2021 Fringe Festival Curated booklet

Andrej Vasilenko

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The 2021 Fringe Festival is presented by

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Johanna Austin

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Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

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Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Mimi Lien

►FringeArts.com/56414 Festival Executive Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle

G/ BEINITH W Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner

Andrej Vasilenko

A V I

The 2021 Fringe Festival is presented by

C

1 2 20 INFR E ATED G UR U T S R E F L DETA — 9 P SE T 3 OC

Johanna Austin

A BA AT ND BU LDWIN C C A K M L E B Y R I D G E

Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

U L N O P V U E N I S H E D

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Mimi Lien

►FringeArts.com/56414 Festival Executive Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle

G/ BEINITH W Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner

Andrej Vasilenko

The 2021 Fringe Festival is presented by

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Johanna Austin

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Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

UNP LOV UNIS E HED

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

►FringeArts.com/56414 Festival Executive Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

Mimi Lien

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

/ GH N I BEWIT Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner

Andrej Vasilenko

The 2021 Fringe Festival is presented by

— SEP 9 OCT 3

2021 FR IN -

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TED RA

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GE FESTIVAL

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D E T A R

Johanna Austin

AND BALD AT C BUC WIN A M B K LE Y R ID G E

Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

UNP LOV UNIS E HED

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

►FringeArts.com/56414 Festival Executive Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

Mimi Lien

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

/ GH N I BEWIT Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner

Andrej Vasilenko

The 2021 Fringe Festival is presented by

— SEP 9 OCT 3

2021 FR IN -

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TED RA

C

GE FESTIVAL

C

U

D E T A R

Johanna Austin

AND BALD AT C BUC WIN A M B K LE Y R ID G E

Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

UNP LOV UNIS E HED

Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

►FringeArts.com/56414 Festival Executive Producers Bill & Joyce Kunkle

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

Mimi Lien

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

/ GH N I BEWIT Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

DANCE

Plate 3 Photography

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In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

E L I B O M D BEAARLL LOVE F TOUR

►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

THEATER

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Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

►FringeArts.com/56144

Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

SUNSEA &

“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

DANCE

Plate 3 Photography

7 HAZA07 RDOU S MOVES

In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

E L I B O M D BEAARLL LOVE F TOUR

►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

THEATER

►FringeArts.com/56413

Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

►FringeArts.com/56144

Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

SUNSEA &

“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

DANCE

Plate 3 Photography

7 HAZA07 RDOU S MOVES

In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

E L I B O M D BEAARLL LOVE F TOUR

►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

THEATER

►FringeArts.com/56413

Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

►FringeArts.com/56144

Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

SUNSEA &

“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

DANCE

Plate 3 Photography

7 HAZA07 RDOU S MOVES

In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

E L I B O M D BEAARLL LOVE F TOUR

►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

THEATER

►FringeArts.com/56413

Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

►FringeArts.com/56144

Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

SUNSEA &

“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

DANCE

Plate 3 Photography

7 HAZA07 RDOU S MOVES

In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

E L I B O M D BEAARLL LOVE F TOUR

►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

THEATER

►FringeArts.com/56413

Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

►FringeArts.com/56144

Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

SUNSEA &

“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

AIR Mariana Valencia Sep 17 + 18 at the Proscenium Theatre at the Drake Plate 3 Photography

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In this solo performance, Mariana Valencia pays homage to the work of artists of Mexican descent—from East LA collective Asco to Mexican pop culture icons Don Ramon, El Chavo, and Maria Felix. Like New York’s experimental dance history, these icons have informed her work, and are evoked in a swirling atmosphere of influence.

Valencia assumes the role of a news anchor, presenting references as origin stories and creation myths, layering and morphing as they intersect with her own movement.

and not belong to the one or the other. Valencia draws commonalities and kinships to this diaspora as they synthesize within her body of work and research as a Latina artist. She shows us we are all listening through osmosis.

This is all in her air, so to speak.

AIR is a nod to the generations of US mestiza and Latinx artists who exist in a hybridity of cultures—positioned in-between, learning how to belong

Festival Executive Producers Christopher & Lee Van de Velde Festival Co-Producer Bob Dever

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►FringeArts.com/56470 AIR was originally commissioned by Performance Space New York and made possible through a 2019 Movement Research Residency, funded by the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.

Part of the Late Night Snacks series The Bearded Ladies Cabaret Sep 17—Oct 17 at various locations CABARET

New Paradise Laboratories

Philly’s premier big gay truck, the Beardmobile, hits the road again this September!

Sep 16—18 at FringeArts

Hosted by the Bearded Ladies Cabaret and a slew of amazing partners, the Fall Love Tour is a series of outdoor pop-up performances featuring Philly performers, community leaders, and residents in the communities where they live and work.

