Mascher Space

🍋🍊 This Friday (6/7) and Saturday (6/8) join Mascher Space Cooperative in presenting works from the community at Philly Pack ! (.pack )

Ticket link in our bio, and also tickets will be available for purchase at the door.

Masks will be required, and we will have masks available.
Doors at 7pm, see y’all there! ✨

🍊Happy Monday! 🍊

Tickets are officially on sale for this years Fresh Juice concert! Check our link in bio!
This year we will be featuring 11 pieces .pack June 7th and 8th from 7:30-9:30 (doors at 7)

Ya don’t wanna miss! 🍋

Hello everyone!

As we prepare for the 17th year of Fresh Juice, we have space for four more artists to share their 15-minute max works! It’s an open invitation, so if you’re interested in joining us, feel free to reach out via email!

Fresh Juice is Mascher Space Cooperative’s annual artists in residence show. Featuring finished and fresh works by current Mascher artists. Now in it’s 17th year, Fresh Juice will premiere new work from our diverse community of artists.

Image description:
Image of illustrated bright green, orange, and yellow citrus fruits on a light tan background. Text reads “OPEN CALL” Fresh Juice 2024.

Do you have any performance work in progress you’d like to share?
Consider presenting something at KINDLING this winter.
Show a fresh idea or a newly metamorphosed cousin of something you’ve been working on! The goal of the event is to rally around making new things — an invitation for new performances to be shared and support to propel artists into more making. The event is social and focused on camaraderie & peer support.

Each performer can have 8 minutes & some basic tech support (stage lights, sound, piano, discoball, and projector available). There is no payment for participating, but any pooled donations will be split between the performers equally.

Event Info
KINDLING: works in progress
Sunday, February 25th, 5-7pm // Friday, March 22nd, 7-9pm // Friday, April 26th, 7-9pm
MAAS Building, 1325 N. Randolph St. (up a flight of stairs)
FREE
Masks required
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This lecture will discuss the role Zionism has historically played in US contemporary dance and examine how it continues to shape what is seen on concert stages today.

Leila Mire (she/her) is a researcher, performer, choreographer, community organizer, educator, and writer. Her studies focus on the role of imperialism and Zionism in modern dance and problematize how folk dance is used to advance neoliberal agendas. She is currently in the Theatre, Dance, Performance Studies PhD program at UC Berkeley and is a graduate of NYU (MA in Performance Studies) and George Mason (BFA in Dance Performance.) You can find out more about her work through insta .posts or through her website leilamiredance.com

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unpacking-zionism-in-modern-dance-with-leila-mire-tickets-772595964327?aff=oddtdtcreator

I’ve had a great run but after 2 wonderful years I’m leaving my position at Mascher! This is a great opportunity for an artist in need of studio space! Contact us with any questions!♥️♥️✨✨✨
~Kat

A statement of solidarity on behalf of our coordinators:
Mascher Space Cooperative Coordinators stand in solidarity with the resistance of the Palestinian people and the resistance of oppressed people everywhere.
Mascher Space Cooperative Coordinators support the call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the US support of Israel.
This Giving Tuesday
In lieu of hosting our annual fundraiser we will asking you to put your resources towards one of the organizations linked in our bio at buildpalestine.com
If you or someone you know have other ideas on how our space or collective resources can be used support this cause please reach out to us at [email protected]

UPCOMING WORKSHOP!!!
THIS WEEKEND .space
This workshop theme is SCI FI ANATOMY and is led by Berlin based artist, Lea Kieffer

date: saturday november 11th
time: 5-8pm
location: mascher space cooperative/headlong dance theater (1170 S. Broad St)
accessibility information: there are three steps to the entrance of our building, the studio is on the ground floor, two gender neutral restrooms are located down a flight of steps. please reach out to [email protected] if you have any specific accessibility questions

we have 14 spots available,
google form for rsvp: https://forms.gle/nmGfv2pZPwt4YGUM8

