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RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL 2017
JUN 14-25ACROSS LOWER MANHATTAN & ON GOVERNORS ISLANDrivertoriverNYC.com#R2R17
ABOUT
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 16th annual River To River Festival!
The 2017 edition presents 12 days of dance, music, theatre, opera and the visual arts — 100 + performances and events spanning 17 projects at 31 unique sites across Lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
Whether you see the work of one, two, or more than a dozen artists, we hope that you’ll remember your experience and enjoy getting closer to the transformative work of artists and discovering something that you didn’t know or hadn’t seen before.
We, along with the artists and our partners, hope to pique your curiosity as you wait for the bus, stroll through a public park, meet a friend for lunch, or take an evening walk with your family. These artists are pivotal and vital voices of our time, and we invite you to get to know them and other art lovers at one of our events this summer. A festival of this nature is the most perfect way to connect with people around you, be present and in-the-moment, and celebrate New York as the most vibrant, energetic city.
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Andrew D. HamingsonPresident, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Cover image photo credit:Luciana Achugar, “An Epilogue for OTRO TEATRO: True Love”
Front Street, River To River 2016Photo credit: Darial Sneed.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABOUT.................................................................................................. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................. 3
SCHEDULE.......................................................................................... 4
EVENTS................................................................................................. 6
RIVERS OF SOUND - NOT TWO BY AMIR ELSAFFAR............................ 6
BLACK GOTHAM EXPERIENCE BY KAMAU WARE................................ 7
CATACOMB BY BETH GILL...................................................................... 8
EARTH POTENTIAL BY KATJA NOVITSKOVA........................................ 9
HARBORED BY EN GARDE ARTS........................................................... 10
A MARVELOUS ORDER BY JOSHUA FRANKEL, JUDD
GREENSTEIN, WILL RAWLS & TRACY K. SMITH..................................... 11
MEMOIRS OF A... UNICORN BY MARJANI FORTÉ-SAUNDERS............. 12
MOAT BY JODI MELNICK................................................................................. 13
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUMS.............................................................................. 13
OPEN STUDIOS WITH PROCESS SPACE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE........ 14
PARAMODERNITIES #2 AND #3 BY NETTA YERUSHALMY.................. 15
R2R LIVING ROOMS WITH DJ AVERAGE JO AND GUESTS
BY THE DANCE CARTEL................................................................................... 16
THE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME
STORY SHOW BY WALLY CARDONA & JENNIFER LACEY....................... 17
STAGED? (2016) - undressed BY MARIA HASSABI................................... 18
THANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY BY FAYE DRISCOLL........................... 19
A SUPPLE PERIMETER; IF/THEN & QUESTIONS BY KAMEELAH
JANAN RASHEED............................................................................................. 20
MAP .................................................................................................................. 22
STAFF ............................................................................................................. 23
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SCHEDULE
WED JUNE 146pm - 8pm | Pier A Harbor HouseR2R LIVING ROOMS ................................ p. 16by The Dance Cartel
THU JUNE 153pm - 4:15pm | National Museum of the American IndianPARAMODERNITIES #2 AND #3 ....... p. 15by Netta Yerushalmy
6pm - 7:15pm | National Museum of the American IndianPARAMODERNITIES #2 AND #3 ........ p. 15by Netta Yerushalmy
7pm - 7:30pm | Fulton CenterA MARVELOUS ORDER .......................... p. 11by Judd Greenstein, Joshua Frankel, Will Rawls & Tracy K. Smith
FRI JUNE 161pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE ................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Fort Jay, Governors IslandMOAT .......................................................... p. 13by Jodi Melnick
6pm - 8pm | 28 Liberty PlazaRIVERS OF SOUND: NOT TWO ............. p. 6by Amir ElSaffar
7:30pm - 9pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 1 ...... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
TUE JUNE 20
1pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE ..................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
2pm - 2:40pm | Intersection of Broad and Wall StsTHANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY ........ p. 19by Faye Driscoll
4pm - 8pm | Museums Across Lower ManhattanNIGHT AT THE MUSEUMS ...................... p. 13
5pm - 6:30pm | National Museum of theAmerican IndianTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 2........ p. 7
