8static.com is Philadelphia’s premier monthly chipmusic event! In just over a year, 8static has hosted more than 60 acts from around the world. More than just a concert, each month’s event features a free workshop and open mic session for up-and-coming local artists. All ages. Cost: $8 or $5 with flier, which can be found at 8static.com.
Performances by:
Kate Speer
Lisa Rothstein
Annie Wilson
Kelly Adorno /coExist dance
Melissa Putz / Pima Group
Plus a short film by Philippe Decoufle
Come to a wonderful night of Philly’s best emerging choreographers. Kate Speer’s newest solo work touches on themes of childhood and growing pains as well as continues her explorations in presence and performance improvisation. Annie Wilson goes to a more unusual places with her newest piece called”Lovertits”, a trio of women who create a steak dinner out of their oversized breasts. Annie’s influences include: Peaches, Mae West, filet mignon, postmodern dance, granny panties, 1920’s-style burlesque, and awkward amateur porn.
Lisa Rothstein’s beautiful performance you may have seen in a lot of other people’s dances this past year. However, this is going to be her first choreographed piece after graduating College. Lisa says about her work: “I’ve been exploring the lucky instances where humor, specificity, and hysteria collide.”
Kelly Adorno’s “Window” displays a relationship between two people in which negative, repetitive habits effect and alter the initial feelings between the two.
The lovely and much more established PIMA Group will show their latest duet between Melissa Putz and musician Thomas Clark.
All in all, it would be a great mixture of must see young choreographers. We will top it all off with short film by Philippe Decoufle. For those who do not know him, he is the creative genius behind the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics Games of 1992.
Cost: $5
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BIOS:
Kate Speer’s work ranges from performance and choreography to research scholarship. She holds a BA in dance and biology from Swarthmore College and has studied with such artists as David Dorfman, Michael Foley, Robert Een, Odile Duboc, Leah Stein, and Lisa Kraus. Speer is a 2009-2010 New Edge Mix Artist and an artist-in-residence at Mascher Space Co-op. Currently, she is dancing with Anne Marie Mulgrew and Dancers and Philly Contact Collective. In Philadelphia, she has performed in the 2009 Philly Fringe, Please Touch Museum’s Dancing Days, the first annual GLBT Arts Festival, and Willi Dorner’s bodies in urban spaces in the 2008 Live Arts Festival. Speer’s newest research project which examines the choreographies of David Dorfman, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Jérôme Bel was presented in 2009 at Dance Under Construction XI Conference at UCLA. Her own choreography has been presented at ETC Performance Series and React/Dance’s South Philly Solon.
Anne MacGillivray Wilson is a Philadelphia-based choreographer, director, performer and author. She is a graduate of University of the Arts and the Headlong Performance Institute. She is a co-director of the local dance collective Pink Hair Affair, in which she directed the site-specific evening in memory of the deathtrap. Anne has recently, or is currently working with Sarah Gladwin Camp, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Sarah Lowry, Zach Svoboda, Erin Shanti Desmond, Curt Haworth, and New Paradise Laboratories. This piece is part of a full-length show, Take It Off, performed next weekend, March 5th and 6th, at 8:30 PM. So grab a bottle of wine and head down to the Mascher space to see more burlesque/modern dance mash-up.
Lisa Rothstein earned a B.A. in dance and mathematics from Connecticut College. There she trained in various release modern techniques as well as contact improvisation. While studying, Lisa performed in works by professional choreographers Alexandra Beller, David Dorfman, Doug Elkins, Heidi Henderson, Adele Myers, and Lisa Race. Originally from Havertown, PA, she has selected Philadelphia as the first stop on her path to a career in dance. In 2008, Lisa performed bodies in urban spaces by Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner. In Philadelphia, Lisa is currently making art with Here[begin] Dance Co., as well as with Erin Foreman-Murray. She is further thrilled to occasionally venture to NYC to create with Rebecca Elias and BE Dance Collective. Also, Lisa loves avocados, lavender, and the moon.
Kelly Adorno recently completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Dance from Temple University with a minor in Business Management. As a student, she has choreographed and performed in various shows including ETC. Performance Series, Philadelphia Fringe Festivals 2008 and 2009 and John Moores University in Liverpool, England. She also interned with the Community Education Center in Philadelphia throughout the summer of 2008. Upon graduation, Kelly has been serving as the administrative assistant at a local dance studio while pursuing her pilates certification. She is thrilled to be a part of a successful Temple dance collective, RealLivePeople, who performed SHRUG in the 2009 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has been dreaming and foreseeing her own dance company since the mere age of nine and she couldn’t be happier to direct coEXISTdance with Kathleen Glynn.