*masks are required*

about the workshop: SCI FI ANATOMY (SFA) is a somatic storytelling practice where the content slides from anatomical references onto the slippery slope of science fiction. Opening a dialogue between the matter of the body and the sea of thoughts and imagination, it explores and challenges the binary of fiction/reality: the ways through which we imagine shapes, identities, borders, the self and the body/ies, our relation to the world, to ourselves and otherness. What are the ways in which these stories and categories affect our bodily sensations and the way we move and dance? Sci fi acts as a powerful tool beyond the naive and the re-creative disrupting our narratives of the reality, speculating on potential futures and imagining ways to cope. SFA narratives often manifest in a post-apocalyptic future, somewhere in the deep sea of the universe. Climatic events, alien interventions and our own ecosystem of mystical creatures activate odd metamorphosis and interspecies hybridization. Time and spaces are mashed and stretched. Bones melt like butter, blood streams grow like corals and the moon divorces the earth with the “Waterworld” sorrow aftermath.

about the artist: Lea Kieffer is a french Berlin-based freelance performer, dancer, costume designer and scenographer. Her work explores the dialogue between imagination and physicality through the entangling of dance, bodywork, storytelling and craftsmanship in hybrid transdisciplinary formats.

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Make Bank

Mascher administrator and artist in residence Katarina Poljak is performing as an Butoh inspired improviser in Make Bank on September 19th, 23rd, & 24th!

For a brief time during the 2023 Fringe Festival, guests are invited to join a band of currency-crazed visual and performing artists as they occupy The Manufacturers’ National Bank in Old City. Closed to the public since 1985, this space has been transformed into the den, cave, and sewer of Meg Saligman and her newest four-story mural. Come experience the intersection of art-making and currency with Brother Can You Spare a Dollar?, where guests can steal, barter or bring a dollar bill and turn it into an art piece; or experience This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Jewelry, an opportunity to make trinkets for the giant that lives in the basement. Who knows, when the bank reopens in 2024, your pieces might be on permanent display in their larger- than-life-sized music box. At night, Meg, along with Lillian Ransijn and Dylan Smythe of R&T, will guide guests through the space filled with video installations and zany characters like “The Teller” and “The Butoh Financier,” a dancer who will emerge to welcome guests into a land of fe**sh, finance, and bijouterie-burlesque.

Lillian Ransijn and Dylan Smythe, Devising and Artistic Consultants

Gallery Experience
Sept 16, 17, 23 + 24 from 1–3:30pm
Sept 20 + 27 from 6–9pm
Pay What You Wish

Details
Run Time: 60 mins
Ticket Price: $35
Venue: Manufacturers’ National Bank Dates: September 15, 2023 - September 29, 2023

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:

Our Land, Our Movement, being led by Marguerite Hemmings and curated by long time Mascher member Paige Phillips.

Our Land, Our Movement is a public art project focused on healing our bodies and lands. Led by artist Marguerite Hemmings, this expansive series engages with communities living in West Philly, Olney and Chinatown who feel disconnected/unsafe/restricted from their bodies and neighborhoods.

Join a performance series in collaboration with ReEntry Community Garden, Roots Garden at Fisher Park, and Asian Arts Initiative. Teen participants have been working with Marguerite Hemmings and a team of facilitators/designers to create a three part movement ritual. Witness the performers become a walking mural, painting their neighborhoods with movement and storytelling, using bright fabrics, face makeup, and adornment that reflects their most vibrant selves. FREE

Performance 1
Saturday, September 16, Time: 1:30PM
Re-Entry Community Farm, 4991 Girard Ave
*Rain Date, September 17

Performance 2
Saturday, September 23, Time : 1:30PM
Roots Garden at Fisher Park, 571 West Spencer St
*Rain Date, September 24