7pm - 9pm | 192 Front StreetTALK/BACK: OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET BOOK EVENT .............................. p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
WED JUNE 21
1pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE........................ p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
2pm - 2:40pm | Intersection of Broad and Wall StsTHANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY....... p. 19by Faye Driscoll
5pm - 6pm | South Street Seaport Museum, Melville GalleryMEMOIRS OF A... UNICORN ................. p. 12by Marjani Forté-Saunders
5pm - 6:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 1........ p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
7:30pm - 9pm | National Museum of the American IndianTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 2 ..... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
8pm - 11pm | Pier A Harbor HouseR2R LIVING ROOMS ............................... p. 16by The Dance Cartel
THU JUNE 22
1pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE ................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
5pm - 6:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 1 ...... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
6pm - 8pm | 192 Front StreetNERDY HOUR ............................................ p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
7pm - 8pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceHARBORED ............................................... p. 10by En Garde Arts
Dawn - Dusk | City Hall ParkEARTH POTENTIAL ................................ p. 9by Katja Novitskova
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3pm - 4pm | South Street Seaport Museum, Melville GalleryMEMOIRS OF A... UNICORN ................. p. 12by Marjani Forté-Saunders
12pm- 2pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceSTORYTELLING STATION .................... p. 10by En Garde Arts
12pm- 2pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceSTORYTELLING STATION .................... p. 10by En Garde Arts
FESTIVAL-SPANNING DAILY EVENTS: JUNE 15-25All Day / All Night | Fulton Center: A MARVELOUS ORDER video on view ............................................................................... p. 11
12pm - 5pm | LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island: A SUPPLE PERIMETER by Kameelah Janan Rasheed ................................. p. 20
All Day | Fort Jay Movie Theater, Governors Island: IF/THEN & QUESTIONS by Kameelah Janan Rasheed........................... p. 20
All Day / All Night | DOT Art Display Cases on Water Street and Gouverneur Lane: BLACK GOTHAM EXPERIENCE Artwork on view ........... p. 7
12pm - 9pm * | 192 Front Street BLACK GOTHAM EXPERIENCE Work/Space Hub ................................................................ p. 7
* except June 15: 12pm - 7pm and June 25: 12pm - 5pm
SAT JUNE 1712pm - 6pm | Governors IslandTHE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW ........... p. 17by Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Fort Jay, Governors IslandMOAT .......................................................... p. 13by Jodi Melnick
7pm - 7:30pm | Fulton CenterA MARVELOUS ORDER .......................... p. 11by Judd Greenstein, Joshua Frankel, Will Rawls & Tracy K. Smith
7pm - 9pm | 192 Front StreetFASHION PRESENTATION ...................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
8pm - 9pm | Federal HallCATACOMB ................................................ p. 8by Beth Gill
MON JUNE 191pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE ................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
3pm - 4:15pm | National Museum of the American IndianPARAMODERNITIES #2 AND #3 ....... p. 15by Netta Yerushalmy
5pm - 6:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 1 ...... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
6pm - 6:40pm | Intersection of Broad and Wall StsTHANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAY ..... p. 19by Faye Driscoll
8pm - 9pm | Federal HallCATACOMB ................................................ p. 8by Beth Gill
7:30pm - 9pm | 192 Front StreetTALK/BACK: BERRY’S ONE WOMAN SHOW .......................................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
SAT JUNE 24
12pm - 6pm | Governors IslandTHE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW ............... p. 17by Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey
12pm - 5pm | LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors IslandOPEN STUDIOS WITH PROCESS SPACE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE .......................... p. 14
7pm - 8pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceHARBORED .................................................. p. 10by En Garde Arts
3pm - 5pm | LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors IslandGALLERY RECEPTION ............................. p. 20by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Dawn - Dusk | City Hall ParkEARTH POTENTIAL ..................................... p. 9by Katja Novitskova
SUN JUNE 25
12pm - 6pm | Governors IslandTHE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW ........ p. 17by Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey
6pm - 6:30pm | City Hall ParkSTAGED? (2016) - undressed ............ p. 18by Maria Hassabi
5pm - 6pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceHARBORED ............................................ p. 10by En Garde Arts
