Fall 2015 Guide

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28 | 8pm Music Series The Thing A co-presentation with Ars Nova Workshop

1 | 7pm ROCKY Awards 2 | 10:30pm First Friday Music Red 40 & The Last Groovement 8 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co. 9 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co. 10 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co.

FringeArts thanks PNC Arts Alive as the Presenting Sponsor of year-round programming.

11 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co. 15 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co. 16 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co.

We also thank William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, MKM Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, Barra Foundation, Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation, Louis N. Cassett Foundation, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for their support.

17 | 8pm Studio Series HOLDEN by George & Co. 28 | 8pm FringeArts Presents CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO by CENTRALA (Michał Zadara) 29 | 8pm FringeArts Presents CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO by CENTRALA (Michał Zadara) 30 | 8pm FringeArts Presents CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO by CENTRALA (Michał Zadara) 30 | 10:30pm Late Night Charan Po Rantan 31 | 2pm FringeArts Presents CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO by CENTRALA (Michał Zadara)

Nov 1 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Partita 2 by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Rosas 2 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress sampler by area artists (Free)

Dec 4 | 10:30pm First Friday Music Red 40 & The Last Groovement 7 | 7pm Scratch Night Works-in-progress sampler by area artists (Free)

6 | 10:30pm First Friday Music Red 40 & The Last Groovement

8 | 8pm Studio Series Abbot Adam: None by No Face Performance Group

10 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/ Suicide Note or &:-/ by Miguel Gutierrez

9 | 8pm Studio Series Abbot Adam: None by No Face Performance Group

11 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/ Suicide Note or &:-/ by Miguel Gutierrez

10 | 7pm + 10pm Studio Series Abbot Adam: None by No Face Performance Group

13 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Age & Beauty Part 2: Asian Beauty @ the Werq Meeting or The Choreographer & Her Muse or &:@& by Miguel Gutierrez

31 | 10pm Late Night New Year’s Funkin’ Eve 2016 with Red 40 & The Last Groovement

14 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Age & Beauty Part 2: Asian Beauty @ the Werq Meeting or The Choreographer & Her Muse or &:@& by Miguel Gutierrez 18 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Home/ S. 9th Street by Kun Yang Lin/ Dancers 19 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Home/ S. 9th Street by Kun Yang Lin/ Dancers 20 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Home/ S. 9th Street by Kun Yang Lin/ Dancers 21 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Home/ S. 9th Street by Kun Yang Lin/ Dancers 22 | 8pm Music Series Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra A co-presentation with Ars Nova Workshop

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A co-presentation with Ars Nova Workshop

Music Series: concerts on the fringe.

The Thing

Monday September 28 | 8pm Mats Gustafsson: reeds Ingebrigt Håker Flaten: bass Paal Nilssen-Love: drums Heavy rhythms and saxophone.

This Scandinavian garage jazz power trio formed in 1999 as a Don Cherry recording project, and were soon established as one of the most important European jazz groups. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes material

by PJ Harvey, Albert Ayler, The White Stripes, and Steve Lacy. They transform the music of such artists into a contemporary context, creating a wholly original sound.

As individuals or as The Thing, they have collaborated with Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, David Grubbs, Eye, The Ex, Pat Metheny, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reid, Neneh Cherry, and many more.

Photo: Ziga Koritnik

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

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“The sheer power they generate from wood, metal, breath and muscle is stunning.” BBC

Goodnight Dance/UP. Hello Dance Community.

Philadelphia’s annual dance award ceremonymeets-performance-meets-party. The ROCKY Awards are a wild way to honor the tremendous artistry of Philly’s dance heroes (chosen by last year’s award recipients). Co-hosts Christina Gesualdi and Annie Wilson usher in a somber and celebratory funeral for what we’ve lost and we’ll look toward the new horizon.

Free / 75 minutes FringeArts Theater

Photos: Clayton A. Sweeney, Jr.

FringeArts Presents

ROCKY Awards

Thursday October 1 | 7pm Drink specials at La Peg start at 6pm

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HOLDEN George & Co.