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Pauline St. Denis

I T NO Joyous Eddies House of Theater (Mark Lord and Catharine Slusar) THEATER

Kyle Marshall Choreography Sep 24 + 25 at FringeArts DANCE

Stellar is a dance film of speculative fiction inspired by afro-futures, the echoes of jazz, and the stars within us. Performers Bree Breeden, Kyle Marshall, and Ariana Speight gathered for virtual improvisation sessions during the second spring of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Online conversations led to in-studio embodiment, where they developed scores of improvisation and theatricality informed by gravity, ritual, and stars. The film features an original score inspired by the transcendent music of Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane, performed by Kwami Winfield.

Rise is inspired by the shout traditions of the Black church, the transcendence of club music, and holds the joy that dancing brings to our lives.

This dance—performed live by four

dancers—celebrates life in our flesh, makes space for the spirit, and honors the power of witnessing by reflecting on our time of pandemic isolation.

►FringeArts.com/56469 Festival Star Producer Hank McNeil Festival Executive Producers Arthur Kaplan & Duane Perry Festival Producers Lynne & Bertram Strieb Rise was commissioned by The Shed with residency support at MANA Contemporary, Nimbus Arts Center, and a grant from the New Jersey Arts and Culture Recovery Fund of the Princeton Area Community Foundation.

Stellar was commissioned by the Baryshnikov Arts Center and filmed in their Jerome Robbins Theater in March 2021.

A handful of audience members gather in an intimate space.

Maria Baranova

STELL AR / RISE

For more information and the full performance schedule, visit FringeArts.com/Beardmobile, and be sure to follow the Beards at @beardedladiescabaret on Facebook and Instagram.

Maria Baranova

Whit MacLaughlin has been obsessed with Stéphane Mallarmé’s A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance since he first read it in 2012. Subsequently, he traveled to France to sit at the feet of philosopher Quentin Meillassoux,

invented a new team sport, mounted four related pieces with his company New Paradise Laboratories (one in Turkey), took a bullet, gave up theater, left the country for a third time, and finally, in quarantine with an OCD diagnosis, attempted seven successive versions of the work. 707 Hazardous Moves details his complete defeat, and examines why he still hopes to unfail his failure.

A mouth speaks—she utters a torrent of words: as searing and searching a text as Samuel Beckett ever wrote. With scalding intensity, the play clamors to discover: who are we when we are our whole selves, when we speak and hear all of our voices in a moment—in their rages and echoes and mis-rememberings and deprecations and desires?

It lasts for fifteen minutes. And forever.

Barrymore award-winner Catharine Slusar stars. Mark Lord directs.

Most performances will be followed by a post-show talk with the artists.

►FringeArts.com/56147 Not I is supported by the Bryn Mawr College Faculty Research Fund and Plaisir D’Amour Petit Théâtre in Sauve, France, where an early version of this project was developed.

Festival Co-Producer Michael Lillys

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Hosts: Samantha Rise; Anthony MartinezBriggs; Jess Conda; Eric Jaffe; Cookie Diorio; John Jarboe; Brett Robinson The Beardmobile and Love Tour is supported by a grant from The Barra Foundation. The Beardmobile of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret is also a sponsored project of Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. made possible by a grant from Wyncote Foundation. Additional support provided by Barbara Teichert and The Velocity Fund administered by Temple Contemporary at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Festival Executive Producers David & Linda Glickstein

Andrej Vasilenko

A veteran experimentalist returns to performance to expose his nineyear struggle to stage the poem that bedeviled the 20th century.

Partners: Vox Populi & the moon baby Dain Saint ILL DOOTS & The William Way Community Center PARC/EPABID benefiting Cooks Who Care

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“a remarkable achievement” The New York Times

an Opera-Performance by Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė Presented by Arcadia Exhibitions Sep 30—Oct 3 at The Budd OPERA / VISUAL ART

A relaxing day at the beach.

An opera with no beginning or end.

A plea for our planet.

The premiere of this performance installation enthralled audiences at the 2019 Venice Biennale, earning its all-woman creative team the muchcoveted Golden Lion.

For the Philadelphia stop on the production’s US tour, a portion of the former Budd railcar plant is transformed into a bustling beach with European singers and beachgoers sourced from the community, all viewed from above on a four-sided mezzanine.

Thirteen vocalists offer up a range of buoyant harmonies and melodic stories that glide between the mundane, the sinister, and the surreal. From the sprawling narrative of the sunbathers’ lives emerges a piercing exploration of climate change, shining light on the complex relationship between people and our planet.

►FringeArts.com/56146 Curator Lucia Pietroiusti Tour producer – Aušra Simanavičiūtė Tour coordinator/Stage manager – Erika Urbelevič Technical director – Lique Van Gerven Sound engineer – Romuald Chaloin Galiauskas The Philadelphia presentation of Sun & Sea is the second stop on a national tour from Sep 15—Oct 16 that begins in Brooklyn (BAM), and continues to Bentonville, AR (The Momentary), and Los Angeles (The Hammer, MOCA, and CAP UCLA). ajor support for Sun & Sea M has been provided to Arcadia Exhibitions by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Arcadia University.

