne Mundheim; score by James Sugg; choreographed by Kate Watson-Wallace. September 2, 2008 at Ice Box Projects Space, 1400 N. American St. www.livearts-fringe.org/2008/details.cfm?id=2882
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Nichole Canuso's "Wandering Alice'
Normally, I dislike performances that ask the audience to join in. With Wandering Alice, we never feel manipulated or imposed-upon. Rather, we feel liberated.
Wandering Alice. Written, directed and choreographed by Nichole Canuso with Suli Holum. Nichole Canuso Dance Company presentation through September 13, 2008 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. (215) 413-1318 or www.livearts-fringe.org
Wandering Alice. Written, directed and choreographed by Nichole Canuso with Suli Holum. Nichole Canuso Dance Company presentation through September 13, 2008 at Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N. American St. (215) 413-1318 or www.livearts-fringe.org
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Headlong's "Hotel Pool' in New York
Thanks to Headlong Dance Theater’s New York revival of its 2004 aqua dream play, Hotel Pool, we now have an alternative vision for the Michael Phelps Beijing pool experience, as well as, perhaps, an awareness of how the potential for sensual and pleasurable experiences can be denied amid the demands of commerce and competition.
Hotel Pool. Headlong Dance Theater presentation through August 16, 2008 at Rector Square, New York. (215) 545-1995 or
Hotel Pool. Headlong Dance Theater presentation through August 16, 2008 at Rector Square, New York. (215) 545-1995 or
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