Upcoming Shebang events
Open the doors: a fundraiser
The Whole Shebang is fundraising $6,603
to fix the broken doors in the studio! When you make a donation, you will be invited to join us for a party where we will celebrate the doors being fixed! The night will include door prizes, an Embodiment Dance Party facilitated by meg, and a ceremonial door opening!!!
November 20th, 2026, 6-9PM
Rigorous Play
Rigorous Play is an extended dance intensive presented in collaboration with Philly Dance Share! Become a part of an intimate cohort of movement-artists for three weekends of events, body technologies ((technique/somatics)) and creative practice workshops.
October-November 2026
Dispatches: December
Dispatches is a program by The Whole Shebang that offers studio space to local movement artists, where they can delve into their personal creative research. The artists for this iteration are Shoshana Isaacs and Vitche-Boul Ra, who will share at the end of their respective residencies.
December 11, 2026
workshop With Jonathan González
Attention is a 2-day workshop that approaches choreography as a collective practice of perception, relation, and formal inquiry. Working through questions of attention, landscape, rhythm, and group structure, participants will explore how bodies organize space together, how environments shape movement and sensation, and how choreography can emerge through sustained acts of noticing, listening, and collective attunement.
May 2027
Previous Shebang events
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February, 2025
MAKING our way is a workshop for encountering and choreographing the material of our selves through starting with what we know and then leaning into what we don’t know. We’ll start with non-theoretical, simple approaches to nonstop moving and speaking, then progressively play, and sometimes grapple, with the impossible possibility of attending to multiple tools and strategies in the continuous present. If time, space, matter, and circumstances are moving faster than we can track, can we sharpen some tools to be more aware and present, using tools of dance as a process of being on the way?
This workshop is open to folks of all disciplines and experiences willing to do these things while sometimes or sometimes often not knowing why or what is being produced from it.
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August, 2025
Dispatches is a new program by The Whole Shebang that offers studio space to local movement artists, where they can delve into their personal creative research. The artists for this iteration are Lu Donovan and Jungeun Kim, who will share at the end of their respective residencies.
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November, 2025
Rigorous Play is a mini dance intensive presented in collaboration with Philly Dance Share! Become a part of an intimate cohort of movement-artists for a weekend of body technologies ((technique/somatics)) and creative practice workshops.
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February, 2026
a workshop with Meg Foley. quick or languid: shapely and earth bound is a movement-based, improvisational workshop. We’ll consider the how and what of making with the body, moving across time, space, and relationships.
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February, 2026
Dispatches is a new program by The Whole Shebang that offers studio space to local movement artists, where they can delve into their personal creative research. The artists for this iteration are kaijo and Marisa, who will share at the end of their respective residencies.
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May 2026
A durational meditation on rage… a revolutionary dance party. With mayfield brooks.
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May 2026
A workshop with mayfield brooks. Decomposing dance...choreographing breath is a workshop that asks questions through decolonizing and decomposing our expectation of dance making, vocal expression, and choreography. What is dance composition? What is dance (de)composition?
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Dispatches is a program by The Whole Shebang that offers studio space to local movement artists, where they can delve into their personal creative research. The artist for this iteration is Shannon Brooks, who will share at the end of her respective residency.