Between The Pages
Three sisters, a winged boy and a lighthouse
Directed by: Choreographers Myra Bazell and Silvana Cardell, set and light designer Madison Cario and video artist Joe’l Ludovich.
Video installation by: Ricardo Rivara
Performed by: John Luna, Jodi Obeid, Kate Watson-Wallace, Maria Urrutia
Scrap Performance Group moves between the pages to illuminate the lives of three sisters whose simple love for each other changes when the lighthouse keeper dies. Once you step through the doors sound dances, light sings, images seep through the walls and the sisters' obsessions bring their fate to an unthinkable end.
Company mission
Scrap is four women who create movement-based theatre. Integrating dance, theatre, film, light, text and sound in dynamic ways that cross the traditional boundaries of genre, Scrap builds experiential environments for its audiences. Scrap members share a common aesthetic and awareness of contemporary culture and draw from diverse viewpoints to create work that provokes, inspires and compels people to question.
Vision and History
The women of scrap include two choreographers, a set and lighting designer/dramaturge and a film artist. Each of these performance based artists brings with them over a decade of success in creating contemporary multi-media dance based theater locally, nationally and abroad.
The story of how Scrap members were drawn together is three fold. There is our aesthetic attraction which has been cultivated over years of being involved in each others work, a mutual desire to break the paradigm of the solo artist in orderto fuse our passion and expertise, and the practical result of sharing administrative responsibilities, i.e. fund raising, booking, promotion etc. This synergistic process is trulycollective and we feel it produces highly refined performancethat is radically exquisite, psychologically complex and emotionally raw.
Every piece Scrap produces is the result of the collaborative efforts of many artists, from dancers and theater artists to visual artists and musicians. Scrap has employed hundreds of Philadelphia based artists since 1994 and has remained committedto performing in alternative venues which have drawn diverse audiences to unique historical Philadelphia landmarks making performance activities accessible to neighborhoods where this opportunity had not previously existed. Scrap has created works in abandoned warehouses, churches, houses, machine shops, bars, open out door spaces and state of the art theatres.
Our desire is to reuse, revitalize and if necessary rip apart and rebuild.
