2009 Aug 4: Sitelines ’09: Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight

On this hot summer day, I rode my bike all the way to Battery Park from my neighborhood in Brooklyn. It took me about an hour, and I arrived drenched in sweat, but it was worth it to see this delightful dance performance from the LMCC Sitelines series as part of the River To River Festival.

From LMCC.net: “gabrielle lansner & company’s Turning Heads, Frocks in Flight is an exuberant dance inspired by “Dresses of Transformation,” a series of colorful and fanciful dresses by artist Caterina Bertolotto. Part dance and part dancing parade, Turning Heads will be a celebration of freedom and personal transformation performed by women of many cultural backgrounds to reflect the diversity of New York City. Created in collaboration with the company, the dance will reflect elements of each woman’s personal experience and will feature new music by composer Nancy Magarill. South Cove is an environmental landscape recess along the Hudson River waterfront.

gabrielle lansner & company create visceral and intellectually stirring works that invite diverse cultural audiences to deepen their own emotional life, using elements of dance, gesture, text, and music to turn fiction into vivid, psychologically charged pieces of movement theater.”

All shots taken with the 5d2 & 85/1.8.