7pm - 10pm | Pier A Harbor HouseR2R LIVING ROOMS ............................ p. 19by The Dance Cartel
Dawn - Dusk | City Hall ParkEARTH POTENTIAL .............................. p. 9by Katja Novitskova
FRI JUNE 23
1pm - 2:30pm | 192 Front StreetTOUR: THE OTHER SIDE OF WALL STREET PRELUDE .................................... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
5pm - 6:30pm | National Museum of the American IndianTOUR: CAESAR’S REBELLION Pt 2 ...... p. 7by Black Gotham Experience
6pm - 6:30pm | City Hall ParkSTAGED? (2016) - undressed ............... p. 18by Maria Hassabi
Dawn - Dusk | City Hall ParkEARTH POTENTIAL ................................. p. 9by Katja Novitskova
7pm - 8pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceHARBORED with post-show discussion... p. 10by En Garde Arts
SUN JUNE 1812pm - 6pm | Governors IslandTHE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW ............... p. 17by Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey
3:30pm - 4:30pm | Fort Jay, Governors IslandMOAT................................................................ p. 13by Jodi Melnick
7pm - 7:30pm | Fulton CenterA MARVELOUS ORDER .............................. p. 11by Judd Greenstein, Joshua Frankel, Will Rawls & Tracy K. Smith
8pm - 9pm | Federal HallCATACOMB ..................................................... p. 8by Beth Gill
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3pm - 4pm | South Street Seaport Museum, Melville GalleryMEMOIRS OF A... UNICORN ................. p. 12by Marjani Forté-Saunders
12pm- 2pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceSTORYTELLING STATION ..................... p. 10by En Garde Arts
12pm- 2pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceSTORYTELLING STATION ......................... p. 10by En Garde Arts
12pm- 2pm | Winter Garden at Brookfield PlaceSTORYTELLING STATION ................. p. 10by En Garde Arts
EVENTSRIVERS OF SOUND - NOT TWO
by Amir ElSaffar
In an album-release concert for the orchestra’s debut album, Not Two, acclaimed composer, trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Amir ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound brings together 17 musicians from a broad spectrum of traditions, ranging from Iraqi maqam to American jazz. Using resonance as its governing principle, the music incorporates elements of maqam modal music of the Middle East with jazz and other contemporary practices to create a unique microtonal environment that moves beyond the notions of style and tradition into a realm of uninhibited musical communication.The record will be released on New Amsterdam Records.
Fri, June 16 from 6:00-8:00pm28 Liberty PlazaCo-presented with New Amsterdam Presents
Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound was funded in part by The Aaron Copland Fund For Music. Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound was funded in part by The MAP Fund, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound was funded in part by Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. This performance is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Space for this project was generously donated by Fosun Property Holdings.
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Photo credit: Michael Crommett.
BLACK GOTHAM EXPERIENCEby Kamau Ware
Black Gotham Experience (BGX) is an expansive, interactive visual storytelling project that celebrates the impact of the African Diaspora on New York City and brings New York’s Black heritage into public consciousness. The project engages and inspires communities to discover the legacy of the African Diaspora in New York City through experiences shaped by art and research. Incorporating interactive walking tours, graphic novels, and a Festival-spanning hub that will feature exhibits and opportunities to see Kamau and the BGX creative team at work, audiences will have the opportunity to experience and interact with BGX in multiple ways throughout the course of the River To River Festival.
Thu, June 15 to Sun, June 25 | Various Tours and Experiences*Work/Space Hub open daily from 12:00-9:00pm**192 Front Street, Seaport DistrictWater St at Maiden Ln & Gouverneur Ln at Water St, NYCDOT Art Display Cases
Space for this project was generously donated by Howard Hughes Corporation. Black Gotham Experience visual art panels were coordinated by the DOT Art Program with support from DOT Borough Engineering.
BGX artwork will also be on view in the DOT Art Display Cases on Water Street between Wall Street and Maiden Lane and on Gouverneur Lane between Water Street and Front Street.
* Black Gotham Experience runs Apr 22 – Jul 31, see blackgotham.com for programming details.
** except June 15 from 12:00pm-7:00pm and June 25 from 12:00pm-5:00pm.
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Design Credit: William Ellis. Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Artist
CATACOMBby Beth Gill
Inspired by the imagination and subconscious, Catacomb is a dance by five performers inhabiting a dreamlike, sensory-rich world that draws the audience into an immersive act of witnessing. Gill creates an intimate, surrealist space building on the formalism of her past several works (Electric Midwife, New Work for the Desert), while forging new psychologically-informed terrain through explorations of role, gathering and layering of meaning and being, and ultimately, disappearance.
