After all the craziness that was fringe, things have slowed down considerably. But that doesn't mean there aren't still wild performances on the horizon. Next up is the Hall of Haunts on Oct. 26th and 27th from 5pm-Midnight in Allamuchy, NJ. I'll be creating a unique journey deep into the human mind for one of the many rooms in this historic mansion. Don't be scared.

Now that the Philadelphia Fringe is dead and buried, it's on to the next project. Here are a few things to look forward to ...

1. I'll be working on a new dance piece with Gina Hoch-Stall's company RealLivePeople(in)Motion.

2. My LAB Fellowship has started and I am in the beginning phase of a new solo work. More details to come.

3. The group I worked with on The Sea of Tranquility is coming together for another project under the banner Medium Theatre Company. The project has several stages the first of which is a series of solo pieces about mediums, psychics and seers in Rutherfurd Hall at the end of October as part of their "Hall of Haunts". The second is a coming together of these solos for a TBD Philadelphia run. And finally a residency back at the Hall in March 2013.

Check out the gallery of pictures from our dress rehearsal of Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals. Photos by JJ Tiziou.

Word is spreading about Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals. We had a great night of performance yesterday. Tonight we have our final two shows, one at 7 and one at 10. Check out this interview with the Philadelphia Festival Blog. I'll put up some reviews here as they come in the next few days.

Wow! My first Philadelphia Fringe Festival is almost over. I've had such a great time, and I am incredibly proud of both Hackles and MMMM. Both of which have received great reviews and awesome word of mouth. Still 4 chances to see MMMM. Tonight and tomorrow night at 7pm and again at 10pm.

Neat! Hackles is a City Paper festival highlight.

Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals is getting some attention too.

My first Philadelphia review. Tickets are still available for Hackles, every night at 8pm until Sept. 16th.

WHYY News came in to watch a rehearsal of Hackles. They wrote an article about the Pig Iron School students in the piece, captured some audio, and snapped some pictures. Check it out here.

I'm incredibly busy in the best way possible! On Tuesday I had a work in progress showing of Hackles, the piece I've directed for the Fringe running Sept. 7-16. Tomorrow I have a work in progress showing of Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals, the piece I've co-created and will be performing in from Sept. 19th-22nd. Get your tickets now! Both pieces are going to be awesome!

If you are in NYC this weekend, check out a 15 minute excerpt of Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals that will be part of Triskelion Art's Collaborations in Dance Festival this Saturday and Sunday night.

Check out this Live Arts Festival blog entry on Hackles.

Check out the new press photo by Lindsay Browning for MMMM.

Check out a press photo from Hackles on the photo page.

Also, tickets are available for the Philadelphia Fringe.

Go here for Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minerals.

And here for Hackles.

Rehearsals are underway for both Hackles and MMMM. Things are going great with both projects. Today was the first rehearsal for MMMM in the performance space. Megan and I made some amazing discoveries that we can't wait to share with you.

The kickstarter page for my project Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals with Megan Mazarick is live! I am incredibly excited to debut this work (my first evening length piece in Philadelphia, and my first self-produced work ever) as part of the 2012 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Please check out all of the information here and consider making a donation. Thank you for your support!

I'm happy to announce I'll be directing a group of current students at the amazing Pig Iron School in a show for the 2012 Philly Fringe Festival! Hackles will be a completely devised piece authored by and featuring Alice Yorke, Martha Stuckey, Nick Gillette, and Scott Sheppard. The show will run September 7-September 16 at 8pm at the Crane Old School White Box Theatre. Stay tuned for more information. 

Come see Team Sunshine Performance Corporation perform Wonderwave, I'll be helping out backstage.

Wednesday, June 20, 6pm

Thursday, June 21, 6pm

Wednesday, June 27, 6pm

Thursday, June 28, 6pm

FREE, but reservations required.

