When is a fire escape a stage? When is the marble
adorned lobby of a corporate headquarters an intimate playhouse? When
is a ballerina’s tutu a sound studio? Only during the Council’s
annual Sitelines series.
From May 8 - August 30th, 2006, consider all
of Downtown the best seat in the house.
BENOIT
MAUBREY
AND DIE AUDIO GRUPPE AUDIO BALLERINAS
DATES_ May 8 through May 13 TIME_12:30PM SITE_Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street (between
Gouverneur & William)
This Berlin-based art group performs with electro-acoustic
tutus equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers that respond to their
environment. The Audio Ballerinas use a variety of other electronic instruments
(mini-computers, samplers, contact microphones, cassette and CD players,
and radio receivers) that allow them to work with the sounds, surfaces,
and topographies of the space around them.
KEELY
GARFIELD PAIRED WITH ZACH
MORRIS HOPE & ANCHOR
DATES_May
25, 26, 27, 31 &
June 1, 3 TIME_7 PM SITE_Various places at the South Street Seaport – culminating
at the cobblestone street at Front and Fulton
Set
against the nautical backdrop of the South Street Seaport - at once
a reminder of New York's maritime past and its overwhelmingly mercantile
present – Hope & Anchor dredges
up ghosts and modern-day denizens then sends them crashing together
in a gruff display of bad temper, dashed hopes and delayed deliverance.
Fleeting images and tarnished sea shanties conjure semblances of sailors,
sirens and impending storms. Garfield and Morris remind us of our potent
connection to the sea, and our reliance on its good faith.
DOUGLAS DUNN PAIRED WITH ELKE RINDFLEISCH MULTIPLE UNDO & OTHER
DISTORTIONS
DATES_June 19-24, 26-29 TIME_12:30 PM SITE_Elevated Acre at
55 Water Street (between Gouverneur & William)
Disjointed movements of twists, torques, and overextended limbs.
Bodily distortions that simulate dizzying and disorienting effects.
If dancing is a tying together of moves, what is it to undo them? If dancing is a merging of body & space, can we disconnect them? If dancing is identity of flesh and fantasy, what will we suffer to sever them?
NEW YORK CLASSICAL
THEATRE MARY STUART by Fredrich Schiller
DATES_July 2-3 (Previews
open to the public), 5, 7-12 TIMES_7PM SITE_Meet at the entrance to Castle Clinton in Battery
Park
Staged in historic Castle Clinton and the majestic surrounding gardens,
Mary Queen of Scots awaits her execution by Elizabeth I. Both decendents
of the famous Henry VIII, these cousins never exchanged more than
letters in real life, but Schiller helps us imagine a confrontation
between two of Europe's mightiest female monarchs while overlooking
the Statue of Liberty!
20 min.
Co-presented by New York Classical Theatre.
AARON ROSENBLUM NEW YORK IS HERE!
DATES_July 6-8 & 13-15 TIME_7:30 PM. Additional performance at 9PM on the
14th and 15th only SITE_32 Avenue of the Americas (at
Walker Street in Tribeca). Gather in the lobby just inside the
main entrance.
New York Is Here! is a performance
installation that honors the mythology of our great metropolis. Part
funhouse, historical narrative and performance art, New York Is Here!
goes inside the city’s chaos to explore how individual tales
form the legends of the masses. This site-specific journey leads
audiences through the 5,000 square foot raw space on the ground floor
of AT&T’s old Long Distance Building, an art deco historical
landmark. Task-oriented dances mix with voiced-over text, giving
life to a series of vignettes portraying legends like the Chinese
food deliveryman stuck in a Bronx elevator, McGurk’s Suicide
Hall (a notorious Bowery saloon made famous for its singing waiters
and prostitutes’ suicides), the Fulton Fish Market, number-running
lotteries, baseball, politics and more.
DATES_July 21-23 TIME_8:30 PM SITE_Laundromat at 168 Elizabeth Street (between Spring and
Kenmare)
Heidi Duckler, known as Los Angeles' "queen of site-specific performance," and her unstoppable Collage Dance Theatre reprise Laundromatinee – their first site-specific work – for their first ever appearance in New York. The dance looks at the plight of the housewife within the context of the Laundromat, a commodity disappearing from gentrified neighborhoods. Dancers spin in dryers, climb in and out of washing machines and hang from clothes baskets, gradually removing three layers of clothing to perform to Stand By Your Man.
New
Yorker – Goings On About
Town – July 24, 2006
“In Heidi Duckler’s native Los Angeles, her site-specific, surrealism-tinged
dance-theatre works have played in (among other places) municipal buildings,
hotels, and an abandoned jail. For the New York debut of Duckler’s Collage
Dance Theatre (part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s free “Sitelines” series),
the group reprises “Laundromatinee,” a piece for seven harried women
and dozens of washers and dryers, at a Nolita Laundromat. As the hardworking
gals shift between crazed housework and limp exhaustion, housecoats and slips,
the sly pop music keeps things fizzy. Still, Duckler’s kitsch
has a steel core.”
DATES_July 25-29, & August 1-5 TIME_8 PM SITE_32 Avenue of the Americas (at Walker St.) - main floor
NE corner FREE
The sky is clouding over and there’s a crazy wind rising up against
the summer heat. Canadian inter-disciplinary company bluemouth inc.
along with guest artists from New York and Las Vegas bring their
Dora Award-winning performance installation, evoking the struggle
for acceptance in the calm before the family storm. 60 min.
"It's
extraordinary, exhilarating, and enormously moving... People
who care about what theatre can be—and people in search
of a challenging, rigorous, adventurous evening out—will
want to get to one of these performances."
— Martin
Denton, nytheatre.com,
July 25, 2006
DATES_August 9, 10 @ 7 PM, August 11 @ 12:30 PM, August 16, 17 @ 7 PM & August 18 @ 12:30 PM SITE_Pavilion Columbus Park (Baxter, Mulberry, Bayard & Worth
Sts.) FREE
Parks serve as public gathering spaces for thousands of individuals to relax and socialize. Despite a seeming complexity, this work seeks to expose the universal themes of relaxation, rest and “downtime” that are experienced within the context of the park.
DATES_August 21-23, 28-30 TIMES_NOON & 12:30 PM SITE_Exterior balconies at Cipriani’s 55 Wall
Street (between William and Pearl)
Fire on Wall Street exposes the passion
and power of twenty women in an environment where these qualities are
not usually celebrated. In an arresting, raw exploration of the element
fire, the women of Ellis Wood Dance manipulate their bodies and command
the grandiose architecture of 55 Wall Street with sensual abandon. Sheathed
in endless mesh fabric and little else, the dancers writhe and pull its
limits, as their embers intensify into a reckless blaze.
Sitelines is made possible with lead support from
Altria Group, Inc. and the New York Mercantile Exchange. Additional support
provided by New York State Council on the Arts, Morgan Stanley, and Harkness
Foundation for Dance.
