Passages | Pasajes
Dongan Lawn, Fort Tryon Park
Broadway at Dongan Place, New York, NY
September 21, 2019
4pm - 6pm
FREE
Passages | Pasajes is a site specific sonic performance that utilizes the Dongan Lawn in Fort Tryon Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. The performance will occur the afternoon of Saturday September 21, 2019, close to the autumnal equinox.
Performed by: Daan Bootsma, Assaf Gidron, Caroline Hastings, John P. Hastings, Christina Kay, Sarah Manton, Kristin Licata, Ivory Nunez, Anna Rabinowitz, Megan Schubert, Terrance von Solomone, Teodora Stepančić, Matthew Westerby, & Mun-tzung Wong.
Click here for a prose poem reflection of the performance from Nick Graham.
Please click here for an interview between John P. Hastings and the writer Deena Denaro.
The work will manifest as 16 performers, mainly from the Uptown community, moving through the park space. The performers will expand and contract together as they pass melodies, passages of text, and the names of loved ones between each other through the park. These three sections of the work are entitled: Names | Nombres, Passages | Pasajes, and The Sound | El Sonido. The entire 2 hour performance will be in four, 22 minute, iterations with breaks in between. The work is in 4 distinct iterations providing all performers the opportunity to be the leaders of a performance.
The performers themselves will assist in the creation of the work. Their personal histories will form parts of the materials utilized in the performance. This collaboration will foster a democratizing effect and ideally create a non-hierarchical structure to the work.
We want to acknowledge that the performance will take place on the traditional land of the Lenape Peoples past and present, and honor with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations. This calls us to commit to continuing to learn how to be better stewards of the land we inhabit as well.
The location of the performance, Broadway at Dongan Place, is named for Thomas Dongan (1634 - 1715), Irish born Royal Governor of New York, noted for having called the first representative legislature in New York, and for granting the province's Charter of Liberties. More information can be found here.
Passages | Pasajes is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by LMCC.
