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Provocative Dance, Film, Theater, and Exhibitions Come to University City as Part of Philadelphia's Fringe FestivalFor 16 days in September, the Fringe Festival features some of the most sought after and talked about performing arts events in Philadelphia. Productions are from a full spectrum of colorful work that falls within, between and sometimes beyond the standard categories of theater, dance, performance art, music, film, poetry and puppetry. National and international performers come to the Festival to present new visions and thought provoking work that expands the boundaries and directions of their art form. The festival attracts nearly 50,000 attendees every year. This year, the Fringe Festival highlights the diversity and remarkable artistic and cultural breadth of University City. The home of such ground-breaking performance art and cultural venues as the International House, the Community Education Center (CEC), and The Rotunda, University City will be showcasing fifteen events including breathtaking multi-media performances, provocative dance, film, theater, and exhibitions featuring distinguished contemporary artists. During this year’s Fringe Fest, experience University City teeming with engaging arts and energy. Friday, September 3 at 8pm and Saturday, Sept. 5th at 2pm and 8pm | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue Mother, May I Andrew Jennetti and Dancers (NYC) Mother, May I is an evening of solos and duets from a choreographer that has contributed a great deal to the community of dance since the company's inception in 1982. A native Philadelphian, Mr. Jannetti returns to his hometown for the first time to present an evening of works that speak directly to his early childhood experiences. Jannetti and his dancing partner, Lauren Naslund will present an evening of dances that are "sculptures of emotional experience", "Neo-romantic", "dramatically persuasive" and "inspirational", says the NY Times. Tickets are $15, students and senior citizens: $10, children under 12: $5 Press Contact: Andrew Jannetti, 212-431-7313, Email: info@andrewjannettianddancers.org Opening: September 4 at 1pm | Ellen Powell Tiberino Museum, 3819 Hamilton Street Ongoing: September 5 – October 4 Artists Against the End of the World One hundred distinguished contemporary artists bring voice to the hopes and fears of humanity and question the present state of affairs in the world today in this bold visual art coup d'état. Each creative mind exercises freedom of speech by punching holes in the darkness that threatens to envelop us all. Free. Sat-Sun 12:00pm-5:00pm or by appointment. Opening: Saturday, September 4 at 7pm | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street Closing: Sunday, September 26 at 7pm | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street Untold Stories: Fighting Poverty in a Land of Plenty An Exhibition of performance and visual art. Organized by the School of Arts and Culture of the University of the Poor, and the Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU). At the beginning of any social movement is the showing of that which has been invisible, and the telling of untold stories. Untold Stories is an art show that begins to tell some of these stories, as part of the movement to end poverty. A dozen artists will use performance, poetry, video, and visual arts to explore not only the conditions of poverty that exist in this country, but also the movement to end these conditions. Free Admission. Viewing Hours: Tuesday September 7 (4-7pm), Thursday September 9 (4-7pm), Tuesday September 14 (4-5pm), Sunday September 26, 4-7pm. Art can also be viewed during any public event at The Rotunda. For a list of public events, http://foundationarts.org/events.html or http://www.universityofthepoor.org/school/artists or http://www.kwru.org. September 7 and 8 at 9pm | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue (Sept. 14 and 15 at 8 PM at Christ Church) Ripped! (from Local Headlines) Ripped! is a living newspaper of the Philadelphia experience, which reveals the poetic truth behind the cold, hard facts of today's headlines. The plan is to stage a seamless, non-stop piece of theater that moves with the pace of breaking news. The production will have minimal staging. Philadelphia Dramatists Center playwrights and City Paper journalists have collaborated to create six short plays inspired by recent City Paper articles. It promises to be an hour of intimate, bare-bones theater where nothing comes between the actors, the audience, and the truth behind the headlines! Ripped (from Local Headlines), where theater and journalism meet. The playwrights are Greg Benevent, Donald Drake, Richard Gary, Kate McGrath, T. J. Stokes and David Usner, the journalists are Deborah Bolling, Amy Webb, Mary Patel and Mike Regan. The directors are Aaron Oster and Sara Judge. Ticket are $10. Press Contact: Lee Pucklis, Producer 302 529-0499, Email: lpucklis@hotmail.com September 7, 8 and 14 at 8pm | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street Illuminescence Light becomes the foundational element through which sculpture and movement arise and coalesce. In a collaborative effort with Philadelphia artist/sculptor Robert Woodward, also known as Peanut Butter, this original dance performance is a lush fusion of colors, emerging to create an array of visual illusions while set to a mix of world electronica. Also featuring a performance by Flash Rosenberg September 9 at 10pm and Midnight | Dahlak, 4708 Baltimore Avenue Grupo Amigos Carl Barone’s new music for good people is a hot-handed expression of the combinations made possible through experimentations in world music. With influences from Africa, Cuba, Brazil, and North America, this show of deep rhythms and sailing melodies will delight your mind and move your body. $5. 