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Very excited for my new invented-apparatus duet with Lee, my bff in circus, library, and fantastical hair color. Tangle’s new Philly Fringe Festival show Surface Tension opens in just NINE DAYS-- see you there for smoldering duets, intricate balancing acts, awkward confessions, and sky-high storytelling. September 14-17!
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Tangle’s The Girl’s Guide to Neighborly Conduct in the 2015 Philly FringeArts Festival. Photo by Michael Ermilio.
I’m also so happy when I see Tangle’s photos float across my dash, but particularly when I see photos of Lauren Rile Smith.
It takes *a lot* of work to produce performance art and even more to produce performance art that has rigging requirements. Not only is she the founder of a feminist aerial dance theater company that produces two major shows a year, but she is responsible for creating the majority of opportunities for paraprofessional aerial performance in Philadelphia.She’s also an incredible performer and brings powerful decisiveness to her work in the air.
I’m super grateful to both work with her a mentor/coach/producer/peer and have her as a friend. *end shameless appreciation post*
I’ve been appreciating Lauren’s work from afar since she started Tangle and seeing the outpouring of love in her direction just feels so deserved and perfect :)
❤️❤️ Oh man, what a lovely series of comments to wake up to! Thank you for being amazing circus friends!
Metaphors from physical therapy, where today I graduated to hanging from a bar!
To use the right muscle for this exercise, I choose the right series of stones to ford a river.
To use the right muscle for this exercise, I pick between a bunch of nearly identical marbles in a drawer.
To use the right muscle for this exercise, I have to close my eyes to pick out its nearly inaudible whisper.
My physical therapist sits behind me and evaluates my muscles' motion like babysitting a bunch of unruly children.
Moving both my arms in this particular slow way is like trying to walk two bicycles at the same time-- they wobble and go different directions.
A physical therapist prodding the bad spot before I even tell her it's what hurts is like a psychotherapist already knowing my most tender secrets.
Anticipation-- not the pain but its warning sign-- rings the bell next to pain, making it resonate without being struck.
My overly tense muscles are my weird antisocial roommates that only communicate via post-it note.
My overly mobile shoulder is a road full of potholes-- a pull-up is a bumpy ride. We can't avoid the potholes but we can give me better shocks.
(I’m fine, not injured, just hypermobile and high-maintenance.)
Thrilled by this preview of RetroAct by Hugh Wilikofsky at FringeArts! “A show as suited for newcomers as it is for fans who recall Tangle’s gravity and genre-defying spectacles of years past... you would be wise to grab a ticket.” I can't wait to share this show with you in just two days!
Tangle is on the cover of Philly Weekly this week representing the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival! Our newest show, The Girl’s Guide to Neighborly Conduct, premieres in five days. Come see us fly through the air, break and mend each other's hearts, and argue about whether you can recycle a pizza box.
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How do you really know which toothbrush is yours? My extremely perfect sister has been releasing YouTube comedy sketches all summer with her collaborators at Pablo Panda Productions.
Just a little trapeze during a heat advisory warning in Delaware last month with Tangle Movement Arts and a bunch of beautiful guest artists. Thank you for the advice to stay inside, avoid exercise, and not attempt to handle the heat-baked aluminum poles of an aerial rig, National Weather Service.
Come see me perform with Tangle-- and several amazing guest artists-- on Saturday, August 1st at Dixon Place in Manhattan as part of the HOT! Festival! Tix just $10-15. (Photo by Michael Ermilio.)
Says Smith: “Tangle is about women who literally support themselves and one another, lifting their own bodyweight and that of their friends, as well as creating stories that convey a physical intimacy that ranges from passionate to platonic.”
Thanks to Suzi Nash at Philadelphia Gay News for this lovely interview, about Tangle’s new show Tell It Slant (this weekend!) and more!
I had the privilege of seeing Cirkus Cirkör's mesmerizing Underart at Circus Now's International Circus Exposure event in New York this past January. An integral part of the pleasure was incredible live music by Ripple & Murmur, which I just discovered is available online. Now closing my eyes and picturing three-highs to these sounds...
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Tangle’s tinycircus wowing the crowd at the Winter Carnival! Rebecca’s neck hang impresses even the most jaded middle-schooler.
This was one of my favorite parts of December. That kid is shouting, "That is SICK!"
It just looks … i don’t know, kind of more rubbery than you’d ideally want for a cat
This tumblr is very, very, very, very, very, very funny to me and not at all funny to the person I live with.
Excerpts from our aerial dance theater performances in 2013-2014! Tangle performed circus-theater in Philadelphia and New York, as part of the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival and beyond. The new show is Sept. 18-20!
Tangle’s Timelines at Neighborhood House in 2014. Photo by Michael Ermilio.
Reliving a super sweet moment with Caitlin! Utah, I hope you're happy with having taken this awesome collaborator out of Philadelphia. :)
Surreal optical lenses (and photographs) by my sister Madeline Rile Smith! (Plus, my hair is pink now!)
Review and more photos of Madeline's BFA solo show by Kendall Whitehouse.
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saladinahmed's tour of 1940s American comics before the Code is more fascinating at every turn!
An intimate, instant-long duet for trapeze and hoop-- part of Timelines, which ran last weekend at Neighborhood House! Photo by Michael Ermilio, with more to come!
