SoLow Festival
The SoLow Festival is in PERFORMANCEs!
(see bottom for shows!)
SoLow Festival is an inexpensive artistic event dedicated to presenting new and experimental work in a collective manner. Inspiring individuals to make and produce art that would otherwise never be created. It is free for artists to be a part of the festival and all performances are Pay What you Can for audience members!
May 13 -23 2010
Most performances at Underground Arts at the Wolf Building. At 12th and Callowhill in Center City Philadelphia. Entrance on Callowhill.
The SoLow Festival is for you! Contact us for more information.
Email: solowfestival (at) gmail (dot) com
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*If performance accepts reservations it is done through individual artists.
Listing of shows!
SOLOW FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS:
(subject to change)
SOLO PERFORMANCES:
SHOW: Coffee Play
ARTIST: Thomas Choinacky
A theatrical pop art piece Coffee Play experiments with a character’s attraction and addiction to the caffeinated drink. Inspired by Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video. This short 15-minute piece brings pop art back to the forefront of American theatre arts. Placing an unforeseen character in an installation of coffee products, how will they respond?
PERFORMANCES: May 16th, 17th, and 18th at 7:30pm
RUN TIME: 20 minutes
SHOW: Pieces of Me: Narratives of Bodily Destruction
ARTIST: Cora Leighton
“Pieces of Me: Narratives of Bodily Deconstruction” takes the audience on a journey through the narratives that come out of bodies. In the performance, the performer, Cora Leighton, explores issues of kidney donation, dieting, scarring, body art, and trauma. Through the use of personal narrative, urban legend, popular culture, and other texts, the performance draws the audience in and asks them to think of the narratives that come from their own bodies.
PERFORMANCES: May 14th at 7pm, May 15th at 8pm, May 16th at 2pm
RUN TIME: 45 minutes
SHOW: PRETTY
ARTIST: Meghann Williams
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. ~Oscar Wilde
The ritual begins when she scrubs away yesterday’s makeup and sees herself as she is for but a moment. Will today be the day she can no longer uphold the facade?
- NOTE: performance is invite only. email solowfestival@gmail.com for more details.
PERFORMANCES: May 13th, 20th, and 23rd at 6:30pm
RUN TIME: 20 minutes
SHOW: 4 Story Building
ARTIST: Mostly Girls Performing
Mostly Girls Performing presents a compilation of four solo sketches by Holly Bass, Katy Chevigny, Mary Catherine Donnelly and Amala Lane who hail from NY, PA and DC. Crossing generations and multiple characters and shared identities, each stand-alone piece offers a new perspective on transformation and discovery.
PERFORMANCE: Sun. May 16th at 4pm
RUN TIME: 40 minutes
ORIGINAL WORK:
SHOW: Local Holiday Miracle Celebrates
ARTIST: Local Holiday Miracle (Andrea Kuhar and Aubrie Williams)
Celebrate the holidays early with sketch comedy group “Local Holiday Miracle”, and follow Bernice (the lonely New Year’s Eve drop ball), Aunt Joyce (the awkward Christmas Aunt), and friends in this show filled with holiday cheer, musical numbers, dancing, and, of course, LOTS OF LAUGHS!! Tis’ the season (kind of), and there’s always room for a Local Holiday Miracle.
PERFORMANCES: May 20th at 7pm, May 22nd at 8:30pm
RUN TIME: 1 hour
SHOW: Bear
ARTIST: Frederick Tenuto Company
BEAR will take the form of a reading/workshop-performance of 3 scenes from a project to be in this fall’s Philly Fringe Festival entitled “How to Solve a Bear.”
Does a bear need to be taught to shit in the woods? Can a domesticated animal ever become wild again? Can man ever exist in harmony with the destructive side of nature? BEAR is a play that fails to answer these questions and more, as two bickering park rangers, a hippie lost in the woods, and a sociopathic bounty-hunter learn what it means to grab the bear by the horns.
PERFORMANCES: May 19th and May 22nd at 8pm
RUN TIME: 10-20 minutes
SHOW: Cause; Effect
ARTIST: Carla Y. Emanuele
Everyone’s got something. Who’s gonna get yours? This premiere work features Angela Smith, Megan Slater, and Stephen Hyams.
Directed by: Bobby Bangert
Costume direction by: Katherine Fritz
Sound direction by: Justin Giza
PERFORMANCES: May 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th at 8pm, May 19th at 7pm
RUN TIME: 1 hour
STAGED READINGS OF NEW WORK:
SHOW: Pollock, Murdoch and Hague
ARTIST: Carla Y. Emanuele
Just because they say they will take care of you doesn’t mean they can.
