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PHILA.’S POPPING arts scene struts its stuff around the city as September be-
gins. Artists both world-famous and up-and-coming are performing in dozens of
venues as part of our Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe festival. We take a
look at one imaginative local performer on page 3.
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by Nathan Lerner
For 16 days, the upcoming
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival
and Philly Fringe will dominate
the local culture scene with an un-
interrupted smörgåsbord of avant-
garde dance, theater, music and
interdisciplinary work. Now in its
15th year, the ambitious convoca-
tion will encompass a mind-bog-
gling 2,000 artists appearing in
more than 1,200 performances at
venues throughout the region.
The event was founded in 1997 as
the Philly Fringe Festival. Today, it
has morphed into a dimorphic en-
tity. The Philadelphia Live Arts
Festival is curated and includes
some of the world’s leading per-
forming artists. In many instances,
it affords the only opportunity that
Philadelphia audiences will have
to see shows that are traveling in-
ternationally.
This is complemented by the
Philly Fringe, an unfiltered plat-
form for performing artists who
are unfettered by the curatorial
process and enjoy total artistic
freedom. For some aspiring per-
formers, it provides their first
chance to take the stage and appear
in a public venue. For more expe-
rienced performers, it constitutes
an invaluable incubator for further
honing their skills and obtaining
audience feedback.
Chestnut Hill native Lauren Rile
Smith will be producing her new
show, imaginatively titled “Am-
persand,” as part of the Philly
Fringe. The 24-year-old Smith is
the founder of the performance
group Tangle. Her innovative piece
involves an amalgam of traditional
circus arts, such as trapeze, acro-
batics and aerial rope, with narra-
tive concerning the themes of
memory and belonging in an urban
milieu.
Smith graduated from Swarthmore
College with a degree in English
literature and philosophy. After
graduating, she made a somewhat
unlikely transition and enrolled at
the Philadelphia School of Circus
Arts.
Smith recalled, “When I started
training, I was inspired by the
blend of athleticism, narrative and
physical artistry in contemporary
circus arts.” Smith subsequently
undertook further training at LAVA
and Ruby Streak Trapeze Studio,
both of which are circus schools
located in Brooklyn.
Currently, Smith works at the Rare
Book and Manuscript Library of
the University of Pennsylvania.
According to her, “It allows me to
switch gears between the head-
centered world of books and li-
braries and the body-centered
world of training circus arts.”
Smith recalled, “I chose the name
‘Tangle’ for our acrobatic perform-
ance company because we are all
about the possibilities that arise
when things get complicated.” She
continued, “Tangle also evokes the
shapes of bodies you might see on-
stage when we perform.”
Smith reflected, “We devised the
show together as a company over a
long, collaborative process. We’ve
been rehearsing and collaborating
on Ampersand since March. ‘Am-
persand’ is our first full-length
show, and our first performance at
the Philadelphia Fringe Festival,
so we’ve put a lot of love and
sweat into it.”
She clarified, “We named the show
‘Ampersand’ after the typesetter’s
symbol for ‘and.’ We’re inspired
by stories of unusual connection
and intersection.” Smith described
the show as being “all about meld-
ing performance disciplines, using
music and found text to create new
concepts, bringing bodies together
in movement, building structures
from which we can take flight.”
In presenting “Ampersand,” Smith
will be joined by her 17-year-old
sister, Pascale. The latter will be
performing on aerial hoop and col-
laborating on a trapeze piece. Aug-
menting the Smith siblings, Kate
Aid, Tasha Connolly, Maura Kirk,
Lee Ane Pompilio, Sarah Nico-
lazzo and Deena Weisberg will be
performing at the show.
Smith is looking forward to pre-
senting “Ampersand” at the Philly
Fringe. She said, “I’m excited to
bring this show to the festival be-
cause I think it’s very special —
not quite like any other dance, the-
ater or even circus-arts show, but
sharing elements of many different
styles of performance.”
Ampersand will be performed at
We’re On The Fringe For Two WeeksLocal Artist Tells Tales With Circus Feats
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Good News: It was A Disaster (Officially)
Philadelphia Soundstages/Invinci-
ble Pictures, 1600 N. 5th Street,
Thursday, Sep. 8, 7:30 p.m. & Fri-
day, Sep. 9, (6:30 & 9 p.m. Info:
www.tangle-arts.com.
(Nathan Lerner, the director ofDavenport Communications, is ac-tively involved in civic and culturalaffairs. He welcomes feedback [email protected].
Philadelphia Live Arts Festivaland Philly Fringe run through toSaturday, Sep. 17. For tickets, call(215) 413-1318 or visitwww.livearts-fringe.org.)
Hurricanes bring plenty of trouble
in their wake. Getting disaster cer-
tification after one strikes, how-
ever, is always a spot of good
news.
The US Dept. of Homeland Secu-
rity’s Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency announced federal
aid has been made available to the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to supplement recovery efforts in
the area affected by Hurricane
Irene during the period of Aug. 26-
30.
Federal funding is available to
Commonwealth and eligible
local governments and certain
private nonprofit organizations
on a cost-sharing basis for emer-
gency work and the repair or re-
placement of facilities damaged
by Hurricane Irene in the Coun-
ties of Chester, Northampton,
Sullivan, Susquehanna, and
Wyoming.
Federal funding is also
available on a cost-sharing
basis for hazard-mitigation
measures for all Counties
in the Commonwealth.
