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Performances
Friday, January 13th, 6pm….. (Friday the 13th=extra awesome!)
@ University of the Arts, 1401 Walnut St, 2nd Fl
FREE Workshop showing with Ishmael, Yvonne and participants.
Just show up!
Saturday, January 14th, 8pm
@ Mascher Space Coop, 155 Cecil B. Moore Ave
$10 / $8 (dancepass/student/senior)
Ishmael Houston Jones (NYC)
Yvonne Meier (NYC)
Meg Foley
Zornitsa Stoyanova
Manfred Fischbeck
Sharon Mansur (DC)
Daniel Burkholder (DC)
Sunday, January 15th, 6pm
@ Philly PARD, 1720 Mt.Vernon St
$10 / $8 (dancepass/student/senior)
Leah Stein
Michelle Stortz
Green Chair Dance Group
Merian Soto
Silvana Cardell
Lela Aisha Jones
Workshops (with Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones)
Yvonne and Ishmael teach at University of the Arts, 1401 Walnut St, 2nd Fl., Monday – Friday, 1-3pm and 4-7pm.
Classes are FREE but are currently wait list only, and preregistration is required. To preregister please email nicolebindler@gmail.com
(Ishmael and Yvonne will share the teaching of both 1-3pm and 4-7pm sessions with Ishmael taking the lead in the 1-3pm and Yvonne in the 4-7pm.)
1-3pm, Dancing Text / Texting Dance
In this workshop we will use several improvisation strategies to open a free flow of immediate, spontaneous and automatic writing, speaking and dancing. We will use the resultant dance and text to construct impromptu group pieces as well as a means toward broadening self-expression in solo work.
4-7pm, Authentic Movement / Releasing / Performance
Authentic Movement (warm-up)
Authentic Movement is a simple form of self-directed movement. It is usually done with eyes closed and attention is directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. The witness watches and tracks inner responses to the mover with the intention of not judging, but focusing on self-awareness.
Releasing Technique
Releasing Technique is an innovative approach to dance and movement. Releasing utilizes image-guided and hands-on studies to ease tension and promote an effortless kind of moving. This technique smoothly integrates technical growth with creativity.
For Performance
We will investigate the improvisational technique which Meier calls “Scores.” “Scores” are essentially words containing images that we will learn to possess our bodies from head to toe. “Scores” can be physical, emotional, psychological, or spiritual. Some “Scores” will possess different body-parts; some “Scores” that Meier calls “no-no scores” explore socially unacceptable content.
Ishmael Houston-Jones’ improvised dance and language work has been performed in NYC, across the US, in Europe, Australia and Latin America. He has taught many movement, improvisation and writing workshops, notably at the EDDC (The Netherlands), American Dance Festival, Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation (SFADI) and at the San Francisco Festival of Improvisation. He was last seen in Philadelphia with his collaboration with Michael Biello and Dan Martin, (What We’re Made Of) and in the work of Lionel Popkin, (There’s and Elephant in this Dance). More info at http://ishmaelhj.com.
Yvonne Meier has been exploring Improvisation in performance and teaching Releasing Technique, Authentic Movement and her own improvisational technique “Scores” throughout the US and Europe for the past 32 years. She has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival for the past 5 years. She has taught dance companies such as Anna Teresa de Keeresmaeker’s “Rosas” and Meg Stuart’s “Damaged Goods Company” etc. For her choreography Yvonne Meier has received two “Bessie” Awards as well as an “American Masterpiece Award” from the NEA.
FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival, founded in in 2010 by Curt Haworth and Nicole Bindler, is a laboratory for the investigation and performance of dance, music and movement-based performing art forms. Based in the first part of January,FALLS BRIDGE offers improvisation classes and workshops taught by internationally known artists and innovators; as well as performances andshowings for established, emerging and student artists. Valuing the individual artist, their creative process and vital role within society, FALLSBRIDGE is dedicated to the creation and implementation of affordable programs that nurture and initiate experimentation within performance. In addition, FALLS BRIDGE acts as a vital line of communication between the improvisation and performance community of Philadelphia and the University of the Arts community.
