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Green Chair Dance Group to build human towers at Annenberg Center


By Haywood Brewster Staff Reporter


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reen Chair Dance Group will premier its newest work,


Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 3 and 4, 2012 at 7:30pm. The per- formance will be directed by Alex Torra (Pig Iron Theatre Company) and features a soundscore by composer Rosie Langabeer (Pig Iron Theatre Compa- ny, BalletX). In Tandem Biking and Oth- er Dangerous Pastimes for Two, Green Chair Dance Group opens its heart to questions of commitment over time, to the tension of intimacy, and to the joy of moving together. The company once again demonstrates its signature style of athletic, intimate dance-theater, which The Boston Globe called “poi- gnant, laugh-out-loud fun- ny, and completely engag- ing without being literal.” Bold and mischievous, the performers wrestle, share secrets, tick each other


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off, and build monuments with their bodies. “This work brings our company into new terri- tory, where we’re layer- ing movement with verbal storytelling,” says Co-Ar- tistic Director Hannah de Keijzer. “We’ve always valued being people with relationships on stage, rather than simply bodies moving through space, but this is the first time we’re playing with how lan- guage can help accomplish that. We spent a year and half trying out new dance- making structures in the creation of this project, and we’re in love with the rich, textured world that has emerged.” Green Chair Dance Group, a collaborative dance-the- ater company led by Co- Artistic Directors Sarah Gladwin Camp, Hannah de Keijzer, and Gregory Holt, choreographs highly original movement with a focus on interpersonal re- lationships, intense physi- cality, and humor. “Witty, playful and fun, [Green Chair] makes experimen- tal dance very audience- friendly” (The Philadelphia


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Inquirer). Green Chair has performed to sold-out houses through- out the Philadelphia area, nationally from Boston to Miami, and internation- ally at the Silesian Dance Festival in Poland. The company has been lauded with various awards and honors including a 2011 White Pines Residency and several grants from the Swarthmore Project in Theater. Green Chair’s current creative home is Mascher Space Coopera- tive, a vibrant experimen- tal movement co-op in the Kensington/Northern Liberties neighborhood of


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Philadelphia. Alex Torra, the collabo- rating director for Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two, is a Phila- delphia-based performer and director. In addition to his role as an Associate Artist with Pig Iron The- atre Company and Team Sunshine Performance Corporation, he directs with Shakespeare in Clark Park and was the recipient of a 2010-2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Brewery Fellow- ship and a 2007 Princess Grace Award (Grace Le Vine Award). Rosie Langabeer is an award-winning compos-


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er/performer from New Zealand who composes for a wide range of musi- cal ensembles and perfor- mance genres, and plays many instruments. Since arriving in Philadelphia in June 2010, she has com- posed and/or performed for Subcircle, Pig Iron The- atre Company, and BalletX and The WILMA Theater, among others. Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two was made possible in part through support from White Pines Productions. For more information about Green Chair Dance Group, visit www.green-


chairdancegroup.com. To purchase tickets to Tandem Biking and Other Danger- ous Pastimes for Two, visit www.annenbergcenter. org.


The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Harold Prince Theater, 3680 Walnut St. February 3 and 4, 2012 at 7:30pm For tickets, contact 215- 898-3900 or visit www.an- nenbergcenter.org. Tickets: $20-$30; $10 student rush & West Phila. residents Running Time:60 minutes, appropriate for all ages


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