Fringe/Live
Arts
Friday,
September 8 at 8pm
The
Valerie Project
with
members of Espers, Fern Knight, Fursaxa and Grass and featuring
Greg Weeks, Mary Lattimore, Charles Cohen, Jesse Sparhawk
and special guest performance by Marissa Nadler
Co-presented
by Joseph A Gervasi
Valerie
and Her Week of Wonders
dir.
Jaromil Jires, Czechoslovakia, 1970, 16mm, 72 mins, color,
Czech w/ English subtitles
Philadelphia
musicians led by Greg Weeks, bring new life to a forgotten
classic of the Czech New Wave, Valerie and
Her Week of Wonders. The sound goes off and the amps
get cranked (do harps need amps?) as a collective of Philadelphia's
finest underground musicians pay tribute to this seminal film
of the new folk movement. Their lush haunting melodies are
the perfect compliment to this surreal tale in which love,
fear, sex and religion merge into one fantastic world. When
a 13-year-old girl crosses the threshold into womanhood, her
life unfolds as a gothic saga of vampires, witchcraft, and
mysticism. Rich in imagination, color, and textures, this
remarkable film has been described as “a
Jodorowsky/Bergman
co-production of a Grimm’s fairytale.”
$12
IHouse + Live Arts/Fringe members; $13 students; $15 general
admission.
Advance
tickets at 
or 866.468.7619.
Saturday,
September 9 at 5pm + 8pm and Sunday, September 10 at 3pm
OneDream
Co-presented
by ArcheDream + ONE
OneDream
is a mask and music adventure featuring the universal themes
of air, fire, water, earth and spirit, directed by Glenn Weikert
of ArcheDream for HUMANKIND and Thomas Flanagan
of
ONE. OneDream combines brightly colored neon masks, movement
and costumes of with an original score performed live. Instrumentation
includes sitar, guitar, sarod, tabla, trombone and drums.
The
essence of ONE is an instrumental world fusion experience.
Having worked together for over seven years, the five multi-instrumentalists
of ONE bring well over a century of combined experience to
the stage.
ArcheDream
for HUMANKIND is a multidisciplinary mask theatre that uses
dance, pantomime and puppetry to tell magical tales. Characters
such as Peace, Anger, War, Fire and Water grace the stage
while special effects support the characters with dramatic
and sometimes supernatural stunts. OneDream
is a highly inspired collaboration.
$12
IHouse + Live Arts/Fringe members; $13 students; $15 general
admission.
Advance
tickets at
or 866.468.7619.
Thursday,
September 21 at 8pm
Dengue
Fever with Special Guests Extra Golden
Dengue
Fever is in the vanguard of an emerging global pop sensibility,
making music that’s both familiar, yet eerily unique. Fronted
by Cambodian pop star Ch’hom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, the
Los Angeles sextet blends the rhythms of ‘60s Cambodian pop
- heavily influenced by American surf, rock and early psychedelic
garage bands - with their own eclectic mix of American and
international styles. Dengue Fever is more concerned with
a universal groove and breaking down musical barriers than
with notions of authenticity. There are echoes of Bollywood
soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk,
Spaghetti Western weirdness and girl group angst in the mix,
but the resulting concoction is all
their own.
$10
members + students; $12 general admission.
Advance
tickets at
or 866.468.7619.
