FringeArts Winter 2015 Quarterly

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Welcome to FringeArts We’re more than your once-a-year festival, now with year-round programs that bring the world’s best contemporary performances to Philadelphia while showcasing world-class artists from our own city. With multiple stages, a bar, restaurant, and an outdoor beer garden, FringeArts is an exciting new hub for innovative art, delicious food, and good conversation.

6 | 8pm First Friday Music The Divine Feminine curated by King Britt and Kate Watson-Wallace

6 | 8pm First Friday Music still life with music by Ensemble39

13 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Fest by Ivo Dimchev From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing available $50 (includes meal and ticket) 14 | 7pm FringeArts Presents Fest by Ivo Dimchev From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing available $50 (includes meal and ticket) 30 | 8pm Studio Series Everything One in the Disc of the Sun by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble Performance followed by a Golden Karaoke Party.

31 | 8pm Studio Series Everything One in the Disc of the Sun by Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble Performance followed by a Golden Karaoke Party.

6 | 11pm Late Night Red 40 & The Last Groovement (Free) 19 | 7pm Studio Series The Vulgar Early Works by Chelsea & Magda 20 | 7pm Studio Series The Vulgar Early Works by Chelsea & Magda 21 | 8pm Studio Series The Vulgar Early Works by Chelsea & Magda 27 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Rocco by ICKamsterdam (Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten) From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing available $50 (includes meal and ticket) 28 | 8pm FringeArts Presents Rocco by ICKamsterdam (Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten) From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing available $50 (includes meal and ticket)

6 | 11pm Late Night Red 40 & The Last Groovement (Free) 14 | Noon Music Series String Quartet in G minor, Opus 10 by Claude Debussy Quartet du Jour of the Philadelphia Orchestra From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing available $50 (includes meal and ticket) 18 | 8pm Studio Series Abbot Adam: Evensong by No Face Performance Group 27 | 8pm Music Series Corps Exquis by Daniel Wohl featuring Transit FringeArts thanks PNC Arts Alive as the inaugural sponsor of year-round programming.

We also thank William Penn Foundation, Independence Foundation, MKM Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, PA Council on the Arts, Barra Foundation, Virginia Cretella Mars Foundation, and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund for their support.

Tickets

Location and Parking

La Peg

Purchase tickets at FringeArts.com or call 215.413.1318.

No onsite parking. See map for nearby parking lots. Street parking is metered in Old City and on Columbus Boulevard.

The restaurant and bar at FringeArts.

Tickets available at the door one hour before show time.

Membership Join now at FringeArts.com/ membership.

Members save 30% on tickets plus receive priority access to tickets and seats, and enjoy VIP treatment at all events!

Selected as the Best Membership in Philadelphia Magazine’s Best of Philly 2014.

Subway: Market-Frankford Line 2nd St. Station at 2nd St. and Market St. Buses: 5, 17, 25, 21, 33, 42, 48, 57 All above numbered buses stop within close walking distance of FringeArts.

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FringeArts + La Peg 140 North Columbus Boulevard (at Race Street) Philadelphia, PA 19106 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318

From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing No ordinary dinner-and-a-show special! La Peg’s executive chef Peter Woolsey creates a once-in-a-lifetime culinary pairing to the artistry of the show. $50 includes show ticket and meal. See page 17 for details.

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Music Series: concerts on the fringe

Scratch Night The popular, long running works-in-progress series at FringeArts.

Monday January 5 | 7pm Monday February 2 | 7pm Monday March 2 | 7pm

FREE / RSVP suggested FringeArts Mainstage

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Photo: Johanna Austin

Come see a roster of Philly’s most talented artists perform new material from shows they are working on in this fast-paced sampling of contemporary theater, dance, performance art, and everything in between. Scratch Nights feature short performances by four-tosix companies/artists.

ICP Orchestra + Ken Vandermark/ Nate Wooley Duo

Photo: Jelmer de Haas

First Monday of every month!

Sunday January 11 | 8pm Explore fantastic new sounds and far out sonic spaces with two groups of great experimenters.

ICP Orchestra Ragtime to swing, composed pieces to improvisation, bop to free jazz, classical to carnivalesque, the ICP Orchestra continues its run at the forefront of experimental, category-bending music. Instant Composers Pool (ICP) is a collective of Dutch composers and improvisers, formed in 1967 by Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, and Willem Breuker.

