2012 Live Arts Festival Preview

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an Rothenberg, Artistic Director and Founder, D Pig Iron Theatre Company

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LIVE ARTS PREVIEW 27

World Premiere

New Paradise Laboratories The provocative theater company returns to its roots with this muscular live performance. Expect ravishing images, provocative ideas, and high weirdness.

Directed by Whit MacLaughlin.

“The group’s multilayered projects are playfully absurdist critiques of society at large—magnetically visual.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

emotion. Performed and conceived by artists with perceived intellectual disabilities (small metal objects, Live Arts Festival, 2009).

“Stunned is a word easily reached for, but in this case, I think it’s a precise description.” Theatre Notes (Australia)

Arguendo

chelfitsch (Japan) From acclaimed Japanese playwrightdirector Toshiki Okada, this triptych of plays captures the malaise of young low-level office workers with humor and striking movement.

“One of the most acclaimed phenomena in Japan’s theater scene.” CNN

Elevator Repair Service Brings the U.S. Supreme Court to town with the staging of oral arguments from Barnes vs. Glen Theatre Inc., which concerned an Indian law banning public nudity, and how that may be upheld, or not, in the context of go-go dancers.

“Elevator Repair Service works with intelligence and imagination.” Variety

Bang

World Premiere

Charlotte Ford A hilariously bold and dangerously inventive comedic-clown-theaterspectacular performed by Charlotte Ford, Sarah Sanford, and Lee Etzold.

“One of the bravest local performanceart personages to come along in the last decade.” Philadelphia City Paper

FOOD COURT

U.S. Premiere

Back to Back Theatre (Australia) Presented in association with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts The story of a woman’s struggle with bullying is a stunning mix of live drama, digital projections, music, shadows, and

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Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech

Le Grand Continental

Sylvain Émard Danse (Montreal) More than 200 Philly dancers train for eight weeks and then perform the most epic contemporary dancing event ever assembled. At the Philadelphia Museum of Art Plaza. Free.

“An enormous wave of pleasure flows from Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental.” Danser (Paris)

Minister of Mascots

World Premiere

Pig Iron Theatre Company Philadelphia’s premier physical theater company collaborates with renowned Japanese playwright-director Toshiki Okada. Features James Sugg, Dito van Reigersberg, and Alex Torra. Directed by Dan Rothenberg.

“Inventive staging and sublime displays of whimsy.” The New York Times

Open Air

World Premiere

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Commissioned by the Fairmount Park Art Association Twenty-four robotic searchlights along a half-mile of the Ben Franklin Parkway respond to the frequencies of your voice. Lozano-Hemmer’s art was featured at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. Free.

“Lozano-Hemmer’s work shows the great range of human emotion on display.“ The Times Of London

Private Places

World Premiere

idiosynCrazy productions Choreographer Jumatatu Poe mixes explosiveness and confinement, and infuses high-powered J-Setting movement into a piece that explores the dual nature of privacy and performance.

“Wonderfully scrappy . . . and physically inventive vision.” Star Tribune

Sequence 8

U.S. Premiere

7 Fingers (Montreal) Presented in association with the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Fresh from their 2011 Live Arts hit Traces, 7 Fingers returns with the U.S. premiere of Sequence 8, placing the extraordinary element of circus in everyday contexts.

“A gorgeously pure, loose, and personal circus.” The Chicago Tribune Tickets now on sale at www.kimmelcenter.org or call 215.893.1999.

RED-EYE to HAVRE de GRACE

Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental + The Wilhelm Brothers Director Thaddeus Phillips explores Edgar Allan Poe’s last days, spent on trains between Richmond and New York, in this wondrous hybrid of theater, musical, and dance.

“Filled with mysterious and often gorgeous effects, both aural and visual.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Gate Reopened

Brian Sanders’ JUNK Choreographer Brain Sanders re-imagines his thrilling 2003 hit, The Gate, on an even grander scale.

“The Gate is like an electrified wire: dangerous and extremely powerful.”

Philadelphia Weekly

This Town Is A Mystery

World Premiere

Headlong Dance Theater Four Philly households present fullyproduced dance theater pieces—with lights, sound, costumes, and set design—in their living rooms. After the show audiences enjoy a pot-luck supper with the artists.

“Fiendishly inventive.” The New Yorker

UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company A co-presentation with The University of the Arts Six stars of the downtown New York theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together for an exhilarating and irreverent celebration of limitless identity.

“One of the more moving and imaginative works I have ever seen on the American stage.” The New Yorker

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