CANNONBALL FESTIVAL 2022 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Circus
One Man's Trash: A Repurposed Circus
Residing behind bins and beneath trash can lids, inventive acrobats, high-flying aerialists, and quirky clowns welcome you into their world for a junkyard adventure.
You shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on that Ladder
Impossible feats! Amazing stunts! One mildly confident acrobat! The high highs and low lows of life with depression that takes place on three different sized ladders.
Surface Tension
At points ecstatic, dark, searching, and joyful, this intimate circus show celebrates vulnerable connection through sincere juggling. Acrobatics, weight-sharing, object manipulation, and dance: the fear of loss, the power of trust, and the joy of vulnerability.
I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. The lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.
Myzrie House
Two people are thrust into a cell together for reasons unknown. Are they the last humans left on Earth?
Jonathan Daylight Live!: Helping You Be Motivated and Productive!
Jonathan Daylight is, in his own mind, a skilled motivational speaker and productivity coach. In reality, he is a woefully untalented and unloved person navigating a world that values highly skilled people doing constant, endless work.
Comedy
![Dancing clown wizard in blue](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60e208d7c14f536a81b1a531/09855e2e-3fd0-4811-98af-418d5e4400a8/Jv2.jpeg?format=750w" "Jennifer Vanilla’s Castle in the Sky")
Jennifer Vanilla’s Castle in the Sky
Jennifer Vanilla: a container, a portal, a joy delivery system, a self help regimen, a social mirror, a Times Square celebrity, a shark-toothed advertiser, a kicky talk show host, an ebullient mascot.
Reception
Your chance to speak to and hear from an alien intelligence, channeled through one of Philadelphia's most charming improvisers
Your Show
The non-binary son of God tries to convince their dad to use their pronouns. Which God? They aren't sure. He was an absent father. Heads up: this show uses rock and roll music and power points to blow your mind.
Pedestrian Circus
Pull back the shower curtain and enter the realm of the shapeshifter in this kaleidoscopic bathtub: a one-human show spanning many discovery zones.
Stress Exorcist
A hilarious new meditation on failure and resilience, based in clown and chaos magic, and an anonymous, shambling creature is your guide.
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
Dance
Visions
Cannonball presents visionary artists in this in this short work series.
I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. The lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.
The Case for Invagination #4
Imagine Mister Rogers had a scooter accident, a thyroidectomy, a brain injury; and the puppets in his neighborhood were the remnants of these calamities.
HAIR
A HAIR-raising experience of movement being influenced, maniputated and exaggerated from the hair on the dancers heads. How can our hair become the dance and our bodies act as a respondent?
it's better when you close your eyes
A meditation on queerness, grief, depression, identity crisis, nostalgia, fear, love and isolation. The internal battle of clinging to the past or moving forward while living in a global pandemic and civil rights movement.
Cognatus
Ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature: both often devalued and exploited.
Last Call
A dance work about nightlife: the anticipation, belonging, screaming along to your favorite songs, knowing what to wear and who to be, danger, blame, loneliness, and the rising sun.
Feeling Red
Choreographer Savi Stevenoski sees color when listening to music, in a phenomenon know as synesthesia. Red is deep and soulful. Red is a big, broad, strong color that symbolizes much more than anger and love.
Carnivore
Carnivore researches the imaginative life of the material body, shaped by the artists' own experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
Bower Bird
What’s the best way to learn about sexual dimorphism and evolutionary biology? A drag snow. Meet the Bower Bird. Nature’s fine, feathered, landscape architect. He has a collection of sexy bottle caps that he hopes you’ll like very much.
Scoring the End
Settlements of dust fall on the expanse of a passing afternoon. On a day like today, where there is no sun, the day is only passing.
Live Taping of Sweet Honey Chiffon's Juke Joint Cabaret
Embracing the Black Victorian and all their luscious beauty. You won't want to miss this night of glitz, nips, and sips.
Dance/Sing (working title)
Five collaborators intertwine dancing and singing in an exploration of endearment, serenade, and whimsy.
vapors
Built using imaginative improvisation practices and rhythmic text: blending crackpot futurism and contemporary dance.
BLAZE
In this semi-autobiographical solo, McGonigle dances herself into a world inhabited by the ghosts of familial anecdotes.
The Body Politic
How highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
Vehement
Dark, Sexual, Passionate. An evocative dance show that is a love letter to all our former selves.
Rough and Tumble, Show and Tell: Pickled Peaches and Herringerring
A ride in which pain and pleasure meet to make sense of it all.
Forgotten Solo
Embodied Alienation, Relationality, and Absence: repetition and temporal practices to engage with questions of embodied alienation, relationality and absence.
