by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Photos by Leah Weber Local choreographer Brian Sanders doesn’t do subtle. In fact, had post-modern pioneer Yvonne Rainer attended JUNK’s Snowball at Hamilton Hall on Saturday night, she might have reissued her “No to Spectacle” manifesto right then and there but that was, and remains, the genius of [...]
by Kat Richter for The Dance Journal Photo credit: JJ Tiziou September 15, 2012 Staring up at the huge metal structure that comprises the stage, set and focal point of Brian Sanders’ newest creation, The Gate Reopened, there was a brief moment when I thought I was in the primate section at the Philadelphia Zoo. [...]
APRIL SAUL / Inquirer Staff Photographer Brian Sanders (upright) with dancer and partner John Luna at a rehearsal for the retrospective shows. Luna will perform Sanders’ “The Grid.” Local choreographer and spectacle-creator Brian Sanders will celebrate 18 3/4 years with his dance company, JUNK – slithering, sliding, tumbling from all kinds of found objects. By [...]
The 18¾ Anniversary Celebration establishes JUNK’s first annual celebration since the company’s founding in 1992. The program highlights 18 works by Artistic Director Brian Sanders celebrating the company’s creativity and growth over the last 18 years. The show includes excerpts from Live Arts Festival favorites Sanctuary, Urban Scuba, Adshock, and Patio Plastico, as well as [...]
This is where the lost take charge. Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the [...]
Group Motion will present new works by local choreographers at Spiel Uhr on Valentine’s Day weekend, February 13 & 14, 2010. Spiel Uhr, meaning “play clock” in German, features local choreographers and performers as they perform original dance works for the first time. The program starts at 8 p.m. at the Community Education Center Meetinghouse [...]
Urban Scuba | Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe Brian Sanders – Junk Photo montage courtesy JJ Tiziou / jjtiziou.net
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