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Raise a pint of Yards in support of your friendly neighborhood experimental dance theatre company and check out some of our favorite bands at Miro's Beer and Band Fall Jam at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in Northern Liberties.

Toy Soldiers, Oak Oak Okay and The Bee Team will take the stage in celebration of Miro’s upcoming work Spooky Action. Spooky Action composer Pete M. Wyer will join the Venissa Santí Quintet to perform songs from his new album.

$10 cover, $5 pints of Yards
Ortlieb's full menu will be available
VIP tables available
Info: www.mirodancetheatre.org or (215) 962-4773

Miro has been invited to perform Self Portrait as part of the 2008 International Dance Theatre Festival in Lublin, Poland taking place from November 7-11th. We are excited to bring this work to Europe and also to see Poland for the first time. If you haven't already, you can see highlights from Self Portrait here on our website.

 

Girard College High School landed the top spot for Performing Arts in Philadelphia Magazine's survey of the city's private schools. Miros' dance program is listed as one of the main reasons for the rating. Check it out here.

 

#1 - Live Arts Festival! Since we aren't performing this Summer, we will be checking out as much new stuff as we can. Our suggestion: if it looks interesting to you, check it out! We plan to definitely catch Jan Fabre's Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day, Miro hosted and participated in a Fabre workshop at Miro Studio this year, and his work is always unpredictable, smart, outragous, and something to talk about; Erica Saben in the IN FLUX show. Erica danced with us for Principles of Uncertainty at last year's festival, and competed in Cinco de Miro. She's new on the Philly scene and has interesting ideas on dance. We'll be heading out to West Philly to see Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford's Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl. Geoff and Charlotte are our neighbors at the "Mech", the Girard College building where we both have studios, and we watched the early days of this shows development. We are excited to see the finished product. These are just a few and we will be seeing a lot more--make your own decisions, take risks, have fun!

Miro has been chosen to take part in a juried showcase at the Performing Arts Exchange. We will be remounting the company's acclaimed 2005 work, Hurdy Gurdy, a unique and abstract interpretation of the life and music of composer Gustav Mahler featuring music reinvisioned by Uri Caine and Pete M. Wyer, at the Rialto Center for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia on September 25th. Miro was awarded a PennPAT Technical Assistance Grant to support our journey down south.

You can check out highlights from Miro's Lie to Me this month on WHYY TV 12, the Y ARTS digital channel and at whyy.org.

We are happy to extend our gratitude to some new and continued foundation supporters. The William Penn Foundation, has continued their support of Miro for the next three years; the Samuel S. Fels Fund has awarded another year of funding to the company; and we would like to welcome the new support of the Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, which will greatly enhance Miro's outreach offerings and partnership with Girard College in the coming year.

#1 - Ride your bike! it will make you feel good, and the MPG is infinite. For extra fun take the bike path along the Schulkyll River. You can get on at 25th and Locust and take it to the Art Museum and beyond. It is also a great way to get to the Miro Studio when Open Studio is back next month.

#2 - Get a vegan soft serve at B2, corner of Dickinson and Passyunk. Amanda calls it "cold wet icy icing" and its delicious (they have regular soft serve too).