Swim Pony Performing Arts

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The performing arts collective behind Philly Fringe hits Purr, Pull, Reign: A Litigious Fantasy in D (’09), The Giant Squid (’08) and The Ballad of Joe Hill (‘06) has established Swim Pony Performing Arts, an independent Philadelphia-based theater company dedicated to producing entirely original new work. In June, the newly-minted Swim Pony will present the World Premiere of SURVIVE!– a site-specific performance and interactive theater experience exploring science, humanity and the Universe, directed by Adrienne Mackey, Artistic Director of Swim Pony.

In SURVIVE!, Swim Pony Performing Arts invites audiences to explore human life from many angles in a collective journey to understand how humans, space and science are interconnected. Under the guidance of a “10th dimensional narrator”, the cast of SURVIVE! will lead audiences through a maze-like installation covering over 20,000 square feet of The Wolf Building. An interactive performance, audience members choose their own adventure and move through SURVIVE! freely, generating a unique experience with each viewing. Audiences travel through a walkway to space, visit a biotic terrarium, the living room of a gentle scientist, and more to uncover the meaning of human existence. Through image, sound, spectacle and an experiential journey, the production asks audiences to open their minds, evolve and survive.

SURVIVE! will transform The Wolf Building, located at 340 North 12th Street in Philadelphia, from June 4 – 20, 2010 (opening night is Friday, June 4 at 8pm). All tickets are $20 and tickets are available for advance purchase online via Brown Paper Tickets or by calling the ticket sales hotline at 1-800-838-3006. Visit www.swimpony.org for updates.

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Arts Picks: SURVIVE!

Philadelphia City Paper

“The show is the universe’s message to humanity,” explains Survive! director Adrienne Mackey, who also heads up the collective. The sprawling, 20,000-square-foot basement of Chinatown’s Wolf Building will morph into the expanding universe, allowing audience members to venture boldly through the set and various otherworldly narratives. Part-performance, part-installation, Survive! explores different dimensions of the universe through the guises of quirky characters such as Kinetic Girl and Gentle Scientist. “The journey of the show,” says Mackey, “is really about the audience understanding themselves in relation to all that space.”

Survive: A New Theatrical Experience by Swim Pony Performing Arts

Uwishunu

Part performance, part art exhibit, part wandering through a maze, and part choose-your-own-adventure story, SURVIVE! takes on themes of science and humanity’s existence in the universe in an extremely quirky way. Audience members will wander through 20,000 square feet of the Wolf Building (one of Philly’s favorite experimental theatre spaces), guided by “a tenth dimensional narrator” named AMA.

Friday, June 4: Swim Pony

Philadelphia Weekly

Should you ever have the opportunity to stroll into the fourth dimension, you might be surprised to find it looks very much like an IKEA waiting room. That is but one of the insights into the dark places of our Universe (and it’s hippy friends, the Multiverse) as put forth by part-theater troupe/part-science experiment Swim Pony. The immersive audience experience turns the micro into the macro, and back again. Audiences begin at the nucleus of the underground space in the Wolf Building, then BANG – fragmented and “pulsed” outward into one of the many rooms where they trip through the vacuum space between stars, enter the TV studio of a show-and-tell scientist, or browse modular furniture. Then the audience is sucked back to the center, and “pulsed” outward again into another room. The artistic director says during any one visit the pulsing audience may only witness about 30% of the prepared material; such are the limits of mortal consciousness inside infinite space. Life is cycling energy: return visits are encouraged.

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