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Public Art with a Sound-Machine
Approximately one million people trample through Times Square everyday - some incessantly pausing to snap pictures of all the chaos while others beeline without ever looking up. On November 11 at 2pm on the corner of 46th and Broadway, Tony Conrad, clad in a neon green T-shirt, used a power drill to open a wooden box half his size that featured a wooden lever, a doorbell, and a sound hole.
Dancing in the Streets: Breaking Ground – UPDATED
UPDATED: Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette is a site-specific choreography workshop that will be held in one of New York City’s most intriguing sites. Led by nationally acclaimed choreographer Joanna Haigood, the workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to work across disciplines to explore movement composition within the context of architecture, history, and public spaces.
The Provenance of Beauty:
A South Bronx Travelogue
...The Provenance of Beauty cleverly merges theater, city, and social commentary. It takes as subject matter and setting one of the city's most storied and notorious districts: the South Bronx. The Foundry's production relies on a staging technique that is simple and innovative: the play takes place entirely on a bus, originating and terminating on 121st St. in East Harlem then moving through the Hunt's Point and Mott Haven sections of The Bronx.
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Brooklyn at Eye Level
The theater company The Civilians has investigated all viewpoints on the Atlantic Yards development proposal as an inroad to broader urban issues of home and neighborhood change.
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