I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond

CANNONBALL FESTIVAL is an independently produced performing arts festival that presents risk-taking independent artists in back-to-back performances next to delicious lounge spaces, fostering creative collisions and community conversation. MINIBALL is a micro-version of the Cannonball Festival featuring new works and encores of previous Cannonball shows that keep the spirit of Cannonball sailing strong throughout the year.

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A circus of words, a flight to nowhere, a desperate attempt to make meaning in an unrelentingly confusing world.

Neighborhood House

Miniball Winter 2022

MINIBALL is a micro-version of Cannonball Festival featuring 40+ performances of genre-melding, risk taking shows. Miniball runs Dec 8-18, 2022 at Christ Church Neighborhood House. Learn more at https://www.cannonballfestival.org/.

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<h1>I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond by Almanac Dance Circus Theatre</h1>Almanac's newest - and largest ever- ensemble acrobatic show explores the lengths we'll go to change our language rather than change ourselves.In I Hear You and I’d Like to Respond, artists and audiences alike board a metaphysical flight, traveling together to a visionary place of collective imagining. A Professor and a Facilitator - both on the precipice of revelation - attempt, in their own ways, to explain the world around them, only to realize what they are trying to communicate is nearly impossible for others to comprehend. But as the bodies of the passengers are thrown into acrobatic flight, a certain truth is revealed: either we will put aside our differences and save each other, or we will fall.Birthed from the detritus of discarded good ideas and progressively queerer impulses in the face of the daily torment of interlocking systems of oppression, I Hear You and I'd Like to Respond features breathtaking ensemble and hand-to-hand acrobatics, captivating movement, earnest contemplations of how to do better, and a relentless soundtrack of words. The cast of devisor/performers features Almanac company members Lauren Johns, Nathan Alford Tate, Mae West and Darren Rabinowitz alongside some of America’s most exciting contemporary circus artists in Kevin Flanagan, Sierra Rhoades Nicholls, and Liam Bradley, and Philly dance luminary Rhonda Moore.What would we do if we had to do something? What does it feel like to decenter yourself from the narrative of your own life and still find meaning, if there is meaning to be found? How can we use our better selves in service of becoming more animal, less needy, more just, less selfish, more creative, less consumptive? Do you ever look around and just think, "there are too many things?" The writing is on the wall, friends, we’ve got to transform somehow. L﻿earn more about the show and artists at <a href="https://www.cannonballfestival.org/ihearyou" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.cannonballfestival.org/ihearyou</a>-﻿--I HEAR YOU is part of Miniball Winter 2022, a two-week festival featuring 10 different shows in 25+ performances running December 8th-18th. MINIBALL is a micro version of CANNONBALL FESTIVAL, an independently produced performing arts festival that presents risk-taking independent artists in back-to-back performances next to delicious lounge spaces, fostering creative collisions and community conversation. Learn more at <a href="https://www.cannonballfestival.org/miniball" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.cannonballfestival.org/miniball</a>COVID-19 Information: In order to keep our artists and audiences safe, please note you will be required to show proof of vaccination before entering the venue and you will be expected to wear a mask indoors at all times.

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