Click here to read our January newsletter and fundraiser.
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Click here to read our January newsletter and fundraiser. 〰️
Will you help us to make and support the gracious, embodied work our times need now more than ever? We dream that 2024 will be the year that Headlong moves on from surviving to thriving. Where our core team is able to do all the important work we’ve been dreaming of doing, with stable salaries to support us as we make work and support Philadelphia artists. If you are someone who can consider making a large donation would you consider us? As a vital community hub, support for Headlong supports grassroots art and artists, and supports the flowering of Philadelphia as a cultural leader in the United States.
Your gift will help us lift artists in our community.
$9000 allows an artist to attend HPI free of charge
$4000 pays for 5 free residencies for artists in the IA program
$1700 pays for 1-month of restoring an admin position to full time
$Any amount helps us keep the lights on!
Scroll down to see more about Headlong’s signature programs. We’ve done so much with so little, just think what we could do if we can return to full capacity!
Thank you for your support!
— Headlong
Horse Woman: Making A World of Ones Own
premieres at The Barnes Foundation on January 18, 2024.
Get Tickets Here.
We need your help to continue our work as a grassroots hub with an unequivocal commitment to independent artists.
And we need your help as we resume our studio practices to make work that delights, moves and matters.
The Brattonsville Plantation Project, led by Norma, is an art work, a set of practices, and the initiation of a working group devoted to creating healthy, tactile practices of empathy and engagement for audiences and makers in addressing the devastating racialized histories of our culture.
…our sweet and goofy return to studio practice…
The evolution of Practicing to Die, led by David, works with the idea of islands as a metaphor for autonomy, home, and idiosyncratic eco-systems as fragile structures that nourish, limit and liberate us.
Headlong Performance Institute
Recent productions of HPI Fellows. Through the Headlong Performance Institute (HPI) we offer time, space, mentorship and training to artists from a wide range of backgrounds; we work together to broaden and deepen artistic conversation in Philadelphia and beyond. No artist is ever turned away for lack of funds. Your donation makes that possible.
Liz Oakley - Bodywhere
Jordan Deal - ETERNAL DEPARTURES
Angel Edwards - A Relic of Excess: Kanekalon Garden
Emmett Wilson - Afternoon of an Alter
Spotlight:
Meet HPI Fellow and Incubated Arts Program Member Elaine Holton and PHonk!Philly
Elaine Holton and collaborator Chris Kane conceived this project, PHonk!Philly, a series of free community-led music pop-ups centering traditionally under-supported or otherwise under-resourced artists and creatives in Philadelphia.
“The Headlong staff and my HPI Fellows allowed me to listen, practice, heal, explore, and refocus my attention on creating community-centered performance art in Philadelphia.” — Elaine
Stay Tuned to this space for updates on The Brattonsville Plantation Project and Practicing to Die.
Below you can click on conversations David had with disaster historian Scott Knowles along with Ishmael Houston Jones and Eiko Otake as well as a score for online gathering that we launched in the early days of the pandemic.
The Quiet Gathering, an online community contemplation and making resource, began early in the pandemic.
David invited Eiko to speak with him and Practicing To Die project advisor, disaster historian Scott Knowles on the COVIDCalls podcast. David shares a poem he wrote about his daughter and quarantine.
Ishmael and David perform a pandemic talking dance on disaster historian Scott Knowles video/podcast COVIDCalls.
David spoke with disaster historian and Practicing To Die project advisor Scott Knowles three times over the course of the pandemic as part of the video/podcast program COVIDCalls. In this recent conversation David performs an impromptu dance.
Incubated Arts Program
Our Incubated Arts Program is a specialized fiscal sponsorship program that shares Headlong resources with the BIPOC, queer, trans and woman artists who are transforming Philadelphia. In addition to bookkeeping and finance support, Headlong resources shared includes free access to Headlong studios, and access to office resources, as well as Headlong’s contacts, professional relationships built up over 27-years and support on reviewing grants and performance opportunities. These incredible artists are nationally and internationally recognized and shine the light on Philadelphia’s dynamic culture. Artists and groups in Headlong’s IA program include: Baker + Tarpaga Dance Project, Jaamil Kosoko, Jumatatu Poe/ Idiosyncrazy Productions, The Philadelphia Thing, Ninth Planet, Meg Foley, Applied Mechanics and mj kaufman.
Baker + Tarpaga Dance Project
Jaamil Kosoko
