ZIPLINE: Weekend One, 5/10 &11, features performances by Kayle & Company (IA), the A.O. Movement Collective (NYC), & Meredith Lyons (Philadelphia) with Rachel Boggia & Annie Kloppenberg (ME) … Get tickets HERE
ZIPLINE: Weekend Two, 5/18 & 19, features performances by Sarah Gamblin (TX), Pamela Vail (PA), Tori Lawrence + Co & Amy Lynne Barr (Philadelphia) … Get tickets for Saturday at 7:30 HERE & for Sunday at 6 pm HERE
A part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA)
Friday April 12 at 6:30 & 8:30 PM and Friday April 19 at 6:30PM & 8:30 PM, with a Happy Hour starting each evening at 5 pm
Ruba Club, 414 Green St, Philadelphia, PA 19123
Tickets: $15 General & $10 Student, Seniors and DancePass, purchase at the door or at http://www.pifa.org
Stone Depot Dance Lab’s performance of Casual Friday, choreographed and danced by Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Beau Hancock, with LIVE original music by Christopher Farrell, begins with a Happy Hour, sponsored by Philadelphia Brewing Company, and continues on a wild ride through Casual Friday’s unorthodox history. Two interns, danced by Temple students Cody Knable and Nia Shand, hustle to keep up with flying file folders, out of control typewriters and constantly shifting costumes—from the pencil skirts and polyester pant suits of the 60s, to the skorts and cut-offs of the 90s—designed by Patricia Dominquez. This is a performance for anyone who has braved the work force, navigated the social strictures of bosses and co-workers, or simply needs a Casual Friday for any reason.
& Announcing ZIPLINE: premiering the works of 8 emerging & seasoned female choreographers, presented by Meredith Lyons, Eleanor Goudie-Averill and Settlement Music School
Friday and Saturdays, May 10, 11 & 18, 7:30pm & Sunday, May 19, 6pm
Zipline connects points near and far with 8 choreographers, the nationally presented and the up-and-coming, from five different cities. In a deliberate decision to support female choreographers with a drive to create bold and intriguing dance works, the artists curated for the two weekends of performance are: Amy Lynne Barr, Sarah Gamblin, Ellie Goudie-Averill/Stone Depot Dance Lab, Jennifer Kayle, Tori Lawrence + Co, Meredith Lyons, Sarah Rosner/A. O. Movement Collective, and Pamela Vail; along with dancers Edward Rice (Sleep No More, Then She Fell); Anna Adams Stark, Lillie De, Leah Ives & Emily Skillings (AOMC, NYC), Bethany Nelson (Jackson, Mississippi), and Philadelphia’s own Katherine Kiefer Stark and Duane Lee Holland. Each weekend will feature a different combination of performances by both Philadelphia artists and nationally recognized choreographers. Each night will open with live music performed by the faculty of Settlement Music School.
Come support the creation Casual Friday on Friday, March 22nd at the SkyDive Showing on Hazzard Street. Doors open at 8 pm and show begins at 8:30 pm. RSVP to SDdanceLab@gmail.com if you would like to attend!
As you may know, we at Stone Depot are putting together a two night spectacular, complete with a Happy Hour sponsored by the Philadelphia Brewing Company, an evening length duet on a cabaret stage, danced by Ellie Goudie-Averill and Beau Hancock, original music by Christopher Farrell, earnest young interns, typewriters, wigs and up to four costume changes … we need your help!!
At the fundraiser you will get a sneak peak at excerpt of Casual Friday, with LIVE music AND
Dance by RealLivePeople(in)Motion, David Konyk with Hedy Wyland, Poetry by Sueyeun Juliette Lee and more! Bonus: Signature Hawaiian cocktails, mixed by the incomparable Nicole Donnelly, will be served by the finest waitresses in the land: Katherine Kiefer Stark and Eiren Shuman!
On February 8 & 9th at 7:30 pm at the CEC (3500 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia)
Feature Sensus NEW duet by Ellie Goudie-Averill/SDDL, danced by Scott McPheeters and Melissa Chisena, along with works by Chisena Danza, Elba Hevia y Vaca & KC Chun-Manning, Jennifer Yackel and Tara Madsen Robbins. Get discounted tickets HERE and watch a video from a recent rehearsal HERE
For Members Only will travel to Brooklyn on February 24th to be a part of the WAXworks Festival at Triskelion Arts (118 North 11th Street, 3rd Floor, 11249)
Also, the official launch of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts is on January 23rd. Save the Date for Casual Friday, 4/12 & 19, and get tickets HERE
Save the Date!See YOU there, OK?!
Happy 2013! 2012 was such an exciting year for Stone Depot Dance Lab! We co-produced two Fringe Shows, performed at the Judson Church, traveled to Iowa, Kansas and New Hampshire, collaborated with percussionists and visual artists, presented five SkyDive Showings, & premiered four new works and many improvisations (pictured here: improvisation during Make it, Break it, Rebuild it)!!
Coming up in the New Year, we will collaborate with Movement Brigade on a trio for A Stick and A Stone’s album release for Night Vision on January 13th, create a new duet for Chisena Danza’s Evening of Duets at the CEC on February 8-9th and perform Casual Friday as a part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts on April 12& 19th at the RUBA Club, complete with a Happy Hour sponsored by the Philadelphia Brewing Company.
Stone Depot is happy to announce our involvement in the 2nd Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts! Beau Hancock and Eleanor Goudie-Averill will be taking the festival’s Time Machine to April 15th, 1966–the world’s first Casual Friday. During the PIFA festival, Stone Depot’s Casual Fridays, on April 12 & 19, 2013, begin with a Happy Hour in the Ruba Club’s inviting lounge, sponsored by Philadelphia Brewing Company, and continue on a wild ride through an unorthodox history. Chis Farrell will be composing original music, played live by the Rit Mo Collective! http://www.pifa.org/events/12
Thank you to everyone for making our Fringe performances this season a success!
According to Thinking Dance’s review of Go Together: “Goudie-Averill’s final work of the evening… included moments of humor and wit and even virtuosity… The live percussion and sense of community in the large group work “American Nostalgia” ended the evening with a picture of the chaotic, dynamic machine that is humanity.” &
“For Members Only, choreographed by Ellie Goudie-Averill is … embodied and sensory as the dancers move, fall and slide over each other… They roll off of each other and establish their own spaces, initiating a series of sharp, urgent movements”
Read the review of Members here:
http://www.thinkingdance.net/articles/2012/09/25/For-Members-Only-Enter-My-World-
