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Headlong, Cell, 2006. Photo by JJ Tiziou.
Headlong, Cell, 2006. Photo by JJ Tiziou.

Headlong created Cell, a dance-theater event designed to be experienced by one audience member at a time. Collaborating with technology artists Jennifer McCoy and Kevin McCoy, Headlong developed an intimate performance journey in which an audience member is led through a tour of city streets and buildings, with immersive video projections dispersed throughout, before becoming engulfed in a private dance. Cell premiered during the 2006 Philadelphia Fringe Festival and was later presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in the International Festival of Art & Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut.

 

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Founded in 1993 by David Brick, Andrew Simonet, and Amy Smith, and now under the co-direction of Brick and Smith, Headlong is one of Philadelphia's most audacious performance groups, having created over 40 dance works. The group creates collaboratively, with a focus on process, formal experimentation, audience engagement, and site-specificity.

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