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WARNING/ENTICEMENT: "CITY" contains nudity. The full kind. Now you know.
Seen & Heard 4 is a celebration of movement and sound crossing multiple borders. The Hungarian collective Bloom! brings "CITY" a dance-theater piece about prejudice, power, fear and faith. Each night also showcases two never-before-seen-or-heard, not-to-be-missed, collaborations featuring dance and movement greatness by twelve local luminaries.

May 3
Thursday, 8:00pm

Bloom! Collective: CITY
(Hungary)

Matthew Neenan
Hannah de Keijzer
Jorge Cousineau
Blind Date Trio

Michael Kiley
Megan Mazarick
Michelle Stortz
Blind Date Trio

May 4
Friday, 8:00pm

Bloom! Collective: CITY
(Hungary)

Meg Foley
Christopher Colucci
Eugene Lew
Blind Date Trio

Meredith Rainey
Aaron Igler
Chris Powell
Blind Date Trio

Arts Bank
601 S. Broad Street (at Sout)
Philadelphia, PA 19147

$15 general admission
$10 students / artists
FREE with UArts ID

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Bloom! Collective: CITY

Winner of the 2011 Rudolf Laban Award, the Budapest based collective Bloom! makes its eagerly anticipated U.S. debut with CITY, a fearless, politically charged work that grapples with the resurgence of European nationalist governments and the consequences of social conformity. It's funny, and gets your gut by asking big questions through an original sound design and brave performances by this young and highly accomplished group.

Third Wheel Blind Dates

We invited 12 stellar performers - six musicians and six dancers - and grouped them with people they've never performed with. We played match maker - and were careful to take risks. In a new twist on this format, we've got trios lined up. What will happen? We don't exactly know, but we're eager to explore the unknown and the inherent potential for both disaster and greatness that comes from this edge of inquiry.

This project was made possible with support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, and the School of Dance at the University of the Arts.

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Seen & Heard is a new series of performances that asks questions about the intersections between movement, music and words by bringing together people and forms that on the surface might not seem suited for one another. We are positive that you will mostly like some of them.

Thirdbird is the not-entirely-new-but-newly-named wing of the shared endeavors of Anna Drozdowski (proprietor of Ladybird) and Dustin Hurt (founder of Bowerbird). It’s our way of sharing dance, music, and things between with one another and with you. A field guide to curiosities and bits of culture matter, an almanac of small pieces loosely joined. First hatched for the Blindspot Festival, thirdbird is a thing we are building – in good company - and slowly by design.

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Anna Drozdowski and Dustin Hurt birds@birdbirdbird.org

Thirdbird
1202 Pine Street, First Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107

267.861.4773