The Center for the Book and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts have commissioned local dance choreographers to make new dance works inspired by visual arts books from the Center for the Book's members. Movement Brigade has been chosen as a collaborator and is working with Rebecca Kelly, the creator of The Blue Book.

For this upcoming collaboration, Heather Cole, Erin Shanti Desmond and Alie Vidich will create a dance theater work that is inspired by the book's emotional feelings about the many layered meanings of the word blue.

                                        soft, blue mountains meeting yellow skies
                                        trapped in your body without any escapes
                                                                                                        the weight and wait of the world rounding your shoulders
                                                                                                                              the sweetest, shimmering sky

                    Visual arts, poetry, physical theater and visceral dancing will connect together for this new work inspired by The Blue Book.

Rebecca Kelly creator of The Blue Book is currently curating Raw Beauty: An Exhibition of Sculpture. “Raw Beauty,” says Kelly, is about creating objects “that communicate each artist’s thoughts and feelings about the primitive strengths and imperfections of the female spirit.” See the exhibit now until Sat, February 26th at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street 609-924-8777 or www.artscouncilofprinceton.org.

You can read more about Rebecca Kelly and The Blue Book in this review from Princeton's US 1. Click here. Or watch  the video on Youtube.

Thanks to a generous grant from the New Stages for Dance Fund from Dance USA Philadelphia and support from our fiscal sponsor Philadelphia Dance Projects, Movement Brigade will present this new work on a shared program with Eleanor Goudie-Averill/Stone Depot Dance Lab and Zornitsa Stoyanova/ Herebegin Dance Company at Christ Church Neighborhood House on Saturday, May 28th and Sunday, May 29th, 2011.

Fri, May 27th at 8pm
Presented by the Center for the Book (with book artists discussion afterwards!)

Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia PA 19143
Pay what you can - suggested donation of $5-15

Sat, May 28th at 7 & 9pm and Sun, May 29th at 7pm
Generous support provided by the New Stages for Dance Fund from Dance USA Philadelphia

Christ Church Neighborhood House
20 N American St (just slightly north of Market St -- off of 2nd St), Philadelphia PA 19106

Tickets: $10-12
Reserve now by emailing movementbrigade at gmail dot com.