[PhiladelphiaDANCE.org Listserv] REMINDER Ellen Fisher Sat. Feb. 23

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Jump in and dance with your voice, too.....
Workshop open to all levels.....
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PHILADELPHIA DANCE PROJECTS
presents

ELLEN FISHER

Saturday, February 23,  2008

 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 currently in  “mercy” and “impermanence.” 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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