Performance 3
Saturday, September 30
Various locations in Chinatown:
1:45PM-2PM, Mr. Wish’s, 216 N 10th St
2:15PM-2:30PM, Inch by Inch Garden, 1024 Ridge Ave
2:45PM-3:30PM, Asian Arts Initiative, 219 Vine St
*Rain Date, October 1

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Auras
We know we already posted about this but we had to update with these beautiful new promo photos for the work! 😍

Britt Fishel & Artists is presenting Auras. Aura examines the electromagnetic energy fields that surround living beings, including humans, animals, and plants, known as an aura. Through digital dance projections and live performance, the work explores health, self, community growth and wellbeing, as related to the bioenergetic field. The concept of an aura can be seen as a tool for self-exploration and personal growth. By delving into the aura and its various layers or colors, Aura examines emotional patterns, thought processes, and spiritual development through movement modalities and multi-media performance. Serving as a guide for self-reflection, introspection, and the pursuit of personal transformation, Aura Theory suggests that there is more to individuals than their physical form. The embodiment of these ideas are transformed in multi-faceted ways to encourage connection, foster empathy, celebrate individuality, and honor the richness of the human experience.
Performed by Teigha Beth Bailey, Erica Densmore, and Lydia Patselas.

Where:
Fringe/Cannonball
Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St.

Accessibility:
Is Ada accessible

When:
Sept. 20th - 6:45pm
Sept. 24th - 8:00pm.

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Cyborg Dreams

Curt Haworth is presenting Cyborg Dreams in the Cannonball Festival at the Icebox Project Space.
Performed by: kaijo caggins, Amalia Colon-Nava, Andrew Smith, Kayliani Sood
Music: Tim Motzer

Where:
Fringe/Cannonball
Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St.

Accessibility:
Is Ada accessible

When:
Sept. 23rd - 12:30pm
Sept. 26th - 6:30pm
Sept. 29th - 5:30pm

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Dream Sweet, Rough Man

Artist Lu Donovan is presenting Dream Sweet, Rough Man through the Cannonball Festival this year. The project is a dance and fashion collaboration with my collaborator, Micah Lockman-Fine, that aims to disrupt common masculine narratives and move toward more intimate, authentic and integrated manhoods.

Where:
Fringe/Cannonball
Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St.

Accessibility:
Is Ada accessible

When:
September 1st, 9:30pm
September 8th, 8:00pm
September 11th, 5:00pm

LINK IN OUR BIO TO READ MORE AND GET TICKETS!

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS
It’s Time We Pay Them a Visit

Mascher resident Leigh Huster is performing in “It’s Time We Pay Them a Visit,” an allegory about getting unstuck and taking action against imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. Also, it's a comedy!
Written and Directed by Anissa Weinraub
Performed by Leigh Huster, Chantelle Bateman, Ashely Jubilee, Daniel Park, Anissa Weinraub

Where:
Maas Building
1325 N Randolph St.

When:
Sept 7 5:00pm
Sept 19 6:30 pm
Sept 26 6:30 pm

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artists in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Confluence

Loren Groenendaal is presenting Confluence which is a mash up of contact improvisation, dance, and comedy/theater improvisation in a duo of Loren and Ben Lloyd.
Show is free/donations accepted.

Where:
Free Fringe
Mascher Space Cooperative
Rear Studio/ Courtyard
1170 S Broad St.

Accessibility:
Not wheelchair accessible (steps down to bathrooms)

When:
Sept. 9th - 8:00pm
Sept. 10th - 8:00pm

LINK IN BIO TO LEARN MORE!

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Auras AND Glitter Baby

Britt Fishel & Artists is presenting Auras. The work is investigating Auras- through digital dance projections and live performance. We are exploring health, self, community growth and wellbeing as related to the bioenergetic field.
Performed by Teigha Beth Bailey, Erica Densmore, and Lydia Patselas.

