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Mascher Dance: Inhabitations

Please clear your calendar for the following set of performances. Mascher Dance Group presents: Inhabitations: A Summer Series of Site-Specific Dance Explorations.

The summer series continues on the group’s longer history of site-specific improvisation. Founded by Liza Clark, Loren Groenendaal, Rebecca Patek and Jenny Roe Sawyer Mascher Dance explores the activity of public spaces, often literally dancing back and forth across the line between performance and routine. Interaction between performer and space, including the people in it, is bizarrely fascinating.

Like a few months ago at 30th street station, when a woman approached the group mid-performance and asked if they could watch her bags while she ran to the bathroom. She didn’t seem to notice the odd behavior of the people she was entrusting her luggage to. I’ve always been fascinated at what people notice and what passes right through their senses without stopping to make an impression. Look for this type interaction at City Hall on July 26th.

Performances on the Ben Franklin Bridge, at Valley Green in the Wissahickon Valley and at the John Heinz Nature Preserve in South Philadelphia offer unique spaces and vistas from which to find inspiration in the exploration of time, space and movement.

For more information, email mascherdance@gmail.com, or call Jennie Roe Sawyer at: (215) 840-5710. For a larger version of the flyer, click on the image below.