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SHEBANG! 

A Dance Theatre Split Bill in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

 

September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM & September 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM 

Performance Garage - 1515 Brandywine Street Philadelphia, PA

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Featuring 

ZOO!  by Grace Yi-Li Tong 

&

You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today by Heather Dutton 

The Artists

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Heather Dutton

Director/Performer

Heather Dutton (she/they) is a Brooklyn based queer and gender fluid dance theater artist driven by a deep fascination with human nature. Their multidisciplinary approach to movement calls on their background in theater, comedy, creative writing, and a range of dance techniques to tell stories with humor, sensitivity, and an attention to detail. She holds a B.A. in Dance (Choreography and Education) from Muhlenberg College, where she also minored in Women’s and Gender Studies. She was a recent artist in residence with the American Dance Festival and is preparing to share work ODC Theater this summer. Their work has also been seen at Arts on Site, Here Arts Center (Sublet Series), the Craft NYC, Dixon Place, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Spark Theater Festival, the Tank, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and more. 

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Grace Yi-Li Tong

Director/Performer

​Grace Yi-Li Tong (she/her) is an experimental, Chinese-American choreographer crafting physical collages. Influenced by make-believe games, clowning, paper collage, puppetry, and contemporary dance theater, she ridiculously cuts-and-pastes “regular” events onstage to decontextualize bodily and social identity, fairytale, and comedy. Based in New York, she has recently shown work at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Center for Ballet Arts, Flushing Town Hall, Mark Morris Dance Center, and more. She holds a BFA in Dance with a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. 

You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today

by Heather Dutton

“You’re Actually The Last Person I Wanted To See Today” is a dance theater piece/slumber party/diary entry/place to honor and grieve our collective and individual teenage girlhood(s) through a queer lens. What were the stories we told ourselves to make sense of our queerness before we came to know it? How do we tell those stories now? From first kisses with boys that disgusted us (sorry) to “girl crushes” on our besties, the work is a collage of memories, fantasies, and worst kept secrets.

Performed: July 2025 at the American Dance Festival (informal) & April 2025 at Flushing Town Hall

Created with support from Mare Nostrum Elements Emerging Choreographers Series & American Dance Festival's International Choreographers Residency, as well as support from individual contributors. 

ZOO! 
by Grace Yi-Li Tong

ZOO! is a fun and feral illumination of memory, charade, and the unsaid in the Asian-American experience. A cacophony of “facedance”, voice, light, and systems of play, ZOO! is a recess fantasy woven from American nostalgia and diasporic dreams. ZOO! is a part of a research project first initiated in October 2022 at Art Cake (Brooklyn, NY), and performed in its entirety at Art Cake, Arts on Site, and Flushing Town Hall.

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Performed: February 2023 at Arts on Site, New York, NY & March 2024 at Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY.

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Created with the support of MNE’s Emerging Choreographer Series, Flushing Town Hall Art Cake Dance Series, Arts on Site, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Program, Mark Morris Dance Center SharedSpace, and other individual contributors.

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