I’m thinking about what else dance can be.
Adam Kerbel (he/him/el), based in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, works across dance, choreography, and hybrid performance as tools for reflection. Kerbel’s work bridges chasms between memory, future, and hope.
Adam established Performa Choreographic, an incubator for brave new dance and live art that responds to the needs of the independent artistic community. Performa offers seasonal, multi-week intensives in the US, moving local issues into choreographic action. Performa has partnered with LA Dance Project, Cannonball Festival, LA Dance Festival, and The Music Center.
Projects
Live Performance
With ties to Los Angeles and Philadelphia, I make solo and ensemble based dance improvisations. Interactivity is a feature in my current work, focused on the politics of bodies. My creative process and teaching value space to create, shared authorship, and shifting perspectives.
Choreographic Incubator
Think like a designer. Performa is a brave space for new dance in, launched in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. During a 4-6 week intensive period, artists drop in weekly to generate body-based compositions in a thought provoking environment among peer professionals.
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About the Artist
Bio
Adam Kerbel (he/him/el) is a movement artist and choreographer working across dance, improvisation, and hybrid performance as tools for reflection and connection. He is a member of Cohort א, an inaugural cohort of 22 global scholars, activists, and artists experimenting with expressions of a Jewish post-activism. He established Performa Choreographic, a platform for brave new dance, co-founded Almanac, and produced Cannonball. Kerbel creates spaces attuned to shifting culture. With roots in theater, circus, puppetry, and experimental performance, Kerbel’s work has been presented by New York Live Arts, Jacob’s Pillow, Philadelphia Dance Projects, The Music Center, Skirball LA, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, Los Angeles Dept. of Cultural Affairs, The Shalom Center, Dance Managers Collective at APAP|NYC and Breaking Walls Festival in Cairo, Egypt.
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How I Work
Kerbel believes in the potential that artists and communities have to come together to cultivate ideas and share skills. In addition to making new choreography, Adam uses grassroots methods to amplify the work of artists locally. He served as a Producer and the Interim Director of Communications and Marketing at Cannonball from 2022-2024, programming curator of Fit Fest, developed original dance and puppetry programs at Noah’s Ark at the Skirball, and has been an guest choreographer and teaching fellow at Breaking Walls Festival, The Music Center, and The Shalom Center. He was also a freelance producer, 35mm film projectionist, and a night club coat-check — allowing him a variety of perspectives as a convener of live experiences.
Currently, Adam is a resident of the Trilateral Artist Exchange, a 1-year international artist residency that builds cultural and artistic bridges between artists based in Philadelphia, PA; Budapest, Hungary; and Sofia, Bulgaria. He also completed Pentacle’s Tour Ready Lab as an Associate Producer of Almanac Projects, incubating and representing risk-taking dance and circus performance in a wider field through APAP|NYC and beyond.