Festival Icon Producers Lisa Roberts & David Seltzer Festival Star Producers Mark & Tobey Dichter Festival Producers Andy & Bryna Scott; Carol Klein & Lawrence Spitz; Lynne & Bertram Strieb Festival Co-Producer Judith Tannenbaum

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Elevator Repair Service Sep 9—11 at FringeArts THEATER

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Pig Iron Theatre Company

Sep 3—11 at the Prince Theater Co-Presented by Swarthmore College THEATER / DANCE

Pig Iron Theatre Company reprises its starkly unsentimental, hypnotic movement-theater work about the moments just before the collapse of the World Trade Center. Set on twenty feet of escape stairs, this mostly-wordless piece asks audiences to contemplate the mundanity and confusion of evacuees who wonder: is this an emergency or is this a drill?

Love Unpunished originally premiered during the 2006 Fringe Festival, and with the 20-year anniversary of the Towers’ collapse arriving on the heels of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, Pig Iron returns to this contemplative, deceptively simple piece. Without any direct reference to the World Trade Center, Love Unpunished invites audiences to contemplate the simple, distinctive movement of bodies descending stairs, evacuating, confused about when to panic and when to stay calm.

In 1965, James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. were invited to The Cambridge University Union to debate the resolution “The American Dream is at the Expense of The American Negro.” The result was a provocative and profoundly insightful confrontation between Baldwin, one of the most powerful figures of the civil rights movement, and Buckley, often considered the father of 20th Century patrician conservatism. New Yorkbased performance ensemble Elevator Repair Service, a company with a rich history of adapting unconventional texts, stages the debate verbatim.

In an intimate and dramatic counterpoint, the final scene of the performance features a brief, imagined exchange between Baldwin and his close friend and confidante Lorraine Hansberry, who died only weeks before the debate. Baldwin and Hansberry are portrayed by veteran ERS actors Greig Sargeant and April Matthis, who— speaking both as their characters and themselves—contemplate what

it means to be a Black artist working within and confronting historically white frameworks.

With both 1965 and 2021 in mind, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge— through a starkly simple design and an acting style that favors intimacy over impersonation—presents the debate as real, immediate, and of this moment.

►FringeArts.com/56145 Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is made possible, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Festival Executive Producer Carol Beam Festival Producers Larry & Ann Rosen Spector Festival Co-Producers Jennifer Bohnenberger; Paul and Caroline Cronson; Shelley & Michael Green; Libby S. Harwitz & Burton Blender; Sissie & Herb Lipton; Jane G. Pepper

Maria Baranova

Waiters, traders, administrators, custodians, secretaries, bike messengers—the denizens of any metropolitical skyscraper—move from panic into a ghost world of memory and loss. Some are unconcerned, some are in shock, others run for their lives. Love Unpunished draws from a simple palette of movement to open up the unreal space between life and death, a space of tenderness that lies within catastrophe.

Mimi Lien

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G/ BEINITH W Two solo audience members connect in virtual space from opposite sides of the city. Through the use of livefeed technology, participants are guided through a movement duet and conversation with a stranger in another room, known only in this fleeting digital space. Being/With is a meditation on separation and connection, loss and embodiment, and the power of listening.

Part solo journey and part virtual encounter, Being/With builds poetic bridges across neighborhoods, honoring the intimacy and immediacy of collaborative exchange. People with divergent life experiences move together, share stories, experience being seen and heard, and together find the tender spaces to learn about each other.

Being/With takes place in two neighborhoods simultaneously: The Pearlstein Gallery in West Philadelphia and Trinity Church in South Philadelphia.

In addition to signing up for a performance slot, audiences are invited to visit the gallery spaces just outside of each venue. These galleries are a series

Nichole Canuso Dance Company Sep 9—Oct 2 at The Pearlstein Gallery and Trinity Church DANCE / INTERACTIVE

of designed spaces where you can hear audio content from interviews with neighborhood residents.

Being/With is part of a larger series of events and activities that include Being/With: Home and Being/With: Workshops (both part of 2020 Fringe Festival), as well as a cumulative neighborhood interview archive that hosts images, stories and conversations from the participants who reside in each performance location.

►FringeArts.com/56143 Being/With is being developed with support from The National Endowment of the Arts, a William Penn Foundation New Audiences / New Places grant, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Projects Award, and FringeArts. Being/ With has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Development residencies include MacDowell (NH), Bryn Mawr College (PA), Swarthmore College (PA), and Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences (GA).

Festival Producers Ed & Anne Wagner