Kate Seethaler is performing in Glitter Baby by Tammy Carrasco. Glitter Baby is a microcosm in which meandering dreamscapes, q***r motherhood, and subtle spectacle collide and collapse into one another. This work explores the profound wisdom and meaning-making of our subconscious, where motherhood is posited as a cradling of our own inner child. This maternal holding is framed by unbridled curiosity, q***r paradigms, and collaged meaning. From within a metaphysical realm of dreamed abstraction and non-sequiturs, Glitter Baby roots us in the Now through the immediacy and excitement of the physical body. Athleticism and spontaneity bring viewers into the present while q***ring meaning-making with a quilt of text and movement, all in the presence of a glistening disco ball.

Where:
Fringe/Cannonball
Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St.

Accessibility:
Is Ada accessible

When:
Sept. 20th - 6:45pm
Sept. 24th - 8:00pm.

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
The Tale of the Slaughtered Hog

Paige Phillips is presenting a restaging of The Tale of the Slaughtered Hog.

Where:
Fringe/Cannonball
Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St.

Accessibility:
Is Ada accessible

When:
Sept. 20th - 5:00pm
Sept. 22nd - 8:00pm
Sept. 24th - 12:15pm

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Faygele Romp in a Feild of Wheat

Artist Olivia Brown and Brooch Solomon are premiering a new work, Faygele Romp in a Feild of Wheat at SoundSpace Performing Arts.

Fantastical q***r Jewish romp through a biblical landscape of gay intimacy. Join us as we use dance to travel through space and time to visit with Judaism’s le***an icons, Ruth and Naomi. They’ve got wisdom to share about Jewish, q***r, feminine intimacy. Set during the springtime Hebrew month of Sivan, during the ancient grain harvest festival of Shavuot, the show reflects on q***r Jewish pleasure as spiritual practice and connection to ancestors.
This event is appropriate for ages 18+.

Where:
Fringe
SoundSpace Performing Arts
1501 N 31st St.

Accessibility:
Is wheelchair accessible

When:
Sept. 17th - 8:00pm
Sept. 20th - 8:00pm

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:

Kate Seethaler is performing in a new work by Christina Gesualdi as part of a split bill show with Ma’at Works Dance Collective for Something Soft.

This year Christina has had a walking ritual of visiting and observing houses with the address number 2023. Some accumulated rules for the task: perceiving with all 5 senses, seeing each building facade as if it's a dancer on stage potentially sharing some light touch and connection with 2021 and/or 2025, noticing intermittent repulsion or fascination amidst the repetition and counting cornices, stoop steps, and windows. What does it all mean and how the hell does a dance tumble out of it? Inspired by poet CAConrad's (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals and the improvisation and care of each performer, 2023 provokes numerology, the slipperiness of time, the arbitrary containment of both a year and of a property, and a dream for a world in which housing is not violently monetized and transactional.

show photo credit by: Alexis Granwell

something soft, created by Mawu Ama Ma’at G. Oyesii is in collaboration with Jah Elyse and Felisha George. This performance ritual explores ways we soften through multimodal methodologies.

Where:

Fringe/Cannonball

Icebox Project Space

1400 N American St.

Accessibility:

Is Ada accessible

When:

Sept. 5th - 8:00pm

Sept. 14th - 6:30pm

Sept. 15th - 5:00pm

Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
Mike Baby Please

Artists mik phillips and tori Breen are presenting mike baby please is a willing reckoning of consequentials, shifting through wrestling, yelling, nestling, grunting, + fu***ng; there will be tears. seeking out, welcoming, + mourning hitting where it hurts most, we enter — the wrestling smackdown that will ruin us more than we know.

Content warnings: 18+, violent content, adult language, nudity

Where:

Fringe/Cannonball

Icebox Project Space

1400 N American St.

Accessibility:

Is Ada accessible

When:

Sept. 18th - 8:00pm

Sept. 23rd - 9:30pm

It’s that special time of year again! Join us for many wonderful works Mascher Artist’s in Residence have facilitated, or are a part of, during this years 2023 Fringe Festival!