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Studio Series: works made for intimate spaces

Thursday October 8 | 8pm Friday October 9 | 8pm Saturday October 10 | 8pm Sunday October 11 | 8pm Thursday October 15 | 8pm Friday October 16 | 8pm Saturday October 17 | 8pm A book changed their lives.

Obsessed with the character of Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, they believe that they are him. These three fevered superfans have taken up residence in J.D. Salinger’s private writing bunker in Cornish, New Hampshire. Their mission: to get Salinger to publish once more.

But things are about to go terribly off-course.

Photos: Kate Raines | Plate 3 Photography

Led by writer–director Anisa George, George & Co. creates madcap and messy, ensemble-created theater. HOLDEN performers and co-creators include Jaime Maseda, Matteo Scammel, Scott Sheppard, Bill George, Adele Goldader, and Madeline Charne.

HOLDEN is supported by a grant from the Wyncote Foundation, Amaranth Foundation, W. Beall Fowler, a residency at FringeArts, and developed, in part, at Ice Factory 2015, a program of New Ohio Theatre.

“Compelling . . . the entire production holds you in a disturbing grip.” The New York Times “We’re much busier in our culture talking about the transformative power of art in a positive sense, but transformation can be destructive as well.” Anisa George, director

$20 (general) $14 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

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CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO CENTRALA (Warsaw, Poland) Directed by Michał Zadara a co-presentation with Swarthmore College

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FringeArts Presents

Wednesday October 28 | 8pm Thursday October 29 | 8pm Friday October 30 | 8pm Saturday October 31 | 2pm* *Post-show panel discussion Chopin’s Body: Chopin as Theater with Tom Sellar, Yale School of Drama; Tamara Trojanowska, University of Toronto; moderated by Allen Kuharski, Swarthmore College A new form of musical performance!

Director Michał Zadara and actor Barbara Wysocka of CENTRALA (Warsaw, Poland) replace the piano parts of Fryderyk Chopin’s concertos in E minor and F minor with a riveting dramatic monologue. Climbing on top of the piano, Wysocka explores cultural, political, and philosophical tensions of the composer’s time that feel strikingly contemporary. Her highly physical virtuoso performance is accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and led by Warsaw National Opera’s rising young talent, conductor Bassem Akiki.

Artfully weaving together fragments of Chopin’s letters and music criticism from some of the finest writers and thinkers of our age, CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO captures the composer as a dynamic living presence within the full force of his music. It challenges us to think more deeply about the sustaining value of Chopin’s music, the tradition of live classical performance, and culture in the broadest sense.

For details + special events visit www.chopinwithoutpiano.com.

Photos: Natalia Kabanow

$25 (general) $17.50 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

“The defining aspect of Chopin’s art is alienation—from one’s country, from one’s music, from one’s family.

Which is not a way that anyone, outside or inside of Poland, has spoken about Chopin until now.”

Michał Zadara. director

Performances in Polish with English supertitles This presentation of CHOPIN WITHOUT PIANO has been supported

by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Additional support comes from the William J. Cooper Foundation (Swarthmore College), and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute (CULTURE.PL, Warsaw).

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Partita 2 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Rosas

“Before I was a choreographer, I was first a dancer, and that is what I still love the most.� Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, choreographer 8

FringeArts Presents

Sunday November 1 | 8pm Two famous choreographers rejoice in their love for their own dancing.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz reinvent their dance in the instant, and within the labyrinthine lines of Bach’s music played live by violinist Amandine Beyer.

Chords strike within their bodies, the counterpoint vibrates and comes to life, bodies begin to whirl.

In her opus of over forty dances, this is the first duet De Keersmaeker has composed for herself to dance with a man. Partita 2 presents a meticulous construction that plays off the whimsical, boyish, and at times titanic improvisatory flights of Charmatz.

Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Violin Amandine Beyer Produced by Rosas Dancers Boris Charmatz, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

$35 (general) $24.50 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) 75 minutes Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

Photos: Herman Sorgeloos

Partita 2 has been supported by Musée de la danse – Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne.

