GROUNDS (Bush Terminal Park) - a devised, environmental opera installation

An original devised, environmental opera installation exploring a feminist history of Brooklyn

Bush Terminal Piers Park

GROUNDS is a new performance fusing devised theater, opera, immersive installations, and site-specific art that intervenes in public space. Experimental director Jennifer Williams and International Contemporary Ensemble, both based in South Brooklyn, team up to create this interactive public ritual of healing for the South Brooklyn community. 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. Devised from archival letters and ephemera, this onsite, socially-distanced public ritual is tailored to Bush Terminal Park’s unique topography. Upending traditional linear narrative forms, it deconstructs history into a constellation of synchronous, immersive experiences, pushing the boundaries of the present and the corporeal. Free to the public, GROUNDS is an interactive community ritual that dispels isolation, rebuilds connectivity, and amplifies community identity by celebrating the resilient spirit that makes Brooklyn extraordinary.Concept, Creative Director and Executive Producer / Jennifer WilliamsInstallation Designer / Jungah HanCostume Designer / Asa BenallyDevising Artists / Raquel Acevedo Klein, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Rebekah Heller, IONE, Shara Lunon, Clara WarnaarFriday, October 84:30p / 59th St. and 6th Ave., Brooklyn6:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves muralSaturday, October 92:00p / 59th St. and 6th Ave., Brooklyn4:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural6:00 p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves muralAccessible to homebound audiences via livestream. Learn more at https://www.jenniferwilliamsdirector.com/groundsGuests are welcome to attend multiple performances and experience GROUNDS in both locations. Transportation: 45th Street Station (R train) and Sunset Park/BAT ferry.“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).

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