Upcoming Shows
Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two
Green Chair Dance Group's new evening-length piece, Tandem Biking and Other Dangerous Pastimes for Two, is ready to see the light of day. We’re very, very excited to share it with you!
We’ll be performing Tandem Biking at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4 at 7:30pm.
In this dance we open our hearts to questions of commitment over time, to the tension of intimacy, and to the joy of moving together. We wrestle, share secrets, tick each other off, and build monuments with our bodies. We invent a past and a present at the same time, shaping two different stories that drift back and forth between movement and words.
Alex Torra (Pig Iron Theatre Company, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation) directed Tandem Biking, and composer/musician Rosie Langabeer (Pig Iron Theatre Company, No Face) is providing our soundscore.
We hope to see you there!
February 3 and 4, 2012 at 7:30pm
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Harold Prince Theater
3680 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tickets $20-30, $10 student rush
Buy tickets here!
We’ll be performing Tandem Biking at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, February 3 and Saturday, February 4 at 7:30pm.
In this dance we open our hearts to questions of commitment over time, to the tension of intimacy, and to the joy of moving together. We wrestle, share secrets, tick each other off, and build monuments with our bodies. We invent a past and a present at the same time, shaping two different stories that drift back and forth between movement and words.
Alex Torra (Pig Iron Theatre Company, Team Sunshine Performance Corporation) directed Tandem Biking, and composer/musician Rosie Langabeer (Pig Iron Theatre Company, No Face) is providing our soundscore.
We hope to see you there!
February 3 and 4, 2012 at 7:30pm
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Harold Prince Theater
3680 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tickets $20-30, $10 student rush
Buy tickets here!
Our Most Recent Shows
Falls Bridge Improvisation Festival
On January 15, 2012, Greg and Sarah performed an improvised duet as part of the Falls Bridge Festival. Here's what The Philadelphia Inquirer's Merilyn Jackson had to say:
"Another wonderfully playful improvisation - between Sarah Gladwin Camp...and Gregory Holt - started out with a kind of rock-paper-scissors stare-down. Holt ran around, wildly flapping his arms like a madman wanting to shout his love from the treetops, while Camp sat watching impassively. In a magnificent moment reminiscent of Xavier Leroy's nude Self-Unfinished, the fully-dressed Holt upended his legs over his upper back to touch the wall, head unseen, backside up, his arms and hands extended absurdly behind him, taking on a life of their own." (January 17, 2012)
"Another wonderfully playful improvisation - between Sarah Gladwin Camp...and Gregory Holt - started out with a kind of rock-paper-scissors stare-down. Holt ran around, wildly flapping his arms like a madman wanting to shout his love from the treetops, while Camp sat watching impassively. In a magnificent moment reminiscent of Xavier Leroy's nude Self-Unfinished, the fully-dressed Holt upended his legs over his upper back to touch the wall, head unseen, backside up, his arms and hands extended absurdly behind him, taking on a life of their own." (January 17, 2012)
We are practical people
All our shows in the 2011 Philly Fringe Festival were completely sold out, with people crowding onto mats on the floor and standing in the back of the room!
We performed We are practical people in a triple-punch evening of work also featuring Gabrielle Revlock's A Fork and Stick Thing and devynn emory's My Child November. In this latest work, we know there’s a job to get done. We solve body puzzles like we’ve never heard the word awkward. Brash and adventurous, we fold in on ourselves, share secrets, flip upside down, and build spontaneous, lush architectures that eddy and dissolve. Music for the secret-sharing was composed by Rosie Langabeer. Photo Credit: J. Makary | WHERE & WHEN
Mascher Space
155 Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia, PA 19122 Friday, September 9 at 10PM Saturday, September 10 at 2PM Sunday, September 11 at 7PM. Running Time: 75 minutes Tickets: $15-18 ($12 for anyone who can plead their case) Box Office: For tickets, contact the Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org |
Julius Caesar
Choreography by Green Chair Dance Group
Dancers: Danielle Currica, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Graeme McHenry, Hannah de Keijzer, Gregory Holt
A secret theater show hosted by Puppet Uprising and Missoula Oblongata, this production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar saw each act re-interpreted by a different company, including through puppets, circus arts and experimental music. Delicious, delicious dessert was served. Green Chair was Act II.