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FringeArts Presents

Age & Beauty

Miguel Gutierrez

Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ Tuesday November 10 | 8pm Wednesday November 11 | 8pm The anxiety of being an aging gay choreographer and midcareer stress. What happens next?

Age & Beauty is a suite of queer pieces that addresses the representation of the dancer, the physical and emotional labor of performance, tropes about the aging gay choreographer, the interaction of art making with administration, the idea of queer time and futurity, and mid-life anxieties about relevance, sustainability, and artistic burnout.

Part 1 is a duet for 43-year-old Gutierrez and 24-year-old dancer Mickey Mahar and follows from a packed set of precise unison dances to an irreverent and celebratory corruption of orderliness. Hyper-emotional affect is not only the conceptual and choreographic core of the performance, but also the only hope for continuing in this fucked up world.

$29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) 60 minutes Tickets: FringeArts.com 215.413.1318 / FringeArts Theater 10

Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/ was commissioned for the 2014 Whitney Biennial.

Part 2: Asian Beauty @ the Werq Meeting or The Choreographer & Her Muse or &:@& Friday November 13 | 8pm Saturday November 14 | 8pm

“The performance is not locked or fixed or out of time. You are watching a person who has history, story, context, future.

Time is embedded into the way that person moves, into what they know or have learned. None of us escapes that, whether or not we are dancing bodies.”

Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer

Relationships, money, and flights of fancy and being stuck in a room with people. All are at the center of all art making.

The second Age & Beauty installment features members of the choreographer’s long-term creative team: performer– choreographer Michelle Boulé, arts manager Ben Pryor, and lighting designer Lenore Doxsee. Retrospection and documents, old dances, lost ideas, e-mails, lights, secret recordings, re-arranged for a new look back, memory re-organized into mad dance.

“Mr. Gutierrez let them loose.

He sang. He sang into a microphone, wearing a dress of tulle, in a kind of defiant karaoke fantasy, but more than that, he made his material sing, transmuting it into emotional expression.” Brian Seibert, The New York Times

Photos: Ian Douglas

$29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) 90 minutes Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater The presentation of Age & Beauty Parts 1 & 2 was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Age & Beauty Part 2: Asian Beauty @ the Werq Meeting or The Choreographer & Her Muse or &:@& is made possible with support from the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Home/ S. 9th St. Kun Yang Lin/Dancers World Premiere!

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FringeArts Presents

What does it mean to be American? How do you define home? What is a citizen?

A dance company takes a look at itself and its neighbors for its next creation—informed by the stories of the diverse community along Philadelphia’s famed South 9th Street corridor, where KYL/D’s dance center—CHI Movement Arts Center—is located, and where artistic and executive directors Kun-Yang Lin and Ken Metzner reside. From the intensely personal to the universal experiences of all who call a new place home, in this multilayered, multi-textured performance, Kun Yang Lin and his dancers use their bodies to tell layered and personal stories of immigration and displacement.

Inspired by the community engagement methodologies of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, Kun Yang Lin—himself an immigrant from Taiwan— reveals how for many individuals amongst Philadelphia neighborhoods, immigration is at the root of our identities. Original music composed by Cory Neale.

$29 (general) $20.30 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

Photo: Bill Hebert

“Known for choreography embracing solemnity and Eastern spirituality, Lin draws dancers who tap into a reverence for humanity while exemplifying excellent modern technique and ensemble dancing.”

Merilyn Jackson, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Wednesday November 18 | 8pm Thursday November 19 | 8pm Friday November 20 | 8pm Saturday November 21 | 8pm

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A co-presentation with Ars Nova Workshop

Music Series: concerts on the fringe

Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra

Sunday November 22 | 8pm Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra.

Since the 1970s, composer and master hand drummer Adam Rudolph has been pioneering new sounds in jazz and world music for decades. Rudolph explores the musical forms, languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora, often through large ensembles.

His compositions display unusual relationships that culminate into wildly imaginative and unexpected sonic universes. Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, Foday Musa Suso and Hassan Hakmoun are a few of his many collaborators, who have informed his broad aesthetic. These extraordinary musicians, composers, and bandleaders comprise a who’s who of contemporary music—from Wilco to Cassandra Wilson to Ornette Coleman. Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra’s debut, Turning Towards the Light (Cuneiform Rune) will be released this fall.

