Live At The Pavilion
Live at the Pavilion
2010 Summer Performance Series
A series of five music, dance, and theatre performances under the trees at The Schuylkill Center’s stone pavilion.
Saturday June 5th
8 pm
Miro Dance Theatre – generate.degenerate
In conjunction with the Opening Reception for Elemental Energy: Art Powered by Nature, this performance will be held at dusk in Founders Grove.
*Tickets $5
Miro Dance Theatre creates and performs original work that explores the collaborative intersections of contemporary dance, video, and visual art. In 2004 dancer and choreographer Amanda Miller and video and visual artist Tobin Rothlein founded Miro Dance Theatre in order to realize their unique creative vision, and explore the intersections of contemporary dance, video, and visual art. Miro's new gallery work is created in reponse to a challenge: to make and perform a mult-media piece using only sustainable energy...without plugging in to the power grid. With Generate.Degenerate. Miro has left computers and video projectors behind, and will be powering the show entirely though bike generated energy.
www.mirodancetheatre.org
Saturday June 26th
6 pm
The Setting Sons – American Bluegrass and Country Music
The Setting Sons features the clean, hard-driving, traditional banjo and mandolin picking of one of the best bluegrass instrumental duos in the Philadelphia area, John Koutsouros and Andy Davis. The band’s three and four part harmonies adorn a wide range of American country music, from Stephen Foster, to Hank Williams to the golden era of bluegrass. A strong batch of originals carries the tradition forward.
www.myspace.com/thesettingsonsusa
Saturday, July 10th
7pm
Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company – Presenting Moliere’s The Miser
*Free for Members! In conjunction with the annual SCEE Member Picnic. Suggested donation for non-members.
Moliere, one of the world’s most renowned playwrights, gives us a timely and horrifyingly funny look at the dark side of 'frugality" in his comic masterpiece, The Miser. The play is full of histrionics and hilarity. The wealthy Harpagon (the 'miser' in title) works feverishly to maintain his frugal lifestyle despite the mounting challenges that his children, his servants, and his own impending marriage place on his relationship with his only true love: his gold.
www.commonwealthclassictheatre.org
Saturday, July 17
4 pm
Amy Pickard & Beth Case of She-Haw, and Good Dust
Amy Pickard and Beth Case formed the band She-Haw in 1998 based on a shared love of classic country music and old-time singing. Their songs are mournful, their instrumentation sparse, and their harmonies exquisite. They are also a passel of fun. This is their first show together in 5 years. http://www.myspace.com/amypickard
Good Dust is a Philadelphia four-piece that plays music inspired by American folk, blues, and spirituals. http://www.gooddust.com/
Saturday, July 31st
4 pm
Green Chair Dance – Collaborative, Exuberant Dance Theatre
Green Chair Dance Group is a dance-theater company based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since its inception, Green Chair has been a uniquely collaborative project, and continually seeks to choreograph highly original movement with a focus on interpersonal relationships, intense physicality, and humor.Green Chair’s athletic and engaging movement style exposes both the limits and surprising capabilities of the body in motion. Grounded in the banalities and complications of everyday life but charging headfirst into the unexpected, the company’s dances stand perspective on its head and offer a fresh look at how, exactly, we move through the world.
http://www.greenchairdancegroup.com/
Tickets for all shows are $10, $5 for members/students/seniors, unless noted otherwise.
Tickets are available at the door only, starting 30 minutes before each performance.
For more information, please contact The Schuylkill Center at:
215-482-7300 x113
