Monday Night Footfall- Reona, Taal Baladi, Rattigan x Pond

7:30 doors

8pm Show

REONA is an artist who uses tap dance techniques to express her music.

She is also a tap dancer, improviser, designer, choreographer, teacher, and composer. Based in Tokyo, Japan. To materialize the sounds in her head, she uses tap shoes and a wooden board, as well as metal sheets, chains, steel bowls, plastic bags, and loudspeakers. Her sound is noise music–like, and she has performed with many improvisers, dancers, painters, and free jazz musicians. Her sound impulses are directly connected to her legs, and she expresses herself using everything available in her body, including her arms and mouth — making for a one-of-a-kind presence.

Taal Baladi Sonali Singh- Bassoon/Drums/Voice

Moe Marte- Drums

Leila Delicious- Dance

Our ensemble is a dynamic fusion of sound and movement, blending diverse cultural traditions into a transformative yet fluid performance. Featuring a multifaceted bassoonist who draws inspiration from Indian melodic scales and rhythms, a crisp derbuke player weaving together intricate Arab and Latin rhythms, and a hypnotic dancer rooted in burlesque with elements of belly dance and rich cultural expression.

This group grounds themselves in the connection of their own ancestral memory and works together in sharing those stories through melodies, rhythms, and dance resulting in a genre-defying artistic expression.

  Pond x Rattigan

Amanda Rattigan- Movement

Aaron Pond- Sound

Amanda Rattigan (she/her) is a NYC/Philadelphia Based dance artist. Her work and movement is alchemised through themes of womanhood, metaphysicality, and surrealism. In 2021, she moved to Philadelphia to pursue her BFA in Dance at University of the Arts under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Following the school’s sudden closure, she completed her degree at Burchfield’s BFA Dance Lab at Bennington College. She has performed in works by Eicherling, Katie Swords-Thurman, Jesse Zaritt, Rena Butler, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Sidra Bell, Gary Jeter, and Curt Haworth. Amanda has danced for Opera Philadelphia in their production of “Il Viaggio a Reims”, Philly-based Collective Sharedelusion, performing in their debut work “see me to see you”(2024) as well as its Cannonball Festival reprise. She has also danced with Ally Wilson in her debut work “The Way the Light Hits the Puddle” at Philly Fringe 2025. She has worked alongside Sydney Donovan/Omen Thrice, performing and collaborating in new work “Jack|Jill, and the Hill”.  As well as Curt Haworth for an upcoming piece “imperfect circles” being presented for Philadelphia Dance Projects’ Dance Up Close Festival. 

Aaron Pond is a musician and curator active in the east coast improvised music scene from Philadelphia to Miami.  ​Emerging from a childhood steeped in the rigorous forms of Judaic and classical music, Pond now plays with and transcends musical genres. Since 2014, he has dedicated himself to improvisation and oral composition. Utilizing Horn, Wagner Tuba, Wood Flutes, Duck Calls and Daxophone, he has developed a voice defined by a kaleidoscopic approach to idiom, multiphonic singing, and rich tones.