A devised, environmental opera installation
Exploring a feminist history of Brooklyn
Friday, October 8, 2021
4:30p / 59th St. & 6th Ave., Brooklyn Register
6:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural Register
Saturday, October 9, 2021
2:00p / 59th St. & 6th Ave., Brooklyn Register
4:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural Register
6:00 p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. & 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural Register
Accessible to homebound audiences via livestream on Saturday, 4pm. Register
Transportation: 45th Street Station (R train) and Sunset Park/BAT ferry.
Concept, Creative Director & Executive Producer / Jennifer Williams
Installation Designer / Jungah Han
Costume Designer / Asa Benally
Devising Artists / Raquel Acevedo Klein, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Rebekah Heller, IONE, Shara Lunon, Clara Warnaar
Stage Manager / Nick Auer
GROUNDS is a new performance fusing devised theater, opera, immersive installations, and site-specific art that intervenes in public space. Retelling New York’s history through an inclusive feminist lens, this environmental opera installation illuminates female-identifying history-makers from Brooklyn, including Shirley Chisholm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Emily Warren Roebling. Free to the public, GROUNDS dispels isolation, rebuilds connectivity, and amplifies community identity by celebrating the resilient spirit that makes Brooklyn extraordinary.
GROUNDS is a recipient of Brooklyn Arts Council’s Brooklyn Arts Fund and Local Arts Support grants, as well as a Restart NY grant. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and also sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, both administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