ABOUT THE EVENT

Join local neighborhood residents and Commotion artists for an intimate evening of performance and a communal dinner in the historic and beautiful Shiloh Baptist Church. In forget me...forget me not, a new performance installation created by Subcircle, audiences will wander through corridors and unseen rooms of Shiloh, into a place of forgotten stories and lost objects. You will then arrive at the dining hall and share a locally sourced and home cooked meal with your fellow audience members. Following dinner, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation presents Wonderwave, a new physical-theatre piece that uses humor and dance as a tool to delve into the emotionally complicated realm of coping and loss. In this work they investigate natural disasters, the music we listen to in times of desperation, the dances we make to embrace our circumstances, and the glimmer of hope that helps us to stay afloat. Enjoy dessert, as you chat with the performers and your new dinner friends.

I'll be performing in a new work by Hinako Arao on June 14th, 7:30pm and 9:30pm at studio:christensen.

Here is the blurb:

In the wake of Occupy, studio:christensen & HyLo Boutiques explore ethics & entrepreneurialism with Philadelphia creative leaders.

VISUAL ART: Mark Price, Tadashi Moriyama, & Joyce Chan

LIVE ART: Marcel Williams Foster & Hinako Arao. With collaborators Hitomi Ogawa, Mason Rosenthal, Danielle Currica, Annie Wilson, & Caitlin Hellerer

FASHION: Nic Fish

MUSIC & SOUNDS: Josh Hey

FOOD: Jason Mercato of Just Cookies

333 South 20th Street

$10. Purchase advanced tickets by emailing here.

Here is some YouTube footage of experiments and research with Zornitsa Stoyanova.

#1 is an experiment in translating a specific song into gesture. I'm trying to gesture/sing "A Whole New World".

#2 is some research around deconstructing language. I took the word "lilac" and tried to use it in conversation with Christina. Skip to around 5:00 if you want to go straight to the weirdness.

I presented a pecha kucha to fellow HPI alums tonight about my current artistic life. So many exciting things happening, I'm just waiting on some more videos and images to put up on the website. Soon! I also saw Reggie Watts perform here in Philadelphia on Saturday night. Reggie is an amazing improvisor, musician, and comedian. His work has inspired a lot of what I am trying to do with my human consciousness performed lecture. Check him out!

Took a short vacation this weekend into NYC to see Tom Costello's production of The Wundelsteipen at The Flea Theater and The Riot Group's production of Sophie Gets the Horns. I also got to see my friend Amy Rubin's work at the NYU Graduate Design Showcase.

Look for more videos from my project with Megan Mazarick in the next week or so!

Check the photo page for a new still from Mining the Mine of the Mind. Megan and I have plans to make a higher quality video next week. Looking forward to it!

Finally back to training after nearly 6 months! I've joined the Muay Thai program at Daddis Fight Camp. Very close to home and some great trainers. Feels good to kick things again!

A few new things in the works including plans to expand Mining the Mine of the Mind into an evening length piece. We are planning on self producing for a performance sometime this year. Next week Megan and I are going to get to work on putting together a Kickstarter video to raise some $$$. I also talked to two new collaborators about two as of yet unnannounced projects. More info on all of these things to come!

This afternoon Megan Mazarick and I performed the latest version of our wacky performed lecture on human consciousness to an audience of dance presenters at the Dance USA Philadelphia showcase. The piece is currently titled Mining the Mine of the Mind for Minderals: A lecture on presence and the neurological correlates of consciousness. We captured the showing with a flip cam so the video and audio is a little sketchy, but the piece itself is awesome. Looking forward to where it goes next! Check it out here.

Spent the day in NYC today at the Atlantic Acting School working with my friend and mentor George Russell. So great to see so many familiar faces.

Some wild experiments yesterday with Zornitsa that you can see here.

And here is some wild text from rehearsals with Megan. I'm improvising a spiritual lecture based off of lots of text I've collected from Eckhart Tolle.

"Many of you have only just arrived here now and perhaps some of you are not yet completely here. There may be parts of you that are still arriving. So let's wait for them to get here. But, we’re here to give up waiting as a state of mind! There is another state of mind, or rather no mind, in which you are not waiting for the next moment. You are fully present in the now."

 Just received a CD with some of the pictures from Sea of Tranquility. Check it out on my photo page.

Lately, some more rehearsals with Zornitsa, and some more teaching at Swarthmore University. Both of them are making me hungry to start up my own class here in Philadelphia. Maybe a pilot class in April?