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A near complete quiet overtook the audience as they settled into folding chairs at the Lucky Penny’s Work Room Saturday for one of the last performances in that space. The five performers for MaryGrace Phillips’ W E A T…
ART + DESIGN M.C. Escher +. An exhibition of prints by the legendary graphic artist accompanies contemporary work by Dick Esterle, George Hart, Miranda Herrick, Paul Hildebrandt, Akio Hizume, Marc Pelletier, Clark Richert, Erin Sledd, Fabien Vienne and Scott…
The Work Room, created in 2015 to provide a hub for experimental dance and housed in the Wagon Works building in East Point, will cease operations next month. The studio space, founded by The Lucky Penny experimental performance outfit,…
ArtsATL contributor Debbie Michaud takes a deeper look at the driving force behind the innovative dance space.
The 2016 dance scene showed Atlanta to be a city in flux. Where one group turned toward the conventional, others leaped into the unknown.
In December 1977, audiences gathered at the Forrest Avenue Consortium (which later became Nexus) for an onstage holiday party lit up with drinks and music provided by an opera singer. Throughout the night, small groups were led by a…
Choreographer/dancer MaryGrace Phillips is one of the rising stars in Atlanta’s burgeoning independent dance scene. Now a resident artist at The Lucky Penny’s Work Room founded by Blake Beckham and Malina Rodriguez, Phillips received the 2015 Emerging Artist Award from…
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Last weekend, Anicka Austin and Crystal Monds exhibited their first installment of Chroma — a “color immersion exhibit” that intends to merge healing arts with fine arts, photography with dance performance. They will devote each of the seven shows to a color,…
Dance was a major element of a strong Walthall Fellows show at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia this year. The Walthall Fellowship is an annual year-long program created by local arts organization WonderRoot that provides 12 Atlanta-based…