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a One Bedroom apartment in the Bronx
I grew up in a Black Sci-fi Christian home in the Bronx. This is a love letter and a challenge to the biological, cultural, and historical artifacts and fossils in her blood and in her vision.
Outside Your Expectations
A healing, interactive, art exhibition in the form of a video installation and live performance, exploring social constructs that are put upon Black women and the ways that it can affect their mental health.
mio/ tuyo/ nuestro
The unfolding of the human love catalyst through the lens of queer folk. It is liberating, it is unapologetic. It is your own personal love catalyst.
Survival In Ruins (work in progress)
A memoir that contemplates grief, motherhood, and slowness. Inspired by the recent birth of her second son, a father with Alzheimer’s, and mycelium networks.
Myzrie House
Two people are thrust into a cell together for reasons unknown. Are they the last humans left on Earth?
SILVER & BEBBIE
Silver and Bebbie go together like rice and beans. Like rollerskating and lemonade. Like secret handshakes and made-up languages.
Immersive
Green Card Project
An interactive installation theatre experience that takes the audience through the process of applying for a Visa as experienced by an Iranian Citizen, opening up questions about what is truly valuable to America and what sits at the core of today's immigration policies
OVERBOARD! Cabaret
A free nightly garden bar offering of music, circus, comedy, storytelling, strange anthems to pirate lords and ecstatic participatory rituals.
Installation
Coven
We test the limits of physical and mental endurance, creating dialogue around access dismantled and overturning a civil right.
Music
Daughter of the Sea
Generational traumas. Immigrant identity. Sexual desire. Radical self-love. Three intimate performances.
High Noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger.
Man of La Manchin
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is eaten alive in this new comedic musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha.
Dance/Sing (working title)
Five collaborators intertwine dancing and singing in an exploration of endearment, serenade, and whimsy.
Your Show
The non-binary son of God tries to convince their dad to use their pronouns. Which God? They aren't sure. He was an absent father. Heads up: this show uses rock and roll music and power points to blow your mind.
Awoke: the Musical
This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved.
Theater
Man of La Manchin
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is eaten alive in this new comedic musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha.
High Noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger.
Visions
Cannonball presents visionary artists in this in this short work series.
Oedipus in Seattle
Two actors who have never rehearsed or seen the script will experience the show for the first time while performing it.
Awoke: the Musical
This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved.
The Squid and The Octopus
A very intimate cephalopod adventure, a shadow puppet show (with knives!)
When All Else Fails: or, Why Not Choose Me?
Ashley W. is looking for the one and she's tired of settling - but you sure could!
Heart Ripped Out Twice And So Can You
Ever recover from open chest surgery and multiple hospitalizations only to get hit with a devastating breakup?
Topside
Two soldiers, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how to survive each other’s company: a durational feat of digital loop culture.
Spruce Street
Alice embarks on a metaphysical journey through airwaves, VHS tapes, and dreams.
Jonathan Daylight Live!: Helping You Be Motivated and Productive!
Jonathan Daylight is, in his own mind, a skilled motivational speaker and productivity coach. In reality, he is a woefully untalented and unloved person navigating a world that values highly skilled people doing constant, endless work.
ADAM&EVE
After a feeding frenzy for knowledge, lovers in Eden are plunged into an existential crisis using karaoke-style pop music, wild projections, and loads of live apple-eating.
DIRT TRIP
Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester, a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
The Most Important Place In The World!
Two fabulously windswept tricksters, who are equal parts hurricanes and prophets, take the audience on a dance-filled fiesta celebrating USA's torrid love affair with Puerto Rico.
Eat Me Baladi
Investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement / dance and food.
Song Bridge
You get to forgive yourself. Travel across time together toward collective healing and liberation.
Lewis luvs Clark
In this solo-performance piece, Rebecca Posner is taking you on a riverboat tour of the mighty Missouri.
Mafia Anonymous; The Women Speak
Nella is the leader of a Women's Mafia Anonymous group. It is rumored that Nella's dad did business with the Mafia.
BIPOC New Work Track Winners
The Most Important Place In The World!
Two fabulously windswept tricksters, who are equal parts hurricanes and prophets, take the audience on a dance-filled fiesta celebrating USA's torrid love affair with Puerto Rico.
mio/ tuyo/ nuestro
The unfolding of the human love catalyst through the lens of queer folk. It is liberating, it is unapologetic. It is your own personal love catalyst.
Outside Your Expectations
A healing, interactive, art exhibition in the form of a video installation and live performance, exploring social constructs that are put upon Black women and the ways that it can affect their mental health.
