Philly Fringe: After YES


The Philadelphia Fringe Festival and Studio 34 present:

After YES
Meghan Frederick/Practice Project (Philadelphia)

3 Shows:

SAT SEPT 21, 7:00 PM
SUN SEPT 22 8:00 PM
SUN SEPT 29 8:00 PM

Runtime: 60 minutes
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About the show:

After YES is a group performance experiment. After YES foregrounds the individual dancer’s desire as a product and a force. After YES questions how community is created in the present moment, and asks “what is togetherness?.” After YES relieves the dancer of the responsibility of making sense, while demanding her complete attention and embodied sensitivity. After YES is an improvisational score, plus framing elements like costumes, sound, set, entrances, exits etc… After YES (almost) never changes, but the framing elements do. After YES reads Foucault’s disciplined body, through André Lepecki’s body as archive, in order to arrive at José Munoz’s world building. After YES is a practice that reveals itself as a practice as it gets deeper over time. After YES excavates meaning as a process. After YES is a rejection of some of the improvisational ideas that have been normalized in western experimental dance (prediction, justification, latent visions of what is good, telegraphing complicity) in order to dive deeper into others of these ideas (desire, training, the present moment, saying YES). After YES removes success and failure but also wonders “why is this a show?.” After YES is sort of about the apocalypse. After YES wants to help. After YES invites dancers and audience to become more human but also more-than-human.

About the artist:

Meghan Frederick is a dance artist and scholar based in Philadelphia, PA. Meghan’s work explores western dance practice and motherhood as/through choreographies of devotion and has been presented throughout the Northeast under the umbrella Meghan Frederick/Practice Project. Meghan also frequently collaborates on duet dances with Kate Seethaler. Meghan was a member of the Brian Brooks Moving Company from 2008-2014 and has performed with Vanessa Anspaugh, Liz Lerman, Megan Bridge, and many others. Meghan teaches at Temple, Rowan, Stockton, and Drexel Universities and completed her MFA at Temple University as a University Fellow and the recipient of the Katherine Dunham Award for Excellence in Creative Research. Meghan’s scholarship has been shared at conferences internationally.

About Philly Fringe:

The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, presented by FringeArts, is an annual citywide celebration of innovation and creativity in contemporary performance. Each September, the Festival explodes into every nook and cranny of Philadelphia with more than 1,000 artistically daring performances and events by local, national, and international artists.