2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

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	8: Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko Live Arts eight choreographers / eight new works Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C—see below), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
	8: Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi Live Arts eight choreographers / eight new works Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival.
	8: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley Live Arts eight choreographers / eight new works Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A—see below), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
	8: Olive Prince and Shavon Norris Live Arts eight choreographers / eight new works Experience the ultimate dance-sampler of what’s new and bold. Eight rising Philly choreographers have been commissioned to stage eight major new works for the Festival. Come see their creations in four separate programs: Megan Mazarick and Meg Foley (Program A), Olive Prince and Shavon Norris (Program B—below), Daniele Strawmyre and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (Program C), Jumatatu Poe and Eun Jung Choi (Program D).
	Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia Live Arts Bang on a Can Ten hours of nonstop music at the World Café Live. Buy one ticket and come and go all day long to this glorious collision of musical styles by today's most adventurous players and composers—from around the globe and around the corner. As artistically inclusive as it is audience-friendly, the Marathon is a wild gathering of genres, styles, innovation, and radically new sounds, delivered as one open mega-concert.
	Cankerblossom Live Arts Pig Iron Theatre Company Welcome to a dark fairy tale for kids aged 9 to 90. It begins, as so many of these stories do, with a knock at the door. A young couple discovers a cardboard baby on their stoop. They grow to love the child, who is completely flat, as their own. Then someone or some thing takes away the baby to the Flat World, a planar landscape populated by characters whimsical, sinister, and flat as pancakes.
	Cédric Andrieux Live Arts Jérôme Bel Whether you’ve danced professionally, taken a dance class, or frankly worked any job in your life, you can’t help but empathize with the gloriously unglamorous details of the everyday existence of a dancer.
	CHICKEN Live Arts Charlotte Ford Turning the other cheek can be a very bad idea. Deep beneath the icy swells, a nuclear powered submarine carries three imbeciles in charge of a highly classified mission. A buzz-cut she-beast, a Casper Milquetoast somnambulist cross-dresser, and a passive-aggressive Elvis devotee vie for bunk beds, safety goggles, and poopie suits.
	Cosmic Terrarium / Motion Painting Project Live Arts Sean Stoops and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program A live outdoor mural painting unfolds in Northern Liberties over two weeks of the Festival. In Cosmic Terrarium, four artists transform a vacant weedinfested lot across from the Festival Box Office into a visual spectacle, using paint and found objects. The mural installation evolves daily as the artists visually riff off one another, responding to the work from the day before, to transform the site.
	Dance Live Arts Lucinda Childs with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt Three masters of minimalism, choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, collaborated to construct this seminal work of dance—one of the purest examples of interdisciplinary art-making ever created. An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, Dance is a bold statement on the very nature of movement.
	Decadere Live Arts BoánDanz Action Company It's an abandoned place, where abandoned people meet. They come wearing half underwear, half office clothes. They are trying to recreate the routines of their former lives—their work, their culture, their food, their speech, their dancing. They are being watched. They are speaking out on the microphone—where they become stars, where they reveal secrets, maybe sing a song.
	Decasia Live Arts Bill Morrison Bill Morrison's Decasia was created from his discovery of a trove of old, decaying film stock. Scored by Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, the movie is an expressionist collage of past images—of dreams, romance, drama, exotic locales and mythic cinema—that have become subverted by the striking visual consequences of the decomposing film: melting, rusted, warped, disintegrating.
	Festival Plus Live Arts Dance by Lucinda Childs Through a film series, lecture, moderated discussion, and a master class, Festival Plus programming for Dance offers audiences a deeper insight into the artist and her work.
	First Love by Samuel Beckett Live Arts Gare St Lazare Players / Conor Lovett A young man, expelled from the family home, takes refuge on a bench by a canal. There he meets a woman who takes him home. She is his first—perhaps only—love and a major hindrance to his desire to rid himself of contact with others. Conor Lovett's solo performance of Samuel Beckett’s First Love is a masterpiece of tragicomedy, featuring the bone-dry humor of a character besieged with a clutter of emotions.