Green Card Project
An interactive installation theatre experience that takes the audience through the process of applying for a Visa as experienced by an Iranian Citizen, opening up questions about what is truly valuable to America and what sits at the core of today's immigration policies
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a One Bedroom apartment in the Bronx
I grew up in a Black Sci-fi Christian home in the Bronx. This is a love letter and a challenge to the biological, cultural, and historical artifacts and fossils in her blood and in her vision.
Family Friendly
SILVER & BEBBIE
Silver and Bebbie go together like rice and beans. Like rollerskating and lemonade. Like secret handshakes and made-up languages.
HAIR
A HAIR-raising experience of movement being influenced, maniputated and exaggerated from the hair on the dancers heads. How can our hair become the dance and our bodies act as a respondent?
Cognatus
Ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature: both often devalued and exploited.
One Man's Trash: A Repurposed Circus
Residing behind bins and beneath trash can lids, inventive acrobats, high-flying aerialists, and quirky clowns welcome you into their world for a junkyard adventure.
You shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on that Ladder
Impossible feats! Amazing stunts! One mildly confident acrobat! The high highs and low lows of life with depression that takes place on three different sized ladders.
Feeling Red
Choreographer Savi Stevenoski sees color when listening to music, in a phenomenon know as synesthesia. Red is deep and soulful. Red is a big, broad, strong color that symbolizes much more than anger and love.
Carnivore
Carnivore researches the imaginative life of the material body, shaped by the artists' own experiences of pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
Dance/Sing (working title)
Five collaborators intertwine dancing and singing in an exploration of endearment, serenade, and whimsy.
vapors
Built using imaginative improvisation practices and rhythmic text: blending crackpot futurism and contemporary dance.
Surface Tension
At points ecstatic, dark, searching, and joyful, this intimate circus show celebrates vulnerable connection through sincere juggling. Acrobatics, weight-sharing, object manipulation, and dance: the fear of loss, the power of trust, and the joy of vulnerability.
The Body Politic
How highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
Philly Fringe Favorites
I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. The lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.
You shouldn’t be doing what you’re doing on that Ladder
Impossible feats! Amazing stunts! One mildly confident acrobat! The high highs and low lows of life with depression that takes place on three different sized ladders.
vapors
Built using imaginative improvisation practices and rhythmic text: blending crackpot futurism and contemporary dance.
Reception
Your chance to speak to and hear from an alien intelligence, channeled through one of Philadelphia's most charming improvisers
Pedestrian Circus
Pull back the shower curtain and enter the realm of the shapeshifter in this kaleidoscopic bathtub: a one-human show spanning many discovery zones.
Stress Exorcist
A hilarious new meditation on failure and resilience, based in clown and chaos magic, and an anonymous, shambling creature is your guide.
High Noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger.
DIRT TRIP
Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester, a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
BIPOC NWT Finalists
Daughter of the Sea
Generational traumas. Immigrant identity. Sexual desire. Radical self-love. Three intimate performances.
High Noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger.
Myzrie House
Two people are thrust into a cell together for reasons unknown. Are they the last humans left on Earth?
Live Taping of Sweet Honey Chiffon's Juke Joint Cabaret
Embracing the Black Victorian and all their luscious beauty. You won't want to miss this night of glitz, nips, and sips.
The Body Politic
How highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
Vehement
Dark, Sexual, Passionate. An evocative dance show that is a love letter to all our former selves.
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
Awoke: the Musical
This Justice System is insensitive...it is care-less and biased! Courtrooms are overcrowded with stories of mis-represented and misunderstood cases. It's one big circus the way this administration juggles the lives of the poor and underserved.
Eat Me Baladi
Investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement / dance and food.
Song Bridge
You get to forgive yourself. Travel across time together toward collective healing and liberation.
Queer Visionaries
Man of La Manchin
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is eaten alive in this new comedic musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha.
High Noon
you swallow the cowboy. yonder demands. Black queer and trans* artists take on america’s poisonous lust for the lone ranger.
Your Show
The non-binary son of God tries to convince their dad to use their pronouns. Which God? They aren't sure. He was an absent father. Heads up: this show uses rock and roll music and power points to blow your mind.
Scoring the End
Settlements of dust fall on the expanse of a passing afternoon. On a day like today, where there is no sun, the day is only passing.
Live Taping of Sweet Honey Chiffon's Juke Joint Cabaret
Embracing the Black Victorian and all their luscious beauty. You won't want to miss this night of glitz, nips, and sips.
Surface Tension
At points ecstatic, dark, searching, and joyful, this intimate circus show celebrates vulnerable connection through sincere juggling. Acrobatics, weight-sharing, object manipulation, and dance: the fear of loss, the power of trust, and the joy of vulnerability.
Song Bridge
You get to forgive yourself. Travel across time together toward collective healing and liberation.