Sat, June 17 from 8:00-9:00pmSun, June 18 from 8:00-9:00pmMon, June 19 from 8:00-9:00pmFederal HallCommissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Catacomb is co-commissioned by The Chocolate Factory, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Live Arts Bard at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, and developed as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Catacomb was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foun-dation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts; and is supported, in part, by the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards program and a 2015 Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. General Operating support was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.Catacomb was made possible in part with a research and development residency and co-production support by The Hatchery Proj-ect, a multi-year collaborative residency partnership between The Chocolate Factory Theater, the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, RED Arts and Vermont Performance Lab with lead support by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and additional funding by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional residency support was provided by Gibney Dance Center’s Dance in Process program, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and by a Creative Laboratory residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University. Additional commissioning support by The Jerome Foundation.Space for this project was generously donated by the National Park Service.
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Beth Gill, “Catacomb”The Chocolate Factory,
Photo credit: Brian Rogers.
EARTH POTENTIALby Katja Novitskova
This June, as a part of its 40th anniversary, Public Art Fund will present EARTH POTENTIAL, a new exhibition by emerging Estonian artist Katja Novitskova. Her first major institutional show and outdoor commission in the United States, the exhibition will transform Lower Manhattan’s City Hall Park into a surreal landscape with a new series of seven large, flat cut aluminum sculptures. Featuring online-sourced, digitally-printed imagery, the works layer alien-like, yet terrestrial animals and organisms over celestial bodies and planets. By creating images at once scientific and poetic, these dramatic, visual objects expose worlds unseen by the naked eye yet indispensable to human advancement. The flatness of the sculptures replicates the experience of viewing images online, while the imagery and its connotations—from science fiction to achievements in image making—will encourage visitors to consider how developments in technology have changed our perceptions of the natural world.
On June 23 & 25 at 6pm, Maria Hassabi will present STAGED? (2016) - undressed, situated in City Hall Park among Novitskova’s large-scale sculptures (see p. 18 for details).
*EARTH POTENTIAL will be on view through November 9, 2017.
Thu, June 22 to Sun, June 25*During regular park hours, dawn – duskCity Hall ParkPresented by Public Art Fund
Space for this project was generously donated by NYC Parks & Recreation.
9Photo credit: Courtesy of the Artist.
HARBOREDby En Garde Arts
From June 21 through June 25 between 12:00pm and 2:00pm, visitors to Brookfield Place can come to a story gathering station to share their story of their familial roots and the experience of coming to the United States for the first time. These stories will be incorporated into each evening’s performance.
HARBORED, written and directed by Jimmy Maize, is a site-specific theater piece that weaves together stories from the last two centuries of immigration in the U.S., integrating oral history, archived material and found texts. The piece is an epic collage of performance, music and movement with an original score by Heather Christian sung by the Downtown Voices Choir and movement by Wendy Seyb. More than 50 performers tell the stories of twentieth-century author Willa Cather and her character Ántonia; Lewis and Clark yearning for the promise of the American West; and everyday citizens who all share a yearning to fulfill their dreams. Immigration stories will be gathered each day from passersby at Brookfield Place and integrated into the script that evening, tying the past to the present and making for an entirely new theatrical experience each time. Championing an immersive process of understanding and discovery, HARBORED redefines the ways in which we think about America’s past, present and future.
Please be advised, HARBORED is a roving performance with no seating that will move throughout the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
Thu, June 22 from 7:00-8:00pmFri, June 23 from 7:00-8:00pmSat, June 24 from 7:00-8:00pmSun, June 25 from 5:00-6:00pmWinter Garden at Brookfield PlaceCo-Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Arts Brookfield
COLLABORATORS: Writer/Director: Jimmy Maize; Music Director & Composer: Heather Christian; Choreographer: Wendy Seyb; Sound Designer: Andrew Schneider; Set Designer: Meredith Ries; Costume Designer: Abigail Hahn.HARBORED is supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council of the Arts and Piece by Piece Productions.Space for this project was generously donated by Brookfield Place.
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Photo credit: Courtesy of the Artist.
A MARVELOUS ORDERby Joshua Frankel, Judd Greenstein, Will Rawls & Tracy K. Smith
A Marvelous Order is presented in partnership with Times Square Arts and Times Square Advertising Coalition’s Midnight Moment, where the electronic billboards in Times Square displayed Frankel’s animations during the month of May 2017.
