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Year 33, No. 19
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NextMove Dance Presents “An Evening of BodyVox Films” Free Program January 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Prince Theater extMove Dance presents “An Evening of BodyVox Films,” Wednesday, January 17 at 7:30 p.m., at Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street. Portland, Oregon’s BodyVox, led by Emmy-Award winning choreographers and Pilobolus and MOMIX alums, Ashley Roland and Jamey Hampton, brings its hilarious and accessible collection of Dance for Camera works created in collaboration with award-
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“Remembering the Latin Casino” with Eddie Bruce Page 5
January 10 – January 16, 2018
A C T II P L AY H O U S E P R E S E N T S “A F E W O F O U R F AV O R I T E T H I N G S ” Featuring Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs
NextMove Dance presents a free program, “An Evening of BodyVox Films,” Wednesday, January 17 at 7:30 p.m., at Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street. RSVP at www.nextmovedance.org. Photo/Michael Shay
New Interim Executive Director at Main Line Art Center Page 7
Darlington Art Center’s Coffee House with Kat Lemon Page 11
winning filmmaker Mitchell Rose. The program is free. Seating is limited. Reservations are required and RSVP by following the link on www.nextmovedance.org. “An Evening of BodyVox Films” showcases nine films by BodyVox and selected TBA works by local filmmakers/choreographers, with narration by Jamey Hampton followed by an audience Q & A. Program highlights include the Modern Daydream Series – four films that follow the same character (Jamey Hampton) through different situations. “Treadmill Softly” features Hampton and Roland in a gym on treadmills, fantasizing about relationships. In “Islands in the Sky,” four people are dancing on top of cherry pickers 50 feet above the dessert, aloof in their ivory towers. “Unleashed” explores overstressed office workers in cubicles leading
ct II Playhouse presents “A Few of Our Favorite Things,” a new show from Philly’s favorite comedy couple, Tony Braithwaite & Jen Childs, on stage in Ambler from January 9-28, 2018. A glorious grab bag of sketches and songs, “A Few of Our Favorite Things” is a co-production with Philadelphia’s 1812 Productions. Mary Carpenter is the director, and Owen Robbins joins the duo as pianist and musical director. “Performing with Jen Childs is one of my favorite things,
See NextMove Dance Presents “An Evening of BodyVox Films” on page 4
See “A Few of Our Favorite Things” page 4
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1000 Dresses to Stop Traffic Shop for a dress – to stop human trafficking – at the 10th and final Dress for a Good Cause January 20, 2018 at Westtown School – a diamond necklace, gold bracever the past ten years, more let, and a $1400 woman’s designthan a thousand local dresser tux from Italy still wearing tags es have been put to a spe– are the projects supported by cial use: to help stop traffic – huthe event over the past decade. man trafficking, that is – and to Locally, event funds have providhelp victims and survivors of moded textbooks, transportation passern slavery. es, meals and more to The SalvaDress for a Good Cause, an event that sells donated gently worn Nina Kitson, Carol Metzker and dresses and jewelry, raises funds Kathryn Metzker prepare for the for projects to combat human traf10th and final Dress for a Good ficking/modern slavery locally and Cause event January 20, 2018, overseas. It also keeps used clothfrom 1 - 3 p.m. at Westtown ing out of landfills and brings toSchool. Buy a dress for $10! gether community members of different ages and styles as they tion Army’s New Day to Stop Trafbargain-hunt for fashion statements ficking Program and Dawn’s Place. that make a social statement about Internationally, funds have helpending injustice. ed provide computers, cows and The 10th and final Dress for a a sustainable biogas system for Good Cause – hosted by the Kencenters for survivors of sex slavnett Square Rotary Club at Westery in Nepal and India. It helped town School, open to the public support a School4Freedom proand offering dresses for $10 each – takes place from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. on January 20, 2018, during National Human jects in India—a three-year process that is bringing an entire village to freedom by starting with a school where children receive an education and Trafficking Awareness and Prevention month. Even more spectacular than some of the notable discoveries at the event See Dress for a Good Cause January 20 page 11
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Tony Braithwaite and Jennifer Childs created and star in “A Few of Our Favorite Things.”