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Marcel W. Foster - #JaneGoodallDrama
Mascher's "a microfestival of stubborn occasions" presents: #JaneGoodallDrama
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#JaneGoodallDrama is a Jane Goodall lecture--gone wrong. The newest edition of the "comic delight" (Arts Blog) 2010 Fringe Show, The Jane Goodall: Experience, this performance is a drag-parody of Jane Goodall by Marcel Williams Foster who worked for five years with the Jane Goodall Institute studying wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. In just the past year, this new performance was presented by Philadelphia FringeArts, Stanford University, and the Nyuorican Poets Cafe, NYC.
But the best part? (the actual) Jane loves pairing whisky and chocolate for her friends, so drag-Jane teamed-up with gourmet chef Katie Briggs of EclectikDomestic.com for a table of fine chocolates paired with Whisky as part of the interactive performance. Drink up and enjoy!
///MARCEL W. FOSTER///
Marcel Williams Foster is the founder of Performance Hypothesis, a new performance and research initiative dedicated to asking scientific questions through the arts. As a scientist he published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and was featured in Nature. Since 2006, Foster has created new dance/theater works and was hailed as a "brilliant artist" (Merilyn Jackson, Philadelphia Inquirer). As a performer/collaborator he worked with The Guthrie Theater, Deeply Rooted Dance, Pig Iron Theater, Shakespeare in Clark Park, among others.
///a microfestival of stubborn occasions///
a microfestival of stubborn occasions is a weekend of full-length performances by Mascher's artists in residence: Christina Gesualdi, Gregory Holt, and Marcel W. Foster. Gesualdi will present our nebulous motor, a dance installation duet in Mascher's fire escape hallway in which the density of time becomes palpable. Holt's piece Centurion is a solo, an epic feat on an individual scale. #JaneGoodallDrama is a drag-parody interactive performance by Marcel W. Foster of Jane Goodall, the infamous primatologist and researcher. The microfestival as a whole is a space where choreography is given permission to exist in the in-betweens. It is more than the sum of its parts. As a microcosm of Mascher, Christina, Gregory, and Marcel ask, "how can our processes exist alongside each other as we, as researchers and makers, slip deeper into our own distinct approaches: somatic, theoretical, theatrical?" With the Festival Pass, you can affordably experience all three performances (a micro-vacation perhaps?); we intentionally invite shifts of perception from performance to performance.
///Mascher Space Co-op///
Mascher Space Co-op is a home for new dance in Philadelphia. Artist imagined, artist founded, artist shared and run, Mascher provides space that is affordable and versatile. We are a community of support that cultivates a flow of ideas and modes of deep problem solving and inquiry. Bound not by aesthetics, but a common commitment to working cooperatively and sharing administrative tasks and resources, Mascher wildly nurtures the development of its Artists-In-Residence at various stages in their careers, lines of research, and explorations.
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LocationMascher Space Cooperative (View)
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave., 2R
Philadelphia, PA 19125
United States
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