Mascher Space is a presenting partner for Low Lives 3
April 29, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 1
April 30, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 2
INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR PROPOSALS, Deadline: March 20, 2011
To apply, see Low Lives website
About Low Lives:
Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work.
Low Lives is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, New York dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance, with a strong focus on new choreography. Chez Bushwick is co-producing Low Lives 3 and is instrumental in extending the platform’s international reach. Low Lives 3 will feature a ‘spotlight’ on Contemporary Choreography throughout the exhibition program.
Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for live performance-based works.
Past Events
Mascher Space is pleased to announce and invite you to
FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival
FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival features intensive movement improvisation workshops with K.J. Holmes at The University of the Arts and performances by K.J. and local improvisers at Mascher Space Co-op.
Performances by KJ and Local Improvisers
Saturday, January 15th @ 8PM
Sunday, January 16th @ 2PM at Mascher Space Co-op.
$12/$10 (seniors, students, Dancepass discount); Purchase tickets at the door
Is improvisation an obscure niche?
Or is it a practice that trickles, gushes, and spills in all directions, saturating the work of performance artists of various aesthetics, generations, mediums, and schools of thought?
Come to Mascher Space Co-op., a home for new dance in Philadelphia , and let these two separately programmed performances wash over you.
January 15th
Gene Coleman, Nicole Bindler, Marion Ramirez, Jung Woon Kim, Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Nick Millevoi, Eun Jung Choi, and K.J. Holmes
January 16th
Bonnie Lander, Annie Wilson, Adam Berzins, Megan Bridge, Peter Price <fidget>, Nicole Bindler, Gabrielle Revlock, Curt Haworth, and Travis Woodson
Improvisation: Performance as Exposure taught by K.J. Holmes
January 10th – 14th at The University of the Arts
Terra Building, 211 South Broad St., Rm.#205
(sign in with guard if you are not a student or staff member)
1-3 PM Contact Improvisation Tuning Intensive: These classes are to become more tuned to center and subtleties of touch, direction and intention in CI through exploring musicality and phrasing, the learning of specific lifts and rolls and how we craft time and space.
4:30-7:30 PM The Athletics of Intimacy – Practice into Performance: We will play with heightening our senses and perceptions, amplifying our awareness to expose more of our interior, making the invisible visible to play with time and space. How do we ready ourselves for performing and who is the being in the body?
+ Friday, January 14th, 8PM @ UArts – Public Workshop Performance
Both workshops are free, but space is limited.
For reservations (wait-list only), email:
Philly dance community: Nicole Bindler @ nicolebindler@gmail.com
UArts students: Curt Haworth @ CHaworth@uarts.edu
K.J. HOLMES is a dance artist who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She is a graduate of The School for Body-Mind Centering (1999) and currently is adjunct faculty at NYU Experimental Theater Wing, continues to teach at Movement Research, and is exploring the relationship between movement and language, and the body and the earth in her choreographies and theater work.
FALLS BRIDGE: new movement, improvisation and performance festival is created and supported by Philly PARD, Curt Haworth, Nicole Bindler, University of the Arts and Mascher Space Coop.
FRESH JUICE – Sip on this…
Mascher Space Co-op’s Artist In Residence Show
Philadelphia, PA – Mascher Space Co-op., an artist-run, experimental dance lab for Philly-based movement artists, will premiere the Special Fringe Edition of its biannual Fresh Juice series on Sunday, September 5th at 6pm; Monday, September 6th at 8pm and Saturday, September 11th at 8pm. Tickets: $10, Contact the Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org
Mascher Space Co-op, named the “Next Collective Art Space” (Philadelphia Weekly, 2007) and the “Best Experimental Dance Lab” (Philadelphia City Paper, 2007), brings you five prime movers and shakers of the Philly dance scene who aren’t afraid to make a splash and will treat you to servings of thoughtful, courageous, and innovative dance!
<fidget> premieres Mauri and Lorin, or, why bodysnatching is back in: a performance-lecture on the synchronization of affect. Two performers experiment with behavioral coding, non-deterministic algorithms, and chalk dust.