Thu, June 15 from 7:00-7:30pmSat, June 17 from 7:00-7:30pm Sun, June 18 from 7:00-7:30pmVideo Installation on display Thu, June 15 – Sun, June 25Fulton Center
COLLABORATORS: Performers: Dashon Burton (as Robert Moses), Eliza Bagg, Tomás Cruz, Lucy Dhegrae and Christopher Herbert. A Marvelous Order has received generous support from The Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Program, The Rockefeller Founda-tion, The New York State Council on the Arts, The NEA’s Art Works Opera Program, and The Graham Foundation.Space for A Marvelous Order was generously donated by MTA Arts & Design and Westfield World Trade Center, Fulton Center.
A Marvelous Order is a multimedia opera about the battle between Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs over the fate of New York City. A selection of scenes will be presented here in a site-specific adaptation for the Fulton Center transit and retail hub, where Frankel’s striking imagery and beautifully wrought animation will be specially reformatted for the LED screens that wrap around its circumference while live singers and instrumentalists perform throughout the terminal. Singers include Dashon Burton (as Robert Moses), Eliza Bagg, Tomás Cruz, Lucy Dhegrae and Christopher Herbert. Live instrumentation by NOW Ensemble. Conducted by David Bloom.
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Photo credit: Roman Iwasiwka.
MEMOIRS OF A... UNICORNby Marjani Forté-Saunders
In her new solo, Memoirs of a... Unicorn, contemporary choreographer and performer Marjani Forté-Saunders, teams up with set designer Mimi Lien, media designer Meena Murugesan, lighting designer Tuce Yasak and sound designer Everett Saunders, to ritualistically re-member, interrogate, and relish in the properties of Black American magic and resilience. Spurring from stories of her Arkansas-born Father’s life, this provocative work explores the tenets of his identity, while digging in the wound of its creation story. Memoirs of a... Unicorn is a dynamic evening of storytelling, that weaves historic and personal narratives into an embodied tale of fragmented loss, unabiding love and adornment, and Warriorship.
Wed, June 21 from 5:00-6:00pmThu, June 22 from 3:00-4:00pm Fri, June 23 from 3:00-4:00pmMelville Gallery, South Street Seaport MuseumCo-Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and New York Live Arts
COLLABORATORS:Set Designer: Mimi Lien; Media Designer: Meena Murugesan; Lighting Designer: Tuce Yasak; Sound Designer: Everett Saunders; Set Builder: Rick Forté2016 Princess Grace Awards Special Project grant. New York Live Arts Live Feed Commission. Space for this project was generously donated by the South Street Seaport Museum. This project was commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Marjani Forte-Saunders, “Being here... this time”Photo credit: Maria Baranova.
MOATby Jodi Melnick
Choreographer and dance artist Jodi Melnick and visual artist John Monti create a site-specific installation/performance for the moat surrounding Fort Jay at Governors Island. Psychedelic patterns on the grass, bright neon colors, flowers, and three-dimensional shapes intersect with colorful athletic lines, demarcating and feminizing the space.
Fri, June 16 from 3:30-4:30pmSat, June 17 from 3:30-4:30pmSun, June 18 from 3:30-4:30pmFort Jay, Governors IslandCommissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
This project was commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This project was developed with funds from the Doris Duke Impact Award grant. Space for Moat was generously donated by the National Park Service.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUMS
As part of the River To River Festival, Night at the Museums gives locals and tourists the opportunity to visit Lower Manhattan’s diverse and culturally significant institutions—all for free. Visitors of all ages can spend a summer evening exploring New York City’s history and heritages. All museums and historical sites are within walking distance from one another in one of the most diverse and concentrated groups of museums in the world.
Participants include: African Burial Ground National Monument, China Institute, Federal Hall National Memorial, Fraunces Tavern® Museum, Lower Manhattan Tours, Museum of American Finance, Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Archives at New York City, National Museum of the American Indian—Smithsonian Institution, National September 11 Memorial Museum, 9/11 Tribute Center, NYC Municipal Archives, Poets House, The Skyscraper Museum, South Street Seaport Museum.
Please visit http://www.mjhnyc.org/nightatthemuseums/ for more information.
Tue, June 20 from 4:00pm-8:00pmVarious Museums Across Lower Manhattan
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OPEN STUDIOSwith Process Space artists-in-residence
As part of the River To River Festival, LMCC invites audiences to meet Process Space artists-in-residence in their studios at the Arts Center at Governors Island. Our Process Space artists open their doors for the public to see a wide range of artwork from live performance and theatre to painting and sculpture. This event offers festivalgoers a chance to see works in process and to open discussion with the artists.
