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The UpShot: Want to dance on water? You’ll have to practice

The Trisha Brown Dance Company will perform in unexpected places in September - including the Discovery Center's reservoir.

Dancers Leah Ives, left, and Kimberly Fulmer, right, members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, practice for an upcoming performance at The Discovery Center, the former Strawberry Mansion Reservoir, in Philadelphia, PA on May 1, 2019. The collaboration with the Fairmount Park Conservancy is called "In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park" will take place in September 2019. It will be a weeklong series of free, outdoor public performances including the Raft Piece at the Discovery Center, Foray Forêt on the grounds of historic Mount Pleasant in East Fairmount Park, and Roof Piece across rooftops surrounding Logan Circle.
Dancers Leah Ives, left, and Kimberly Fulmer, right, members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, practice for an upcoming performance at The Discovery Center, the former Strawberry Mansion Reservoir, in Philadelphia, PA on May 1, 2019. The collaboration with the Fairmount Park Conservancy is called "In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park" will take place in September 2019. It will be a weeklong series of free, outdoor public performances including the Raft Piece at the Discovery Center, Foray Forêt on the grounds of historic Mount Pleasant in East Fairmount Park, and Roof Piece across rooftops surrounding Logan Circle.Read moreDAVID MAIALETTI / Staff Photographer
    by David Maialetti
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Dancers Leah Ives (left) and Kimberly Fulmer (right), members of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, practice for a fall performance at the Discovery Center (the former Strawberry Mansion Reservoir). The company is collaborating with the Fairmount Park Conservancy to present a weeklong series of free, outdoor public performances called “In Motion, In Place: Trisha Brown Dance Company in Fairmount Park.” The dance presentations will take place in September in unexpected locations: “The Raft Piece,” depicted here, will be performed on the water; “Foray Foret” on the grounds of historic Mount Pleasant Mansion in East Fairmount Park: and “Roof Piece” across multiple rooftops surrounding Logan Circle. This project continues the conservancy’s increased focus on cultural programming in Philadelphia parks.

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