Ken Vandermark/Nate Wooley Duo Ken Vandermark is an American jazz composer and saxophone and clarinet player. A fixture on the Chicago-area music scene, Vandermark, a 1999 MacArthur Fellow, has earned critical praise for his playing and his multi-layered compositions, which balance intricate orchestration with passionate improvisation.

Nate Wooley is one of the most in-demand trumpet players in the burgeoning Brooklyn jazz, improv, noise, and new music scenes. He has performed regularly with John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, and Yoshi Wada. Wooley’s solo playing is often cited as part of an international revolution in improvised trumpet.

FringeArts Mainstage $15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318

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Fest “One day I just realized how bored I am from the conventional way of my everyday professional communications.”

Ivo Dimchev

“[Dimchev] meshes darkness and lightness with verbal and physical dexterity.” Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

FringeArts Presents

Ivo Dimchev (Bulgaria) Tuesday January 13 | 7pm Wednesday January 14 | 7pm At the headquarters of an imaginary festival in Copenhagen, the performance artist Ivo Dimchev discusses with a curator the terms for presenting his latest show. What begins as a hilariously dry and realistic negotiation soon transforms professional protocol into a manifestation of sexual fantasy and power.

Photo: Danny Willems

Ivo Dimchev is a choreographer and performer who concocts extreme and colorful mixtures of performance art, dance, theater, music, and imagery. Fest is performed by Nicola Schoessler, Annina Machaz, Mirko Feliziani, and Ivo Dimchev.

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$29 / Student and 25-and-under $15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage Advisory: Contains nudity and sexually explicit scenes.

From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing $50 / includes three-course meal and ticket (does not include drinks or gratuity) Reservations required for From Scratch tickets.

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Friday February 6 | 8pm

First Friday Music: concerts on the fringe

Studio Series: works made for intimate spaces

Friday January 30 | 8pm Saturday January 31 | 8pm Performances followed by a Golden Karaoke Party.

At the end of time, three Osirian priests gather at a pseudo-Egyptian karaoke bar to perform their favorite tracks from the self-help repertoire. They sing, chant, and recite forgotten hits from the VHS vaults of gurus, cult leaders, corporate speakers, and extraterrestrial mediums.

All under the cosmic glow of an LED pyramid.

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble (ROKE) is a musical priesthood that explores the psychic terrain of selfhelp movements at the turn of the 20th century.

Everything One in the Disc of the Sun features Tei Blow, Siobhan Gandy, and Sean McElroy.

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Studio

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The Divine Feminine Presented by anonymous bodies Curated by King Britt and Kate Watson-Wallace

A one-time-in-the-history-of-the-world experience.

FEATURES Xenia Rubinos (percussion and vocals) is a music maker who uses her powerful voice to create beats and melodies from scratch.

Monica McIntyre (cello) seamlessly blends blues, soul, classical, jazz, reggae, and Middle Eastern sounds into an unforgettable musical landscape.

Low Leaf (keyboards and vocals) is a Los Angeles based multiinstrumentalist, vocalist, composer, and producer.

Jasmine Hearn (dance) is a new breed of dancer, choreographer, performer, collaborator, storyteller, artist, and activist.

Ryat (electronics and vocals) has a maximalist production approach, often experimenting in electronics, odd time signatures, vocal looping, and lush soundscapes.

Linda Aubry Bullock (visuals) creates stop motion animation, video collages, and sound art, favoring intense, nuanced color and the borders between abstract and concrete.

After party features the DJ duo The Queens throwing down more tunes of the Divinely Feminine.

Photo: Shervin Lainez

Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble

“We made karaoke videos for the songs using things from the contemporary world that we thought made sense with the subject matter, and then realized that we had created a mythology that we could easily inhabit.”

Tei Blow of Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble

Photo: Maria Baranova

Everything One in the Disc of the Sun

“An environment wherein one’s critical frame got nudged, over and over again, between operating under two assumptions: that of arch irony, and that of flat-out sincerity.”

Culturebot

An evening of groundbreaking artists in music, video, and dance join forces to create a new future, and celebrate the stature and wisdom of the Divine Feminine across cultures.

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage 7

Chelsea & Magda

Studio Series: works made for intimate spaces

The Vulgar Early Works

Thursday February 19 | 7pm Friday February 20 | 7pm Saturday February 21 | 8pm An evening-length concert of self-love, subversive humor, feminist spit, sexual-angst-ridden cries against society gloriously performed in an abstracttheater-meets-TED-Talk-meets-modern-dancemeets-weird-therapeutic-seminar kind of way.

