The Gate Reopened

by Brian Sanders' JUNK

9/19 8pm show: Post-show discussion moderated by Nick Stuccio, producing director, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

“Everything I do is an attempt to expand and open my world of dance into areas with even more possibilities.” Brian Sanders, choreographer of The Gate Reopened

“Accessible, technically flawless, and thrilling comic dance turns.” Dance Magazine

One of the most popular Live Arts Festival shows in its history returns—newly built, newly imagined, and completely… Show more reopened.

The Gate Reopened takes over Pier 9, an enormous municipal warehouse on the Delaware River that is nearly 100 feet wide by 535 feet long, where international steamers once docked. Inside this massive structure The Gate has been built anew as a 20-foot high cylindrical octagon with theater-in-the-round seating. Performers suspend, rebound, propel, ascend, hover, mount, hang and free-fall all for the sake of The Gate.

With the audience encircling the troupe of eight dancers, the building becomes a futuristic, post-industrial, post-apocalyptic coliseum. Like a giant jungle gym for the insane with spinning ladders, moving walls, water, and breathtaking formations of bodies, The Gate Reopened is an exhilarating feast of exciting physicality and creativity, elegantly served up with beauty and wit.

Choreography Brian Sanders Set Conrad Bender Performers Jerrica Blankenship, Teddy Fatscher, Gunnar Clark, Shelby Joyce, John Luna, Billy Robinson, Tommy Schimmel, Connor Senning

Brian Sanders’ JUNK is known for the ingenious use of found objects and clever inventions that bridge the gap between dance and physical theater. Sanders’s choreography blends traditional dance theater with inventiveness, physicality, and stunning imagery. Previous Live Arts shows include: Sanctuary (2010), Urban Scuba (2009). Previous Philly Fringe shows include: Dancing Dead (2011), Flushdance (2008).

Festival Creative Producers
Linda and David Glickstein
Festival Producers
Mark and Tobey Dichter
Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer
Carolyn Klein and Lawrence Spitz
David and Holly Stichka
Marty Tuzman / Jenkintown Building Services
Festival Co-Producers
Sissie and Herb Lipton

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