The Garden: River’s Edge
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
September 7-22, 2024
40 minutes
$30
Arch Street Meeting House
The Garden: River’s Edge is a guided experience for 6 audience members at a time, leading participants on an intimate and expansive journey of connection, reflection, and gentle acts of participation.
Since its premiere in 2013, The Garden has lived in many forms, locations, and languages. More than a performance, The Garden is a series of experiential, site-specific encounters that engages with the venue and manifests differently in each location. In this newest version of The Garden, audiences are led through the historic spaces of Arch Street Meeting House via prompts on headset, interacting with the architecture, the dancers, and one another through a series of playful and tender encounters.
During the performance ofThe Garden: River’s Edge, each audience member is invited to explore a distinct path of their own. Due to the infrastructure of a historic building, most of the paths require limited stair walking. One path does not require stairs and is wheelchair accessible. We can accommodate up to two audience members on this path at a time.
The Garden: River’s Edge also offers options for Audio Description and ASL interpretation. To reserve these paths, please select “Accessible Path” at checkout and choose the access offering(s) you would like from the drop-down menu.
The Garden: River’s Edge is performed by Nichole Canuso, Eun Jung Choi, Beau Hancock, Simon C. Kiley, Rhonda Moore, Chelsea Murphy, Chloe Marie Newton, and Dylan Smythe.
Performance Information
September 7–22, 2024
September 7 at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4.00pm, 5.15pm +6.00pm
September 8 at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4.00pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 10 at 3.45pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 15 at 4.30pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 18 at 3.45pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 19 at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4.00pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 20 at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4.00pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 21 at 2.30pm, 3.15pm, 4.00pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
September 22 3.45pm, 4.30pm, 5.15pm + 6.00pm
Pricing
$50 Supporter
$30 Standard
$15 Students & 25-and-Unders
$2 FringeACCESS
FringeArts Member discounts & benefits available
Venue
Arch Street Meeting House
320 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
About the Artists
Nichole Canuso Dance Company
Founded in 2004 by choreographer Nichole Canuso, Nichole Canuso Dance Company (NCDC) is a Philadelphia based performance platform dedicated to creating performance experiences that embrace the complexity and absurdity of humanity. NCDC reimagines dance aesthetics by blurring the roles of audience and performer, bringing performance to unconventional spaces and engaging audiences in adventurous ways. Projects often sit at the crossroads of movement, visual art, and theater. The company is currently exploring the interfaces of live, embodied presence with emerging technologies to challenge our definitions of human relationship. We are propelled by the interplay of each performer’s energy, memory, and physicality. This ensemble-driven experimental work is grounded by workshops, open rehearsals, and dialogues shaped by the needs and interests of the surrounding community. In a world that feels increasingly divisive, NCDC asks how dance can build inviting spaces for people to practice bridging the distances, both actual and perceived. Recent Philadelphia presentations include Being/With: Live, in the 2021 Fringe Festival and The Garden: Invisible Branches at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. nicholecanusodance.org
Cast & Creative Team
Nichole Canuso Choreographer / Dancer
Michael Kiley Sound Designer
Eun Jung Choi Dancer
Beau Hancock Dancer
Simon C. Kiley Dancer
Rhonda Moore Dancer
Chelsea Murphy Dancer
Chloe Marie Newton Dancer
Dylan Smythe Dancer
Supporters
The Garden: River’s Edge has been supported by funding and development assistance from: FringeArts, the Wyncote Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Suzanne Roberts Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, and the NCDC Leadership Circle.
Festival Producers
Ed and Anne Wagner
Festival Co-Producers
Shelley Green and Michael Golden
Accessibility
During a performance of The Garden: River’s Edge, each audience member is invited to explore one of five distinct paths within the Arch Street Meeting House. Due to the infrastructure of a historic building, four of the paths require limited use of stairs. The Garden: River’s Edge also offers a wheelchair accessible path, as well as options for Audio Description and ASL interpretation. To reserve these paths, please select “Accessible Path” at checkout and choose the access offering(s) you would like from the check-box menu.
You will wear over the ear headphones on your ears and there will be gentle instructions to guide you from place to place. As part of the performance, you will interact with dancers and other audience members. Please note that all interactions will be from a distance and the level of physical activity will be minimal.
• Disposable headphone covers are available and can be requested at check in.
• If you would like to reserve the wheelchair accessible path and/or other accessible offerings, please select “Accessible Path” when you reserve your ticket.
• ASL interpretation will be available for all three shows on 9/15.
• Arch Street Meeting House has a designated area for service animal relief.
• Audience members with disabilities who are supported by a Personal Care Assistant (PCA) will receive a complimentary ticket for their PCA. Please check the “Companion Seating” box when you purchase your ticket to indicate you will be bringing your PCA
The Garden: River’s Edge also offers options for Audio Description (for all shows) and ASL interpretation (on 9/15 and 9/21). To reserve these paths, please select “Accessible Path” at checkout and choose the access offering(s) you would like from the drop-down menu. Italian audio description paths are limitedly available, please call the box office ahead of the show.
Health & Safety
Masks are optional, vaccines are not required. More information about FringeArts COVID policies can be found here.
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