Headlong

01/30/2024

February 10 Pilobolus Workshop at Headlong Community Masterclass with Pilobolus Co-Artistic Director Renee Jaworski! February 10 at Headlong Studios 3pm and 5pm $15 Hello intrepid dance friends! Headl

01/18/2024

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$10 tickets! Donate HEADLONG 1170 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19146 (215) 545-9195 | [email protected] | www.headlong.org David Brick Co-Founder/Artistic Director Norma Porter Managing Directo

01/11/2024

On a recent December afternoon at the Barnes Foundation, a trio of dancers—animal masks perched atop their heads—moved fluidly in and out of grouped

01/05/2024

We have big dreams for the year to come and we hope you do too! Let this be a year of joyous, transformational bodies, illuminating possibilities of Love and Peace. This is what we are dreaming. We are making that dance and we are supporting the grassroots artists and projects in Philadelphia that believe that bodies dancing, playing, spinning and shouting make a light we all need. https://conta.cc/47ngx6Y Barnes Foundation

11/21/2023

There’s so much to share with you! Read our November newsletter to get caught up on all things Headlong, like our new dance ”Horse Woman” commissioned by Barnes Foundation!
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11/21/2023

There's so much to share with you! Read our November 2023 newsletter to get caught up on all things Headlong like our new dance Horse Woman, which is being commissioned by the Barnes Foundation!

Artists are a culture's way of talking to itself.

03/01/2023

Headlong has the best community!

We need your help today to keep it flourishing.

We are proud to be able to continue supporting artists and devoting precious resources to visionary individuals and grassroots companies. We are only as strong as our ecosystem and we will never see ourselves as separate from that.

Please consider donating now to help us keep supporting experimental performers in Philadelphia, such as the wonderful artists in this video.

Testimonials from artists who have been supported by Headlong programs during the pandemic. Jordan Deal, Esther Baker-Tarpaga, Angel Edwards, Elaine Holton.

02/14/2023

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Happy New Year from Headlong! We are excited to announce that we are back in the studio creating new works, and raising funds to continue to support our endeavors and the grassroots, experimental arts community in Philly!

Support and Action     ...we had a lot of feelings about last year... Please watch the videos below and consider donating! Dear Headlong Friends, We have a lot of feelings about the year that's passe

12/15/2022

Headlong community, we invite you to witness Adam Kerbel's (HPI 2011) work from this weekend entitled MOTION SICKNESS!

MOTION SICKNESS collides dance improvisation, audience interaction, and colorful protest banners for three performances at Miniball Festival at Christ Church Neighborhood House. Welcoming audience participation, MOTION SICKNESS shifts the contract with the audience towards co-creation.

Showtime Dates:

Fri., Dec. 16 @ 7:30pm
Sat., Dec. 17 @ 6pm
Sun., Dec. 18 @ 7:30 pm.

Tickets: Sliding scale $5 to $50. Standard price $20. https://www.cannonballfestival.org/motionsickness
Length: 40-45 minutes.
Location: The Theater at CCNH. 20 N American St, Phila, PA 19106.

06/14/2022

Our end of fiscal year fundraiser is still happening: https://www.headlongdancesforward.org!

We need your help in returning to full operational capacity. We have had to make difficult choices over the past 2 years and though we remain resilient, the deep cuts have taken their toll.

We appreciate your support!

06/09/2022

BREAKING NEWS:

Headlong Performance Institute Fellow David Guzman's Treeing event has been rescheduled for THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 11TH FROM NOON-6 P.M. AT HEADLONG: 1170 S. BROAD STREET!

06/02/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: TREEING IS POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19.

Read the note from Headlong Performance Institute Fellow David Guzman below and keep your eyes peeled for the rescheduled event.

"Hi friends,
I regret to inform you that Treeing will be postponed as I tested positive for covid this morning. I will be in touch soon about rescheduling. Until then, peace and gratitude to you all, and the trees!"

David Guzman, Headlong Performance Institute Fellow 2022

06/01/2022

Please come by Headlong on Friday, June 3rd for Headlong Performance Institute Fellow David Guzman's Treeing event. Drop in any time between noon and 6pm.

