Free Events
Upcoming Free Events
Photo © Kevin Monko
Thaddeus Phillips of Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental
National Mechanics, Bar + Restaurant
22 South 3rd Street
July 11 at 6pm
Innovative theater director Thaddeus Phillips introduces
WHaLE OPTICS, a new scientific/theatrical/musical epic that explores worldwide communication systems, sub-oceanic fiber optics, and humpback whale songs. The project calls into question our perception of human/animal communication, and our relationship with the biggest part of planet Earth—the ocean.
For more information visit
www.ansp.org/adult-programs/science-on-tap.php
Live Arts Festival Free Events + Shows
Photo © Kader Benamer
Former Pumping Station
140 North Columbus Boulevard
5pm–8pm on Sept 2, 6-9 + 12-16
noon–8pm on Sept 3-5, 10, 11 + 17
Opposite the Race Street Pier, inside a former pumping station, is a house of screens some 20 feet high and wide, which you walk around looking at films of dancers performing in their homes—in bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, under and above their furniture, by their windows, playing with notions of what home life means to them.
>> Go to the show page for Zon-Mai.
2011 Rockys
Presented by Dance/UP
September 5 at 8pm
Free / 90 minutes / 21+
Ruba Club Studios
416 Green Street (one block north of Spring Garden)
Northern Liberties
Hosted by Jaamil Kosoko + a super secret special surprise guest
Presenters: Niki and Jorge Cousineau, Gabrielle Revlock, Corinne Karon, Charon Mapp, Janet Pilla and Vinca Johnson
The Rocky Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in Greater Philadelphia's dance community. Presented by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe with support from Dance/USA Philadelphia (DANCE/UP).
>> Go to the show page for the 2011 Rockys.
Dance/UP is a dance service organization providing advocacy, resources and collaborative opportunities to the Greater Philadelphia professional dance community. Dance/UP is a branch office of Dance/USA, the national service organization for professional dance.
Photo © Willi Dorner
Meet at 2nd + Race St Lot
Sept 8, 9 + 10 at 7pm
In this free outdoor show, Austrian choreographer Willi Dorner is unleashing 65 dancers throughout Old City, sending them down narrow lanes, over archways and support beams, up walls, and falling out of windows, and throwing enormous film projections upon abandoned buildings. From the creator of the immensely popular
bodies in urban spaces (2008).
>> Go to the show page for blank.
Photo © Fess Elliot
Web Only
Part musical, part novel, part real life drama,
Extremely Public Displays Of Privacy, Act 1 is a show that’s entirely unique and entirely online. A customized experience for the viewer, you investigate a story between two women caught in an online war of daring.
>> Go to the show page for Extremely Public Acts of Privacy, Act 1: Extremely Public.
Rediscovering The Kalari Spectrum
A lecture and film by Jayachandran Palazhy
Independence Black Box at the Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street
Sept 13 at 7pm
Rediscovering The Kalari Spectrum takes a new look at the ancient martial art of Kalari, which seen by many Indian theater and performance scholars as the original neutral form, a physically expressive language that pre-dates many of the classical dances that draw extensively from it.
Les Ballets de ci de la
Film directed by Alain Platel
Special screening followed by a discussion with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Independence Black Box at the Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street
Sept 14 at 7pm
Alain Platel directs this documentary about members of his highly acclaimed Belgian company Les Ballets C de la B. Who are the dancers of Les Ballets C. de la B.? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage?