DON’T MISS:
FALLING UP

The Naked Stark is presenting a new collaborative work, Falling Up.

Where:

Fringe/Cannonball

Icebox Project Space

1400 N American St.

Accessibility:

Is Ada accessible

When:

Sept. 2nd - 12:30pm

Sept. 8th - 9:30pm

Sept. 14th - 5:00pm

Link in bio to read more and get tickets!

HAPPY JUNETEENTH!

Image description: text on 4 slides of green backgrounds with the Mascher logo above reads;

Starting in July 2023 Mascher will be instilling a repetitions based membership to offer black, indigenous, and people of color studio space, access to workshops/programming, and performance opportunities in our annual Fresh Juice program. The BIPOC Artist in Residence Fellowship has been long overdue and we’re very excited to share it with our communities!
We are currently prepared to offer two (2) full year, half share memberships (8 hours of studio space per month) to BIPOC performance artists, with priority to those native to Philadelphia. Although we’re open to all types of artists, the space we currently have is most beneficial to those whose practice can exist in a dance studio setting. Our current space has three steps to enter the building and one flight of stairs to get to the bathroom as well.
Since we currently have capacity for two (2) memberships and are working to expand this, we have created a google form application (link in bio or on our website under membership!) asking for some information to get to know the artists and their needs a little better! Our hope is that although we cannot offer everyone who applies a membership due to space and scheduling limitations, we’ll be able to reach out to additional artists and offer short term rentals on a regular basis. Please reach out to [email protected] or DM us on Instagram with any questions!

If you were at Fresh Juice this past weekend or the year before you’ve probably met our Development & Marketing Coordinator Kat! That’s me! I’m making this post (full transparency lol) I’m hosting a Fundraiser for my short sci-fi experimental dance film tonight at 8pm .space and you should come! There will be drinks, live music, a silent screening of barbarella, and improvisational music /dance! Come out & support!! For more about the project or to donate click the link in ‘s bio.

Night two of FRESH JUICE!
Supported by

Photos by James Izlar

Some photos from night one of FRESH JUICE!
Supported by

Photos by James Izlar

NEXT WEEKEND!!! June 2nd and 3rd! Join us for 2 nights of a split-bill show!
Happening at

Thank you to our sponsor !!

Honored to announce we are a 2023 Grantee! We are so grateful for the support from PCF that allows Mascher to continue to flourish!!!

SAVE THE DATE!
FRESH JUICE
Mascher’s Artists in Residence Showcase

Join us June 2nd & 3rd for a split bill 2 night showcase!

IT'S MASCHER'S 16TH YEAR OF FRESH JUICE!
Join us for a 2 night split-bill show featuring new live work from Mascher's current artists.
Fresh Juice is Mascher Space Cooperative's annual artists in residence show, featuring finished and fresh works by current Mascher artists and fresh squeezed juice for the audience. Now in it's 16th year Fresh Juice will premiere new work from our community of artists at Icebox Project Space on Friday June 2nd and Saturday June 3rd 2023.

LOCATION: Icebox Project Space
1400 N American St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
(Wheelchair accessible)

DATES: Friday June 2nd and Saturday June 3rd 2023
TIME: 8-10pm

TICKET LINK IN OUR BIO!

Image Description:
Image of illustrated bright green, orange, and yellow citrus fruits on a light tan background. Text reads Mascher Space Cooperative presents Fresh Juice 2023. Dates: Split- bill show on June 2nd and 3rd, 8-10pm
Location: Icebox Project Space
Tickets: Sliding Scale $10-30

Featuring new live work from Mascher Artists in Residence:
Friday June 2nd: Curt Haworth, Mik Phillips & Tori Breen, Chachi Perez, Loren Groenendaal, 215 Live Entertainment, Leigh Huster, Poético Dance Collective

Saturday June 3rd: Andrew Smith, Aaron Pond, Megan Mizanty & Collo O’ Brien, Katarina Poljak, Katherine Desimine