photo credit: Lisa Rastl
“Is it possible to give a conventional object a new meaning and a new perspective?”– Willi Dorner, director of above under inbetween.
Viennese choreographer Willi Dorner, who worked with a group of local dancers for last year’s traveling outdoor dance event bodies in urban spaces, will return to the Live Arts Festival with [...]

Philadelphia- New York City’s Choreographic Sketches, extends its 2009 Series IV to the Philadelphian audiences, featuring and debuting new works by nine emerging African Diasporic choreographers and their companies, from New York City, Washington DC and Philadelphia, under the series curator’s vision of Jo Anna Hazel Norris the Founder/ Director of Choreographic Sketches. The series [...]

Mortal Engine
Chunky Move
Dance, 55 minutes
http://www.livearts-fringe.org/details.cfm?id=6845

Beautiful, unique and absolutely unforgettable.” —Metro
“Utterly captivating and utterly unique.” —The Scotsman
Chunky Move’s highly acclaimed, cutting-edge fusion of technology and dance is on full display in Mortal Engine. This intensely physical, sensual, and visually daring work uses movement- and sound-responsive projections that morph human figures into light and sound and back again. [...]

Just blocks away from where Benjamin Franklin conducted his own experiments in electricity, the new dance theatre production from Miro Dance Theatre is sure to generate its own sparks.
More precisely, “Generate. Degenerate.”, part of the first-ever Off the Grid Theater Festival, will generate up to 200 watts using bicycle-powered generators, enough energy to power the [...]

Spoken word, music, modern and jazz dance are intertwined in the graceful, yet powerful production by Naja,  “Sweet Like Chocolate; Poetry in Motion II”.  Part of this years Philly Fringe Festival, performances will run from September 17-19, 2009 at the CEC Meeting House Theater at 3500 Lancaster Avenue in Philadelphia.
Karen Moore-Williams, better known as Naja, [...]

by Andrew Zitcer,  Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog
Photo by Alan Kolc
At Melanie Stewart’s new show Kill Me Now, you, the audience, will get to decide the fate of aspiring dancers during a live “reality” competition. The stakes will be high, folks, so you better be prepared.
In order to make sure you were fully briefed, [...]

by Nicholas Gilewicz, Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog
Photos by Bill Hebert

Two Fridays ago I had the luck of attending a special preview of Merián Soto’s Postcards from the Woods, premiering at the Live Arts Festival next month. After the jump, some thoughts and pics from the preview event.
Merián encouraged the audience to walk around [...]

The Box
Inside a box, we put a balloon and a pin.  On the balloon was written the word zlo, which means “evil” in Bosnian.[1] Twenty-six kids dancing to the song Scream by Michael Jackson lined up behind the box.  Then, perfectly on time with the musical phrase, 13 year-old Nikola MariC popped the balloon and [...]

by Nicholas Gilewicz,  Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog
Madison Cario took a circuitous route to technical production. She joined the Marines and maintained short-range radios before being kicked out of the service for being queer. Having previously studied at the University of Delaware, she headed back to its Newark, Delaware campus. And having grown up [...]

The Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series announced its line-up this week. Two celebrated dance companies grace the Series: Urban Bush Women will re-open historic Goodhart Theater after its $19 million renovation and Australia’s Lucy Guerin Inc. will open the season with Corridor, a site specific work.
The Performing Arts Series partners with New York’s Baryshnikov [...]