80 minutes. September 9 – 11 at 8PM | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue Jimmy the D Demo Theater. Written by: Bill Hollenbach and Directed by: Mark Knight. Jimmy the D is a wonderfully frantic farce; there’s a wedding, flirting, accounting, innuendo, food; and a brilliantly funny look at our obsession with consuming and being consumed. Tickets are $15. Press contact: Mark Knight http://www.NationalTheater.org/Demo Thursday, September 9 and Monday, September 13 at 7pm | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street Neighbors Two Israeli neighbors from the Galilee -- Arab musician Waseem Bishara and Jewish actor Pablo Ariel - have an intimate dialogue through music and "object theater." A thought-provoking exploration of human similarities without words. Meet the performers at the MYX Gallery, 110 Church Street, Philadelphia on Friday, September 10. Presented by the Multicultural Youth eXchange, the Consulate General of Israel in Philadelphia, the American-Israeli Partnership for the Arts and International House. Saturday, September 11 at 4pm and Sunday, September 12 at 8pm | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue Electrovideomove (Lowell, MA) 911 Gallery, Royal Jelly Collective, and Voidstar Productions Electrovideomove puts a new ‘spin’ on multi-media by weaving together improvised live electronic music, video, and movement into an exciting web of performance. Each 15 minute set combines a different musician, and video artist with dancers. The setlist is determined randomly before the performance. Since January 2004, Electrovideomove has performed in New York City at Primal Digital, and in Boston at Zeitgeist Gallery, Artists at Large, and Artbeat! 2004. Electrovideomove aims to redefine the club scene and to build a cohesive web of communication between Post-modern Dance, Electronic Music and Video Art. Tickets are $5. Press Contact: Walter Wright, 978.452.8138. Email: walter_wright@uml.edu Saturday, September 11 at 7pm | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street The Text of Light Group The Text of Light Group (featuring Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, Alan Licht & William Hooker) returns to International House to present a live improvised score to Stan Brakhage’s Ellipses (1998) and Star Garden (1974). The performance will be preceded by a program of short experimental films, specially curated by the group, and featuring works by Ira Cohen, Bruce Connors, Phil Niblock, Malcolm Le Grice with original soundtracks composed by The Sun Ra Arkestra, Brian Eno, Terry Riley and Angus Maclise. Saturday, September 11 at 4pm and Sunday, September 12 at 12pm | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street Anna Bella Eema - A Spoken Wordplay Written by Lisa D'Amour. Music by Chris Sordofsky Highway construction threatens ten-year-old Anna Bella and her mom, Irene, with eviction from their trailer park. Unable to cope, Irene withdraws into her own head. But Anna Bella, frustrated by her own inaction, makes a new girl, Anna Bella Eema, out of mud. Eema forces Anna Bella and Irene through changes that push their ferocious bond past its limits. Before long, Irene no longer even recognizes Anna Bella as the daughter she knew. Characters include Irene, Anna bella, Anna bella Eema, social worker, construction workers, policeman, Frankenstein, Dirty Louie, Bertha the Owl, Fox, Department of Transportation official, policemen, nurse, 2 gossiping mothers. Free Admission. Sunday, September 12 at 1pm | International House, 3701 Chestnut Street The Passion of Joan of Arc dir. Carl Th. Dreyer, France, 1928, video, 104 mins, b/w, English intertitles w/ music by Loren Connors The trial and death of Joan of Arc, her sufferings and her ecstasy, form the subject of Dreyer’s great film from the end of the silent period. Huge close-ups dominate, oblique camera angles express a subjective point of view, with Marie Falconetti’s intense performance as Joan remaining one of the most famous in film history. This special version of the Dreyer classic, re-edited by guitarist Loren Connors, features a new score he has specially prepared for the film. Sunday, September 12 at 4pm | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue body-subject body-object Burnbrige Clark Dance Project Dancers/choreographers Elisha Clark and Anne Burnbrige manipulate the gaze by playing with who is watching whom- audience or performer! Tickets are $10. Friday, September 17 and Saturday September 18 at 7:30pm | The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street LYSISTRATA, a modern adaptation. Directed by Lili Bita. Adaptation by Robert Zander. LYSISTRATA, a comedy by Greek dramatist Aristophanes (c. 447 - c. 385 b.c.e.), tells the story of a group of women from opposing states who unite to end the Peloponnesian War. After matronly stormtroopers take over the building where public funds are kept, the women rise to end the war by withholding sex from their mates -- Until, desperate for intimacy, the men finally agree to lay down their swords and see their way to achieving diplomatic peace. ADMISSION by ticket (price being confirmed) September 17 –18 at 8pm | CEC, 3500 Lancaster Avenue Triumvirate Milsy Mason Davis, Victoria Leigh Rothstein, and Ashley Lecille Suttlar Experience a powerful evening of new choreography by three local emerging artists. This event has something for everyone, from themes that are light and comical to social commentary about serious topics in the news. Hailed as "artistically mature and flawless" by Las Vegas Sun, Milsy M. Davis premieres. Co-founder of Mobuis BLUE dance collective, Victoria L. Rothstein presents. Praised for her "bold, vivid and seamless" choreography by Philadelphia Inquirer, Ashley L. Suttlar presents. Tickets are $15. Tickets are available online at www.LIVEARTS-FRINGE.ORG, or The Festival Box Office, 620 Chestnut Street, or by phone at 215-413-1318. # # # Release Date: Wednesday, September 1st 2004
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