Sat, June 24 from 12:00–5:00pmLMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
LMCC’s Public Engagement Initiatives are supported, in part, by Ameriprise Financial, Con Edison, and the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation. LMCC’s Artist Residency Programs are supported, in part, by Cowles Charitable Trust, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc., Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, and Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Additional support is provided by the New York Community Trust. LMCC’s Public Engagement Initiatives and Artist Residency Programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. In-kind promotion for LMCC’s Public Engagement Initiatives is provided by Thirteen and WABC-TV.
Participating Artists:
Jonathan AllenMichael Bühler-RoseSari CarelChia-Lun ChangDeville CohenJoão Enxuto & Erica LoveLiana FinckBrendan KielyStephanie LandRachel LevitskyAmanda LongTammy NguyenAlison OwenMaia Cruz Palileo Robert PenningtonAlexandria SmithAsiya WadudPia WilsonSeldon YuanSusan Ziegler
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Open Studios with Process Space artists-in-residence LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, 2016Photo credit: Jonathan Patkowski.
PARAMODERNITIES #2 AND #3by Netta Yerushalmy
As part of her new cross-disciplinary project using Modernism in dance to explore different contemporary discourses, choreographer and performer Netta Yerushalmy presents Paramodernities #2—devoted to Martha Graham’s Night Journey—and Paramodernities #3—devoted to Alvin Ailey’s Revelations. Including live presentations by scholars and performances by a diverse cast of dancers, Paramodernities will also incorporate public discussions with viewers as it inhabits different sites in the museum.
Thu, June 15 from 3:00-4:15pmThu, June 15 from 6:00-7:15pmMon, June 19 from 3:00-4:15pmNational Museum of the American Indian Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
COLLABORATORS for Paramodernities #2: Scholar: Carol Ockman (Williams College); Dancer: Taryn Griggs, dancer.COLLABORATORS for Paramodernities #3: Scholar: Tommy DeFrantz (Duke University); Dancer: Brittany Engel-Adams; Dancer: Stanley Gambucci; Dancer: Jeremy jae Neal; Dancer: Nicholas Leichter.Space for this project was generously donated by the National Museum of the American Indian in New York.The Extended Life Dance Development Program has received key project support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Netta Yerushalmy, “Paramodernities”Photo Credit: Arnaud Falchier.
R2R LIVING ROOMS WITH DJ AVERAGE JO AND GUESTS
by The Dance Cartel
The Dance Cartel kicks off the Festival with a vibrant, unexpected evening of live dance and music performance and creates social-creative hubs as part of R2R Living Rooms. The start of each evening will feature an outdoor performance by The Dance Cartel followed by a rotation of guest artists/DJs in collaboration with The Cartel, yielding a unique on-the-spot improvisation and inviting audiences to participate in the shifting landscape of a Cartel experience.
R2R Living Rooms give artists, partners and audiences an opportunity to come togeth-er, socialize, dance, experience after-hours programming and discuss/absorb the River To River offerings experienced during the day.
Wed, June 14 from 6:00-8:00pm featuring Zuzuka PoderosaWed, June 21 from 8:00-11:00pm featuring Adira Amram & The ExperienceSun, June 25 from 7:00-10:00pmPier A Harbor House
Space for River To River Living Rooms was generously donated by Battery Park City Authority and HPH/Pier A Harbor House.
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Photo credit: Maddy Talias.
THE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW
by Wally Cardona & Jennifer Lacey
“Many dances on an ISLAND, a GHOST of what they were, having lost details during a long SLEEP but nevertheless the PRINCESS of their destiny. This TIME it is one STORY, full of fortuitous meetings, grave errors and happy misunderstandings. It’s a SHOW folks!”—Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey
THE SET UP: ISLAND GHOST SLEEP PRINCESS TIME STORY SHOW has been setting itself up for five years now. The multiple dances, co-created by Jennifer Lacey and Wally Cardona, are made in collaboration with seven master artists who have dedicated their lives to their respective dance traditions: I Nyoman Catra (Balinese Topeng), Proeung Chhieng (Cambodian), Junko Fisher (Okinawan), Saya Lei (Mandalay-style, classical Burmese), Jean-Christophe Paré (French baroque), Kapila Venu (Indian Kutiyattam) and Heni Winahyuningsih (Javanese refined). Between 2012–2016, each of the dances was created very rapidly, one by one, immediately following an encounter with each master artist. Each dance was made and performed in its own distinct location. Now, for the first, last and only time, the dances—featuring live music by Jonathan Bepler, Reiko Fueting and Megan Schubert—will be presented on Governors Island over the two weekends of the River To River Festival.