	FREEDOM CLUB Live Arts New Paradise Laboratories & The Riot Group I conquered my dreams! – John Wilkes Booth A fierce, undead tension animates the American frontier: the struggle between the freedom of the individual and the question of who or what belongs in the club. FREEDOM CLUB is a savage comedy about the delirium and danger in American extremism, a hallucination on national themes.
	Journey to the West - Reinterpreting Tradition Series Live Arts Danny Yung From China's preeminent experimental theater artist come three ruminations on the experiences of Chinese artists visiting the West. Mixing conversation, live demonstration, and video, Danny Yung reflects on the significant Chinese opera artists who have traveled to the West, how these visits influence the development of the performing arts, and how they have inspired Danny’s recent theater works.
	¡EL CONQUISTADOR! Live Arts Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental In a small Colombian village, Polonio Castro, a poor coffee farmer, is hooked on telenovelas (Latin American soap operas) when civil war and daily lottery losses force him to flee to the big city. He arrives in Bogotá with his potted plant and the dream of becoming a telenovela star; but instead finds a job as a doorman in a high-rise apartment building.
	No One Else Could Love You More Live Arts Directed by Byron Karabatsos Advance screening followed by a discussion with Headlong Dance Theater This documentary film follows the making of Headlong Dance Theater’s more., which debuted at the 2009 Live Arts Festival. Provoked by in-depth conversations with renowned choreographer Tere O’Connor, Headlong Dance Theater uprooted their 15-year collaborative process to create more., their most intimate work-to-date.
	Release: Vijay Iyer Live Live Arts Vijay Iyer “Pianist Vijay Iyer['s] keyboard prowess and epic vision place him in a category by himself among jazz soloists.” Chicago Tribune Live Arts and the Eastern State Penitentiary co-present a concert by jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer. Iyer will play in conjunction with the ongoing film installation Release, for which Iyer composed the music.
	Romeo and Juliet Live Arts Nature Theater of Oklahoma Hello. Can you tell me the story of Romeo and Juliet? A series of phone calls were placed to people who were asked to tell, in their own words, the story of Romeo and Juliet. But no one seemed to exactly remember the plot.
	Sanctuary Live Arts Brian Sanders' JUNK This is where the lost take charge. Take a wall fourteen feet high and one hundred and twenty feet long and make it into a stage. This is the set for Sanctuary, a dance of intense movement, ritual, and mistaken assumptions about the past from celebrated choreographer and Festival favorite Brian Sanders. Sometime in the future, a group of people inhabit a blown out, old industrial architectural relic from the past.
	Stew and The Negro Problem Live Arts Stew Led by Stew and Obie award-winning Heidi Rodewald, this Afro Baroque cabaret ensemble is coveted for their literate precision, sly humor, and deep emotional resonance, hovering between the divergent worlds of rock and theater.
	TAKES Live Arts Nichole Canuso Dance Company Enter a genre-bending exploration of dance, video installation, and film. Within a large cube wrapped in semi-transparent screens two dancers perform fragments from their lives. Captured by multiple video cameras, their actions are woven into an elaborate reel of "takes," and projected back onto the screens as large black-and-white films.
	TAKES Daytime Installation Live Arts Nichole Canuso Dance Company By day, visit the TAKES performance space, and following instructions spoken through an iPod, perform your own short duet within the cube. Sign up for a 15-minute slot for two and you will soon see yourself amidst the maze of images projected on the screens. You can come to the space at any time to observe, but you must reserve (see "Showtimes" section below) for your slot to partake in the interactive portion.
	The Sun Also Rises (The Select) based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway Live Arts Elevator Repair Service You’re an expatriate. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. . . . Sounds like a swell life. Travel 1920s Europe with a group of weary, aimless, and frequently inebriated American ex-patriates searching for identity, redemption, and diversion.