When: June 18–29
Where: Various venues downtown
Price: Free

Tags: #dance, #sitespecific, #interactive, #art, #MobilityAdvisory (see below)

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Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presents the 18th annual River To River Festival, Downtown New York City’s completely free summer arts festival, June 18–29. The River To River Festival celebrates artistic and creative diversity across disciplines, presenting live art and installation in public spaces and in partnership with leading institutions in Lower Manhattan. All events are free and all are welcome. Works include:

Add Color (Refugee Boat) (1960/2019) is presented by Yoko Ono in the Seaport District. The interactive installation contains a lifeboat in an empty space, inviting the public to paint their thoughts, ideas and hopes on the walls, floor and boat.

The world premiere of Pam Tanowitz’s outdoor site-specific Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures takes place in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City. Tanowitz partners with New York City Ballet principal Sara Mearns to conceptualize a new work with an ensemble of dancers.

NIC Kay’s pushit!! is a site-responsive durational performance that starts on the street and moves indoors with the audience. Part of the getting well soon series, pushit!! meditates on emotional labor and the impossibility of the “stage” as a place of freedom for the Black performer. Social Choreographer Ernesto Pujol’s Listening School will seek performative engagement for three days across Lower Manhattan. Thirteen artists will pursue the public’s roadside discourse on listening. Their open process will culminate in The Listeners, a performance as a formal listening vessel embodying stillness.

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Please note there is no formal seating in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park.