Melissa Putz is a dancer, choreographer and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-founder and artistic director of PIMA Group, a music and dance performance company founded in 2001. She received her dance training through the Professional Training Program at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City and received a full dance scholarship to attend the Strictly Seattle Dance Intensive in Seattle, WA. Melisa has studied with Lisa Kraus, former dancer with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, and performed in her work entitled The Partita Project. Melisa also studied with choreographers Anouk Van Dijk (Amsterdam) and Jeanine Durning (NYC) through Professional Development Grants from Dance Advance.
Melisa offers dance classes and workshops to beginners through professionals. She currently teaches dance full-time at the Chester Upland School of the Arts. Her dance teaching experience includes director of the pre-professional Modern Company and co-director of Ballet Concerto, a pre-professional ballet company at the Pennsylvania Performing Arts Academy. Melisa continues to teach dance, yoga and composition workshops locally, nationally and internationally. In November 2005, Melisa taught a 3-day yoga workshop at the National Dance Center in Bucharest, Romania made possible through support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and Dance Advance. She returned to Romania in August 2007 through support from Dance Theater Workshop Suitcase Fund and Project DCM Foundation to teach a 7-day dance workshop and perform a site-specific work as part of the 2007 Sibiu Dans Festival.
Melisa has been awarded a Leeway Foundation Grant Award (2002), a Rocky Dance Award (2002), Temple University Space Grants (2002 & 2004), Professional Development Grant Awards from Dance Advance (2004 and 2007), and selection for the Susan Hess Choreographer’s Project (2004-2005). She has been Dance Artist-In-Residence at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia during the 2006-2007 performance season. During 2007-2008 she was Artist-In-Residence through the Philadelphia Society for Preservation of Landmarks at the Historic Powel House in Philadelphia and a co-op member at Mascher Space in Philadelphia. She is currently involved in Team Office, a cooperative management support system with funding support from Dance Advance, an initiative of the Pew Center for Arts and heritage.
Saturday, April 10, 1 to 4 p.m.You are invited! A sliding scale fee of $5-$10.
, 7 p.m.Benefit show to support Iraq Veterans Against the War. There will be local artists and musicians, raffles, food, and open mic time. Veterans speaking out about their experiences in the military and as members of IVAW. Donations will help send veterans to their first National Strategy Retreat in Albuquerque, NM. Erik Petersen, Ryan Harvey, and Sonni Shine performing.
People around the world have embarked on an astounding artistic endeavor: to create a piece of art every day during the month of January. Come enjoy the fruits of their labor at the Sixth Annual Fun-A-Day Art Show!
This year’s show will be TWO big days: Friday and Saturday! Saturday will also feature a Reading Event for literary projects: 4-6pm!
For more info visit www.artclash.com.
Journey through time, looking into different world cultures and visions of humankind by Artists through the ages. Come and find the treasures they left for us.
$5 suggested donation.
For more information, visit www.adhk.org
Phillyist Framed 2010
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Friday, January 29, 7 to 9 p.m.
Philly photogs: gather up your best local shots and submit them to Phillyist Framed 2010. The good folks at Phillyist will pick around 30 for display here at Studio 34, and then, at the Opening Night Gala on Friday, January 29, 2010, their phenomenal guest judges will award 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Everyone is invited to the party, and the photos will stay on display here for a week.
Read the official rules here, then submit your pics by Dec. 30 to the Phillyist Framed 2010 Flickr Group.
Phillyist says: “Our brilliant and fantastic judges for the evening will be:
And special bonus: “We’re partnering with Philabundance. We love our city. But, it’s winter. And it’s a recession. People are hungry. Since our photo exhibit is celebrating Philadelphia and its people, so we want to make sure that as many people as possible are safe and warm and fed. To that end, we’re inviting everyone to bring non-perishable food items to the Opening, and make a day brighter.”
Pecha Kucha Night Philadelphia
Save the date for the fourth spectacular edition of Philly Pecha Kucha (say peh-CHAK-cha), the rapidfire creative show-and-tell governed by a simple rule: show 20 slides, talk about each one for 20 seconds. Wired magazine calls it: “Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.” We call it an evening of fun, sociability, and a little learning thrown in.
Vol. 4 is Start It Up Night: tales from local folks who willed their dreams into reality, from cupcake trucks to public-access TV. Don’t miss it!
