Always The Hour

by

Annie

Wilson

Introducing the work of a multi-disciplinary field of Fringearts in Philadelphia and beyond which stems from the origin of the Fringe platform from the International Edinburgh Festival.

Following the work of Annie Wilson’s At Home With The Humorless Bastard (2017), and Always the Hour (2023) shows a bright horizon for dance theater at Fringearts from Fall 2016 with Melissa Krodman, Faye Driscoll, Jerome Bel, and Orbitor 3 production of, The Brownings.

Sketching Performances: An Audience Review


A wide variety of topical programs in cutting-edge performances by artists, and placing our local comedians, theaters, and poetic actors and actresses within a structure, chronologically or stylistically.

2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, ” The Alchemists” by Chris Davis and M.K Tuomanen

The question of “what is Contemporary art,” is always fore telling to how, why, and what we mean to say by, contemporary. The silver screen, much like the grand mausoleums of great art collections lag deftly behind the contemporary moment. The performance sketches show what stands out partly by its anatomy or importance in content. When it comes to researching philosophy we move closer to the choreography. I find it useful to imagine intention and not necessarily, or exactly what should be understood by its forms. To the point of disillusion, forms of storytelling which draw a relationship to relative feelings we may be having in the theater, or before entering this space. Disillusionment on the level of critiques that reveals mechanisms for understanding the playwright as an auteur, and choreographer as a philosopher. Observing theater for the essence, Contemporary Art, we discover the subjects and genres for artists.

Philadelphia Ballet, “Tilt” by Helen Pickett

On Edge (2017) I first experienced a new range of vocabulary through dance, music, and theme. The work of Mathew Neenan exhibited work by Laurie Anderson, Avant-Garde performance artist and composer from 1980- to today.

Philadelphia Ballet, “It Goes That Way” by Mathew Neenan 2017.

By presenting the influence, content, and commenting on the culture performing arts, there is a discussion about the creative economy and inclusivity of these organizations. For instance, the various companies that are visible to a commercial success for an international dance experience. Ballet X, in Philadelphia running a contemporary ballet school on Washington Avenue, in South Philly. Introducing international choreographers to the dance community in Philadelphia etches new lines for play by exposing audiences to international dance.

Ballet X rehearsal FOR SALE
Ballet X rehearsal
Summer Series Ballet X 2017, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s ‘Castrati’ (2011) FOR SALE

The size of the company, and capacity in context for bringing new works to the stage tells us where it exists in this structure of performance. Design for choreography show elements that communicate subject of contemporary dance and its repertoire. Costume, and narrative bring forms as well as sound to critical inquiry of the artists. Exploring the paths performers take is entangled in the company that organizes the school of interests in a commercial, view that draws in its audiences for new artworks. Modern dance, or international dance becomes the interest of many cultures, expectations for grouping dance by communicating the language of choreography by discipline of intersectionality with curiosity into its origins. Where dance theater, ballet, and classical theater bring new voices to story telling for a poetic rhetoric.

The Pearl Diver, The Met Live on Screen, 2017

In the scale and volume of cultural production through creditability for how to decipher the media literacy of productions from a variety of content. Above, The Pearl Fishers by Georges Bizet, libretto Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré is a classical opera, from 1863, it was shown in the cinema, presented by The Met Live on Screen in 2017. Following the camera across the stage, and the close-ups on sopranos, zooming-out on the complete cast of villagers, and the narrative portrays the extent of sketching volumes in the scale of a production.