FlyGround’s Street Grace created by Lela Aisha Jones cleverly dissects~merges TransAfro movement cultures in the US and beyond, while lusciously smearing in contemporary modern movement experiences of release. Through gestural and social movement references, the dance work blurs culture and unveils physicalized connections between TransAfro peoples.
Nicole Bindler performs Mama, My Legs Are Too Long a solo dance-theater work honoring the life and death of Nelly, the woman who raised her for the first 10 years of her life while her parents were at work. Nelly was a Haitian refugee who fled to the U.S. in the 60’s with her husband, Jacques. Although Nelly spoke Kreyol, she taught Bindler French and “Mama” explores this tension between French colonialism and Haitian Kreyol. “Mama” also questions the role of grief in the loss of a nanny, who is like family but is paid to be a mama.
The Catastrophe Theory Series is a new piece of dance work created by Becca Weber (Somanaut Dance). A series of three dances, presented as work in dialogue with both the original concept of Catastrophe Theory, as well as the series of paintings and poems (Catastrophe Theory IV, III, and II) created by Sigmar Polke and penned by renowned poet Mary Jo Bang, respectively. Performed by Becca Weber, Tia Huston, Lee Fogel and Alie Vidich
Zornitsa Stoyanova, director of Here [begin] Dance Co, embarks on a new dance project that explores movement based on archetypical characters, developed in collaboration with her dancers: Lisa Rothstein, Emma Morehouse, Eric Conroe, Greg Holt and Zach Svoboda.
Don’t be afraid to take the evening’s title literally! Bring your own fruit, and the folks at Mascher will juice it for you (No Joke!) so you can get your daily doses of nutrients and art all at the same time!
Kira Kirsch technique classes at Mascher Space Cooperative
June 7th-11th, 10am-1pm
June 8th+10th, 6-8pm
Mascher is proud to host San Francisco-based teacher Kira Kirsch for a week of intensive workshops in axis syllabus universal motor principles, a movement system that uses a three-dimensional and non-linear understanding of our skeletal architecture to comprehend the chaotic complexity of our movements.
Kira’s classes place a strong emphasis on floor work, and incorporate
the study of falling, working with rhythm, and different dynamic
qualities. She is thrilled by the challenge of extreme speed.
Her strong focus on technique naturally extends to teaching partnering
and contact improvisation. Efficient lifting mechanics; appropriate
weight distribution; counterweight; the Art of Touch; and sensory
integration are common subjects.
This week of study will include daily three-hour intensives from
10:00-1:00, evening workshops from 6:00-8:00 on Tuesday and Thursday,
and an informal shared evening of performances on Friday night. Mark your calenders! Made possible by Professional Development funding from Dance Advance.
Kira Kirsch
is a performer, teacher and young choreographer from Berlin/Vienna who is now based in San Francisco. Kira studied at the Conservatory of Vienna, at tanzpool and received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry for Culture to independently work with master teacher Frey Faust who developed the theory, analysis and method called the Axis Syllabus. In the realm of improvisation she has had the luck to study with and be inspired by visionary women such as Sara Mann, Meg Stuart and Nita Little. Since 2004 she gets invited to teach technique and contact improvisation internationally at festivals, schools and universities such as ODC & CounterPULSE San Francisco, SEAD-Salzburg, Orff-institute (Austria), HJS-Amsterdam, Buehnenwerkstatt & University Graz, Circuit-Est Montreal, Schwelle7 Berlin and at the international annual Nomadic College in Italy, Czech Republic, California and Finland. January 2010 she became resident faculty & affiliated artist at KUNST-STOFF arts, a new space for the performing arts in San Francisco. Kira has danced with Half Machine (Denmark), ABCdance collective/Frey Faust and Cie. Anna Tenta (Austria). In San Francisco she can be seen in the works of David Slaza, Sara Shelton Mann, Avy K productions, DanceBrigade and in numerous collaborations. Kira is making her own work and producing events under the umbrella of corpi liquidi.<corpiliquidi.com>
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April 25, 7:00 PM
Emo-Sketches ( www.courtyarddancers.org)
“Experience the emotive power of dance with the Courtyard Dancers”
Classical and contemporary Indian dance ensemble the “Courtyard Dancers” will present their new Kathak based contemporary dance works. The ensemble led by anthropologist and Kathak exponent Pallabi Chakravorty is known for her critical synthesis of classical aesthetics with innovative choreography that expresses life’s challenges and joys. The performance showcase will culminate in a classical Indian dance workshop with the audience members. No prior knowledge of dance is necessary. We want to explore and nurture the collective experience of rhythm and motion with you.
