“So much of dance is incomprehensible,” choreographer John Jasperse said in 2000. “As I make more work, I’m not as interested in having to explain. What is so interesting is the stuff you can’t explain.” Bryn Mawr College’s Performing Arts Series will return to Jasperse’s groundbreaking work, Fort Blossom—performed only once before at New York City performance space The Kitchen in 2000—as Fort Blossom Revisited (2000/2012), with support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance. Jasperse, who dance critic Anna Kisselgoff has described as “one of the best of the truly experimental artists,” is the recipient of a 2011 United States Artist Fellowship and a 2001 Bessie Award, among many other accolades. He has taken this opportunity to not only revisit the choreography, as the new title suggests, but to contemporize the work and push the limits of the previous staging.
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Titanic: The Rise of Rosenbach, on view through June 24
Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the international tragedy of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, the Rosenbach Museum & Library presents Titanic: The Rise of Rosenbach, on view through June 24. The exhibition follows the story of book dealer Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach as he hears about the sinking of the Titanic and realizes that his friend and protégé, Harry Elkins Widener, has gone down with the ship. Visitors are invited to learn the details of the tragic event and how, ultimately, Dr. Rosenbach’s personal loss led to professional success as he undertook a project that positioned him to become the greatest rare-books dealer of the 20th century: the creation of Harvard’s Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library.
Marvels & Monsters at the Asian Arts Initiative
Much more than a treasure trove for fans of graphic fiction, the exhibition Marvels & Monsters: Unmasking Asian Images in U.S. Comics, 1942-1986 at Asian Arts Initiative offers a captivating look at America’s evolving racial and cultural sensibility as it is perceived in comic books. Marvels & Monsters, on view February 3 through March 23, draws from the unique collection of science fiction author and cultural studies scholar William F. Wu, whose assemblage of comic images is the world’s largest of its kind.
SkyDive Showing!
Happy New Year to the Philadelphia arts community, You are invited the sixth SkyDive Showing! Dive into 2012 with FREE live art in an intimate setting on Friday, January 20th at 8 pm. This New Year’s edition will feature: Jaxon Movement Arts, choreography by Jacquline Stewart, winner of the 2011 Chicago A.W.A.R.D! Show Ryan Eckes, whose book Old
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Lincoln Luck, a performance at the Painted Bride
The seed for this performance, “Lincoln Luck”, was possibly planted in the late 1980s in my childhood home in Bristol, Va. 7 years old. My father, an actor, preparing to create the image of the late president Abraham Lincoln. Preparing in our den next to the kitchen.
Nicole Bindler: Dance Apocalypse
Nicole Bindler, Philadelphia-based choreographer, improviser, educator and bodyworker, is a body-based performing artist whose work ranges from personal and political commentaries to abstract explorations of form. She has choreographed over twenty original performance works and has performed over 200 improvised dances since 1999, many of which occurred right here in Philadelphia. “A fixture in Philadelphia’s
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Superheroes Who Are Super! Santa-Claus, Meet Spider-Man
Superheroes Who Are Super! Brings Christmas and Hanukah stories that will make your spidey sense tingle.