David's work with urban ecology is playful, activating, and refreshingly reverent. Mixing acute observational practices with urgency and imagination, David's expansive work can feel to me like an imaginary collaboration between Charles Darwin and Bread and Puppet's Peter Schulman.

05/09/2022

Happy Monday Headlong community!
We are so excited to announce our spring fundraiser! As we look towards creating a bright future for Headlong and bounce back from the pandemic, we are asking that you help us transition surviving to thriving!

Meet our new leadership, watch Headlong Performance Institute Fellows' final projects from last year and learn about our creative projects here:

https://www.headlongdancesforward.org

No contribution is too small or insignificant! We thank you!

HPI fellow Jordan Deal performing in their work, Eternal Departures at Bartram’s Garden To move from surviving to thriving we need your help now!Sometimes it feels like we take one step forward and then two steps back during this recovery process. At Headlong that has been our pandemic dance for s...

02/28/2022

Help us stay Embodied, Engaged and Safe!

The 2022 HPI program begins last week and we could use your help in keeping our artist Fellows safe. We are implementing a rigorous protocol that includes lots of testing, which will allow us to finally work together in a studio. After two years of virtual practice and social distancing for outdoor workshops, we are so excited to be moving in a studio with one another again! But to do this safely requires lots of testing which is expensive.

With your support, we can make this happen!

1. Contribute to our Covid-19 Test Donation Drive by dropping off a Covid-19 rapid test to Headlong Studios - Tuesday-Thursday between 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Or:

2. Donate to our HPI Covid-19 Test Fund here: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=X7DHE57P28DJE.

We promise to keep each other safe while making work that matters to you and our communities.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

02/11/2022

09/30/2021

Congratulations to angel shanel edwards, who was awarded a 2021 Pew Fellowship in the Arts!

See angel’s final project A Relic of Excess: Kanekalon Garden which was developed in residence at Headlong Performance Institute.

“Kanekelon almost goes beyond my identity, with a familiarity that existed almost before I knew I was Black or femme or holding certain identities…”- angel shanel edwards

09/02/2021

Love Unpunished opens tomorrow night at the Prince Theater as part of the , a work David co-directed and choreographed in 2006 with Pig Iron Theatre Company. We invite you to come to see it and read more! https://conta.cc/3jEMZMv

"Reimagining this work has been at times overwhelming as the exquisite cast and crew gather together. For most of us, this is the first time for this beloved kind of rehearsal intimacy since March 2020. We eased into it. We began during that brief window between completed vaccinations and the rise of the Delta variant. Now we test and mask to rehearse, and you will be asked to bring proof of vaccination and wear a mask in the theater for the performance."

Headlong and Pig Iron Dear Friends, I am writing to invite you to see Love Unpunished, a work I co-directed and choreographed in 2006 with Pig Iron Theater Company and that opens again tomorrow night

06/22/2021

We transform and shift in response to what’s happening in the world. And we’ve certainly undertaken some nimble shifting and profound transformations in the past year. So, let's talk about what's going on right now! We launched the HEADLONG DANCES FORWARD campaign to springboard Headlong into its next chapter. If you have a moment for some stunning art...check it out! https://www.headlongdancesforward.org/

04/16/2021

David writes, “On the subject of grief and discovery, the most empathic artist I know, devynn emory, is sharing a participatory ritual and film called deadbird at Bartram's Garden starting today. devynn is a mixed Lenape/Blackfoot transgender choreographer, dance artist, bodyworker, ceremonial guide, acute care and hospice nurse. Yes, all that, art and life, all woven. deadbird is an expansive work of overlapping modalities, including a durational, ritual altar installation, a truly amazing film, and an invitation to participate alone or communally. This is art meant to be part of the flow of life, its proposals for art as experience, reflection, participation are moving and exquisite....some of you might remember devynn as a central collaborator-performer in earlier Headlong projects. http://deadbird.land/phil
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/arts/dance/devynn-emory-deadbird.html

Devynn Emory’s “deadbird” — a duet for Emory and a mannequin — deals with grief, envisioning “an ideal care team for a body who’s passing.”