A large-scale art installation and dance-based town hall encouraging audience participation
When: Wednesdays through Sundays, June 7 — July 1; Up Right performance at 8pm on weeknights; DJs perform 2–6pm on weekends
Where: Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave, New York, NY 10065
Price: $35 on weekdays; $17 on weekends
Tags: #sitespecific,#participatory, #interactive, #dance
Animating Park Avenue Armory with the sights, sounds, and movement of renowned interdisciplinary artist Nick Cave, The Let Go transforms the Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a dance-based town hall that brings together visitors to participate in a collective act of catharsis. The Armory’s 2018 visual arts commission builds on Cave’s hybrid, multisensory practice with an ambitious project — encompassing performance, installation, dance-based encounters, and soundtracks by some of New York’s leading DJs — that provides a backdrop for audiences to dispel negativity and uplift one another. On view June 7 through July 1, 2018, The Let Go features a series of soundsuits — wearable sculptures that create a second skin to conceal race, gender, and class, that come to life in a new “Up Right” performance conceived for the Armory’s historic interiors.
The Let Go is on view at Park Avenue Armory June 7 through July 1, 2018. Up Right performances take place every Wednesday through Friday evening. On the weekends, the installation is transformed into a dance-based town hall during the daytime.
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Contact Level: None listed.
Content Advisories: Attendees should expect to be on their feet and dancing.
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