Neighborhood House has served populations in need and the immediate Old City community since opening its doors in 1915. Today, Neighborhood House is a performance venue and gathering place through which Christ Church Preservation Trust supports arts programming and cross-disciplinary performing artists through subsidized rehearsal and performance rentals.
Your donations help keep these rates low so that artists can continue to imagine new and experimental works in our ADA-accessible theater and throughout the broader historic Christ Church campus.
To give, visit https://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_665c3bdc-fe6b-11ee-8cee-0a3287177f03&WidgetId=467968
Neighborhood House has served populations in need and the immediate Old City community since opening its doors in 1915. Today, Neighborhood House is a performance venue and gathering place through which Christ Church Preservation Trust supports arts programming and cross-disciplinary performing artists through subsidized rehearsal and performance rentals.
Your donations help keep these rates low so that artists can continue to imagine new and experimental works in our ADA-accessible theater and throughout the broader historic Christ Church campus.
To give, visit https://crm.bloomerang.co/HostedDonation?ApiKey=pub_665c3bdc-fe6b-11ee-8cee-0a3287177f03&WidgetId=467968
Informed by archival records and new scholarship, On Buried Ground features an interactive exhibition of visual art, speculative stories and a series of public discussions featuring historians, artists, and archivists.
Join us for the live performances September 4 - 14! Shows at 7pm.
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
Meet the Team for On Buried Ground!
Sam Crawford (sound design) completed degrees in English and Audio Engineering at Indiana University in 2003. His compositions and sound designs have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), A.I.M by Kyle Abraham (Untitled Love, 2022), Camille A. Brown and Dancers (BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, 2016), and David Dorfman Dance (Aroundtown, 2017). La Medea, a live film collaboration with director Yara Travieso for which he composed the music and wrote the libretto, premiered at P.S.122’s Coil Festival in 2017. Crawford is a lecturer in sound design at the University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, as well as co-director of the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance.
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
On Buried Ground
September 4 - 14
This new dance-theatre performance and exhibition reveal the histories of enslaved and freed people of African descent in Philadelphia during the American colonial era. Dance artist Shayla Vie-Jenkins, playwright Ang(ela) Bey, and director Nia Benjamin develop an evening of performance that blends dance, theatre, music and installation in the attempt to fill the gaps between historical record and our collective imagination.
Informed by archival records and new scholarship, this project features an interactive exhibition of visual art, speculative stories and a series of public discussions featuring historians, artists, and archivists.
For tickets visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
Meet the Cast of On Buried Ground!
Anna Scattoni (she/her) is a Jamaica Italian dancer and multidisciplinary artist from Queens, New York. Growing up, Anna trained at the Ailey School, the French Academie of Ballet and Verterich Ballet Studio. Anna’s passion for dance stems from transcendental and authentic movement practices. Her other artistic practices also include fine arts, music, and creative writing. Anna attended the University of the Arts and is completing the final year of her degree at Temple University.
For tickets to performances Sept. 4 - 14, visit https://fringearts.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SUO000001vyqC2AQ
Groundings is a multidisciplinary exhibition that leverages visual art, historical records, and storytelling to explore the known and unknown histories of Black congregants at Christ Church.
This exhibit features original work by artists Misty Sol, Destiny Crockett, Theodore Harris, and Intisar Hamilton.
Open during Christ Church Neighborhood Hours, 11am - 5pm daily.
Curated by Malkia Okech.
Made possible with support from @pewcenterarts
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Meet the Artists of On Buried Ground!
Cory Seals is an interdisciplinary artist and community curator born in Atlanta and based in Philadelphia. Seals’ practices include vocal jazz, sonic landscape, and improvisation with voice, text, and movement. His work is an expression of radical care and community building for the diversely interconnected experiences of Black and Queer life. Alongside his own current projects, Seals is a cast member of Faye Driscoll’s latest work, “Weathering.” He has had the pleasure of studying with Reginald Pindell, Paul Adkins, V. Shayne Frederick, Marguerite Hemmings, Curt Haworth, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Pietro Gagliano, Marta Bellu, and Nicki & Jorge Cousineau, amongst others. For more info visit coryseals.com
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
Photo by Dan Maddoff.
Meet the Artists for On Buried Ground!
Tuçe Yasak (she/her) has been following light since her move from Istanbul to New York in 2009, creating over 100 site-specific light installations for performance in the US and abroad. Light, movement and architecture intertwine in Yasak's work to support space-making and story-telling. In 2021, she was a resident artist at JACK Brooklyn and her Light Journals were presented by Ars Nova. Culminating her 2023 residency at the Watermill Arts Center, Yasak debuted her installation The light comes through the heart of darkness as an homage to the lives lost in the February 2022 earthquake in Turkey. Among her recent collaborations: The Absolute Future by Raja Feather Kelly & the feath3r theory, FORCE! by Anne Martine Whitehead, M---ER and NOTHING by Autumn Knight, Cannabis by Baba Israel & Grace Kalu; The Path of Pins (Pig Iron Theatre Co.), Jacqueline Woodson's The Day You Begin at the Kennedy Center, River by Every Ocean Hughes at the Whitney Museum, and Malady of Death by Hague Yang at the Guggenheim.
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
Meet the Artists for On Buried Ground!
song aziza tucker (she/her) is a project based movement and writing artist whose works have spiraled out of her love for Black femmes, music, and poetry. song is wrapped up in the erotic, cathartic, horrific and beautiful reflections of the ways Black femmes survive and pronounce imminent aliveness for themselves. She obtained both her BFA and MFA respectively from the University of the Arts School of Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Alongside her research, song has had the pleasure of working as a performer and collaborator with Mark Caserta, Tommie-Waheed Evans, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Jordan Lloyd, Niall Jones, Doug Varone, Jesse Zaritt, and Abby Zbikowski among others. Throughout all collaboration, song desires and commands a full pronouncement of a voluminous self impelled by black femme strategies in research and lived practice.
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
Meet the Artists for On Buried Ground!
Nia Benjamin (Director) is an agender, queer, Afro-Caribbean multidisciplinary artist, performer, filmmaker, set/projection designer, video-synth artist and director of experimental theatre. Their work uses the synthesis of dance, poetry, live music, theatre and video arts to create live performances about the sovereignty, liberation and interiority of Black and Brown, queer and trans* people. Nia is the Co-Artistic Director of Ninth Planet, a Philadelphia based experimental dance-theatre company that makes original works of performance that centers people of color, women, queer and trans* people. Their most recent full-length work, high noon was the winner of a 2022 Fringies Award.
For tickets, visit https://phillyfringe.org/events/on-buried-ground/
