Sensory-friendly Performance December 21, 2021, 7:30 p.m. – We are pleased to offer a special sensory-friendly performance, designed to be enjoyable by all
The world premiere of Waterwell s
June Rites!! will run June 18-27 at Picnic Point on Governors Island. The outdoor dance-theatre work celebrating the arrival of summer is co-created by Lee Sunday Evans, Ãsta Bennie Hostetter and Mariana Sanchez.
Conceived as a civic ritual in dialogue with state fairs and summer solstice festivals, the performance will be an opportunity for collective reemergence into public spaces after a long, hard winter. The piece has original music written and performed by percussionists Mauro Refosco and Gustavo Di Dalva, both recently seen on Broadway in
David Byrne s American Utopia.
Evans directs the work, with costume design by Hostetter and scenic design by Sanchez.
UMS President Matthew VanBesien
Credit Peter Smith
The 2021-22 UMS season will include a variety of in-person performances, as well as digital content, according to its president, Matthew VanBesien. The season will include a number of new “commissioned” performances, and the UMS president says the live performances will begin later than they usually do in a typical season.
The first in-person event will be the Big Band Holidays with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on Sunday, November 28 in Hill Auditorium. VanBesien says they are taking many precautions to make sure people attending in person events are protected and comfortable.
This article originally appeared on Capital & Main.
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