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Video: Tom Angotti: “Bottom-Up Planning in the Real Estate Capital of the World?”
Urban planner Tom Angotti speaks about histories of grassroots community urban planning in New York designed to sustain neighborhoods. A landmarked building, Forty Eight Wall Street’s Neo-Georgian cupola features a giant Federalist eagle perched on its spire.
May 1, 2009permalink
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Video: Robert Neuwirth: “Under the Table and Off the Books: Informal Economies in the Developing City — and Your City”
Journalist Robert Neuwirth speaks about black, gray, and other alternative markets developed and practiced in various shanty towns and immigrant communities around the world. The landmarked site of J.P. Morgan’s former private residence, 14 Wall’s 31st floor most recently existed as a bar and restaurant.
March 13, 2009permalink
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Video: Miriam Greenberg: “The Shifting Skyline — Branding New York in Times of Financial Crisis”
Sociologist Miriam Greenberg speaks about the marketing of Lower Manhattan’s skyline as a sign of resurgence following the events of September 11, 2001.
February 20, 2009permalink
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Video: Sitelines 2008: Season Review
February 18, 2009permalink
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Video: Carol Willis: "Form Follows Finance: The Architecture of Wall Street"
Architectural historian Carol Willis speaks about the effects of financial interests on the design and form of buildings. Situated on what was once considered the “most expensive real estate in New York,” the landmarked Bank of New York Building features two stunning Art Deco masterpieces, the Observation Room and the Red Room.
January 21, 2009permalink
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Photos: danscores by Ofelia Loret de Mola: Available Space
Ofelia Loret de Mola, a Mexican choreographer, collaborates with actors, musicians, and a visual artist to transform a swath of City Hall Park into a carnival that evokes the grit and cheap sparkle of a Mexican circus. Beginning on and around the chess tables, the dancers perform as circus characters illustrating chess in a political subtext to live music. The audience travels with the performers from the west side to the east side of the park where they are later led by a marching band to the Brooklyn Bridge.
September 10, 2008permalink
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Photos: Richard Move’s MoveOpolis!: Hostile Takeover
Richard Move's MoveOpolis! presents Hostile Takeover, six elaborate live performance installations that occur at different downtown locations. A glamorous collision of sexual desire and violence, masculinity and femininity and real and imagined worlds, Hostile Takeover places feminine beauty upon a pedestal (literally) in the midst of the male-dominated world of high finance, with stunningly costumed, Butoh-inspired female dancers. A final performance event, Dances at a Gathering, featuring the entire MoveOpolis! cast and an assortment of professional artists and DJs, will be presented on August 25.
August 14, 2008permalink
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Photos: Monica Bill Barnes: Game Face
Monica Bill Barnes’ Game Face uses everyday people that have passed through the Robert Wagner Jr. Park as inspiration, with the performers cast as sightseers, sunbathers and Park Rangers. This oddly matched group slowly begins to perform a show, using the entire area as their stage. Made entirely on site, the cast of die-hard dancers perform their hearts out in the midst of tour buses, passing summertime crowds and the heat.
August 11, 2008permalink
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Photos: 360° Dance Company: Maktub
360° Dance Company arrives at Pier 17 with the US Premiere of their latest commission, Maktub, an exploration of speed and possibility. Dancemaker Lauri Stallings challenges the dancers to burst through their comfort zones, creating a new physical language that blends ballet and modern techniques, gesture, partnering, and impossibly quick shifts of weight. Maktub invites the audience to share in the intricacy of community and witness the meeting of two very different worlds.
July 23, 2008permalink
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Photos: Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: 311
Risa Jaroslow's new work, 311, will take place under the massive archways of the city's Municipal Building. Six dancers will engage in a range of interactions, while an interviewer queries passersby and people, entering and leaving the building about their thoughts on city government. What will emerge when onlookers are asked to engage with these questions in the larger context of the current national focus on government and civic engagement and the immediate context of a dance performance where you don’t expect to see one? These amplified conversations will provide the dance’s sound score.
