JODI NETZER

THE TIPPING POINT, Performance and Public Forum: Based off of Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller book, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”, in addition to John Zerzan’s “The Psychology of Mass Misery”, this collaborative multi-dimensional performance and public forum demystifies the process of creating successfully fun environmental, cultural, political, and highly-spirited movements.

This engaging event aims to inspire and nurture the formation of a critical mass with a rippling-effect towards positive change. The ideas that arise from the public forums will be collected and then later redistributed the audiences from both performances.

Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation and Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant.

MAY 31 + JUNE 1 @ 7pm
$10-25 (Pay-what-you-can sliding scale)
Community Education Center
Meeting House Theater
35th and Lancaster Avenue
Philadelphia, PA

If you would like to make a donation, place an ad in the program, or would like more information, call 267-334-7857.

JODI NETZER is a multi-faceted freelance Graphic Designer, Performing Artist (Dance, Theater, Stilt Dancing, Puppetry & Masks, Installation Performance), Video Artist and Editor, Sound Collagist, Poet, and Visual Artist.

As part of Jodi's many endeavors, she was the Founder, Artistic Director and Programmer for The Bumpin' Big Top, a circus that ran for 2 years during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Graphic design credits include Art Director of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Book Designer for Whirlwind Press, and Graphic Designer for many other artists and non-profits. Video credits include creating projections for Group Motion Dance Company and a Dance Film presented in Dance Boom!. Jodi has worked with Spiral Q Puppet Theatre and Bread & Puppet in addition to touring nationwide with puppet shows. She also was the lead organizer of the famous puppet-making warehouse that was preemptively shut down during the 2000 Republican National Convention demonstrations.

Jodi has an eclectic improvisational dance theater movement style that closely resembles Butoh with Modern and African dance influences. Her work is often community based and participatory with themes of interconnectivity, holistic health and well-being, environmental issues, socio-political awareness and arts advocacy - utilizing the arts as creative communication and expression for cultural unification and intellectual enhancement.

Jodi Netzer collaborates with Michael B. Schwartz (murals, painting, drawing, arts education, community arts organizing) on local and national projects, workshops and presentations.