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Year 33, No. 30
Celebrating 33 Years of Community News
April 4 – April 10, 2018
NextMove Dance Presents Nai-Ni Chen INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED Dance Company with The Ahn Trio BREAD & PUPPET THEATER’S Philadelphia Premiere of “A Quest For Freedom” April 19-22
“THE BASIC BYE-BYE SHOW” Sunday, April 8 at Icebox Project Space
Education News Pages 5, 7 & 8
New President Valley Forge Military Academy & College Page 7
Bread and Puppet presents “The Basic Bye-bye Show,” Sunday, April 8 at 7 p.m., at Icebox Project Space, 1400 N. American St., Philadelphia, PA. The Ahn Trio, three Korean sisters, Juilliard trained, have released six albums and are recognized for bringing the 21st century and youthfulness to chamber music. Photo/Courtesy Joanne Rile Management ai-Ni Chen Dance Company, in collaboration with The Ahn Trio, makes its company debut on the NextMove Dance Series in “A Quest for Freedom,” a new collaborative multi-cultural production, featuring live music and dance at the Prince Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, April 19-22. The Ahn Trio, three Korean sisters, Juilliard trained, have released six albums and are recognized for bringing the 21st century and youthfulness to chamber music. Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Taiwanese born Nai-Ni Chen, is the recipient of 15 awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her movement vocabulary draws from the flowing lines of Chinese calligraphy, to the explosiveness of martial arts, and contemporary western dance. Performances take place Thursday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, April 21 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, April 22 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $20-$62 and can be purchased in person at the Prince Theater Box Office, by phone 215-422-4580 or
read & Puppet Theater comes to Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia Sunday, April 8, with a new play, The Basic Bye-bye Show a manifesto on transformation inspired by Albrecht Dürer’s apocalyptic woodcuts, birch branches lost during an ice storm, and the daily news. In The Basic Bye-bye Show a series of quiet object fantasies unfolds in black, white, and grey inside a small fabric stage printed with elementary words – “Resist,” “Bread,” “Yes,” “Sky,” “Riot,” “Byebye.” Outside, an orchestra of nonsense instruments arises, spins, and recedes. A birch forest grows. Sculpted clouds produce hands, chairs, and rain. The storm passes. The episodes that make up The Basic Bye-bye Show develop in abstract counterpoint to periodic handkerchief-assisted “basic byebyes” to various brutal unnecessities of our current politics. B&P director, Peter Schumann, says of the show: “The Basic Bye-bye Show is based on the fact that our culture is saying its basic bye-bye to Mother Earth by continuing the devas-
See “A Quest For Freedom” at the Prince Theater on page 4
See Bread & Puppet Theater’s “The Basic Bye-bye Show” page 6
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Their songs, dark and hilarious ansdowne Folk Club preat times, just as often delight with sents an evening with Uncle moments of great insight and Bonsai, a folk-pop trio from beauty. The trio aligns itself with Seattle on Thursday, April 19, the underachiever, the dejected, 2018. Held at the Twentieth Cen the outsider, the black sheep. tury Club, 84 S. Lansdowne Ave., Densely-packed lyrics fly by in Lansdowne, PA, doors open at 7 p.m. and show begins at 7:30 Folk-pop trio from Seattle, p.m. Tickets are $17 when purUncle Bonsai – from left, chased in advance online or with Arni Adler, Andrew Ratshin, an advanced phone reservation and Patrice O’Neill – will perand $20 without an advance form on Thursday, April 19, reservation. Parking is available at the Twentieth Century Club, on the street and at the SEPTA in Lansdowne, PA. train station approximately one Photo/Maria Camillo block away. For reservations, advance ticket sales or handia whirr at times, and take a skewcap parking info, visit www.folked stance on topics such as club.org, call 484-466-6213 or email first-world problems, the creation Lfolkclub@gmail.com. Cash only of the universe, the afterlife, and, accepted at the door. of course, holidays with the famImagine what might happen if ily. Tim Burton hijacked the Andrews Uncle Bonsai’s acoustic folkSisters en route to a Stephen Sond heim festival with The Beatles and Tom Lehrer in the sidecar; you’d get Seattle pop songs are almost one-act plays or short stories, resisting strict pop, super-harmonizers Uncle Bonsai. With just three voices and an acoustic gui- folk, or singer-songwriter categories. Their songs focus on the passing of time, tar, Uncle Bonsai presents an often dizzying vocal array of intricate harmony. See Folk-Pop Trio Uncle Bonsai Concert page 6
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