June Rites !!

Waterwell is a group of artists, educators and producers dedicated to telling engrossing stories in unexpected ways that deliberately wrestle with complex civic questions. The company’s most recent in-person production, The Courtroom, which The New York Times named “Best Theater of 2019,” was a verbatim re-enactment of one woman’s deportation proceedings performed in active legal spaces around New York City, including the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. Waterwell’s education program has been in residence at the Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) since 2010, where it delivers top-quality, year-round, in-school theater training to over 200 NYC public school students. The program cultivates the student-artist holistically, demands that they develop both as an interpreter and as a creator, and aims to place their work in dialogue with what is going on outside the classroom – in their homes, communities and the world at large.

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Dance Theater Celebrating the Arrival of Summer

Governors Island: Picnic Point

After more than a year of isolation, Waterwell invites you to join your fellow New Yorkers on picturesque Governors Island for a summer-in-the-city celebration. June Rites !! is an original hour of visually stunning and viscerally contagious live performance. Conceived as a civic ritual in dialogue with state fairs and summer solstice festivals, this piece will be an opportunity for collective reemergence into public spaces after a long, hard winter. By turns reflective, playful, somber and ecstatic, the performers and musicians of June Rites !! provide an essential way to experience New York City opening up a new chapter of live performance.June Rites !! will feature original music written and performed by Mauro Refosco and Gustavo Di Dalva, who were recently seen on Broadway with David Byrne in American Utopia. A celebrated percussionist, Refosco has toured and recorded with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, joined Dirty Projectors for their self-titled album, and is a member of experimental supergroup Atoms for Peace alongside Flea and Thom Yorke. A Bahia instrumentalist and singer from a young age, Di Dalva has traveled the world for 20 years playing with the greatest Brazilian musicians and has performed on multiple Grammy-winning albums.The performance will last about 45 minutes. Separate ferry reservations to Governors Island are required. Don't forget to make yours after booking your ticket to June Rites !!

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