Special featured artist: Mohiniattam exponent from India Priyadarshini Ghosh Shome. (www.priyadarshinig.com)
$10, $8 w/ Dance Pass, $5 for students
For more information about the performance contact diditimitra@gmail.com
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This Spring’s Fresh Juice at Mascher
Friday April 9th, 8pm
Saturday April 10th, 8pm
Mascher Space Co-op, an artist-run experimental dance lab for Philly-based movement artists, premieres the Spring edition of its biannual Fresh Juice series.
Tickets $10 General Admission/ $8 Students and DancePass. Purchase ahead of time, as seating is limited: http://www.danceboxoffice.com/product_details.php?category_id=0&item_id=197
The evening will feature performance works by Mascher Artists-In-Residence Kate Speer, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Eleanor Goudie-Averill, and Annie Wilson. If you attended the last Fresh Juice in April, you’ll know Mascher’s Artists in Residence aren’t afraid to make a splash! These prime movers and shakers of the Philly dance scene will treat you to servings of thoughtful, courageous, and innovative dance.
Don’t be afraid to take the evening’s title literally! Bring your own fruit, and the folks at Mascher will juice it for you (No Joke!) so you can get your daily doses of nutrients and art all at the same time!
KATE SPEER brings you “The Walrus and the Camel”. When the walrus meets the camel, two people from different walks of life, there are bound to be surprises. These storybook-like-characters meet under the most peculiar circumstances and traverse a shifting landscape only to find they have more similarities than differences. Similarities shared even by you…or that are within your reach! Experience the spontaneity, the discovery, the courage, and the laughter in The Walrus and the Camel.
ZORNITSA STOYANOVA, Here[begin] Dance Co., will present her solo “The Lady”. This theatrical improvisation explores a character, her desires to communicate and to be liked, and exposes the dark and gory side of this seemingly friendly lady. Check out some excerpts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtYMdnzD08Y
ELEANOR GOUDIE-AVERILL of Stone Depot Dance Lab will share “Banana Dance Machine”, a highly physical, intimate and playful solo created as a part of the “Somatics Project.” Using somatic writing exercises created by poet CA Conrad, artists of all media are creating visceral new works based on the experience dictated by their chosen exercises. Original music by composer Caleb Engstrom.
ANNIE WILSON of Pink Hair Affair will present “Lovertits”, a celebration of ladylumps. Influences include: Peaches, Mae West, filet mignon, postmodern dance, granny panties, 1920′s-style burlesque, and awkward amateur porn.
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Mascher Space Co-op is an artist-run studio that provides a home for Philadelphia-based movement artists and small companies to develop and perform their work, as well as teach classes and workshops. In addition to offering affordable rehearsal space, MSC has been the instigator and partner in a number of beneficial programs for the Philadelphia contemporary dance community: IN FLUX Performance Series, Philly Dance COSMOS Class Series, and Current evenings of live art curated by Zornitsa Stoyanova. Co-founded by Liza Clark and Rebecca Patek in the spring of 2005, MSC has been cooperatively run since spring 2006 by a core admin team and the artists-in-residence. Mascher Space Co-op was named the “Next Collective Art Space” by the Philadelphia Weekly in March 2007, and the “Best Experimental Dance Lab” by the Philadelphia City Paper Editor’s Choice Awards in October 2007.
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Artists-in-Residence:
Nicole Bindler, Christ Center for Dance, <fidget>/Megan Bridge, Dawn Ann Bryant, Marcel Williams Foster, Christina Gesualdi, Green Chair Dance Group, Lela Jones, Pink Hair Affair, Emma Morehouse, Kate Speer, Zornitsa Stoyanova.
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Mascher Space Co-op is seeking new Artists-in-Residence.
For more information go to our “About us” page.
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