User:Headlongdancetheater/Headlong Dance Theater

Headlong Dance Theater is a dance collaborative founded by David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith in 1993. Based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Headlong has created over forty dances, many of which are known for their witty take on contemporary culture. Rather than relying on a single dance style or technique, Headlong develops a unique movement vocabulary for each new piece.

About
Headlong Dance Theater’s mission is: to create and perform new and visionary works of dance theater that use the entire body including the voice, the face, and the mind; to create accessible dances that are relevant beyond traditional dance audiences; to bring new audiences closer to dance by performing informally, in nontraditional venues, and for free; to develop and propagate training techniques that bridge dance and theater and empower performers to be co-creators; to provide mentoring and leadership in the local and national arts communities; and to dance our way into the blind spots and hot spots of our strange times.

In 2006 David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith were named Pew Fellows in the Arts. In 2008 the company created the Headlong Performance Institute, a intensive fall semester program in hybrid performance and creation for both undergraduate and post-bac students. Headlong's current work includes Desire performing in May 2012 and This Town is a Mystery premiering at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe in September 2012.

Productions

 * "Permit" (1994)
 * "Take 3" (1994)
 * "Rolywholyover, John Cage Exhibit: Blue Bodies on Wood and Dance Events 141, 148, 155 and 162" (1995)
 * "Dances of My People" (1996)
 * "Pop Songs" (1997)
 * "Car Alarm" (1997)
 * "Specimens" (1998)
 * "Teen Tragedy Trilogy" (1998)
 * "ST*R W*RS" (1998) is Headlong's "Bessie"-award-winning fantasia
 * "Ulysses: Sly Uses of a book by James Joyce" (1999). Commissioned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library.
 * "Your Heart Turned Left, I Was On The Right" (2000)
 * "Pusher" (2000)
 * "The Story of a Panic" (2001)
 * "Gracelessness" (2002)
 * "Subirdia" (2002)
 * "Britney's Inferno" (2002)
 * "Swinginging" (2003)
 * "You Are So Beautiful" (2004) is a collaboration Arrow Dance Communication.
 * "Hotel Pool" (2004)
 * "Mixed Tape for a Bad Year" (2005)
 * "Shosha" (2006)
 * "Cell" (2006)
 * "Explanatorium" (2007)
 * "Universal Humanoids" (2008)
 * "The Future of the Future" (2009)
 * "more." (2009) is the result of an investigation inspired by Choreographer Tere O'Connor.