* As Poor as the Earth-- Marie Carroll x Tessa Ellis, Inverse and Obverse, Smith Lee x Angevine
Sat, Mar 09
|Headlong Dance Theater
Acclaimed improvising Kotoist (Marie Carroll) meets Trumpeter Tessa Ellis. The phenomenologically intrigue of Inverse and Obverse descends upon us. Reedist Matt Smith Lee duets with infamous Ice Cream purveyor Pete Angevine
Time & Location
Mar 09, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Headlong Dance Theater , 1170 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19146, USA
About the event
Some say that the clay in the ground is not good for planting, that the resistance to defacement is a poverty. Yet when I look around in the places which do not posses the eye of the industrialist and his sheds of hens and hogs, his biplanes saddled with glysophosphate- the verdantness is apparent. Are our weeds not herbs? The black walnut ever fragrant her bounty open to all.
It is an honor for this music, this being, this becoming to be as poor as the earth, maybe then we can be reminded that we are verdant, that our roots reach deep into each other and the blessed shells. We posses nothing in each moment but the ability to create the next, maybe then we can find ourselves.
Carroll x Ellis
Marie Carroll will be performing a 10ish minute solo improvisation before being joined by Trumpeter Tessa Ellis. The…