Photo Credit: Missoula Oblongata
Dancers: Danielle Currica, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Graeme McHenry, Hannah de Keijzer, Gregory Holt
A secret theater show hosted by Puppet Uprising and Missoula Oblongata, this production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar saw each act re-interpreted by a different company, including through puppets, circus arts and experimental music. Delicious, delicious dessert was served. Green Chair was Act II.
Photo Credit: Missoula Oblongata
Uncertainty Principles
Choreography by Green Chair Dance Group
Performers: Hannah de Keijzer, Sarah Gladwin Camp, Gregory Holt, and Annie Wilson
A humorous look at gravity and the mis-adventures of trying to avoid it. Particles, forces, and feelings interact in unimaginable speeds, tumbling and crashing through space.
What’s a dance company to do in this world where through means around; where walls aren’t where they seem and the foot you thought you were standing on drops through the floor?
Approaching these questions with their characteristic exuberance, Green Chair Dance Group is subjecting the body and what we know about space to a whole new set of rules. Experiments in this lab are curious physical experiences, through which the dancers share the delights & difficulties of an unexpected world.
Photo Credit: Bill Hebert
Other Recent Shows
- On September 24 & 25, 2011, Green Chair became the Phantom Limb for the Open for Dancing Festival in Newport, RI.
- For a ZoomDance Production in October 2010, we presented Uncertainty Principles as part of a people-friendly evening of inventive and playful dance followed by an Interactive Dance Playground for the kids in the audience.
- As part of Philly Fringe 2010, and for the Live Arts Brewery Second Thursday Series in October, Sarah and Hannah performed a light-hearted, athletic duet titled I think I just need a little bit of sugar.
- Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA (July 31, 2010): Three hikers meet on a hillside and tumble towards a complicated horizon. In a new site-specific work at The Schuylkill Center, Green Chair Dance Group gets outdoorsy, and a little rough and dirty. Splashing through a pond of gravel, rolling over stone ledges, and flying into each other’s arms, Green Chair harnesses the potential energy of the summer sun. View some rehearsal photos here.
- Goose Route Dance Festival, Shepherdstown, WV (July 23-25, 2010)
First Friday Dance Lab, The Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, PA (May 7, 2010) - This free event featured fresh dance experiments, live music by Ethan McCreadie and friends, plus free beer and snacks!
Dances We've Created
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We are practical people, 2011
- Dances for a garden wedding, 2010
- I think I just need a little bit of sugar., 2010
- Julius Caesar, 2010
- Uncertainty Principles, 2009
- this is still sort of a touchy subject for us (Gregory Holt), 2009
- Dances for the Naked Eye, 2008/2009
- For Emergency Use Only, 2006/2007
- ...the hardest part is overcoming the coefficient of static friction, 2005
- Escape!, 2004
Places We've Performed
- Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, PA (Feb. 2012)
- Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, PA (2009-present)
- White Pines Residency, Elkins Park, PA (2011)
- The Gallery at Market East, Philadelphia, PA (2011)
- A country estate, Cornish, NH (2010)
- Movement Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA (2010)
- The Live Arts Brewery, Philadelphia, PA (2010)
- The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA (2010)
- The Wolf Building, Philadelphia, PA (2010)
- Goose Route Dance Festival, Shepherdstown, WV (2010)
- The Painted Bride Arts Center studios, Philadelphia, PA (2009-present)
- Studio Series at Studio 34, Philadelphia, PA (2009)
- International Festival of Contemporary Dance, Bytom, Poland (2005, 2009)
- Norristown DanceFest, Norristown, PA (2009)
- The Dance Complex, Cambridge, MA (2007, 2008)
- Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA (2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
- Florida Dance Festival, Miami, FL (2005)
- Rites of Spring Dance Festival, Weston, CT (2005)
- Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (2005)
Workshops We Offer
- Movement For People: This is a challenging yet unintimidating workshop that explores the way we move in the world and discovers the fun of hurling yourself through the air. It's group-oriented, and focuses on opening awareness to space, rhythm, and your compatriots. This workshop can be tailored to dancers, but is designed to be appropriate for any group, including athletes, office workers, and ninjas.
- ZoomDance: This is an action-adventure storytelling class for children ages 1-6. There is an emphasis on creative play and building confidence through songs, stories, and performance - all while developing agility, coordination, rhythm, and balance through a dynamic range of actions. Kids have the opportunity to show off their favorite moves, invent characters, and try lots of new movement ideas.