A look into one of the oldest, still functioning hospitals in Jersey City, NJ. A series of buildings buried in urban legend and myth become the case study of a young man, curious about the findings in his own backyard.
PERFORMANCE: Fri. May 14th at 8pm
RUN TIME: 50 minutes
SHOW: Real Life
PERFORMER: Jean Brooks
WRITER: Frances Driscoll, ADAPTED BY Tom Juarez
DIRECTOR: Tom Juarez
Real Life is a solo show adapted from Frances Driscoll’s award-winning The Rape Poems, tracking her journey through PTSD while breaking the silence about rape with shocking honesty, black humor, incisive reportage and without a trace of self-pity. Nikki Giovanni: “Powerful. Touching. Inspiring. What a gift she has.”
PERFORMANCES: May 19th at 8:30, May 23rd at 6pm
RUN TIME: 55 minutes
SHOW: Now!
ARTIST: Lauren Zapata
Come see a staged reading of NOW! This is not dedicated to you. This is not a picture of a picture. This is not realistic. This is not a fairy tale. This is what it is; you decide what it is. What is it to you? You can decide how this will end. Do you like it? Does it sound intriguing? You are gOd of this dimension and have every right to reject or embrace NOW fully. NOW is the answer. There will be a place for you to voice your thoughts and insight on how to improve the play. Hope to see you there! Bring your friends!
PERFORMANCES: May 22nd at 4pm, May 23rd at 3pm
RUN TIME: 20-30 minutes
PERFORMANCE ART:
SHOW: Blown Away
ARTISTS: Corey Bechelli, Sammy Shuster, and Cory Kram
What do you get when you combine the melodic harmony of singing and guitar with the ethereal warbling of the musical saw? How about when you blend them together with the rhythmic mark making of projected drawing? The results are an aural-visual spectacle; a symphony of music and pictures that will transport you to a colorful dimension of whimsy and wonderment! This Triforce of talent will leave you BLOWN AWAY!
PERFORMANCE: Sat. May 15th at 9pm
RUN TIME: 30 minutes
SHOW: Let Go of the Ego
ARTIST: charm/strange experience
Blending together colors and sounds, the charm/strange experience guides us on an intense, uplifting journey. Live piano music and projected drawings rhythmically vibrate multiple realities together to create a cosmic odyssey about embracing the present. Explore underwater, outer space, deep within. A dazzling multi-sensory experience.
PERFORMANCE: Fri. May 14th at 9pm
RUN TIME: 30 minutes
SHOW: The Hour
ARTIST: Thomas Choinacky
Visual art and theatre in combination. Is it possible for them to merge together? Exploring how unique spaces innovatively affect a performance the audience is free to walk around the space/ art gallery seeing all sides of the action. Using movement, music, numerous art supplies, and exactly one hour this one time only performance comes to life as a part of SoLow’s opening night event.
PERFORMANCE: Thurs. May 13th at 8pm
RUN TIME: 1 hour
SPECIAL EVENTS:
SHOW: Opening Night Mixer
Come mix and mingle with artists and performers at this BYOB event to celebrate the opening of the festival. Featuring improv comedy by Rookie Card!
START TIME: Thurs. May 13th at 9pm
SHOW: Jurassic Fantastic: An Art Show 200 Million Years in the Making
ARTIST: Various artists and events!
Join us for one of the greatest creative showcases in history!
Featuring work by some of Philadelphia’s most imaginative artists!
Art, Music, Food, Fun, and more!
PERFORMANCE: Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 7-11 pm Free!
@ Pterodactyl, 3237 Amber St., Philadelphia, PA 19134
4 blocks from the kensington & Allegheny ave station
www.pterodactylphiladelphia.org
SHOW: Nerdrage: Philadelphia
A Nerdcore Hip-Hop Showcase. “Nerdcore,” for those unfamiliar, is a subgenre of hip-hop that focuses on everything from Star Wars to being devastated that your dad threw out your Atari 2600. Nerdrage will feature MC Frontalot (the godfather of Nerdcore), DEFINE, Zilla Persona, MC 8Bit and ECOMOG. Bring your wookiee suit. Suggested donation of $10
PERFORMANCE: Friday, May 21st Doors open 6:30p-7:30pm (show 7p-11pm)
SHOW: Rookie Card
Rookie Card (www.rookiecardimprov.com) is eight improvisers getting together to do what they always wanted: to entertain. As Philadelphia’s largest independent improv group, they embrace the abnormal and absurd with their “punk rock” style and attitude on stage. In addition to performances around town, you can find them at the Raven Lounge (1718 Sansom St., Philadelphia, PA, 215-840-3577), which hosts their monthly show with in-town groups as guests.
PERFORMANCES: May 13th and 22nd at 9:30