Rough and Tumble:
Pickled Peaches and Herring
also known as Walking Natural Disasters
by Lillian Ransijn/Human Resources
Showing at Icebox Project Space
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Showing at Icebox Project Space •
A ride in which pain and pleasure meet to make sense of it all.
SHOWING AT ICEBOX
1400 N American St, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Saturday, Sep 3 @ 7:00 PM
Sunday, Sep 4 @ 10:00 PM
Monday, Sep 5 @ 6:00 PM
Tuesday, Sep 6 @ 7:30 PM
Wednesday, Sep 7 @ 10:00 PM
Appropriate for ages 18+
May contain brief suggested nudity.
An elegiac clown look at the human condition, Rough and Tumble is an up close and hyper-personal tongue-and-cheeky look at how pain is so close to pleasure. The premise of this piece is that our lives are lived through loss--memories are created as each moment passes, as relationships come and go, as our bodies erode, as we take in each breath...we are walking towards disaster and this is funny. A second throughline is how the erotic and the intimate are antidotes to death. Come laugh-cry or anything in between on this clown-dance-burlesque-theater ride across the watery expanse of memory, meaning-making, and a legacy of raw feelings and pickled foods..
Lead Artist: Lillian Ransijn
Director: Francesca Montanile
Creator-Performers: Lillian Ransijn and Dylan Smythe
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About the Artist:
lillian ransijn
Lead Artist Lillian Ransijn is Philadelphia-based dance theater artist who employs the moving body and theatrically framed personal storytelling to plumb the depths of grief, loss, and missed connection. Driven by what some call the 6th stage of grief—meaning-making— her works for stage and screen find beauty in the grotesque and humor in the ludicrous challenge of moving through and metabolizing every day life and inherited lifetimes. A graduate of Emory University's Dance and Movement Studies and Theater Programs and Pig Iron/UARTS M.F.A. in Devised Performance Practice where she is thankful to have her long-standing collaborator Francesca Montanile, as well as the performers who appear both in the flesh and on screen in this original work.. Lillian is dedicated the cross-pollination of artistic forms through ensemble-driven work. Lillian has performed with Amanda Byars, Nichole Canuso, Susan Eldridge/DENSE, Greg Catelleir, The Lucky Penny, Claire Porter, David Dorfman, Dance Truck, Ellisorous Rex and the Dance Machine, Fly-By Theater, Helen Hale, 7 Stages, Eva Steinmetz Project, The Peekaboo Revue, Theater Emory, Urban Movement Arts, and Wolfthicket/Lily Kind.
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