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LET’S ROCK The Rocky Awards celebrate Philadelphia Dance tonight.
There’s no question in my mind that Philadelphia has one of the most impressive dance scenes around. Dancers, choreographers and companies from all over the country…and the world have come to Philadelphia to make a home and this has resulted in a rich and generous dance community. We’re celebrating this tonight at the Rocky Awards, where there are no panels and no judges, just fellow dancers and collaborators who want to honor their peers… and have a lot of fun.
Your hosts tonight are dancer, choreographer and clown, Nichole Canuso, Pig Iron’s Barrymore Award Winner, Emmanuelle Delpeche-Ramey, and me! We have some fun shenanigans planned for you, but the real treat is in the dance programming Nick Stuccio has put together for the event. The high-flying Janette Hough and Valentine April are on the bill along with the fierce duo of Rene Robinson-Buzby and Katherine Livingston. Paule Turner, Duchess’ edgy company, Court, and Yu Wei who relocated from China will also be in the program. It’s a veritable who’s who of Philadelphia Dance.
And I also have some juicy gossip for you. Last year at the Rockys, the dance community voted for three dancers who they would most like to see perform in the nude. Your “hostesses with the most-esses” have been working on making that dream a reality, so if you want to know if we’ve succeeded, you better be there tonight.
But this is SERIOUS DANCE, PEOPLE… followed by the dance party to end all dance parties, so put on your dancing shoes and join us tonight at 8pm.
And if you miss the Rockys, don’t think you’re done with dance at the festivals. There are a lot of great performances coming up this week that you’ll definitely want to see.
On the agenda:
Brian Sanders’ Junk returns to the festival with AdShock, a dance piece with stunning physical prowess, leaping, contorting, and generally defying of the laws of gravity.
Challenging dance forms from the strictest traditions is butoh master, Akira Kasai. Pollen Revolution is a daring and charismatic solo that transforms the Japanese art form and takes the audience on a surreal journey through time, cultures and states of being. This is another limited run. 9/9 – 9/12, so don’t let this opportunity pass.
Leah Stein Dance Company takes us off the beaten path once again with CornerStone. Her look at life and death brings her audience to the historic Christ Church cemetery for some mysterious meditation and a taste of the absurd. As with a few of our site-specific pieces, there is a limited number of tickets per show so be sure to plan ahead.
Babel, by Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre, promises to be properly disturbing and politically potent. For this collaboration with benchtours, the Scottish international theater ensemble directed by Peter Clerke, Melanie Stewart and her powerful female performers merge their own physicality with boufon-like attacks on contemporary issues. They pull no punches with their critique of the Bush Administration, which should make for quite a fiery Festival Plus discussion on 9/11 as well.
In the Fringe some dance pieces this week includes 3 on Top, 4x4 new Dances, Amneisia, Three Ladies in Waiting and Yu Wei (who will also be performing at the Rockys tonight)
Merilyn Jackson, the Inquirer’s dance critic, is putting some power in the hands of the audience. On the 17th of September she will give a little writers workshop/ dissection of the critics process for her review of Zen in the Basement Dance Company’s performance of Off the Map.
Now for the sad news: Sorry folks, but Hotel Pool has sold out for the entire run. If I hear ANYTHING about an added show, I will be sure to let you know. They will be touring to MASS MOCHA, PICA’s Time Based Arts Festival for those of you non-ticket holders who like to travel, but if you have tickets already, they are like gold.
Advice for the day: There are quite a few sold out runs already, so make sure you check in with the box office before showing up at the door.
Your Ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold
There’s no question in my mind that Philadelphia has one of the most impressive dance scenes around. Dancers, choreographers and companies from all over the country…and the world have come to Philadelphia to make a home and this has resulted in a rich and generous dance community. We’re celebrating this tonight at the Rocky Awards, where there are no panels and no judges, just fellow dancers and collaborators who want to honor their peers… and have a lot of fun.
Your hosts tonight are dancer, choreographer and clown, Nichole Canuso, Pig Iron’s Barrymore Award Winner, Emmanuelle Delpeche-Ramey, and me! We have some fun shenanigans planned for you, but the real treat is in the dance programming Nick Stuccio has put together for the event. The high-flying Janette Hough and Valentine April are on the bill along with the fierce duo of Rene Robinson-Buzby and Katherine Livingston. Paule Turner, Duchess’ edgy company, Court, and Yu Wei who relocated from China will also be in the program. It’s a veritable who’s who of Philadelphia Dance.
And I also have some juicy gossip for you. Last year at the Rockys, the dance community voted for three dancers who they would most like to see perform in the nude. Your “hostesses with the most-esses” have been working on making that dream a reality, so if you want to know if we’ve succeeded, you better be there tonight.
But this is SERIOUS DANCE, PEOPLE… followed by the dance party to end all dance parties, so put on your dancing shoes and join us tonight at 8pm.
And if you miss the Rockys, don’t think you’re done with dance at the festivals. There are a lot of great performances coming up this week that you’ll definitely want to see.
On the agenda:
Brian Sanders’ Junk returns to the festival with AdShock, a dance piece with stunning physical prowess, leaping, contorting, and generally defying of the laws of gravity.
Challenging dance forms from the strictest traditions is butoh master, Akira Kasai. Pollen Revolution is a daring and charismatic solo that transforms the Japanese art form and takes the audience on a surreal journey through time, cultures and states of being. This is another limited run. 9/9 – 9/12, so don’t let this opportunity pass.
Leah Stein Dance Company takes us off the beaten path once again with CornerStone. Her look at life and death brings her audience to the historic Christ Church cemetery for some mysterious meditation and a taste of the absurd. As with a few of our site-specific pieces, there is a limited number of tickets per show so be sure to plan ahead.
Babel, by Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre, promises to be properly disturbing and politically potent. For this collaboration with benchtours, the Scottish international theater ensemble directed by Peter Clerke, Melanie Stewart and her powerful female performers merge their own physicality with boufon-like attacks on contemporary issues. They pull no punches with their critique of the Bush Administration, which should make for quite a fiery Festival Plus discussion on 9/11 as well.
In the Fringe some dance pieces this week includes 3 on Top, 4x4 new Dances, Amneisia, Three Ladies in Waiting and Yu Wei (who will also be performing at the Rockys tonight)
Merilyn Jackson, the Inquirer’s dance critic, is putting some power in the hands of the audience. On the 17th of September she will give a little writers workshop/ dissection of the critics process for her review of Zen in the Basement Dance Company’s performance of Off the Map.
Now for the sad news: Sorry folks, but Hotel Pool has sold out for the entire run. If I hear ANYTHING about an added show, I will be sure to let you know. They will be touring to MASS MOCHA, PICA’s Time Based Arts Festival for those of you non-ticket holders who like to travel, but if you have tickets already, they are like gold.
Advice for the day: There are quite a few sold out runs already, so make sure you check in with the box office before showing up at the door.
Your Ex-administrator,
Lee Ann Etzold
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