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Final Notice

Presented by ClimateWeekNYC, two 1.5-mile traveling dances marked the increasing floodplain caused by climate change in coastal Brooklyn, while simultaneously activating a free mobile map app co-created by local Youth Leaders working to expose the ongoing effects of climate change, environmental racism, and historical erasure in Red Hook and Southside, Brooklyn (2019 - 2021)

© 2021 Whitney Browne and Nima Chaichi, All Rights Reserved

Featuring performers Antuan Byers, Jason Collins, Christine Flores, and Vanessa Vargas, with Costume Design by Jenny Lai

 

SENTINEL

Five site-specific solos at politically-charged landmarks across New York City, which culminated as a walk-thru installation at the Brooklyn Historical Society to benefit the New York Civil Liberties Union, including audio guides, interactive maps, in-the-field films, and durational performances in a Plexi surveillance room (2017 - 2018)

© 2018 Luke Ohlson and Scott Shaw, All Rights Reserved

Featuring performers César Brodermann, Jason Collins, Kayla Farrish, Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad, and Molly Griffin, with Technical Design by Joanna DeFelice, Costume Design by Jenny Lai, and Makeup Design by Marc Witmer

 

Salome, and the anatomy of invisible corners

Co-presented by The Trust for Governors Island, OpenHouseGI, and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, an 80-minute site-specific duet inhabited the inside of the abandoned pool on Governors Island’s South Battery (June 2016)

© 2016 Whitney Browne and Nima Chaichi, All Rights Reserved

Featuring performers Jason Collins and Ingrid Kapteyn, with Technical Design by Joanna DeFelice and Costume Design by Jenny Lai

 

Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly

Created on the dancers of Springboard Danse Montréal at Quartier des Spectacles in Montréal, Canada (June 2012)

© 2012 Adolfo Pardo, All Rights Reserved

 

The Sun Seeker Induction Ceremony

Produced by the LMCC for River to River on Governors Island and The Oculus at the World Trade Center, The Sun Seekers Induction Ceremony is an hour-long participatory performance led by Amy Khoshbin, co-written by Yuliya Tsukerman and choreographed and directed by Danielle Russo (Summer & Fall 2022)

© 2022 Barbara Hermore, All Rights Reserved

Featuring artwork by Amy and Jennifer Khoshbin; and performers Ching-I Chang, Eshe All Day Hues, Alex Koi, Mercedes Searer, Malcom McMichael, and Jon Panikkar

 

Learning to forget and other tragic fortunes

80th Anniversary Season of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on the Inside/Out Stage (August 2012)

© 2012 Whitney Browne, All Rights Reserved

 

Since thou wast precious in my sight

Springboard Danse Montréal's inaugural soirée at Julian Schnabel's Casa del Popolo  (September 2013)

© 2013 Steven Schreiber, All Rights Reserved

 

The Lower Room

Multi-chamber installation at the Ace Hotel NYC  (August - September 2012)

© 2013 Whitney Browne and Steven Schreiber, All Rights Reserved

 

my beloved

An evening presented at the Center for Performance Research, created courtesy of the Chez Bushwick Artist in Residence program (September 2014)

© 2014 Steven Schreiber, All Rights Reserved

 

That one should open like an eyelid and lying there beneath it simply eyelids

Durational installation at the American Dance Festival (July 2011)

© 2011 Wong Chun Bong, All Rights Reserved

 

La chanson d'Ève, Op. 95 No. 1: Paradis

Solo excerpt of an evening-length production presented by formerly DNA and Red Bean/NYC (August 2012)

© 2012 Samantha Siegel, All Rights Reserved

 

Since thou wast precious in my sight, Vol. 2

Evening-length rendition for the proscenium.  (April 2014).

© 2014 Amanda Kilton, All Rights Reserved.