As a festival, we aim to present art that breaks conventions in genre and style, and challenges audiences to think about performance in new ways. Through post-show discussions with Festival artists, and panel discussions with leading cultural critics and historians, Festival Plus events allow artists to discuss the ideas, challenges, and goals of their work in an open setting, where audiences are invited to ask questions and reflect on their experiences as viewers. Check back often for the most up-to-date Festival Plus information.Outside the Black Box:
A Panel Discussion on Site-Specific Performance WE REGRET THAT THIS PANEL HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
WE REGRET THAT THIS PANEL HAS BEEN CANCELLED. More than ever, contemporary performance is seen outside of the confines of a theater. The Live Arts Festival alone has presented works in parks, churches, warehouses, bars, private homes, and moving vehicles. What happens when we break away from the traditional framework of performance? These kinds of works are often anchored by the site itself—they are reality-based in a way that theater usually is not. Rather than asking audiences to suspend their disbelief and become engaged by an act of storytelling, site-specific work employs a new kind of delivery system for ideas; it brings creative vision into the real world. In this discussion, we will consider how site-specific work alters the dynamics between performer and viewer, and what role it plays in the larger context of contemporary performance. | Whit MacLaughlin on the creation and production of FATEBOOK: a cyberspace ghost story
Where is cyberspace? What happens as we colonize this new kind of territory where the problems and pleasures of physical presence - awkwardness, sub-conscious body awareness, and the threat of physical danger - give way to the pleasures and problems of cyber-presence? At the 2009 Live Arts Festival, New Paradise Laboratories will present a new work that begins in cyberspace. FATEBOOK: a cyberspace ghost story will take place online for two months prior to its real performance - then, on the performance night, an entirely new kind of theatrical experience will break loose into the world…Come hear Whit MacLaughlin, Artistic Director of New Paradise Laboratories, talk about FATEBOOK and the techniques and challenges that come with creating virtual theater. Free · 60 minutes Arts Bank at The University of the Arts Sept 13 at 2pm |
Listed here are all post-show discussions that will take place in conjunction with Live Arts Festival shows. Each post-show discussion will follow the ticketed performance on the date listed.
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Aug 29, The European Lesson, Jo Strømgren Kompani moderated by Nick Stuccio, Producing Director of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Aug 29, Everyone, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People Aug 30, IN FLUX, Mascher Space Cooperative Aug 31, Disco Descending, Karen Getz Aug 31, Sweet By-and-By, Sept 1 (following 2pm performance), Sept 4, stuporwoman, Tania Isaac Dance Sept 6, Factor T, Dada von Bzdülöw Theatre |
Sept 6 (following 4pm performance)
Urban ECHO: Circle Told, Leah Stein Dance Company + Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia, moderated by Thaddeus Squire, Artistic Executive Director of Peregrine Arts
Sept 6 + 7, ACCIDENS (matar para comer), Rodrigo García Sept 9, Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl,
Geoff Sobelle + Charlotte Ford Sept 9, Wandering Alice, Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sept 10, Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day, Troubleyn/Jan Fabre Sept 11, THE MeLTING BRiDgE, The Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental/Thaddeus Phillips, moderated by Geoffrey Scott, Literary Associate at New York Theatre Workshop Sept 11, The show must go on, Jérôme Bel Sept 12, louder, Verdensteatret |
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