Cannonball Festival

A dancer with short hair reaches their right arm forward, left arm back with their head bowed down. They stand with their left leg slightly turned out and bent, their right leg extended behind them.
Photo by Jeff Warden
  • Reviews

Wake up with a gasp

Megan Mizanty

Foursome Performance plumbs subterranean depths.

Five dancers rest their cheeks on one another's shoulders in a long, diagonal line. They cup one another's elbows and stare directly into the camera.
Photo by Daniel Sohn
  • Reviews

Birdsong and Being

Megan Mizanty

It’s okay to stop and watch the world turn.

A group of twelve people pose in front of a white wall. on the floor level, four group members either sit, lie, kneel or lunge on the ground. standing members lean on one another on either side of the crew, and people in the center sit or lay on a bench together.
Photo Credit: Jeffrey Evans
  • Interviews

Cannonball Bets on Philadelphia’s Indie Artists

Caitlin Green

“Cannonball is no one person’s vision, but the collective fever dream of us all.”

Two women standing in a spotlit space, each with a yellow top and white pants with the taller, Zoe Rabinowitz, gazing aside, embraces and holds Mary McGrath to her chest, one arm around her blond hair, the other around her back, her face buried in Rabinowitz’s chest.
Photo: Sara Radin
  • Reviews

Two tD Writers + Two Fringe Shows — A Reflective Conversation

Jonathan Stein

Dance and theater from artists/daughters address their mothers’ dementia.

A dancer covered in a bright array of tulle looks downward. The tulle fabric bellows around her covered lower half. Her shadow looms large behind her.
Photo: Taylor Jones
  • Reviews

Cracking Open and Spilling Out

Megan Mizanty

What happens when the juice dries up?

Bathed in purple light, Adam Kerbel leans to one side with arms spread, a gold fringe flying from his shoulders as if he just landed a jump. His face is hidden by shadow and a large brown fedora.
Photo: Liz Deleo
  • Reviews

I’m an Artist, but I’m Fun!

Miryam Coppersmith

Adam brings his creative force to bear on his own experiences in Dead Muse.

Photo: Maya Jackson
  • Reviews

“Dream Sweet, Rough Man”… and it seems like they did.

Caitlin Green

Their dance alters between roughhousing and romance.

photo: A. Thompson
  • Reviews

3 Pony Show’s Visceral Storytelling Summons Kinship and Survival in the 1900s

Caitlin Green

While pleasant feelings surface, I am reminded of the façade of joy as a necessity to survival

Photo: Courtesy of Philly Fringe
  • Reviews

Fairytales, Famine, and Anti-Semitism in Sugar Houses

Courtney Colón

A brutal truth is lodged in this fairytale’s retelling.

Photo: Larry Dixon
  • Reviews

Shifting Colors and Disco Balls

Madeline Shuron

It’s a piece about the localized bioenergetic field that surrounds living beings, and the dancers play with this energy.