TONIGHT performance with Ci and Underscore inspiration Sat 3/28 at 8pm: Vervet Dance presents "Semi-Composed"

[Loren Groenendaal]

Hello Contact Improv Philly community,

I am excited to announce that TONIGHT is my Vervet Dance presents Semi-Composed show at 8pm at fidget.

The first piece in this work takes great inspiration from the Underscore and will include Contact Improvisation in performance! There are two other semi-improvised/semi-composed dance/music/theatre works on the bill for your delight! There's an incredible cast!  More basics and details about this show just below and beyond that some more save-the-dates of other shows and classes that I have coming up.

Please be aware that due to the No Kings rally today in center city there are some road closures and potentially slowed and diverted traffic. More info about that at this link.

So, please plan your commute accordingly! 

TONIGHT'S SHOW BASICS:

Photo by David Chin of Vervet Dance's Semi-Composed Metamorphosis, 2017.

Saturday, March 28 8pm

Vervet Dance presents Semi-Composed 

at fidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
Doors open at 7:30, Show starts at 8:00 and ends by 9:15

Performance is curated by Loren Groenendaal and includes semi-composed/improvised works led by Loren Groenendaal and Adam Kerbel, 

joined in performance by dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Curt Haworth, Leigh Huster, Paul Matteson, Abigail Mosier, Michelle Stortz and saxophonist Steve Davit.

Sliding scale $5-30 tickets: https://www.crowdwork.com/e/vervet-dance-presents-semi-composed or at the door

More information/invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/share/1EBcFz1JC6/

I curated this evening of works that are semi-composed, meaning partially pre-composed and partially open to improvisation in the moment. Semi-composed work has a balance of agency between the directors planning the artistry in advance and the performers expressing in the moment, which leads to an incredible synergy for composition with focus, presence, and ephemerality. I have two works in this show and Adam Kerbel is presenting a new performance too.

I will be presenting Be[ ]ing, which is inspired by Nancy Stark Smith's participatory Underscore, reframing it for performance. This iteration will include dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Paul Matteson, Abigail Mosier, Michelle Stortz and saxophonist Steve Davit. This emergent composition explores beginnings, embodiment, presence, rapport, and developing within the unknown. I will also present Render, which explores many meanings of the word, render - to repeat, to give back, to return, to restore, to reduce, and to represent. The performance is made and remade through repetition, reaction, re-creation by the performers Groenendaal and dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Curt Haworth, Abigail Mosier, Leigh Huster and musician Steve Davit. Performing artist Adam Kerbel will also be contributing a new dance work, Living/edge to the evening in response to a mother’s passing and the politics of play through improvisation, percussion, and memory problems. This performance will use some recorded sound material gathered by Joshua Cabitac.

I am still looking for someone to volunteer videography services using my equipment. Let me know if you would like to help out in this way and I can tell the box office people to comp your entrance.

Accessibility notes:
Venue requires ascending four flights of stairs.
Event is mask optional.

OTHER LOREN SAVE-THE-DATES (Later shows, youth and adult classes):

Mondays, April 6th– May 11th 5:15-6:15pm Loren teaches Fascia Flossing class 

at Cardell Dance Studio, 1713 Melon St. Philadelphia, PA 19130

(donation only, class info/link coming soon)

Saturday, April 11 11:30am-2:00pm Loren facilitates Underscore at Mascher Rear (Talk Through time TBD)

Thursday, April 16 6:30-8:30pm  Loren teaches Contact Improv class at Mascher Rear

Thursday, April 23 6:30-8:30pm Loren teaches Contact Improv class at Mascher Rear

Saturday, April 25 8pm Loren and Flandrew Fleisenberg present H-O-T Series, performance of very free dance/music improvisation

at fidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St. Philadelphia, PA 19122

More info, cast list, invite your friends: https://www.facebook.com/share/1KXYTbPjsJ/

Sundays, April 26th– June 7th 9:30-10:15am (NO CLASS May 24th) Loren teaches Creative Dance and Pre-Ballet Class for ages 3-5 

at Cardell Dance Studio, 1713 Melon St. Philadelphia, PA 19130

More info and registration: https://cardelldance.com/product/creative-dance-ages-3-to-5-sunday/

Sundays, April 26th– June 7th 10:30-11:30am Intergenerational Improvisation Dance Class FOR ALL AGES

at Cardell Dance Studio, 1713 Melon St. Philadelphia, PA 19130

More info and registration: https://cardelldance.com/product/intergenerational-improv/

Saturday, May 30 4:00pm -7:00pm Loren facilitates Underscore at Mascher Rear (Talk Through time TBD)

Friday-Sunday, June 12-14 Loren hosts Nita Little in Philly leading Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication

(more info coming soon)

Saturday, June 27 evening Free Fleet Performance at fidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St. Philadelphia, PA 19122

Loren Groenendaal
MFA in Choreography, BA in Dance and Visual Arts, Certified Movement Analyst
Accepting tax deductible donations via Fractured Atlas