What’s Pecha Kucha? It’s the Japanese word for “chit-chat.” Want more info? See Philly Pecha Kucha, join the PPK Facebook group, or visit worldwide Pecha Kucha HQ in Tokyo. Devised by Tokyo architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, Pecha Kucha events have been held in more than 265 cities.
Solo exhibit of works by Christiana Kugel.
Create, explore, play…. Join us for creative artistic expression focused on emotional well-being, exploration of inner thoughts and dynamics, releasing worry, stress, and everyday life troubles. Variety of media will be used including drawing, collage, painting, and other themed projects with close guidance from the Art therapist. Participants will be encouraged to share, listen, relate and explore with each other as much as they feel comfortable doing in this supportive and nurturing group environment. Topics that may be explored include but are not limited to relationships, balance of life and priorities, hopes/fears, dreams and much more. Art therapy offers a unique opportunity for the use of nonverbal symbols and metaphors that are able to communicate ideas and feelings difficult to put into words. Visual images are capable of working on many level, and of expressing seemingly contradictory ideas and feelings simultaneously. Many find expressing themselves in this way to be freeing and a cathartic release.
Therapeutic art inevitably leads to fresh insights and provides concrete reinforcement for awareness. Most importantly you do not have to be an artist to participate in art therapy. In fact, creative self-expression is satisfying for individuals without art training because their inner selves are successfully, articulately communicated regardless of skill level or intention. Art making, as a healing process, has been shown to be effective in that it promotes a sense of joy, peace and relaxation.
Learn more about art therapy at Kat’s website.
Cost: $25
To register contact Kat Johnston at (215)806- 5844 or kathrynjohnst@gmail.com.
Emily Wexler – dance
Zornitsa Stoyanova – dance
Dan Blackberg/Nick Millevoi – trombone, guitar, projections
(Megan Bridge/Peter Price) – music, dance
Moving Parts/megfoley – dance
React/Dance (Kristin Shahverdian/Jacelyn Biondo) – dance
Tim Albro – electronics
The StudioSeries is a monthly, informal series featuring performance in all media by some of the Philly’s most exciting artists (with some fabulous out of town guests). The StudioSeries is cozy, informal and fun! Come check out their work while it’s raw, and in the works. It’s a rare and thrilling opportunity to get a window into the artist’s creative process. Feel free to hang afterwards, meet the artists and chat with them about their performances.
Chris Forsyth – guitar
Cecilia Corrigan – performance
Dustin Hurt – sound
Jen Mcginn – dance
Andy Hayleck – electronics, invented instruments
DaDaDance project (Eun Jung Choi-Gonzalez/Guillermo Ortega Tanus) – dance
The StudioSeries is a monthly, informal series featuring performance in all media by some of the Philly’s most exciting artists (with some fabulous out of town guests). The StudioSeries is cozy, informal and fun! Come check out their work while it’s raw, and in the works. It’s a rare and thrilling opportunity to get a window into the artist’s creative process. Feel free to hang afterwards, meet the artists and chat with them about their performances.
Please join us for the spooky Halloween edition of the StudioSeries. They are separate lineups so come both evenings for double trouble. Contemporary dance, music, poetry and theater is super scary so bring a friend to hold your hand! This month features a raffle with big prizes like private pilates, yoga and myofascial bodywork.
Oct 30th
Aaron Birk – performance, visual art
David Fishkin – saxophone
Jenny Sawyer – dance
Tina Heuges – dance
Rob Wright – poetry
Daniele Paloumpis – dance
Oct 31st
Erin Foreman-Murray – dance
Fatima Adamu – voice
Ben Camp – theater
Rebecca Patek – dance
Karina Kacala – voice
Sharon Mansur – dance
The StudioSeries is a monthly, informal series featuring performance in all media by some of the Philly’s most exciting artists (with some fabulous out of town guests). The StudioSeries is cozy, informal and fun! Come check out their work while it’s raw, and in the works. It’s a rare and thrilling opportunity to get a window into the artist’s creative process. Feel free to hang afterwards, meet the artists and chat with them about their performances.
Angie Hauser/Chris Aiken master class ~ jam ~ performance ~ snacks ~ friendly people…
all packed into one manageable, affordable day.
