Fluid Histories, Neighborhood Practices: Rehearsing a Changing Waterfront

We had a great time at this year’s iLAND symposium: Fluid Histories, Neighborhood Practices: Rehearsing a Changing Waterfront – a gathering around movement, science and the environment in New York City.

Our workshop, The Urban Backstage took people through a series of actions, spaces and prompts (or mini scores) to explore the boundary between performance and backstage, both within the urban landscape and infrastructure and in people’s everyday gestures and emotions. The final presentations of the movements generated from “rehearsing” the series of scores were fantastic.

In the photo of Eric Sanderson of The Welikia Project during his presentation at the panel he is gesturing at Collect Pond, one of our favorite topics.