Performances are Thursday, October 27 – Saturday, October 29 at 7:30 PM, and Sunday, October 30 at 2:00 PM.  

Philadelphia Dance Projects opens its annual Dance Up Close series kicks off on October 27-30 with the world premiere of Disposable Bodies, an installation and dance work created by award-winning 2022 Guggenheim Fellow Silvana Cardell a production by Cardell Dance Theater.  Presented in partnership with Taller Puertorriqueno as a series of episodic installations, the performance of Disposable Bodies unfolds in layers of sound, movement, and images.  An oversized animal sculpture represents the intensity of life and the ultimate “other.”  Questioning the categorization of protected versus abandoned lives, Cardell examines anthropocentric narratives, illuminating an urgent conversation about new relationships with other species in the world we inhabit.