Mission

Scrap is five women who create movement-based theatre. Integrating dance, theatre, film, light, text and sound in dynamic ways that cross the traditional boundaries of genre, Scrap builds experiential environments for its audiences. Scrap members share a common aesthetic and awareness of contemporary culture and draw from diverse viewpoints to create work that provokes, inspires and compels people to question.

Vision and History

The women of scrap include three choreographers, a set and lighting designer/dramaturge and a film artist. Each of these performance based artists brings with them over a decade of success in creating contemporary multi-media dance based theater locally, nationally and abroad.

The story of how Scrap members were drawn together is three fold. There is our aesthetic attraction which has been cultivated over years of being involved in each others work, a mutual desire to break the paradigm of the solo artist in order to fuse our passion and expertise, and the practical result of sharing administrative responsibilities, i.e. fund raising, booking, promotion etc. This synergistic process is truly collective and we feel it produces highly refined performance that is radically exquisite, psychologically complex and emotionally raw.

Every piece SCRAP produces is the result of the collaborative efforts of many artists, from dancers and theater artists to visual artists and musicians. SCRAP has employed hundreds of Philadelphia based artists since 1994 and has remained committed to performing in alternative venues which have drawn diverse audiences to unique historical Philadelphia landmarks making performance activities accessible to neighborhoods where this opportunity had not previously existed. Scrap has created works in abandoned wearhouses, churches, houses, machine shops, bars, open out door spaces and state of the art theatres.

Our desire is to reuse, revitalize and if necessary rip apart and rebuild.