Philadelphia, PA
The Garden: River's Edge (Preview)
a guided experience for 5 audience members at a time
The Garden: River’s Edge is a guided experience for 5 audience members at a time, leading participants on an intimate and expansive journey of connection, reflection and gentle acts of participation. Since its premiere in 2013, The Garden has lived in many forms, locations, and languages. More than a performance, The Garden is a creative process that engages with the site and its history, manifesting differently in each location. During a performance of The Garden: River’s Edge, each audience member is invited to explore one of 5 distinct paths. Due to the infrastructure of a historic building, four of the paths require limited stair walking. One path does not require stairs and is wheelchair accessible. If you require the accessible path, please select the “Accessible Path” ticket type. In The Garden: River’s Edge, you will wear headsets on your ears and there are gentle instructions to guide you from place to place. You will interact with dancers and other audience members. Please note that all interactions will be from a distance and the level of physical activity will be minimal. Tickets for The Garden: River’s Edge are offered on a sliding scale from $125 - $20.
Audience Role
In The Garden: River’s Edge, you will wear headsets on your ears and there are gentle instructions to guide you from place to place. You will interact with dancers and other audience members. Please note that all interactions will be from a distance and the level of physical activity will be minimal.
Ages: All ages
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About Nichole Canuso Dance
ABOUT NCDC Founded in 2004 by choreographer Nichole Canuso, Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) is dedicated to creating performance experiences that embrace and address the complexity and contradictions of humanity. Projects often sit at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater. NCDC brings dance out of conventional spaces to engage audiences in adventurous ways. The company is currently exploring the interfaces of live, embodied presence with emerging technologies that challenge our definitions of human relationship. Collaboration and community partnerships fuel the work in both process and performance. All of the work is created through ensemble processes. The content of these projects embrace the values and lives of the people involved and the synergy created between audience and performer. We aim for a range of bodies in the work, finding inspiration from the dissonance of each performer’s energy, presence, and physical tendencies. Each partnership and environment we work in influences the trajectory of the work. The role of the audience is deeply considered in each process, often inviting audience members to become co-creators of the experience. Our current project (Being/With) brings together two solo participants at a time – each in a separate location – in poetic encounters of live feed video imagery, movement prompts and interview structures. Past projects include an exploration of separation and connection on both personal and epic scales featuring two performers separated in physical space who converge in a third cinematic space (Pandæmonium, 2016), a solo piece which questions, constructs and transforms the outlines of Canuso’s memories as she builds and takes apart her house (Midway Avenue, 2014), an immersive performance for 6 audience members at a time led via headset (The Garden of Forking Paths, 2017, The Garden, 2013); a collaboration with 6-piece band The Mural and The Mint (As the Eyes of the Seahorse, 2009); a hybrid of dance, installation, and cinema (TAKES, 2010); and a performance that roamed the halls and stairways of an historic Philadelphia church building (Wandering Alice, 2008). NCDC has been presented by New York Live Arts (New York, NY), The American Repertory Theater (MA), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (WI), Bates Dance Festival (ME), The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center (MD), Los Angeles Performance Practice (CA), Dance Theatre Workshop (NYC), DancePlace (Washington, D.C.), Judson Church Movement Research Exchange (New York, Philadelphia), Links Hall (Chicago, IL), Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival (NYC), the International Festival of Art and Ideas (CT), HERE Arts Center (NYC), FringeArts (PA), Velocity Founders Theater (Seattle, WA), Sceinserge Performing Arts Biennale (Västerås, Sweden), Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Onésimo (Guadalajara, Mexico), Festival Giornate del Respiro (Argentiera, Italy), and several colleges and universities nationwide. Commissions include American Philosophical Society Museum and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.