ISOP FebFest DiscorDance 2018
The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia announces a 3-day February Festival of Improvisation in Music and Dance with the theme of Discord, February 16, 2018 through Sunday February 18, 2018.
“ISOP FebFest: DiscorDance” is a way to get together and explore how we, as improvisors, work with qualities of disharmony, disagreement, conflict, strife, friction, as well as their opposites?
How do we as improvisors use our practices to navigate, escape, or express ourselves in a time of stressful social and cultural changes and challenges (immigration, national identity, sexual harassment, nuclear weapons, racism, LGBTQIA+ rights, and religious persecution, to name a few)?
“ISOP FebFest: DiscorDance” will kick off with a panel discussion Friday 2/16 afternoon 2-4pm at Temple University’s Tuttleman Learning Center, hosted by the BEEP – Boyer College Electroacoustic Ensemble Project, with the topic Discord: Improvisation in an era of cultural conflict, giving us talk-and-listen time to situate our artistic expressive practices within the shifting cultural and political landscapes we find ourselves navigating.
On Friday 2/16 night, Saturday 2/17 afternoon, and Saturday night there will then be public performances curated by ISOP at Mascher Space Co-op and Vox Populi matching up performers for sets that will allow a chance to work out some of the festival’s questions in artistic action.
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VOX POPULI GALLERY
319 N 11th St, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Tangles of the Afternoon - 4pm
Set 1
30 minutes - Overlapping Duets
Jim Strong & Marion Ramirez >>> Vitche-Boul Ra & Kate Seethaler
Set 2
30 minutes - Trio Overlapped by Duet
Rachel Germond & Stephanie Turner & Schuyler Thum >>> Merian Soto & Erica Corbo
Set 3
20 minutes - Trio
Brad Forbes & Kimya Jackson & Eppchez!
Set 4
30 minutes - Quartet
Gene Coleman & Alpha Alpha & Awilda Sterling & Katarina Pojak
Saturday Night Dive - 8pm
Set 1
20 minutes - Duet
Lance Simmons & Rachel Germond
Set 2
30 minutes - Overlapping Duets
Merian Soto & Audrey Chen >>> Marion Soto & Marion Ramirez
Set 3
30 minutes - Trio Overlapped by Duet
Ali Fischer & Alpha Alpha & Erica Corbo >>> Kimya Jackson & Awilda Sterling
Set 4
30 minutes - Duet overlapped by Trio
Henrik Norstebo & Lane Spiedel >>> Erik Ruin & Beau Hancock & Chelsea Smarr