Thomas J. McCool has been
named as the Federal Coordinating
Officer for federal recovery opera-
tions in the affected area. McCool
said damage surveys are continu-
ing in other areas, and additional
counties may be designated for as-
sistance after the assessments are
fully completed.
Toomey Hails White House For Reversing
Course On Ozone Standards
US Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) re-
leased the following statement Fri-
day about President Obama’s
decision to withdraw the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s pro-
posed ozone standards.
“The White House’s decision to
withdraw the EPA’s proposed
ozone standards has taken a huge
regulatory burden off the table for
small businesses and job creators
seeking to expand and hire new
workers” Sen. Toomey said.
“As I travel across Pennsylvania, I
consistently hear from job creators
expressing concerns about the
EPA’s regulatory overreach. That
is why I have introduced legisla-
tion that will require the EPA to
consider the jobs impact of any
new regulations. With the nation’s
unemployment rate near double
digits, this latest announcement
from the White House is encourag-
ing, and I hope the administration
will continue pursuing common-
sense regulatory reform.”
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Design Competition For Fire, Police
Heroes Memorial Will Be AnnouncedSupporters of the Philadelphia Fire
Fighters Local 22 and Philadelphia
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge
No. 5 Memorial Fund (the Fund)
will announce a Design Competi-
tion for the building and placement
of a Memorial honoring Philadel-
phia Fire Fighters and Police Offi-
cers who lost their lives in the line
of duty this Wednesday.
The Wednesday announcement
will take place at 1:00 p.m. at the
southeast corner of Franklin
Square (6th & Race Streets).
The design competition is being
run and judged with the coopera-
tion of the Philadelphia Branch of
the American Institute of Architect
and will be open to professional
and student architects throughout
the mid-Atlantic region. The me-
morial project has received broad
and cooperative support from His-
toric Philadelphia, Inc., the organi-
zation that renovated and oversees
Franklin Square and the Betsey
Ross House.
Philadelphia At-Large Councilman
Jim Kenney, a Fund Trustee, will
be master of ceremonies at the an-
nouncement.
The Memorial Fund is a 501(c)3
nonprofit organization committed
to ensuring Philadelphia firefight-
ers and police officers who have
lost their lives in the line of duty
are honored in a fitting and re-
spectful combined memorial site
that is accessible to the public. The
Fund has a website that will be up-
dated prior to the Wednesday an-
nouncement. See
http://fallenheroesmemorialfund.or
g.
City Plans To Restore Neighborhood
Commercial DistrictsThe Philadelphia Dept. of Com-
merce and the Office of Arts, Cul-
ture, & the Creative Economy
announced the ReStore Corridors
Through Art program, which aims
to energize commercial corridors
through art and creative spaces.
Temporary art projects will be in-
stalled in vacant or under-utilized
properties to enhance the
streetscape and to attract new visi-
tors to the neighborhood. These
businesses and artists will follow
the national trend of using empty
commercial spaces for art. Cities
like San Francisco, New York and
St. Louis have seen increased eco-
nomic activity and new creative
communities thrive as a result of
projects similar to ReStore Corri-
dors Through Art.
“Bustling commercial corridors
are the lifeblood of our neighbor-
hoods and the backbone of our
business community,” said Mayor
Michael A. Nutter. “Public space
for art and creative use will engage
the community in new ways. Our
Administration places a high value
on supporting Philadelphia’s cre-
ative industries.”
ReStore Corridors Through Art
will create partnerships with com-
munity organizations, businesses
and artists to transform storefronts
into imaginative and innovative
spaces. These spaces will be de-
signed to bring more activity and
traffic to the targeted areas, in-
crease visibility for the art commu-
nity and present opportunities for
Philadelphia’s residents to improve
their neighborhood commercial
corridors.
“Philadelphia is a place where the
words ‘creative’ and ‘economy’ re-
ally do come together,” said
Deputy Mayor for Economic De-
velopment Alan Greenberger.
“That’s why the City is so excited
to bring increased resources and
attention to our neighborhood
commercial corridors, and to do so
in a way that engages the commu-
nity through art. The first project
has already sparked a high level of
interest, and we are confident that
our investment – along with the
hard work of the artists involved –
will help to further the redevelop-
ment of these important centers of
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commerce.”
Organizations were chosen based
on several criteria.
• Overall concept plan, including
quality and scope of proposal;
• Compatibility with the City’s
goals;
• Preliminary stakeholder commit-
ment and partnerships;
• Organizational capacity to man-
age project; and
• Potential connectivity to other
neighborhood initiatives and pro-
gramming.
“It is gratifying that our Com-
merce Dept. is looking to the
power of art and artists to revital-
ize commercial corridors,” said
Chief Cultural Officer Gary
Steuer. “We are eager to continue
to work with the Commerce De-
partment and other City agencies
to weave the arts and creativity
into our efforts to make Philadel-
phia the best possible place to live,
work, play and do business. The
arts can play a critical role in
place-making and Philadelphia is
at the leading edge of this work
nationally.”
The first project to be completed is
“New Trails” on Germantown Av-
enue and within Fairmount Park in
Chestnut Hill. The main gallery is
located at 8517 Germantown Av-
enue, where a public reception cel-
ebrating the project’s launch is
being held this evening at 6:00
p.m. More than twenty artists will
produce work inspired by the
Chestnut Hill community. More
information about New Trails can
be found at http://www.newtrail-
sphila.org.
The next project, “Lancaster Av-
enue Arts,” will launch at a later
date. It will be a coordinated effort
between Drexel University and the
local community to install art on
the 3500-3900 blocks of Lancaster
Avenue.