For the Philly Fringe, Insectinside offers up a raw and volatile love story in a whirling fantasy insect realm. Presented by Grounded Aerial, it combines modern dance (ground) with uniquely rigged aerial elements (air) in equal parts with a cast of fifteen artists. The production incorporates silk artists, dancers, a stilt artist, actors, gymnastics, and [...]

Kishin Shinoyama Photograph As a co-presentation with the Institute of Contemporary Art and International House Philly, Live Arts has organized a film series to showcase the work of Lucinda Childs and Philip Glass. The films provide insight into the creative processes, careers, and lives of these two influential artists. The series is being offered as [...]

Rain Ross Dance and Stone Depot Dance Lab will premiere, at the Philly Fringe,  Absence/Presence, a dance performance showcasing truly physical movement. Choreographers Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Rain Ross explore political and historical subjects including social activism, identity vs. what we project to society, and technology and its affect on communication. The desire for contact and [...]

Tickets are now on sale for the 14th annual Philly Fringe, which runs in conjunction with the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival from September 3 – 18. The Philly Fringe will host 183 artists or companies performing 188 shows in venues throughout Philadelphia for the largest Fringe in festival history, topping 2009’s record breaking number of [...]

The Mann Center’s annual free Young People’s Concert Series plays a vital role in community outreach, making high-quality and culturally diverse performing arts programs accessible to all children in an informal atmosphere. Performances by professional and emerging artists offer our young people a chance to experience and be inspired by the talents of others their [...]

Yesterday evening, the U.S. House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, which sets the initial funding level for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), approved a $2.5 million increase for the NEA in its FY 2011 spending bill. Chairman Jim Moran (D-VA), a longtime champion of arts and culture, presided over his first Interior spending bill as [...]

Mayor Nutter announced new cuts to the city budget that directly impacts arts and culture in this city.  This includes a 35% reduction to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (or $1,120,000), the Recreation Fund, and the Community Land Care Program run by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (or $840,000). This is a stark contrast to statements made [...]

The MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation, announced today its 2010 grants underwriting 40 new projects spanning the disciplines of performing arts practices. A panel of peers selected this year’s grantees from more than 800 submissions. Amongst the 2010 grantees was Headlong Dance [...]

It’s the 50th Anniversary of “The Twist,” and Philadelphia’s native son, Chubby Checker, will perform live at Philadelphia City Hall (Dilworth Plaza – West Side) in a FREE concert on Friday, July 9th at Noon. Ernest Evans was born in Spring Gulley, South Carolina, but grew up in South Philadelphia, where he lived with his [...]

Governor Rendell’s Pennsylvania State Budget for Fiscal Year 2010-2011 eliminated many arts and culture line items and drastically cut the few that remained. Funding for museums, public television, zoos, non-state universities, and arts professional development training are all greatly effected by the new budget. In addition Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) Administrative Budget was [...]