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With the DanceBoom! festival going summer for the winter, there's not much movement this month. But not all dancers are hibernating. Choreographer Loren Groenendaal's troupe will jump into the new year with a work aptly titled Redirected Trajectory. She is part of the independent collective at CEC's Meeting House Theatre's annual New Edge Mix bill. It's a committed showcase of emerging dancers and "an incubator for artists," says CEC executive director Theresa Shockley. Also on the program are Nicole Bindler (pictured), Kathryn TeBordo and the Workshop for Potential Movement, as well as singer-songwriters Natalie Hicks and Rosemary Fiki.

Groenendaal, a returning Philly native, uses Icarus mythology to tell stories of triumph over loss. "She's a very strong dancer-choreographer and passionate about this particular work," says Shockley. Bindler's grandmother danced in the '30s with a Communist artist troupe in Detroit called New Dance Group, and her solo piece, Wrong Boat, with live musical accompaniment, draws inspiration from her artistic heritage. TeBordo's Mose Play uses text by Dorothea Lasky in a work Shockley dubs "choreography creating the otherworldly." Musicians Hicks and Fiki mix it up with a musical set called "Alright," a Nigerian-Jamaican-Canadian R&B session. This is the 22nd season of the resident artists program at CEC, and this show is "a great excuse to get away from flat screens and see new dance-theater," Shockley says.

New Edge Mix, Fri.-Sat., Jan. 13-14, 8 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 15, 3 p.m., $8-$10, CEC Meeting House Theatre, 3500 Lancaster Ave., 215-387-1911, www.cecarts.org.