Dancing in the park

Kinesis Project Dance Theatre

(Zoe Bowick, Hilary Brown, Madeline Hoak, Benjamin Oyzon, 

Jun Lee, Rebecca Patek and Melissa Riker)

at Bosque Garden and Fountain, Battery Park 

all photos (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Photographing Melissa Riker's Kinesis Project Dance Theatre--on a perfect day at Battery Park--turned out to be a slippery affair.

First, I had to find the troupe. I headed towards the Bosque Garden fountain--since I'd read that the company planned to dance in it. Riker's announcements invited the public to bring towels if they wanted to join in. But I found only pigeons, English house sparrows and starlings sipping and bathing in the fountain--oh, and a batch of tourists taking snapshots of loved ones posed in the midst of the spray. No dancers, though.

(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

I wandered a short distance and discovered that Kinesis Project is a movable feast in more ways than one. Riker and her dancers were gradually ambling and scrambling towards the fountain, often landing on benches and slipping over one another in a rapid, nonstop way that challenged my photo skills.

Eventually, dancers displaced avian denizens and tourists as you will see in this photo collection. Click the photo player to see larger images.

Birds and KPDT at Battery Park 
(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa