LOTO looks at the origins of the Minotaur, the sins of the father, the mother maligned, the architect nearly lost in his design, the monster, and the sister left behind to die. LOTO asks who we are beneath the mask of the monster? Who even gets to define what the word monster means? LOTO is a ritual container for personal and collective healing. It is a homecoming. It is a shedding of skin. It is a transformation, a call to go beyond the threshold of erasure, to rest, to learn and remember. To listen, to change, to rearrange, to move forward and create with intention. LOTO engages emotions, intellect, and psyche through a layer cake of language. The languages of sound, symbolism, movement, and story. --In this immersive installation the audience serves as a second character, a scene partner and force all its own in conversation with our narrator. Severin invites the audience to witness and traverse the space. Audience members may choose to shape their journey from a list of seven intentions: spirituality, inwardness, creativity, simplicity, integration, intimacy, vibrancy. There are elemental undertones of water, fire, earth, mineral, nature, and silence allowing for a break from the rushing electric background hum of the world and giving space to hear one's inner voice. Together these weave a story to engage comfort, fear, compulsion, release, tenderness, gentleness, and flying in the face of uncertainty.
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Severin invites the audience to witness and traverse the space. Audience members may choose to shape their journey from a list of seven intentions: spirituality, inwardness, creativity, simplicity, integration, intimacy, vibrancy.
Ages: 18 +
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FringeArts presents world-class, contemporary performing arts that challenge convention and inspire new ways of thinking. FringeArts is Philadelphia’s home for contemporary performance, presenting progressive, world-class art that expands the imagination and boldly defies expectations. Our programming exposes audiences to genre-defying performances and installations by accomplished and emerging innovators who push the boundaries of art-making and redefine the artistic landscape worldwide. Each September, the organization presents the annual Fringe Festival, a 3-week celebration that fills the city’s neighborhoods with more than 1,000 curated and independently produced performances. Year-round, FringeArts presents an equally compelling line up of performances at its state-of-the-art venue on the Delaware River Waterfront—a renovated historic building that also houses La Peg Restaurant & Bar and Haas Biergarten. This line up includes Blue Heaven Comedy Festival in February, High Pressure Fire Service—a series of new works by local artists—running March through June, Hand to Hand Circus Festival in the summer, and additional programming for late night and outdoor events in Haas Biergarten throughout the year. As a catalyst for cultural and community development, and a destination that brings artists and audiences together, FringeArts is central to the city’s vibrant arts community and the enrichment of the lives of those who reside, work, and visit here.