HAIR
by Hillary Pearson
Showing at Icebox Project Space
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Showing at Icebox Project Space •
A HAIR-raising experience of movement being influenced, maniputated and exaggerated from the hair on the dancers heads.
SHOWING AT ICEBOX
1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Sunday, Sep 11 @ 4:00 PM
Tuesday, Sep 13 @ 5:30 PM
Wednesday, Sep 14 @ 8:30 PM
NEW ENCORE PERFORMANCE: Saturday, Sep 17 @ 2:30PM
Saturday, Sep 17 @ 7:00 PM
Acting as catalyst for the movement, HAIR essentially explores the physicality of ones head of hair as it's own form of movement within the body. How can our hair become the dance and our bodies act as a respondent?
Choreographer: Hillary Pearson
Rehearsal Director: Sydney Donovan
Rehearsal Assistant: Ali Lodise
Dance Composer: Michael Wall
Costume Designer: Bela Shehu (NINObrand)
Dancers: Sydney Donovan, Ali Lodise, Kayliani Sood, Michelle Slavik, Amanda Boyer, Margot Steinberg, Kate Seethaler, Alissa Zrein, Olivia Danni, Catherine Escueta, Lilly McGonigle, Lindsey Swyers, Morijah Thomas, Sabrina Canas, and Tori Breen
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About the Artist:
Hillary Pearson
Hillary Pearson is a Philadelphia based modern dancer, dance educator and choreographer. She graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University with a BFA Magnum Cum Laude in dance performance and choreography. During her time there, Hillary worked with and studied under Stefanie Batten Bland, Julie Bour, Brian Brooks, Laura Peterson and Keith Thompson. After graduating, she worked with Company Stefanie Batten Bland (CSBD, Israeli artists Yael Bartana and Noah Eshkol and Berlin based performance artist, Isabel Lewis.. Pearson has danced in fashion films for Nowness, Garage Magazine and for local fashion designer, Bela Shehu. Hillary has been teaching modern dance in Philadelphia, specifically floor work technique since 2017 and currently teaches Advanced Floor Work and Fundamentals of Floor Work at the KYLD Studio.
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