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Edinburgh Fringe Festival and International Festival
Compagnie des Perspectives 2016 Traveling Abroad to see a festival of art performances, comedians, plays, and everything from big to small. They filled every nook in bars as well as theaters with events, where artists took up space to present themes across the board. They presented programs that were free, the schedule of performances spanned…
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Theater in Sketch
The biggest production, and the most memorable creation on stage. With the historical painting by Éugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading The People, the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables adapted to the stage a grand scale depiction of the Paris Commune of 1871 for the public as the greatest French revolutionary moment of all time. The…
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Philadanco!
“By Way of The Funk”(2024) From the 2023 Moving… Beyond Forward To the 2024 Winter Program- Our Voices, Our Choices Return to the Perelman Theater, December 2024 for Philadanco!, “Our Voices, Our Choices…This Is Us!” in many ways prepared the audience to discuss the work of choreography that channels a civil movement and educates audiences…
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A Critical Analysis
The Theater community in Philadelphia was an arena for contemporary critique of performances in a wide range of subjects. Bridging theater and dance became a driving force to the critique and live sketches in support of their cause. The objective, made it possible to critique a diversity of artists from structured acting to one fluid…
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THERE
The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver Roger Pearson “Artist and Poet, Etel Adnan, one of the leading intellectual figures of the day.” In the Light and the Darkness of the Self and of the Other Where are we? where? There is a where, because we are, stubbornly, and have been, and who…
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Festival O23
Opera Philadelphia Unholy Wars Karim Sulayman Raha Mirzadegan John Taylor Ward Mary Kouyoumdijan Coral Dolphin The recitation of the Crusades, through the music of Monteverdi’s Tancredi e Clorinda; the virtuosity of human emotion unexpectedly anticipated a global protest, and an international summit gathered on the objectionable military support of industry from institutions of power, and…
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A Classic New Yorker Cartoon
“You Had To Be There.” In 2017, The Summer Series at the Mann Center presented A Space Odyssey. Honoring the legacy of Colonel Guion Bluford, Jr. that began with an abstract visual introduction of a cosmic view of space. It celebrated our Universe with a celestial themed program, and it intersects with our modern times.…
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Theatre 23/24 Season
COST OF LIVING Martyna Majok’s Cost of Living, 2024 production at the Philadelphia Theater Company. The movement on stage was reframing the issue of mobility. We are interested in her ideas of identity. Care takers articulated class disabilities on stage, similar to how social class effectively labels a persons value by ableism. Fringe Festival Rhythm…
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Virtual Culture: Live Performances, Social Distance, and Live Streamed Events
Eyes On The Prize Hallowed Ground Director Sophie Nahli Alison Americans and to others as producers and writers, creative and management talent. They will bring their own stories and passions that will, after experimentation, failures and second opportunities, succeed. …-Henry Hampton’s 1992 PBS Annual Meeting Keynote Speech Theater Sanctuary City In 2021, as theaters were…
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On The Fringe
WHYSEEART takes art criticism to a new genre, a new mode of seeing. What are we looking at here, by standards of character, or dialogue that makes this play especially useful? The unorthodox theme of garbage, initially draws us in and says, what this play is about.