Come check out the Fidget space, chat with Fidget co-directors and staff, have a drink, and toast the holiday season!
Get inside our creative process! This November Fidget Co-Directors, Megan Bridge and Peter Price, will investigate their collaborative artistic process through sound and movement improvisation. Each performance will conclude with an intimate conversation, where feedback from the audience will inform the next evening's performance.
Free, hybrid event at the Fidget Space and on Zoom.
POST Online will be a one-night-only event, held on the virtual video conferencing platform, Remo.
During the event, artists will be able to virtually open their studios and chat with visitors. Each artist will have their own “table,” a distinctive meeting room, where visitors can stop in and meet the artist, ask questions, or listen to an artist’s talk or demonstration.
Philadelphia Open Studio Tours (POST), a program of The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, is the largest tour of artist studios and creative workspaces in the region and one of the premier open studio tour events in the country.
Fidget Space will be open to visitors all day. Come check out our lovely loft space, and catch an open rehearsal from some of our Fidget renters and friends, or even a showing of a performance work in process.
Great Marsh Institute and Fidget bring science and art together for our upcoming event “Arts at the Great Marsh” on Saturday, September 18th from 1-9pm. Rain date is Sunday, September 19th.
Megan Bridge and Zornitsa Stoyanova are both award winning and critically acclaimed performers and choreographers. They are both women, mothers, and people who are perhaps obsessed with the concept of “presence” in performance. Collectively, they have spent more than thirty years researching this topic.
Artists and creative explorers of all mediums, individuals 18+ are invited to join dance/performance artist Asimina Chremos at the Fidget Space for a series of workshops unpacking and delving into the themes of her solo project, The Engine, set to be performed during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
This class is an invitation into the moment, into mindfulness, and into acute physical awareness. All are welcome--no prior dance or movement experience are required to participate.
In this talk, writer, musician, and Curtis Institute of Music Professor Thomas Patteson will share some of his current research into compositional paradigms based on systems concepts, emergence, and nonhuman intelligence. In challenging the assumption that music must be the expression of human thought or emotion, these approaches compel us to radically reimagine the relationship between ourselves and the world we inhabit.
In this performance conversation, Megan Bridge and Zornitsa Stoyanova propose that “performance presence” is, in fact, an altered state of consciousness. They discuss, demonstrate, and explore their own techniques, compositional tools, and physical practices, for creating altered states.
Megan will be traveling to Sofia, Bulgaria to perform Morphic Resonance and Consent at Antistatic Festival.
Megan will also be teaching an improvisational workshop for professionals or advanced dancers titled Widening the Circle: Composing Somatically. May 29 & 30, 2021, 3-6PM EEST at Stream Dance (Center), 1 Macedonia Square, Sofia.
Choreographer and Fidget co-director Megan Bridge’s current research centers around presence, attention, and altered states of consciousness. She leads a discussion which weaves together threads from affect theory, philosophy, neuroscience, and somatic dance practices from the Ju/‘hoan Bushmen to the rave clubs of the 1990s.
Megan Bridge and Peter Price (Fidget co-directors) will join Philadelphia Dance Projects and a number of Philly cultural and artistic workers for an Informance titled: Keeping and Sharing Philly Cultural History, A beginning of a discussion with people beginning that work.
Rhonda Moore shares a practice of digging, discovering, sorting, and selecting, through the process of engaging with her own artistic archive, in its many forms. She is especially excited to share this tangled tale with the Philadelphia arts community, and invites us through this talk to consider the many, many ways there are of “knowing.”
Following on the heels of Age of Aquarius, Fidget and Forbidden Fruit are partnering again to present an evening of multidisciplinary art, collective healing, and togetherness. The lineup for the evening brings together offerings from different local, national, and international artists, including dancers, video and new media artists, DJs, healing practitioners, and musicians. More details to come soon.
~ [pronounced two] is an experimental performance duo made up of Maya Miro Johnson and Sarrah Bushara. On March 6th they will virtually share recent experimental digital works, including a world premiere.
The reduction of life to 'biopolitics' is one of the main threads in philosopher Giorgio Agamben's work. His recent work "Biosecurity and Politics," published to his blog in May 2020, is the starting point for this forum.
Fidget and Crux will each be performing live with a limited in person audience, as well as the option to view the evening of performance virtually.
Age of Aquarius is a virtual New Year’s Event event merging art & celebration, presented in partnership between Fidget and 4bidden 4ruit. It will be streamed live on December 31st from the Fidget Space.
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