[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] PDP/Ellen Fisher Saturday, 2/23/08

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PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS
presents

ELLEN FISHER
                              
Saturday, February 23,   2008 at   7:30PM                       
                  
 at the Performance Garage, 1515 Brandywine St. Philadelphia, PA

 $10  ($5 w/Cosmos or DanceUSA/Philadelphia, Students or Seniors).            
                
   Info/Resv:   215.546.2552 or info at philadanceprojects.org

MOVEMENT & VOICE WORKSHOP/The Power of Transformation   
1-3PM

This workshop is open to people all ages who like to sing and dance.
The workshop will concentrate on each individual's power of expression 
through dance and voice. All levels are welcome to engage in a creative exploration 
of our physicality using voice and body. The workshop will offer warm-up 
exercises, group improvisations and small “performances” to share with each other.

MEET THE ARTIST   7:30PM

In a special PDP Meet the Artist Ellen Fisher will talk about her work as 
well as show video excerpts which demonstrate how she interweaves film and live 
performance and works with “transformation” through the aid of props and 
costumes.   She will include some video footage from her documentation of trance 
and healing dances of Sri Lanka.   

She will also perform 6 short dances some, purely movement based, others 
using simple props, shadow-play and puppets. The music compositions are by Mimi 
Goese and Ben Neill, Frank Maya, Graham Fitkins, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hearn Gadbois 
and Rachel Loshak. The evening offers an opportunity for audiences to learn 
more about Fisher's   explorations in performance and engage in conversation 
with the artist. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Ellen Fisher is a performance artist whose work combines gestural actions 
with visual components such as film, shadow play, objects and puppets.   Fisher's 
performance work is informed by ethnographic research in trance dance and 
rituals of South Asia, particularly Sri Lanka. Since 1981, she has toured solo 
work throughout Europe and the U.S., also directing large ensemble work 
reinterpreting myths and legends. Her film work, including documentaries, has been 
included in festivals throughout the world. She performed with Meredith   
Monk/The House in the '70's, in such works as “The Plateau Series” and “Recent Ruins,
” and more in “mercy” and “impermanence”   2005-07, an most recently in 
Monk's concert at Symphony Space Feb. 08.   She has received funding through the 
NEA, Art Matters Inc., Jerome Foundation, NYFA and the Asian Cultural Council, 
winning a 2004 Humanities Fellowship and a 2005 Travel Grant.   Fisher 
continues to teach and collaborate with artists on community intergenerational and 
intercultural projects, both domestically and internationally.
                                                                              
                                           
Philadelphia Dance Projects gratefully acknowledges '07-'08 support from: The 
William Penn Foundation, The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Stockton Rush Bartol 
Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation, Advanta Foundation, Henrietta Tower 
Wurts Memorial, Dolfinger McMahon Foundation, Rosenlund Family Foundation, 
The National Endowment for the Arts, individual donors and organizational 
partners including, Philadanco and the Temple University Ester Boyer School of Music 
& Dance.   

The mission of the Philadelphia Dance Projects is contribute to the 
cultivation of dance art in Philadelphia and the region, by providing professional 
development and services for dance and movement artists, enrichment for their 
audiences and exposure and learning experience in dance for youth through various 
projects and presentations.


Philadelphia Dance Projects
1427 Spruce Street   Suite 1F
Phila PA 19102   USA
215.546.2552
info at philadanceprojects.org
www.philadanceprojects.org
                                        




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