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Artist founded and run, Mascher Space Cooperative is a non-profit home for new live & performance based work in Philadelphia.
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I’m back at it! I’ll be running a Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) class on Tuesdays at 11am this Fall. I’d love to see you there! @mollyshanahanmadshak @molshanahan Details and registration link in bio! Where: Mascher Space Cooperative, 1170 S. Broad St. Philadelphia Pa (Rear Studio) @mascher.space When: Tuesdays from 11:00am-12:30pm October 6 through December 15. Drop ins Welcome Cost and Level: Sliding scale: $15-$20; No one turned away for lack of funds. Venmo and Cash accepted. These classes are intended for intermediate and advanced contemporary dancers, with all levels welcome to participate, making mindful adjustments to suit their abilities. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) classes emphasize increasing whole-self dancing, articulation and coordinated availability of the ball-and-socket joints, and moving with a dynamic center through the release and reengagement of musculature. We will begin on the floor with guided explorations of fundamental SBT concepts, taking time for repetition, momentum, and clarity to build. We will gradually work toward standing and larger movement. The class will end by weaving the exercises and discoveries together into a longer phrase. All phrasework in SBT is spontaneously composed, so both the teacher and the student are practicing learning the phrase at the same time, generating repeatable phrases of increasing complexity with an emphasis on building trust in body intelligence more than “getting the steps right.” Long sleeves, layers and/or knee pads recommended. Spiral Body Techniques® (SBT) is the dance and movement framework developed by choreographer Molly Shanahan. The Fall SBT® class series at Mascher will be taught by Kalila Kingsford Smith, a certified Essential Level SBT teacher.
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In these two classes we will draw upon our knowledge of rivers and flow to explore how the spontaneous movement of water can generate buoyancy and suspension in our bodies, enabling us to welcome diversions and opportunities to be thrown off course. We will use principles of changing direction, dissolving impact, and disorientation to practice ways of connecting with the attention and bodies of others. This class will involve a series of scores that intend to build comfortability with subtle lifts, merging centers, and is intended for dancers of all levels. *** Miranda Busansky is a wanderer, imperfectionist, and queer multi-disciplinary artist interested in the off-centered experiences of clay, bodies, and identities. With a background in ceramics, Aikido, and contact improvisation, they are interested in how practices of improvisation and sharing attention can facilitate capitalist intervention and deepen our sense of individual and collective autonomy. Miranda is currently a Philadelphia resident completing a masters of social work at UPenn, and has performed and taught dance around Western Mass and New York for the past few years at the School of Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA), Lightforms Art Center (NY), WildHeart Performance Center(NY), amongst other spaces.
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🌀🌀🌀 📍1170 S. Broad St.—ring “rear studio” to enter 👾 All levels of experience are welcome 💸 Suggested price for classes and jams = $15; sliding scale of $10-$20. Cash or Venmo [at]derek-freeh at the door. No pre-registration required 😷 mask optional *UPDATE*: Miranda will be subbing for Jamie on 9/24 🌊👁️🦅
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Happy applications are open for our BIPOC artist in residence, dayyyy! In July 2023 Mascher launched the BIPOC Fellowship providing monthly studio space for a year long residency. The 2026-2027 will be this programs fourth year! Apply today Due. Oct. 1st *Our space has three steps to enter the building and a flight of stairs to get to the bathroom*
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Update this is now 8pm! Ann Adachi trio- Ann Adachi, Melinda Rice, and Jessica Brown Improvised trio exploring the creation of space through the interplay of movement and sound. Finding one another through the merging and diverging of lines, meeting and fleeting. Digging into the more delicate and subtle places that improvisation can take us. Pure Being- Thomas Patteson and Audrey Trout Squash Blossoms- Sonali Singh, Mekhi Gladden, Jessica Brown, Andrew Gioannetti, Aaron Pond Squash Blossoms is an improvising woodwind ensemble composed of multi-instrumentalists and active members of Philadelphia’s Peoples Music Supply. This quintet pairs the classical sounds anticipated of chamber music with more experimental influences found in contemporary improvised genres, presenting its audience with a lively journey through sounds, expected and surprising, consonant and dissonant.
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this week in philly dance. august 31 -september 6, 2026. everything and more on the dancephl* website. add yours, go dance.
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this week in philly dance. august 24th - august 30th, 2026. everything and more on the dancephl* website. add yours, go dance.
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shirl & her girlz 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🍾🧚‍♀️✨🍒💒🍷 📸 by @mk.prophett for “the dirty shirley show!” @frankybradleys 7/8/26 <3 me when i go :0 with teeth and tongue out as i belt out a little tune for the gay and trans people of philadelphia <3 tell me baby… cuz i wanna know… did you used to chew on your polly pocket clothes? 👙👗💄🩱💋 📸 by @shoshshoshshoshh for “fresh juice ‘26” @mascher.space <3 gay panic at franky’s (ofc) lorna mcnessie monster high g1 and i <3 sangin’ at frank’s (again) nefera de nile monster high g3 and i <3 (also astranova g1 in the bottom right corner for the niche girls in the know #fav #alien #variant #rare #boots) me when my friends are tired of my gay panic <\3 :( yellin’ at mascher space (ofc) sweet girlz forgiving me for gay panic whining <3 shirl mad (what else is new) shirl sing (what else is new) shirl stress (what else is new) shirl serving c u next tuesday (what else is new)
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this week in philly dance. august 17 - august 23, 2026. everything and more on the dancephl* calendar. link in bio. add yours, go dance.
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To those who don’t know me, I’m a Philly based dance artist, choreographer, and filmmaker. I got my BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield from Bennington College. I also studied for 2.5 years as a film minor at the University of the Arts in Philly. Since graduating in December 2024, I’ve performed in many shows (@justsolesdt | @chaworthdance | H-O-T series) and filmed several projects for artists/companies which you can find in my “filmwork” highlight underneath my bio. Last year for the first time, I held a weekly morning training session for dancers @mascher.space I’ve loved being a part of these communities the past 6 years. Thank you to all those that have taken me in and for the people in my life that have reached back out. I’m looking forward to what the future has in store. 🎞️🕺🏻
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this week in philly dance. august 10 - august 16, 2026. everything and more on the dancephl* website. go dance.
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