by Nicholas Gilewicz for Live Arts & Fringe Festival Blog
photos by Bill Hebert

One of the Live Arts Festival highlights with Philadelphia origins is Merián Soto’s new work Postcards from the Woods. A professor at Temple University and a long-time member of the dance community in both Philadelphia and New York, Merián’s no stranger to working [...]

The Philadelphia dance community celebrates its 08-09 season and pays tribute to ten companies or individuals in the annual peer-to-peer awards event known as the ROCKYS . Unlike other awards that have a panel of judges or votes by the public, each 2008 recipient has the honor of bestowing a 2009 ROCKY.  Hosted by Jaamil Kosoko and Megan Mazarik as J-Luv [...]

Urban Scuba | Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe
Brian Sanders – Junk
Photo montage courtesy JJ Tiziou / jjtiziou.net

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre will be unveiling their astonishing new work:
Kill Me Now as part of this years’ Live Arts Festival – tickets will sell-out so catch this show FAST!
www.livearts-fringe.org
for tickets and details
shot by EvilOlivE 3000 Studios

Enter the inner world of five women as they experience the phase of mourning surrounding the death of a shared loved one.  Within the walls of the Woodlands Cemetery Mansion, a site renowned for its historical importance, a new investigation of morning will take place.  Through the traditions of flamenco and Afro-Cuban music, Artistic Director [...]

Photo by Bill Hebert
As the audience filters into their seats, on stage sit three framed young women, each beginning her character’s transformation, at the hands of professional make-up artists.  In their eloquently styled, movement accentuating costumes, these three women set “The Scene”, each in her own frame, performing in bold spotlights. These solos are but [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]