2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe

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	Bang on a Can Marathon: Philadelphia Live Arts Bang on a Can Ten hours of nonstop music at the World Café Live. Buy one ticket and come and go all day long to this glorious collision of musical styles by today's most adventurous players and composers—from around the globe and around the corner. As artistically inclusive as it is audience-friendly, the Marathon is a wild gathering of genres, styles, innovation, and radically new sounds, delivered as one open mega-concert.
	Best of Philly Music: Frame By Frame GGM Productions & RDStudios RDStudios & GGM Productions with Double V Booking bring you Philly music at its finest at Club Risque on 9/10. These bands are gonna tear up the national scene soon, so we are making a movie to document the night so you can revisit the show over and over again!
	Casual World/Intimate Heart ANJ Granieri One of the youngest composers for The Oprah Show, Anj Granieri showcases her musical talents in Casual World; Intimate Heart, an autobiographical hybrid piece that wraps poetry, drama, visuals, and personal storytelling around the performance of several songs on a baby grand piano. Experience the music. www.cdbaby.com/anj3.
	ConNEXTions: The Next Generation of Opera presents LOVE/HATE Center City Opera Theater Center City Opera Theater presents ConNEXTions, a program featuring world premiere workshops of 21st century operas by American composers and librettists. These performances are semi-staged presentations of works-in-progress with opportunities for audience feedback and interaction with the composer and librettist.
	Dance Live Arts Lucinda Childs with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt Three masters of minimalism, choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, collaborated to construct this seminal work of dance—one of the purest examples of interdisciplinary art-making ever created. An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, Dance is a bold statement on the very nature of movement.
	Felon Fiercely: Live at the Apocalypse Felon Fiercely Screw 2012! The world's ending tonight! But before it does, John Felon and Joe Fiercely would like to serenade you into oblivion. Join this musical comedy act as they usher in the end of days. One way or another, their music will be the last thing you hear. Mature audiences.
	Festival Plus Live Arts Dance by Lucinda Childs Through a film series, lecture, moderated discussion, and a master class, Festival Plus programming for Dance offers audiences a deeper insight into the artist and her work.
	Journeys of the Wolf Christine Campbell Before the time of science, wisdom was spoken in the voices of nature. From that time comes Journeys of the Wolf, a contemporary offering of an age-old storytelling tradition. Drumming, singing, and narration coupled with soaring progressive music create a tapestry that weaves ancient truths into our contemporary world. www.wolfsongproductions.org
	L'Heure Exquise: The Exquisite Hour Cory O'Niell Walker As mutual trust grows, a psychotherapist becomes overwhelmed by her patients’ delusional world, where mental illness distorts the reality of their relationship. The Exquisite Hour explores the experience of an institutionalized man with severe psychosis in a pastiche of songs by Gabriel Faure.
	L. Subramaniam In Concert SRUTI The India Music and Dance Society Enjoy an evening of virtuoso violin from a master of improvisation in the tradition of Indian classical music by acclaimed violinist, composer, and conductor L. Subramaniam. Subramaniam is renowned for his compositions in orchestral fusion and collaborations with both jazz and western classical artists like Yehudi Menuhin and Herbie Hancock.
	Philly Song Shuffle Xtreme Folk Scene Three plus hours of fast, dirty fun involving 4 minute sets, 4 second set changes, 50 artists on one stage, and a Philly-sized dose of complete mayhem. City Paper described its 2003 debut as "an excellent idea that should become a regular event." The first and only live song shuffle anywhere!
	Release: Vijay Iyer Live Live Arts Vijay Iyer “Pianist Vijay Iyer['s] keyboard prowess and epic vision place him in a category by himself among jazz soloists.” Chicago Tribune Live Arts and the Eastern State Penitentiary co-present a concert by jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer. Iyer will play in conjunction with the ongoing film installation Release, for which Iyer composed the music.
	Sephro Quinn Compositions Sephro, a fantasy opera, uses the healing power of music, the universal language, to take us on a journey of the great mystical mysteries of life, love, death, salvation, and transformation. When a coven of pagan witches unite with beings from another planet, divine spirituality of mankind triumphs over evil.
	Stew and The Negro Problem Live Arts Stew Led by Stew and Obie award-winning Heidi Rodewald, this Afro Baroque cabaret ensemble is coveted for their literate precision, sly humor, and deep emotional resonance, hovering between the divergent worlds of rock and theater.
	The Marriage of Figaro: The Las Vegas Version Poor Richard's Opera Move over, Da Ponte. Ever wonder what a Mozart opera would sound like in 1960s Las Vegas? Even if you haven't, come find out! Classical meets kitsch in the Philadelphia premiere of DC writers Elizabeth Pringle and Bari Biern's original libretto and lyrics matched with Mozart's timeless music.
	Zombies Are Forever Rainbow Destroyer Zombies! Unicorns! Glitter! Blood! Peek into the lives of everyone's favorite zombie-pop duo as Rainbow Destroyer invites you to an open audition. Come as you are—mortal or undead—and ready for a night of karaoke debauchery. Do you have what it takes to be larger than death? To read blog article about this show, click here.