Amy Lynne Barr Brings The Toss Away(s) to Annenberg Center Live’s By Local Series

Local Philadelphia artist, Amy Lynne Barr, choreographs and performs The Toss Away(s), a moving memoir told through a compilation of five solo contemporary dance performances. Performances take place Friday, January 23 at 8 PM and Saturday, January 24 at 8 PM at the Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

The Toss Away(s) consists of five solo pieces that were created by Amy Lynne Barr over the span of four years. She choreographed each piece as a way to process and deal with life’s questions, hardships and joys. The five solo pieces include: The Toss Away(s), Less, Constructions of More Light, Grate, and It’s All You. Together, they become a single, disjointed narrative. Through Barr’s work, the audience explores many aspects of what it really means to experience life: What is one capable of? What will one become? What is the meaning of all that surrounds us?

The Toss Away(s) is choreographed and performed by Anne Lynne Barr. It includes music by Jason Gregory, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Max Richter and Beethoven. Additional sound design is by Jason Gregory. Barr wrote all text.

Creating work that mixes humor, poignancy and extreme physicality, Amy Lynne Barr engages the audience viscerally with choreography that is intellectual in conception and creation. Barr is a Philadelphia-based choreographer and performer with an MFA in Choreography from the University of Iowa. She has been honored to work with Martha Clarke, Jennifer Kayle, Charlotte Adams, Doug Nielsen and many others. Barr’s work has been shown in Illinois, Indiana, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Chicago, New York, New Hampshire, Iowa, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. She directs SOS DanceProject and dances for Tori Lawrence & Co, Invisible River, The Naked Stark and ChrisMastersDance. Barr is an adjunct professor at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

The Toss Away(s)
Friday, January 23 at 8 PM
Saturday, January 24 at 8 PM
Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Tickets $20-$30. For tickets and more information visit AnnenbergCenter.org or call 215.898.3900.
Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Box Office.

***Photo credit: Courtesy Amy Lynne Barr: Dance

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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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