The dynamic Philly-based dance and performance art duo Chelsea & Magda began creating work together two years ago. They’re not waiting thirty years to unearth their early works. They decided to do so now with a recombination and composting of everything the ladies have been up to since they met.

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Studio

Photo: Josh McIlvain

“The discovery of the evening, for me, was the zany duo of Chelsea Murphy and Magda San Millan.” Brian Seibert, The New York Times

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“We are very playful. We believe almost religiously in laughing at each other and ourselves as a way to name our habits and find our fascinations. Laughter is a brake that says: stop for a second, the way you did that last thing was so strange and wonderful.” Magda San Millan of Chelsea & Magda 9

“The balletic bouts of speedy steps, jabbed limbs and torqued torsos are choreographed in strict rotational symmetry and tied to the arrhythmic jitters of a percussive score.” The Guardian

FringeArts Presents

“When you watch the footage of Mohammad Ali it resembles the amorous game of attracting and rejecting one another. We also wanted to investigate the aesthetics of beating the living daylights out of one another.”

Pieter C. Scholten, co-creator

Friday February 27 | 8pm Saturday February 28 | 8pm A boxing match becomes a dance, a dance becomes a boxing match. Brothers are locked in an eternal bout of love and brutality and hate.

On a stage transformed into a boxing ring with audience seating on three sides, male fighterdancers perform a virtuosic display of close combat-choreography. Be a witness to an animalistic courtship of intelligence, masculinity and physicality, extreme control and iron discipline of the boxing body and the dancing body. Until somebody gets knocked out.

Choreography and direction by Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten.

Rocco is inspired by Luchino Visconti’s 1960 classic neo-realist film, Rocco & His Brothers, and by fraternal rivalries of history and mythology. Since 1995 Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten have worked together to search for new dance forms.

Rocco

$29 / Student and 25-and-under $15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage

Photo: Alwin Poiana

ICKamsterdam (Emio Greco | Pieter C. Scholten)

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From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing $50 / includes three-course meal and ticket (does not include drinks or gratuity) Reservations required for From Scratch tickets.

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Music Series: concerts on the fringe

Program includes: Children of the Fire by Gabriella Smith Playing off the rhythms of Haitian drum circles, this exploration of the artist in exile is based on Edwidge Danticat’s Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work.

Bone Chinoiserie and the Alabastard Cowboy

by Vin Calianno A spaghetti western of classical music that takes its cues from the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Quentin Tarantino, with an original film accompaniment. still life with music (world premiere) by Ted Babcock After such classics as the Odyssey and Beowulf, this new work delves into the sonic and dramatic landscapes of epics.

Photo: Josh McIlvain

still life with music

Ensemble39 or E39 is an ensemble of young classical musicians and Curtis Institute graduates, who embrace a wide spectrum of new music, are just at home in a beer hall as a recital room, and who have worked with some of the best young composers of their generation.

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage

String Quartet in G minor, Opus 10 by Claude Debussy Quartet du Jour of the Philadelphia Orchestra

Saturday March 14 | Noon Juliette Kang, William Polk: violins Kerri Ryan: viola Yumi Kendall: cello Enjoy a special noontime performance in La Peg, accompanied by a one-time-only brunch menu created by La Peg’s executive chef Peter Woolsey and inspired by Debussy’s score.

The Debussy String Quartet, from 1893, was a pivotal work—a turning point in classical music away from, and beyond, what came before. It is the only known string quartet he ever composed, but it helped changed the creative direction of classical music forever.

FringeArts Stage at La Peg FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing $50 / includes three-course meal and ticket (does not include drinks or gratuity) Reservations required.

Image: Jasper Hawk

First Friday Music: concerts on the fringe

Friday March 6 | 8pm

“Debussy’s String Quartet is a total blast to play, with lots of colors, textures, rhythmic, and melodic components that are awesome for audience and artists alike.” Yumi Kendall, cellist 13

Music Series: concerts on the fringe

Studio Series: works made for intimate spaces

Wednesday March 18 | 8pm Earth and all stars! Prepare as songs of deviant medieval nuns, devotion, and desire abound.

The vernal equinox arrives with a liturgy of evening prayer brought to you by Sisters Sibyl and Sistine.

