Vervet Dance presents Semi-Composed on Saturday, March 28th at fidget space, 1714 N Mascher St, Philadelphia, PA 19122. Doors open at 7:30. Show starts at 8:00pm. Show concludes by 9:15pm.

This evening curated by Vervet Dance director Loren Groenendaal includes two dance works directed by Groenendaal and one by Adam Kerbel, which are semi-composed, meaning partially pre-composed and partially open to improvisation in the moment. Semi-composed work has a balance of agency between the directors planning the artistry in advance and the performers expressing in the moment, which leads to an incredible synergy for composition with focus, presence, and ephemerality.

Groenendaal will be presenting "Be[ ]ing", a work co-designed with Megan Wilson in 2016 that is inspired by Nancy Stark Smith's participatory Underscore, reframing it for performance. This new iteration will include dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Paul Matteson, Abigail Mosier, Michelle Stortz and saxophonist Steve Davit.

Groenendaal will also present "Render," which explores many meanings of the word, render - to repeat, to give back, to return, to restore, to reduce, and to represent. The performance is made and remade through repetition, reaction, re-creation by the performers Groenendaal and dancers Miryam Coppersmith, Curt Haworth, Abigail Mosier, Leigh Huster, and musician Steve Davit.

Performing artist Adam Kerbel will also be contributing a new dance work, Living/edge to the evening in response to a mother’s passing and the politics of play through improvisation, percussion, and memory problems. This performance will use some recorded sound material gathered by Joshua Cabitac.

Accessibility notes: Venue requires walking up four flights of stairs. Event is mask optional.

Photo is by Alan DiBerio or Vervet Dance's Spring 2018 "In the Light".