Dancing at Dead Horse Bay

iLAND--interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance invites you to public engagements for the iLAB 2008 Artist in Residence Program:

Dead Horse Bay

Collaborators:
Sarah White, Choreographer
Angel Ayón, Architect
Gerald Marks, Visual Artist

Saturday, August 16, 2008, 2:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 2:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:30 PM to 7:00 PM

For up-to-date on the Dead Horse Bay project, click here.

For more information contact: info@ilandart.org or 212-375-8283.

Located at Dead Horse Bay, Brooklyn

Events are FREE and open to the general public and will happen rain or shine.
Light refreshments will be served

Details on Saturday, August 16 event

“The experience will begin at low tide, around 2:15 PM. There will be dance performance on the tidal flat and a very remarkable bay beach to explore. Sunset, moonrise, and high tide all happen right around 8:00 PM. The alignment of sun, moon & earth is special this month and the full moon will rise in a state of partial eclipse. Our location was chosen as a perfect spot to view the sunset behind Coney Island and the NY skyline and the moonrise/eclipse out of Jamaica Bay.”

Directions and Transportation

Take the #2 Train to the last stop, Brooklyn College/Flatbush Avenue.
Transfer to the Q35 bus. Ask the driver to let you off at the "last stop before the bridge".
Signs will lead you down to our site on the water.
There is a parking lot where Aviation Road meets Flatbush Avenue. Across the street from the parking lot is a path that will lead you down to the site area.

Click here for GoogleMap of the area surrounding Dead Horse Bay.

The experience will begin at low tide, around 2:15 PM and there will be dance performance on the tidal flat and a very remarkable bay beach to explore. Sunset, moonrise, and high tide will all happen right around 8:00 PM. The alignment of sun, moon & earth is super precise this month and the full moon will rise in a state of partial eclipse. (Days ago, our August new moon eclipsed the sun, though you needed to be around Western China to see it!) Our location was chosen a a perfect spot to view the sunset behind Coney Island and the NY skyline and the moonrise/eclipse out of Jamaica Bay.

Dead Horse Bay
Collaborators: Choreographer Sarah White, Architect Angel Ayón, Visual Artist Gerald Marks

Dead Horse Bay, situated along Brooklyn's southernmost waterfront, appears today as a place wedged somewhere in time between an industrial past, return to natural shoreline and an undetermined future. The Collaborators will use this site as a context to explore, reflect and ultimately discourse on the environmental impact of site alterations engineered to meet human needs. Their collaborative project will stem from their combined interests in understanding and interpreting nature, ecology, causality, evolutionary change, structural integrity, assigning value to experience, and examining cultural behaviors both current and historic.

Throughout the three-month residency period, monthly public events, scheduled around the summer full moons, will take place at Dead Horse Bay. Events will include a combination of choreography and movement explorations, temporary site interventions and multimedia documentation and representation. Through environmental assessment, creative interplay, site interpretation and traditional man-nature rituals the collaborators intend to create a forum for understanding and experiencing the effects of use, misuse, isolation and neglect along New York City's coastline.

iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within different fields/disciplines. The goals of iLAB are 1) to invigorate and re-imagine relationships between the public and the urban environment through kinetic experience, 2) to engage artists and practitioners across the disciplines of dance, art, and the ecology of physical interrelationships such that we create and investigate innovative approaches to science, infrastructure, urbanisms, and architecture within a performative context, and 3) to support the development of process in engagement over product such that process is itself a product for artistic and public action.

iLAND is a not for profit organization conceived and formed by choreographer Jennifer Monson in 2004. The organization’s mission is to investigate the power of dance, in collaboration with other fields, to illuminate our kinetic understanding of the world. iLAND, a dance research organization with a fundamental commitment to environmental sustainability as it relates to art and the urban context, cultivates cross-disciplinary research among artists, environmentalists, scientists, urban designers and other fields.

iLAB 2008 is supported in part by the Jerome Foundation and Brooklyn Arts Council, and Robison.

info@ilandart.org 212-375-8283