Moving To Philadelphia

photos on instagram #MovingToPHL This week Cynthia is away from Philadelphia, hard at work on Martha's Vineyard, rehearsing with Big Dance Theater... and also attempting to manifest the faith required to continue working on a new show that will be performed in small part as soon as September 17th (in Philadelphia, as part of the Catch performance series at Bok, within the Philadelphia Fringe Festival) and in large part also pretty darn soon, the first week of November (at commissioning venue American Dance Institute in Maryland) whose subject matter is itself faith: both the many uses of faith - as a form of hope to carry one through catastrophic adversity, as a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, as an antidote to panic when facing deadlines that seem impossible to meet, as an energy source when creating something new (especially when one's livelihood has come to depend on one's ability to create new things) - and the extreme difficulty of cultivating faith when perfectly wonderful people suffer and die young