FringeArts 2018 and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival was on the forefront of contemporary performances in Philadelphia. Following theater and dance became a driving force to the emergence of acting styles, genre scene, classical fashion, and the volumes and episodes of programming for the stage by the names of artists that make the fabric of performing arts.
Séance
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
Tania El Khoury
Gardens Speak
How much do we know about the ongoing massacres of the civil war in Syria? How much do we comprehend about the tragedies of more than five million refugees and innumerable martyrs – or “shuhada” – in this blood-fueled fight?
In “Gardens Speak,” Tania El Khoury takes a different approach to intervention, setting aside graphic visuals we may encounter in the media. The installation is an auditory and sensory encounter with tragedy in its rawest form. El Khoury rejects the traditional channels that have failed to speak for Syrian communities. Instead, she hands over the narrative to the voices beneath the ground – to those who took their stories to the grave.
The investigation of various artists during 2018, was following the theater, and specifics which illuminate the medium. When Dance at the Annenberg Center brought The Next Move Dance Series. Many sketches such as, in 2021, with Dorrance Dance at Penn Arts Live for Ella’quent Holiday Swing.
NextMove Dance
The influence of Dance by this subscription of an annual season tied a theme, and many different dance companies was a continuation from 2017-2018.
Hervé Koubi
Blend of Arabic and French dance influences explored aerobatic and street performing styles. The Algerian choreographer explains, his autoethnogaphic search of his family history
October 2017
Ronald K Brown/ Evidence
Hip-hop, African and Caribbean movement philosophies, moves the spirit with high energy on stage and in audience’s with gospel and reggaeton.
December 2017
Hervé Koubi, What The Day Owes To The Night, 2017.
When Next Move Dance was introducing the choreographers of difference dance companies this left an impression in my sketch books, beginning with the lecture of where, and how their form of dance originated.
2017 EgoPo Classic Theater Abrahamse & Meyer Productions (Cape Town, South Africa), co-presented with Drexel University
South Africa DESIRE UNDER THE ELM
An emphasis on learning new forms, and languages with drawing observational sketches. The research showed depth about the programs, and presented eclectic art forms. During this time, from 2016-2018. I was a liberal arts student at the University of Pennsylvania.
The community felt welcoming to this curiosity in conjunction with American politics, and in South Africa, “Democratic elections in 1994 marked the end of Apartheid.”
It is simply a familiarity that grows from exposing troubling subject matter by some of the organizations working in the field of Creative and Performing Arts.
A Human Being Died That Night by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, adaptation by Nicholas Wright, directed by Steven Wright.