EXPERIENCE DANCE IN UNUSUAL PUBLIC SPACES!
INSITU is a unique two-day outdoor dance festival taking place at four public waterfront parks along the East River in LIC. It is an initiative that aims to strengthen, bridge and celebrate the diverse communities living along the Long Hunters Point South Park INSITUDANCEFESTIVAL.COM Island City waterfront by using dance as a tool for deeper community engagement. A New York Times Top Pick of “15 August 4+5 #insitudancefestival #insitu2018 Gantry Plaza State Park @insitudancefestival Dance Festivals to See this Summer”, INSITU offers a fresh and exciting way to experience dance in unusual public Queensbridge Park @insitudancefest spaces. The 2018 festival presents 144 performances and 24 dance workshops by 22 NYC-based, national and 1-8 PM Socrates Sculpture Park @insitudancefestival international choreographers. Performers will maneuver through playgrounds, appear in hidden corners and dance on piers, staircases and shorelines. Setting up a chain of dynamic dance performances, INSITU invites audiences to discover LIC and its waterfront through dance. INSITU also offers two one-month community dance workshops LIC Waterfront “A Riverbank Awash in Movement” for seniors and young adults in partnership with Jacob A. Riis Settlement throughout the month of July. All INSITU — The New York Times programming is free and open to the public, making the arts accessible to the general public and encouraging audiences and community members from different backgrounds to engage, create and connect.
Douglas Dunn + Dancers INSITU 2018 TEAM ARTIST SELECTION PANEL Renegade Performance Group Svea Schneider, Founder/Artistic Director | Karen Kitchen, Co-Producer | Kendra Gierre Godley/ Project 44 | Loni Landon/ Loni Landon Roberts, Development Lead | Jolie Saltiel, Festival Coordinator | Ericka Paparella, Dance Projects | Katherine Maxwell/ Hivewild Dance | Joya Powell/ Movement of Fleuve | Espace danse Videographer and Editor | Emma Coyle, Jana Markova, Indre Ezerskyte, Claire the People Dance Company | Melissa Riker/ Kinesis Project dance theatre | Svea House Of Ninja Kendall, Festival Interns | CSTUDIO DESIGN/Christine Sullivan, Kanan Shah, Graphic Schneider/ Kinematik Dance Theater & INSITU | Paty Solorzano | John Zullo/ Raw Sarah Elgart / Arrogant Elbow Design | Michelle Tabnick PR, Public Relations Movement Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival ADVISORY BOARD 2018 Community & Park Partners Javier Padilla & The Movement Playground Rob Basch, President, Hunters Point Parks Conservancy | Christopher Hanway, AnA Collaborations Executive Director, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement | Paul Januszewski, Vice Alice Gosti President, Rockrose Development Corp. | Sheila Lewandowski, Executive Director, Chocolate Factory Theater | Rob MacKay, Director of Marketing, Queens Economic Donofrio Dance Company Development Corporation Sarah Chien Kate Harpootlian and artists
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Support INSITU by making a tax-deductible donation TODAY at César Brodermann & Sebastian Abarbanell insitudancefestival.com/donate Sophie Maguire & Emma Wiseman N E 1 4 Dance Babacar Top / Topdance Company A Note from Founder & Artistic Director: Quilan ‘Cue’ Arnold WELCOME TO INSITU SITE-SPECIFIC DANCE FESTIVAL 2018!! Melissa Riker/Kinesis Project dance theatre
I am so grateful to be sharing the second year of INSITU with you! Last year’s A big THANK YOU to INSITU’s co-producer Karen Kitchen and deepest gratitude to JoAnna Mendl Shaw/The Equus Projects inaugural INSITU was a wonderful success and an amazing opportunity to everyone who has contributed to realizing INSITU 2018. Thank you to INSITU’s small Christopher Núñez experience dance along the LIC waterfront. In 2017 we presented a total of 75 volunteer staff, our interns, our 2018 artists, all our sponsors, community partners performances by 24 emerging and established NYC-based choreographers, and Kickstarter supporters! Without you, we could have not made it happen! Cecilia Fontanesi/NYC Parcon and a three month community dance workshop co-hosted by Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement. This year we have invited national and even international Artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for choreographers to INSITU and added a new INSITU programming element—site- creative and free expression. I hope you get inspired today to see the extraordinary specific dance workshops for our audiences throughout the Festival! I am excited in the ordinary and wish you a day filled with curiosity! Enjoy your time exploring LIC to again experience public spaces activated through dance and look forward to through dance! continue to inspire our community and audiences with INSITU’s five themes: PLAY, ENGAGE, CREATE, EXPLORE, and CONNECT! Play! Svea + The INSITU team
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IT’S EASY TO GET FROM ONE PARK TO THE NEXT THANK YOU Rent a bike with CITIBIKE’s bike sharing program Take the Q103 bus every 30 min, along Vernon Blvd Take the NYC Ferry between Long Island City/Gantry Plaza State for being a long-standing, generous supporter of Park and Socrates Sculpture Park Hop in a LYFT and enjoy a special discount with discount code INSITU 2018 Sponsors LIC culture, art, local business and INSITUDANCE! INSITU SITE-SPECIFIC DANCE FESTIVAL 2018 Use the INSITU 2018 Google Map to find the best modes of transportation between each park - walking, biking, riding the bus
or ferry - >> bit.ly/INSITUmap Generous support is provided by the Partnerships for Parks Capacity Fund Grant.
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