Lunar Retreat Premiere Sept 9th-22nd, 2026
Lunar Retreat will premiere at the Pearlstein Gallery as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Sept 6th-22nd, 2026. Lunar Retreat
(At)Tend : reflections on The Garden at the Swedish Performing Arts Biennale by matt lambert
Attend: To Be Present Tend: To apply oneself to the care of/ watch over Tender: (adj) demanding careful and sensitive handling (verb) To present for acceptance Attend: Karlsgatan 2 is a building and an architectural arcade. The public entrance is two sets of doors running through the center, offering the public a covered walkway cutting…
Being / With: a Gratitude, a Love Letter, From One Half of a Duet by Nicki Pombier
As an oral historian, memory is my material and interviewing is my craft. I ask someone to tell me of themselves and then I listen, riding the current of a conversation I’m co-constructing, both of us boat, rower and river all at once. And then what happened? And what was that like? Click HERE to…
Oral History
We started our oral history training with a two-day workshop in Philadelphia, using a discrete set of principles and practices as an orientation to the field. These included reciprocity, shared authority, co-creation, silence, and open-ended questions, among others. We committed to working with silence as a meaningful invitation for longform narrative and as a narrative…
body of text
Body of Text is a learning and research project funded by a Discovery Grant from the Pew Center for Arts And Heritage. The project was conceived to move us towards a new method of working with its ensemble, one driven by the intersection and overlap of verbal and physical meaning. This project focused on research time for us to…
Body of Text
NOVEMBER WORKSHOP We began working with oral historian Suzanne Snider. Suzanne instructed the dancers methods of conducting interviews, and the philosophy of oral history work so that they could weave aspects of this practice into the research. Suzanne then familiarized the dancers with the theoretical underpinnings of the work as well as methodology, to support…
The Hunt for the Red October Lobster 2016
The 2016 Hunt for the Red October Lobster Saturday, October 15, 2016 Hunt begins at 5:30pm. Join NCDC for the Hunt for the Red October Lobster Hunt on Saturday, October 15th! Every year one of our great supporters, Ed Wagner, puts together this fun event to benefit NCDC in the fall. This is a fun bar hop, a…
the exponential value of creative exchange
Thanks to the BiLateral Exchange I spent three weeks in Budapest, Hungary from September 17th – October 8th, 2015. This was a true gift for my artistic work. It took me away from the demands and distractions of my daily routine, it changed my perspective on my work—and it took place in…
the exponential value of creative exchange
Thanks to the BiLateral Exchange I spent three weeks in Budapest, Hungary from September 17th – October 8th, 2015. This was a true gift for my artistic work. It took me away from the demands and distractions of my daily routine, it changed my perspective on my work—and it took place in a beautiful, inspiring…
The Hunt for the Red October Lobster
The Hunt for the Red October Lobster Saturday, October 24, 2015 Hunt begins at 5:30pm. Join NCDC for the Hunt for the Red October Lobster Hunt on Saturday, October 24th! Every year one of our great supporters, Ed Wagner, puts together this fun event to benefit NCDC in the fall. This is a fun bar hop, a claw…
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