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<b>8</b> eight choreographers / eight new works  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12726' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Bang on a Can Marathon</b>  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12728' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Cankerblossom - A Dark Fairytale for Kids Aged 9 to 90</b> by Pig Iron Theatre Company  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12730' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Cédric Andrieux</b> by Jérôme Bel  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12732' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>CHICKEN</b> by Charlotte Ford  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12734' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>DANCE</b> by Lucinda Childs  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12736' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Decadere</b> by BoánDanz Action  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12738' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>¡EL CONQUISTADOR!</b> by Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12723' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>TAKES</b> by Nichole Canuso Dance Company  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12748' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>First Love by Samuel Beckett</b> by Conor Lovett  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12740' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>FREEDOM CLUB</b> by New Paradise Laboratories & The Riot Group  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12742' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Romeo and Juliet</b> by Nature Theater of Oklahoma  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12744' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Sanctuary</b> by Brian Sanders' JUNK  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12746' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>The Sun Also Rises- Based on the Novel by Ernest Hemingway</b> by Elevator Repair Service  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12750' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Journey to the West - Reinterpreting Tradition Series</b> by Danny Yung  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12860' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Release: Vijay Iyer Live</b> by Vijay Iyer and Bill Morrisson  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12754' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Decasia</b> by Bill Morrison  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12857' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>Stew and the Negro Problem with Heidi Rodewald</b>  <b>[<a href='/details.cfm?id=12856' style='text-decoration:none;'>MORE</a>]</b> <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko <b>2009 Festival Bar</b> photo by Kevin Monko
Blog
Sunday Reading
The Inquirer continues to flood the zone. Reviews of Sanctuary, Chicken, and more here, and Merliyn Jackson has an excellent feature on our centerpiece show, Lucinda Childs's Dance. Quoth Jackson: "[Caitlin] Scranton dances it as no less a tour de force than Childs did three decades ago. Glass' paradoxically joyful and melancholy Dance No. [More]
Troubles With Awesome: Meg Foley and "8"
Meg Foley uses many techniques when conceiving dances: storyboarding, visualization, real-time improvising, even blocking movement on graph paper. "Match vs. Match married these things," Meg says about the dance she's performing on Tuesday and Wednesday as a part of the 2010 Live Arts Festival show 8: eight choreographers/eight new works. [More]
Keep It Coming!
Phillyist weighs in with their picks for both Live Arts and Philly Fringe. --Nicholas Gilewicz Photo illustration of persona non grata Josh McIlvain by Nicholas Gilewicz. [More]
Featured Live Arts Shows
Vijay Iyer
Release: Vijay Iyer Live
Vijay Iyer and Bill Morrisson
Live Arts co-presents a concert by jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer at Eastern State Penitentiary, where he will play within the art installation Release, for which Iyer created the music and Bill Morrison created the film from found footage of Al Capone's release. [More]
DANCE
DANCE
Lucinda Childs
The centerpiece of the 2010 Live Arts Festival, DANCE is the stunning collaboration of choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Phillip Glass, and filmmaker Sol LeWitt. Live dancers perform behind a film of the original cast that is projected onto a giant screen stretching across the stage of the Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater. [More]
Journey to the West
Journey to the West - Reinterpreting Tradition Series
Danny Yung
From China's pre-eminent experimental theater artist come three ruminations on the experiences of Chinese artists visiting the West, mixing conversation, live demonstrations, and video. [More]
Decasia
Stew and the Negro Problem with Heidi Rodewald
This Afro Baroque cabaret ensemble hovers between the divergent worlds of rock and theater. Songs from their Tony award-winning Passing Strange and new work from Stew and Heidi's upcoming musical are combined with the band's repertoire for this wild concert. [More]