Performances include:The Set Up: Proeung Chhieng: GhostThe Set Up: Heni Winahyuningsih: PrincessThe Set Up: I Nyoman Catra: TimeThe Set Up: Saya Lei: ShowThe Set Up: Jean Christophe Paré: SleepThe Set Up: Kapila Venu: StoryThe Set Up: Island: A re-purposing archive room and meeting placeMaster Artist Performance: Proeung Chhieng with Chankethya CheyMaster Artist Performance: Heni WinahyuningsihMaster Artist Performance: Kapila Venu with Rajeev Padiparampil*
* For a full program, please visit lmcc.net/event/the-set-up.
Sat, June 17 from 12:00-6:00pmSun, June 18 from 12:00-6:00pmSat, June 24 from 12:00-6:00pm Sun, June 25 from 12:00-6:00pm Various performances across Governors Island Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
A production of WCV, Inc., this project is made possible by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Asian Cultural Council; Creative Capital; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; New Music USA; Park Avenue Armory’s Under Construction; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab; Gibney Dance DiP Residency; Vermont Performance Lab.Space for The Set Up was generously donated by the National Park Service and the Trust for Governors Island.
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STAGED? (2016) - undressedBy Maria Hassabi
In STAGED? (2016) - undressed, four performers in abstractly patterned clothing are entangled in a slowly metamorphosing living sculpture. In its “undressed” iteration for River To River, away from its theatrical setting, the work invites the context of public space to influence the sculptural form and become its new stage.
STAGED? (2016) - undressed is set in City Hall Park among Katja Novitskova’s sculptural exhibition, EARTH POTENTIAL, presented by Public Art Fund (see p. 9 for details).
Fri, June 23 from 6:00-6:30pmSun, June 25 from 6:00-6:30pmCity Hall ParkCommissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
COLLABORATORS: Outfits: Victoria Bartlett; Composer: Marina Rosenfeld; Dramaturgy: Scott Lyall; Management: Alexandra Rosen-berg; Performers: Maria Hassabi, Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, and Oisín Monaghan
STAGED (2016) is a co-production of Dance4 (Nottingham, UK); FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival (New York, NY); High Line Art (New York, NY); The Keir Foundation with support from Dancehouse, Melbourne (Melbourne, AUS); The Kitchen (New York, NY); Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE); Onassis Cultural Center – Athens (Athens, GR); and Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston (MA); was developed through residencies at Live Arts Bard at the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College (Annandale on Hudson, NY); Camargo Foundation with funding from the Jerome Foundation (Cassis, FR); and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (Captiva Island, FL); and supported, in part, by contributions from Randi & Jeff Levine, Steve Khan and Leo Koenig & Maggie Clinton.Space for STAGED (2016) - undressed was generously donated by NYC Parks & Recreation.
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Maria Hassabi, “STAGED? (2016) - undressed”XING Live Arts Week VI, Bologna, Italy, 2017
Photo credit: Luca Ghedini.
THANK YOU FOR COMING: PLAYBy Faye Driscoll
In Thank You For Coming: Play, Driscoll fractures the relationship between what we sayand how we move when we say it, lingering in the mutual shadows, gaps, repetitions,stutters and spirals. How does language at once define and reduce our lived experience? How are we at once organized and undone by personal and societal narratives?
Mon, June 19 from 6:00-6:40pmTue, June 20 from 2:00-2:40pmWed, June 21 from 2:00-2:40pmIntersection of Broad and Wall Sts.Commissioned by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Performers: Sean Donovan, Lindsay Head, Paul Singh, Laurel Snyder, Brandon Washington; Sound Design, Musical Direction, Original Compositions: Bobby McElver; Costume Design: Jamie Boyle; Stage and Company Manager: Alessandra Calabi.
