Friday Night: Dreamworld Edition

Embrace the unexpected as you dive into a dreamy night of surrealism-inspired art activities, tarot readers, gallery activations, and live musical performances. In conjunction with Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100.

Performance: Slowspin Quartet | 5:00 p.m., 6:15 p.m., 7:35 p.m. | Great Stair Hall
Join us for an evening of experimental dream-folk with Slowspin. The quartet includes Zeerak Ahmed, Grey Mcmurray, Marlon Patton and multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily.

Pop Up Studio: Surreal Safari | 5:00–8:00 p.m. | Great Stair Hall Balcony
Create an exquisitely mixed-up creature by combining different animal parts found in works from our collection. Then, take a trek through our galleries and discover where each part of your creation came from.

Tarot Tables | 6:00–8:00 p.m. | Forum Balcony
Pull a card, choose a trinket, and take a look into your future with featured tarot and oracle readers The Astral Botanica, Holly Simple, Grace Duong, and Joslyn Moore.

Blood, Sea Dance Performance | 6:30–6:50 p.m., 7:30–7:50 p.m. | Gallery 304 
Blood, Sea takes inspiration from our evolution from the ocean to land. Italo Calvino's short story, the title refers to the balance of salinity in our blood and in the ocean from which we humans evolved. As we evolved into terrestrial beings, we brought the sea inside of us onto land.

Things to know:

• Run time is approximately 20 minutes.
• Seating is first come, first served. Limited capacity. We recommend arriving 15 minutes early.

The work was originally created at Drexel University through the Ellen Forman Memorial Award.

Credits: 

• Choreographed by Nicole Bindler
• Music Composed and performed by Julius Masri
• Dance performed by Christina Gesualdi, Ella-Gabriel Mason, Aya Razzaz, and Katherine Kiefer Stark

About the Choreographer: 

Nicole Bindler is a dance-maker, Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, writer, and activist who has practiced Contact Improvisation (CI) since 1997. Her work has been presented on four continents. She is a registered Master Somatic Movement Therapist through The International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association.

Notable performance projects have included touring with the Bethlehem-Based Palestinian company, Diyar Theatre; a residency in Japan including Butoh training with Yoshito Ohno; and performing Deborah Hay's I Think Not at Unidad De Vinculación Artística in Mexico City.

Bindler's dances have been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Leeway Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, and the Ellen Forman Memorial Award. She is co-editing a book, Gathering Sparks: Jewish Arts and Somatics that will be published by punctum books.

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