Adam Rudolph: conductor Rez Abassi: guitar Damon Banks: bass guitar Marco Capelli: acoustic guitar + effects Nels Cline: guitar + effects Liberty Ellman: guiter + effects David Gilmore: Guitar + effects Joel Harrison: guitar + bass guitar + lap steel Jerome Harris: guitar + national steel guitar Miles Okazaki: guitar Kenny Wessel: guitar + banjo

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Photo: Charles Daniel Dawson

$15 Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater

Studio Series: works made for intimate spaces

No Face Performance Group

Photo: Jen Brown

Abbot Adam: None

Tuesday December 8 | 8pm Wednesday December 9 | 8pm Thursday December 10 | 7pm and 10pm None (rhymes with moan): The ninth hour after dawn.

The end of the day’s labors. Shadows lengthen, baths are drawn. Tools are put away and the people pause, looking back in preparation for the imminent close of day.

Then somebody falls to his knees and declares to the heavens: My vocation is love! At last I have found it!

I will be love itself! O luminous lighthouse of love, I know how to reach you. Love has chosen me for its holocaust; me, weak and imperfect creature. I want to suffer through love, to rejoice through love.

Abbot Adam is a cycle of shows that features Jaime Maseda and Mark McCloughan as two sister nuns steeped in Medieval traditions venturing into wildly new performance territory. Since 2007, the Philadelphia-based No Face has created shows that take many forms, from choreography to theater to installation performance. The first, Abbot Adam: Evensong, premiered at FringeArts in March 2015.

$20 (general) $14 (member) $15 (student + 25-and-under) Tickets: FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Theater The Abbot Adam cycle was developed, in part, with assistance from The Orchard Project, a program of The Exchange (www.exchangenyc.org).

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Scratch Night See it in the making.

Monday November 2 | 7pm Monday December 7 | 7pm Philly’s most talented artists try out new material in this fast-paced sampling of contemporary theater, dance, performance art, and everything in between.

Scratch Nights feature short performances by four-to-six artists/companies.

Photo: Johanna Austin / AustinArt.org

FREE / RSVP suggested FringeArts Theater

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Special Late Night

Late Night at La Peg Red 40 & The Last Groovement in residence First Fridays!

Get down with the funktastic sounds of Red 40 & The Last Groovement—a little naughty, a little trashy, a lot of sexy.

October 2 | 10:30pm November 6 | 10:30pm December 4 | 10:30pm New Year’s Funkin’ Eve December 31 | 10:30pm

New acts added every week! Check the schedule at FringeArts.com.

Charan Po Rantan Get ready for a candy-coated cabaret with sisters Koharu (accordion) and Momo (vocals), the effervescent pop duo known for their original music that incorporate the beats and melodies of pop, klezmer, circus, gypsy music and chanson as well as their covers of retro Japanese popular songs.

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Free FringeArts stage at La Peg + Haas Biergarten

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Creative, highenergy late night entertainment rocks out the bar and the outdoor Haas Biergarten into the wee hours of the night.

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18pan roasted striped bass warm autumnal salad, chicken jus

features a special that’s a culinary response to the artisty of11 that show. beef tartare mustard vinaigrette, scallion, cornichons, lemon, chorizo, egg yolk, grilled bread

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tuna tartare sustainable ahi tuna, soy, walnut oil, pickled

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French-inspired brasserie cuisine, a Peterthe Woolsey menu crafted from highest quality Executive Chef / Proprietor seasonal vegetables and humanely Nicholas Bazik raised meats. Small and big plates for Chef de Cuisine friends and family to share.

Haas Biergarten

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Enjoy a drink before a show with the city’s best view of the Ben Franklin Bridge. The Haas Biergarten at La Peg features a bar made from a refurbished shipping container, an outdoor kitchen grilling up a special menu, cold drinks in the summer, fire pits in the winter, and its own calendar of special FringeArts programming!

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