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Awash in Movement” Awash in Movement” 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 Times New York — The to strengthen, bridge and celebrate the diverse communities living along the Long INSITUDANCEFESTIVAL.COM “A Riverbank “A Riverbank #insitudancefestival #insitu2018 Island City waterfront Sculpture Park Socrates by using dance as a tool for deeper community engagement. A New York Times Top Pick of “15 Queensbridge Park Queensbridge Gantry Plaza State Park Gantry State Plaza Hunters Point South Park Point Hunters @insitudancefestival Dance Festivals to See this Summer”, INSITU offers a fresh and exciting way to experience dance in unusual public @insitudancefest spaces. The 2018 festival presents 144 performances and 24 dance workshops by 22 NYC-based, national and @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 for seniors and young adults in partnership with Jacob A. Riis Settlement throughout the month of July. All INSITU programming is free and open to the public, making the arts accessible to the general public and encouraging audiences and community1-8 PM 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 August 4+5 August 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 LIC Waterfront Markova, Indre Ezerskyte, Claire the People Dance Company | Melissa Riker/ Kinesis Project dance theatre | Svea INSITU 2018 Sponsors 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 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 DONATE TO INSITU! A Lady in the House Co. 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 Partners 2018 Community & Park 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 SHARE YOUR ADVENTURE Tag your photos + posts #insitudance2018 #insitudancefestival 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 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. East River HUNTERS POINT SOUTH PARK NYC FERRY Hunters Point South 1 SANDFIELD 2 LIC LANDING 3 RAILWAY TIES 4 BASKETBALL COURT 2 Alice Gosti César Brodermann & Alice Gosti Quilan 'Cue' Arnold N E 1 4 Dance Quilan Sebastian Abarbanel César Brodermann & ‘Cue’ 3 Sebastian Abarbanell i Arnold 1:00 PM | 3:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 7:00 PM 1:10 PM | 3:10 PM | 5:10 PM | 7:10 PM 1:25 PM | 3:25 PM | 5:25 PM | 7:25 PM 1:35 PM | 3:35 PM | 5:35 PM | 7:35 PM As we get weaker together Architected to celebrate LIC, The Third Rail interprets In Constricted not 1 is an investigation of the a reminder of the complex experiences from enslaved Constructed, mixing continuous uncovering of African-Americans escaping childhood playfulness with WC relationship between the city one’s true self in a world that through the Underground adult physicality, the and its waters, Bodies of Water 4 Melissa repeatedly bears burdens Railroad as a metaphoric familiar events and forms Riker/Kinesis and obstacles. is a political performance parallel to the modern-day occurring in a basketball 5 Project dance Citibike It was my own body that African-American journey, court are now incorporated N E 1 4 Dance theatre touching on the ideas of immi- needed to survive asking, "What are blacks in with different memories from INSITU SITE-SPECIFIC gration, refugee crisis, fishing DANCE FESTIVAL 2018 It was my own body that today's America running a shattered world. August 4 + 5, 1-8 PM DAILY needed to be caught rights, and water ecology. from/towards?" Center Blvd It was my own body that Performance sequences start at Borden Ave learned how to fly 50th Ave 1 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM + 7 PM 51st Ave 54th Ave It was my own body that RAILWAY TIES 1:55 PM | 3:55 PM | 5:55 PM SEQUENCE STARTS HERE 1 decided to try. 5 In Breathing With Strangers, quiet, music filled ears. SITE-SPECIFIC Melissa Riker guides Whether in an audience, mass 2nd Street 2nd Street DANCE WORKSHOP audiences through quick transit, or as pedestrians, time Melissa Riker/Kinesis narratives on historic railway with strangers moves urban Projects dance theatre ties: consider subway car lives forward. 1 min 0 min 0 min 0 min GANTRY PLAZA STATE PARK 6 PIERS 7 GANTRY PLAZA 8 LOUNGE CHAIRS 9 CURVED BENCHES INSITU SITE-SPECIFIC House Of Ninja Renegade Performance Donofrio Dance Sarah Chien DANCE FESTIVAL 2018 Group Company East River August 4 + 5, 1-8 PM DAILY 1:00 PM | 3:00 PM | 5:00 PM | 7:00 PM 1:10 PM | 3:10 PM | 5:10 PM | 7:10 PM 1:25 PM | 3:25 PM | 5:25 PM | 7:25 PM 1:40 PM | 3:40 PM | 5:40 PM | 7:40 PM House of Ninja Donofrio Dance Performance sequences start at 6 Company 1 PM, 3 PM, 5 PM + 7 PM Peer/Pier is a meeting in Landing is a sonic and visual OTHER examines the Pathway is one woman's vogue, an homage to the art knowing and awareness that journey of patiently carving Sarah Chien SEQUENCE STARTS HERE 6 experience inspired by social 8 form's origin, a showcase of its issues of climate, immigration, we aren’t alone, but a part her own way through the NYC FERRY Long Island City presence. The pier is a place migration, and segregation of a greater existence and world; breath, rhythm and 9 Gantry Plaza State Park of exploration and freedom, over time, a meditation on the connected reality. movement, live vocalist where we always vogue down realities too many people face Amelia Lang-Wallace and 7 and in vogue we are all equal. internationally, domestically, dancer Sarah Chien open At the Pier we are Peers. a path, playfully inviting the Renegade Performance and in NYC. i Group WC Sarah Elgart | audience along. Arrogant Elbow 10 PEPSI CO SIGN 10 Center Blvd Cecilia Fontenasi/ Sarah Elgart / Parcon NYC 49th Ave Arrogant Elbow 11 1:50 PM | 3:50 PM | 5:50 PM | 7:50 PM Shape of Memory, inspired N Basin Rd Basin N by a star’s light as visible PEPSI CO SIGN 2:05 PM | 4:05 PM | 6:05 PM 46th Ave 48th Ave 11 47th Ave 5th St 5th St 46th Rd 47th Rd Citibike memory, melding the Pepsi- Space Pillars encourages dancing.