The 14th annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, which runs from September 3 – 18, 2010, will showcase 18 cutting-edge programs featuring over 35 original dance, theater, and music works by acclaimed U.S. artists from Philadelphia and New York, along with internationally recognized artists from France, China, and Ireland. With 12 World and 2 U.S. premieres and a long-term commitment to the development of new work, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival serves as a platform for both world renowned and newly emerging contemporary artists. Each year, the Festival presents innovative and highly interdisciplinary performing arts events, offering a snapshot of trends at the forefront of the international performing arts scene.

Tickets will go on sale beginning mid-May at www.livearts-fringe.org. A full schedule as well as tickets for the Philly Fringe, the unfiltered Festival, where new and established artists of all disciplines produce their own work, will be available in July.

“The 2010 Live Arts Festival line-up features a broad spectrum of contemporary movement, experimental theater and music, and boundary-breaking performing arts,” says Producing Artistic Director Nick Stuccio. “The centerpiece event of this year’s Festival will be the exquisite DANCE, created by three titans of contemporary art – Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol Lewitt. It will be a rare privilege to see the piece remounted under Childs’s own direction. We’re also stepping up our music programming with the presentation of the avant-garde Bang on a Can Marathon – an all-day marathon performance of adventurous music by composers both world-famous and obscure, performed by a line-up of over 12 ensembles. We’re beyond excited to bring these two cutting edge works to Philadelphia stages and to present over 35 original contemporary performing arts programs this year.”

Live Arts Festival performances will take place at venues throughout the city of Philadelphia including the Arts Bank at The University of the Arts, the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, home of Philadelphia Theatre Company, Christ Church, World Café Live, and the Festival’s own Live Arts Studio, with additional venues to be announced.

As an internationally recognized presenting organization, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival has garnered critical praise, national grants, and numerous awards while captivating legions of dedicated and enthusiastic audiences. The Festival runs for 16 days in conjunction with the Philly Fringe, in which hundreds of new and established artists stage their own works in both traditional and unusual performance sites throughout the city. Together, the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe draw tens of thousands of people who come to be a part of “Festival time” in the city – to see innovative work, meet new people, and interact with over 2,000 artists performing in over 1,200 performances.

PNC Arts Alive is the 2010 Presenting Sponsor of the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe.

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	LiveArts2010_PressKit[small]_1.pdf	1.17 MB
	Live Arts & Philly Fringe Full Performance Schedules	951.21 KB
	Philly Fringe show descriptions-guide pages.pdf	5.11 MB
	2010 Press Ticket Request Form.xls	92 KB
	CHICKEN by Charlotte Ford Photo by Jay Dunn	3.68 MB
	FREEDOM CLUB by New Paradise Laboratories & The Riot Group Photo by Nikki Adler; Pictured Adriano Shaplin, Jeb Kreager	2.53 MB
	DANCE by Lucinda Childs, Philip Glass, and Sol Lewitt Photo by Sally Cohn	2.48 MB
	Bang on a Can Marathon Photo by Christine Southworth; Pictured Bang on a Can All-Stars	3.49 MB
	¡EL CONQUISTADOR! by Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental Photo by Evan Kafka; Pictured Thaddeus Phillips	4.31 MB
	Artist Cédric Andrieux in Jérôme Bel's "Cédric Andrieux" Photo by Jaime Roque de la Cruz; Pictured Cédric Andrieux	4.12 MB
	Decadere by BoanDanz Action Photo by Fer Figheras; Pictured Carolina del Hierro	1.65 MB