This concert event contemplates life’s great mysteries with cabaret-like canticle, confessional, and karaoke.

Abbot Adam is a cycle of shows that features Jaime Maseda and Mark McCloughan as two sister nuns steeped in Medieval tradition venturing into wildly new performance territory.

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage

Friday March 27 | 8pm Experience this large-scale multimedia performance at the intersection of video installation, rock concert, avant-garde cinema, and experimental classical and electronic music. Corp Exquis was created in the fashion of the parlor game exquisite corpse, developed by the Surrealists of 1920s Paris. Now, in concert form, the mix of live music, electronics, and stunning video art comes alive in an evening of supreme musicianship and visual grandeur.

Daniel Wohl: electronics Transit: piano, percussion, violin, cello, and clarinet The album version of Corps Exquis (New Amsterdam Records) was voted best album of 2013 by WNYC New Sounds listeners and included in NPR Music’s top 100 songs of 2013.

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“We’re really excited by this combination of purity, devotion, ecstasy, sex, desire, violence, horror and melodrama found in paintings from the lives of saints, mystics, and laypeople.” Jaime Maseda, co-creator and performer of Abbot Adam: Evensong

Corps Exquis Daniel Wohl featuring Transit

Photo courtesy of the artist

Abbot Adam: Evensong

Photos: Jen Brown

$15 FringeArts.com / 215.413.1318 FringeArts Mainstage

“Vivid, detailed and engaging . . . boldly surreal aural experience.” Steve Smith, The New York Times

“All my electronic sounds are derived from acoustic instruments, so I’m continuously trying to change the perception of what’s produced by an instrument and what is processed.” Daniel Wohl, composer

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From Scratch: Show and Food Pairing Enjoy a three-course menu inspired by a show presented at FringeArts, and then see the show! (Or see the show, then eat the meal!) Once a month, Chef Peter Woolsey creates a culinary pairing to the ideas, themes, and performers of a show presented at FringeArts.

• $ 50 includes dinner and show (not including drinks and gratuity).

• A vailable during run of one show per month by reservation.

Enjoy a large selection of Slavin European Michael and American craftGeneral beers,Manager and a wine list with offerings for every palate and every pairing.

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• S pecial menu available 90min–2hrs before show time and till 10pm after the show.

Dinner 5:00–10:30 Monday–Thursday 5:00–11:30 Friday–Saturday 5:00–10:00 Sunday

• P atrons are emailed one day prior to reservation with Chef’s inspiration for the special menu.

Brunch 11:00–2:00 Saturday and Sunday Bar open late every night. We are committed to accommodating any guest’s food restrictions.

Photos: Peggy Woolsey

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

Full details and restrictions at lapegbrasserie.com.

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Creative, high-energy late night entertainment rocks the restaurant and bar into the wee hours of the night.

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

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Red 40 & The Last Groovement on First Fridays!

Photos: Josh McIlvain

FringeArts Late Night at La Peg

Special Late Night

All Late Nights: 11pm | FREE

Friday February 6 | 11pm Friday March 6 | 11pm Get down with the funktastic sounds of Red 40 & The Last Groovement—a little naughty, a little trashy, a lot of sexy.

Free FringeArts stage at La Peg

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Give Now Join the Producers Circle and gain exclusive access to the shows, the art, and the artists. Sponsor a show of your choice with a donation of $1,000 or more.

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Year-round programming continues with some of Philadelphia’s favorite companies as well as provocative artists from across the country.

2015 Fringe Festival September 3 to 19

Make Your Contribution Contact Sandy Upton, Development Director, at 267-612-4902 or Sandy@FringeArts.com.

This year’s Festival will feature a selection of highly influential international artists and companies, along with shows of massive scale.

Visit FringeArts.com/Support.

Make out your check to FRINGEARTS and mail to: Attn: Sandy Upton FringeArts 140 North Columbus Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19106

Spring 2015

Pig Iron Theater Company Sam Green and yMusic Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental <fidget> Rude Mechanicals zoe | juniper

Photo: Maria Baranova

FringeArts needs your support to bring the best in performing arts programming to Philadelphia year-round.

Coming to FringeArts

Lucinda Childs, Frank Gehry, and John Adams Jo Strømgren Pieter Ampe Toneelgroep Amsterdam

Keep up to date as new artists are added at FringeArts.com.

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