Schedule:
12-3pm contact improvisation workshop w/ Chis and Angie, workshop description tba
3-4pm break (we’ll provide snacks in the lounge)
4-6pm – contact improvisation jam
6pm – informal performance with Chris, Angie and others tba
7-8pm cool down
Pricing:
full day 14-day advance $35
full day door price $45
workshop alone $40
jam/performance alone $10
Preregistration:
chris@deephouse.name
215.402.0133 (home)
Send checks (payable to PDP or Philadelphia Dance Projects) to:
c/o Chris Deephouse
1300 Bergan Road
Oreland PA 19075
Chris Aiken is a leading international teacher and performer of dance improvisation and contact improvisation. Over the past two and a half decades his work has evolved through ongoing investigations of performance, composition, movement technique and design. His work has been significantly influenced through the somatic practice of the Alexander Technique, ideokinesis, yoga and Rolfing. Chris has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Patrick Scully and Angie Hauser. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and an assistant professor at Ursinus College. Chris is currently touring a new work entitled “Dwell” co-created with Angie Hauser.
Angie Hauser is a dance-maker, performer and teacher. Her work is grounded in improvisation and performance and reflects the influences of contact improvisation, ballet, butoh and contemporary dance techniques. Angie is a member of Bebe Miller Company. In 2006 she received a BESSIE Award for her collaboration with Miller. She has also danced with the companies of Elizabeth Streb, Liz Lerman and Poppo Shiriashi and performed with many gifted artists including Kirstie Simpson, Andrew Harwood, Kathleen Hermesdorf, K.J. Holmes and Darrell Jones. Her creative work also includes her ongoing collaboration with Chris Aiken resulting in performances and workshops in the U.S. and in Europe, including their project, Dwell , co-commissioned by the National Performance Network. She has taught improvisation and dance throughout the U.S. and in Switzerland, Germany, Canada and Scotland.
Philadelphia Theatre of the Oppressed is hosting monthly workshops at Studio 34. Here’s the lineup for this autumn:
• October 24: Games for Actors and Non-Actors. Come learn and play over 30 games that loosen the boundaries of our senses and work to get us thinking and moving outside of our usual routines. A useful tool for performers, as well as teachers, organizers, activists and anyone who works with groups. This workshop will end at 2 p.m., at which point everyone is invited to Clark Park where Spiral Q Puppet Theater’s Peoplehood Parade commences. Sliding scale: $5-15.
• November 14: Image Theatre on Gentrification. By sharpening our ability to “speak” with the body, we can communicate things that are often lost in the language of words. This workshop will build movement, sound and dialogue on the issue of gentrification, leading to action steps on what we can do as a community to move forward without trampling others underfoot.
• December 12: The Rainbow of Desire. A technique aimed at disarming our most intimate oppressors—those inside our own heads. The Rainbow of Desire takes some of these oppressors out of our heads and puts them onstage where the group can tackle them together.
Get details at http://tophiladelphia.blogspot.com . To register for one, two, or all three workshops, please email tophilly@gmail.com or call 215-730-0982.
Mandy Katz…. artistic visionary of many trades, musician, and gardener. She has played in numerous bands iincluding Kiss Kiss Kill and Beware the Blunted Needle.
A Stick And A Stone… known for his innovative compositions, featuring distinctive vocals accompanied with a raw stage presence.
Adelaide Windsome… story-telling expressed through puppetry, narrative, musical interludes, and multimedia art.
Ryen Clover… banjo tunes from Ithaca.
Suggested donation: $5-7
Everglades Earth First! (EEF!) has fought around issues of sprawl and urban over-development; corporate biotechnology and free trade; everglades restoration politics; rock mining and heavy industry in the Everglades Agriculture Area. Their focus at the moment is on energy infrastructure and climate change, targeting new fossil fuel and nuclear proposals across southeast Florida. for more info: www.evergladesearthfirst.org.
What’s Pecha Kucha (say peh-CHAK-cha)? It’s the Japanese word for “chit-chat.” It’s also a kind of rapidfire creative show-and-tell governed by a simple rule: show 20 slides, talk about each one for 20 seconds. Wired magazine called it: “Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.” We call it an evening of fun, sociability, and a little learning thrown in.
With live music by Philly’s own Grandchildren! $5 suggested donation.
Our slate of amazing speakers:
For more info, see Philly Pecha Kucha, join the PPK Facebook group, or visit worldwide Pecha Kucha HQ in Tokyo. Devised by Tokyo architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, Pecha Kucha events have been held in more than 220 cities.
Located in vibrant, diverse West Philly, Studio 34 offers a full schedule of classes in yoga, Pilates, and much more. Drop in today!
Our 5,000-sq.-ft. space also hosts healing services, arts events, and community programs. Learn more!
Come hang out in our community lounge; the tea's on us. Hours:
M-Th: 10-8; Fr: 10-6; Sa-Su: 10-4.
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We are conveniently located on the No. 34 trolley line (route map, schedule) in West Philadelphia.
Just 15 minutes by trolley from City Hall!
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