House
Kate Watson-Wallace
Philadelphia choreographer and dancer Kate Watson-Wallace explored the nooks and crannies of a West Philadelphia row home with House in the 2006 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Imagine weightless dancers crawling, flying and floating out of the architecture, and moving across walls, in beds, bathtubs and stairwells. For this year’s festival (Aug. 29 – Sept. 13), Watson-Wallace and her company will premiere Car, the second installment of her American Spaces trilogy which re-imagines everyday spaces. Watch the video

Still Unknown
Subcircle
Wife and husband team Niki and Jorge Cousineau fused the worlds of visual art and dance with Still Unknown. A performance installation housed in a 30,000 square foot former frozen-fish factory, Still Unknown intrigued audiences with its spirit of uncertainty as audience members were given a choice of entrances and were led through a maze of multi-media installations. Watch the video

Lie to Me
Miro Dance Theatre
Dancer and choreographer Amanda Miller and media artist Tobin Rothlein teamed up with Antony Rizzi, an American dance artist based in Germany, to explore the collaborative intersections of dance, video and visual art.  Lie to Me tells stories of geographical displacement (based in part on Rizzi’s 20 years in Germany, where he primarily worked with acclaimed choreographer William Forsythe), challenges stylistic archetypes with experimentation and embraces new technology as a performer on the stage. Watch the video

Cell
Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia’s Bessie Award-winning Headlong Dance Theater took audiences on a personal, interactive movement journey with Cell. Designed for one audience member at a time with a cell phone, Cell is a kind of secret-dance-agent training mission that explores surveillance, intimacy and the delicate dance of pedestrians through the streets of Old City. Watch the video