PIMA Group

Sat.-Sun., May 15-16, 8 p.m., $8, Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St., 215-400-1521, pimagroup.org.

by Emily Currier

dance/video

With their notoriously ber-experimental rep, PIMA Group's latest venture lures audiences into a nightmarish world created from dance, "found sounds" and video projections. This weekend, Chinatown's Vox Populi Gallery will morph into a haunted house for ohhorror, a live dance performance born from the brain of artistic director/choreographer Melisa Putz. Though not historically a fan of fright ("I used to sleep through Halloween as a kid," she admits), Putz recently became entranced by the sense of terror and suspense created in mainstream and underground horror films. For her, the leap between horror films and dance was effortless. "I noticed in my previous dance works, there was a prevalent sense of haunting beauty," she says. "As I began work on a new dance piece, a lot of the images that kept coming up had a sense of both horror and eeriness."

Sat.-Sun., May 15-16, 8 p.m., $8, Vox Populi Gallery, 319 N. 11th St., 215-400-1521, pimagroup.org.