Lead commissioner for Thank You For Coming: Play is Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University through its Wexner Center Artist Residency Award program. Co-commissioning partners are BAM, Summer Stages Dance @ Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Walker Art Center with support from the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council developed as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional commissioning support was provided by Mass Live Arts through a multi-year residency and presentation commitment. Thank You For Coming: Play is made possible, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional project funding provided by Creative Capital’s MAP Fund, which is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Thank You For Coming: Play is a project of Creative Capital. Faye Driscoll is the 2016 Harkness Foundation Artist in Residence at BAM Fisher. Thank You For Coming: Play was created with the support of a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship. Additional residency support for Thank You For Coming: Play was provided by Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, The Museum of Arts and Design, The Performing Garage Presents visiting artist series and a Production Residency grant funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. TYFC: PLAY was supported, in part, through a generous rehearsal space grant from chashama.
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Faye Driscoll, “Thank You For Coming: Play”Photo credit: Francesca Beltran.
A SUPPLE PERIMETER IF/THEN & QUESTIONS
by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Arts Center at Governors Island hosts LMCC’s summer exhibition, A Supple Perimeter, by artist, educator, and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed. Free and open to the public, the exhibition will change over time, inviting audiences to both experience the evolution of the space in person and encounter a new installation upon multiple visits. In addition, Rasheed’s If/Then (2014-present) and Questions (2017) will be installed on the façade of the historic Fort Jay Theater on Governors Island.
May 27 - Sep 24 on Fri, Sat, Sun from 12:00-5:00pmDaily during River To River, June 15-25 from 12:00-5:00pmLMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island and Fort Jay Movie TheaterReception: Sat June 24, from 3:00-5:00pm
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A SUPPLE PERIMETERArtist Statement:Rasheed’s research-based practice, which spans installation, photography, performance, publications, and printmaking, engages with figurative and literal language to interrogate how we read, write, consume, and distribute histories of Black folks.
Invested in the wide permutations of Blackness, A Supple Perimeter explores the capacities of blackness and the quiet, blackness and the reticent, blackness and the private: an expansive blackness that allows for a Black subject with interiority and a strategic engagement with public(s).
In A Supple Perimeter, Rasheed begins with her research into ecology, entropy and black traditions of experimental writing to construct an immersive ecosystem of existing and self-authored texts, unfinished videos, projections, objects and excerpts of sound experiments that comment on selective legibility; the tension between public and private selves; black traditions of covert literacies and language systems; technologies of counter-surveillance; as well as systems of self-publishing. Delicately moving between opacity and transparency, interiority and public pronouncements, in A Supple Perimeter bodies of work are burrowed into the walls, others erupt from the corners, while some only become visible through specific physical engagements. Faced with the assertion of an ahistorical and stable Black subject who is both publicly available and fungible, Rasheed invites the audience to engage with an unstable installation space that mirrors the agility of Blackness, her blackness, in an installation that will shift in form and content over the course of the installation period using a set of rules derived from constrained writing techniques and performance scores.
Each iterative change to the installation will be accompanied by a piece of writing and a map of changes published at www.kameelahr.com/a-supple-perimeter, while weekly images will be posted to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter using the hashtags #asuppleperimeter, #kameelahjananrasheed, #lmcc and #R2R17.
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IF/THEN and QUESTIONS
Accompanying the Arts Center exhibition, LMCC will also present Rasheed’s If/Then (2014-present) and Questions (2017) on the façade of the historic Fort Jay Theater on Governors Island using the existing poster cases and original marquee board. Taking advantage of a space that would have typically advertised live entertainment and movies from 1939-1996 to U.S. military and their families living and working on Governors Island, Rasheed’s new project Questions and the ongoing If/Then both aim to create a different kind of moment of pause for a viewer: to consider an existential question or to process the association of poignant, two-word alliterative phrases, all composed by the artist.
On a biweekly cycle, the posters in the cases and the text in the marquee board will be changed by Rasheed. The marquee board will feature a new question concerning a contemporary context. The posters will feature alliterative word pairings, each of which contain a multiplicity of meanings. Each change will be documented via Instagram. The final images of the marquee board will be compiled into a small zine made available at the close of the show. The installation’s first question is, “Are we there yet?”
A Supple Perimeter by Kameelah Janan Rasheed is supported in part by Art Matters. Space for If/Then and Questions was generously donated by the Trust for Governors Island. Promotion for LMCC’s gallery at the Arts Center Gallery at Governors Island is provided by Thirteen and WABC-TV.
escape, then fold (2017), archival inkjet printKameelah Janan Rasheed
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