Mascher’s Fresh Juice offers up a wild blend of dance works

Fresh Juice is a thoughtful, sophisticated, and straight up wild blend of dance works.  Each year Mascher Dance Space Co-Op presents several completed works by their Artists in Residence, and this year, they have  a mix you won’t want to miss: Tori Lawrence, Annie Wilson, The Naked Stark, and special guests from NYC – LOVE/FORTE.  Yes…they are getting out the juicer (literally) and really doing it.  You can sip on a cup of ginger, apple, something-delicious while experiencing this:

“Elizabeth” [excerpt] is a dance on film set in a historic 18th century home and its surrounding wheat fields.  It is a quiet journey between two women, accompanied by the rich soundscapes of musicians Vicki Brown and Mona Chambers.  It is for the wanderers of the field who dwell in sadness, loss, and flight.  It is for those who are drowning both inside and out.  The work is directed and choreographed by Tori Lawrence and performed by Lora Allen and Ashley Lippolis.  Sneak preview on PhiladelphiaDANCE.TV at http://www.philadelphiadance.tv/tori-lawrence-co-elizabeth-trailer/

Annie Wilson’s “Solo” is a solo about a solo that isn’t really a solo because doing anything alone is quite possibly impossible. Part standup, part confessional, part evolution of dance, part Girl Talk, part ancestor worship, part sequins; Solo tries to pry its arms open wide enough to embrace everyone.

The Naked Stark’s Looking for Judy, choreographed by artistic director Katherine Kiefer Stark, is a series of five duet-vignettes that revolve around the fractioning of the self, uncertain reality, and scattered memories.  Performed by Katherine Kiefer Stark, Megan Wilson Stern, and Barbara Tait, the work includes five wood structures that allow for an interchange of walls and floor.  Shifting continually from a world of arranging props into dynamic movement vignettes that are interrupted by a buzzer, the work aims to create multiple realities and multiple perspectives on those realities.

Through movement LOVE|FORTÉ explores the residue of oppression, the mechanics of survival, and the weight of memory held and emanated in the body through gesture, stance, gait, and expression. Nia Love and Marjani Forte are currently creating Memory Withholdings at BAX in New York. They will be showing a section: “Tasting Memory: Memory Withholdings”- a work that looks at the digestion of memory, how are things held and emanated through generations viscerally.

This show is part of a weekend long co-production of Mascher and Carbon Dance Theater.

FRESH JUICE
produced by Mascher Space Co-op
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 (7:30PM)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 (2:30PM)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28 (7:30PM)
Christ Church Neighborhood House Theatre, 20 N. American Street, Philadelphia

Tickets:
$25 gen admission
$20 seniors
$15 students & dance professionals
http://freshjuice.brownpapertickets.com/

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While not a dancer himself, Weisz’s love for the arts and dance started as a child growing up in New York City. With parents, who were strong supporters of the arts and part of a community with an incredible array of notable artists in music, dance, theater, and fine arts, Weisz’s access and affinity for the performing arts took root. Upon attending college in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-’70s, Weisz started performing as a puppeteer, magician, juggler, and fire eater as a means of supplementing his income. This soon grew into what became Rainbow Promotions Inc., one of the largest entertainment and special events producers in the region. It was here that he began to promote and book dance for major events throughout the city. Many of the dancers he worked within the early days of his company are now major choreographers in Philadelphia. At the same time, Weisz’s interest in computers and the early developments of what is now known as the Internet led him to also start another company, Delaware Valley On Line, which became one of the first regional ISPs. It was this combination of event production, internet development, and event marketing that led him to examine the use of the internet as a means to promote the arts. Dance continued to be a major interest for Weisz and in 2005 he founded PhiladelphiaDANCE.org as a major online resource to promote dance in the city. It was soon after that the Dance Journal was also founded as a way to provide an outlet for writing on a range of topics that encompass the ever-growing and emerging dance community in the region. Weisz continues to run both the non-profit PhiladelphiaDANCE and The Dance Journal on purely a voluntary basis with no income derived from any of his projects. He is also the Director of Graffito Works, an international platform for dancers and performing artists in Europe that creates site specific. More recently, Weisz has expanded his creative endeavors into the realm of photography through the establishment of ArtImagined.photo.

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