An original devised, environmental opera installation exploring a feminist history of Brooklyn

About this event

GROUNDS is a new performance fusing devised theater, opera, immersive installations, and site-specific art that intervenes in public space. Experimental director Jennifer Williams and International Contemporary Ensemble, both based in South Brooklyn, team up to create this interactive public ritual of healing for the South Brooklyn community. Retelling New York’s history through an inclusive feminist lens, this environmental opera installation illuminates female-identifying history-makers from Brooklyn, including Shirley Chisholm, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Emily Warren Roebling. Devised from archival letters and ephemera, this onsite, socially-distanced public ritual is tailored to Bush Terminal Park’s unique topography. Upending traditional linear narrative forms, it deconstructs history into a constellation of synchronous, immersive experiences, pushing the boundaries of the present and the corporeal. Free to the public, GROUNDS is an interactive community ritual that dispels isolation, rebuilds connectivity, and amplifies community identity by celebrating the resilient spirit that makes Brooklyn extraordinary.

Director and Producer / Jennifer Williams

Installation Designer / Jungah Han

Costume Designer / Asa Benally

Devising Artists / Raquel Acevedo Klein, Isabel Gleicher, Rebekah Heller, IONE, Shara Lunon, Clara Warnaar

Friday, October 8

4:30p / 59th St. and 6th Ave., Brooklyn

6:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural

Saturday, October 9

2:00p / 59th St. and 6th Ave., Brooklyn

4:00p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural

6:00 p / Bush Terminal Park, 43rd St. and 1st Ave., Meeting Point: waves mural

Accessible to homebound audiences via livestream. Learn more at https://www.jenniferwilliamsdirector.com/grounds

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