FALL in love with me.
Get it!? Just some autumnal updates from Sean... I've been doing my usual busy busy busy, and I'm ready to share. Rehearsals are shifting, performances are popping up, and my teaching schedule is mounting... the dream, right? I've been updating my calendar if you want everything in shorthand, otherwise just continue reading. Also, see my Facebook page - I've even started posting some dance-related articles that you might find interesting! Speaking of recent happenings, check out the brand spankin' new collaborators page on my website to read about some of the performers I'm working with. I know *I* ended that last sentence with a preposition, but *you* know that language is constantly changing, so STFU.
(Sorry that frustrated you.)
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As foreshadowed in my previous newsletter, Anne-Marie Mulgrew & Dancers Company also enjoyed a wonderful run at Christ Church. We began with an installation work and split the evening between nods to the company's thirty-year history and showing new creations. More recently, the company performed an "umbrella dance" across Philadelphia for #PhillyFreeStreets. We'll be gearing up soon for next season's performance in the spring!
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In August, I traveled up to New York City to perform a duet from Nora Gibson's Vested Souls for Norte Maar's Dance at Socrates in the outdoor sculpture garden at Socrates Park on Long Island. After an afternoon of touch-and-go weather, we were able to perform (twice) for a nice, big, lawn-chair-wielding audience.
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As for Nora Gibson Contemporary Ballet's upcoming work, we'll be getting together for some more intensive rehearsals soon, including a week-long Upstream Residency at Kaatsbaan in upstate New York that Nora was recently awarded (what what!). Pictured above is yours truly in the midst of an experiment - an accelerometer strapped around my waif-ish waist making some measurements to be utilized in the fully-produced work, which will be shown as a key highlight for the Philadelphia Science Festival in April!
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September is synonymous with the Fringe Festival here in Philadelphia, and I was selected as one of twenty-four dance professionals in the city to work with French choreographer Boris Charmatz. We workshopped intensively in the studio and ended up performing a couple renditions of his Levée des conflits in the water fountain at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (*You* might recognize it from the Rocky movies... *I* would not.)
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The Fringe Festival also brought forth The Naked Stark's performance of The One, The Other One, & The Many, choreographed by Katherine Kiefer Stark. We had been creating this piece for the past year and a half, and it was wonderful to dance an evening-length (feature-length?) work five times over the course of a couple weeks! Our weekly movement practice should be starting up soon... Check us out on Facebook for updates!
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In June, Kat J. Sullivan and I were able to perform solos we made for each other in SoLow Fest. I performed her work, Why are dancers so sad?, and she performed my new solo, It's pointless to decide which cloud is floating faster. If you're in town, be sure to catch Iptdwciff (hmmm... I tried.) at the ETC Performance Series at the CEC on November 12th and 13th!
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