Lewis luvs Clark
In this solo-performance piece, Rebecca Posner is taking you on a riverboat tour of the mighty Missouri.
I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. The lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.
mio/ tuyo/ nuestro
The unfolding of the human love catalyst through the lens of queer folk. It is liberating, it is unapologetic. It is your own personal love catalyst.
International
Green Card Project
An interactive installation theatre experience that takes the audience through the process of applying for a Visa as experienced by an Iranian Citizen, opening up questions about what is truly valuable to America and what sits at the core of today's immigration policies
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
The Body Politic
How highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
ADAM&EVE
After a feeding frenzy for knowledge, lovers in Eden are plunged into an existential crisis using karaoke-style pop music, wild projections, and loads of live apple-eating.
Eat Me Baladi
Investigate the intersections between sexuality, sensuality, and Palestinian identity through the body, movement / dance and food.
Out-of-Town Must-Sees
Topside
Two soldiers, uncertain of their mission, uncertain of how to survive each other’s company: a durational feat of digital loop culture.
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
One Man's Trash: A Repurposed Circus
Residing behind bins and beneath trash can lids, inventive acrobats, high-flying aerialists, and quirky clowns welcome you into their world for a junkyard adventure.
Surface Tension
At points ecstatic, dark, searching, and joyful, this intimate circus show celebrates vulnerable connection through sincere juggling. Acrobatics, weight-sharing, object manipulation, and dance: the fear of loss, the power of trust, and the joy of vulnerability.
The Most Important Place In The World!
Two fabulously windswept tricksters, who are equal parts hurricanes and prophets, take the audience on a dance-filled fiesta celebrating USA's torrid love affair with Puerto Rico.
Almanac Company Members & Alums
Myzrie House
Two people are thrust into a cell together for reasons unknown. Are they the last humans left on Earth?
SILVER & BEBBIE
Silver and Bebbie go together like rice and beans. Like rollerskating and lemonade. Like secret handshakes and made-up languages.
Reception
Your chance to speak to and hear from an alien intelligence, channeled through one of Philadelphia's most charming improvisers
I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond
A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world. The lengths we’ll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.
Man of La Manchin
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is eaten alive in this new comedic musical that's not at all based on Man of La Mancha.
Sex?
Vehement
Dark, Sexual, Passionate. An evocative dance show that is a love letter to all our former selves.
Live Taping of Sweet Honey Chiffon's Juke Joint Cabaret
Embracing the Black Victorian and all their luscious beauty. You won't want to miss this night of glitz, nips, and sips.
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
ADAM&EVE
After a feeding frenzy for knowledge, lovers in Eden are plunged into an existential crisis using karaoke-style pop music, wild projections, and loads of live apple-eating.
OVERBOARD! Cabaret
A free nightly garden bar offering of music, circus, comedy, storytelling, strange anthems to pirate lords and ecstatic participatory rituals.
Pedestrian Circus
Pull back the shower curtain and enter the realm of the shapeshifter in this kaleidoscopic bathtub: a one-human show spanning many discovery zones.
Postapocalyptic
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
BLAZE
In this semi-autobiographical solo, McGonigle dances herself into a world inhabited by the ghosts of familial anecdotes.
DIRT TRIP
Contents include: the ballad of an unemployed court jester, a lecture that decays into a heap of dirt.
Live Taping of Sweet Honey Chiffon's Juke Joint Cabaret
Embracing the Black Victorian and all their luscious beauty. You won't want to miss this night of glitz, nips, and sips.
Survival In Ruins (work in progress)
A memoir that contemplates grief, motherhood, and slowness. Inspired by the recent birth of her second son, a father with Alzheimer’s, and mycelium networks.
Gay Probably
cooning into the metaverse one day at a time hopefully !!!
Called "the greatest performance artist of our generation" by adoring fans and "an enemy of Christianity" by Tucker Carlson: Crackhead Barney comes out of street and into the theatre for a three-night only stand featuring different guests every night in this talk show from hell.
HAIR
A HAIR-raising experience of movement being influenced, maniputated and exaggerated from the hair on the dancers heads. How can our hair become the dance and our bodies act as a respondent?
Lewis luvs Clark
In this solo-performance piece, Rebecca Posner is taking you on a riverboat tour of the mighty Missouri.
Me and Jesus and Prince and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in a One Bedroom apartment in the Bronx
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The Body Politic
How highly concentrated power trickles down to private life and how tactics such as coercion, isolation, and fear-mongering affect the ways the physical bodies occupy time and space.
The Case for Invagination #4
Imagine Mister Rogers had a scooter accident, a thyroidectomy, a brain injury; and the puppets in his neighborhood were the remnants of these calamities.