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2007 Schedule To the Tree Thursday, April 5th, 2007 12:00 Noon Midday Service at James Chapel at Union Theological Seminary - Free Byrne is working within church spaces, connecting dance with intention-enacting -- church-going practice -- and the architecture and imagery from which even the secular symbolism of our culture is drawn. To the Tree is a solo created by Byrne on a 13-foot high centerpiece cross in the James Chapel; it is a collaboration with Union Theological seminarian/musician Claudio Carvalhaes. Seating is in the round. Letter to the Church Monday, April 23, 2007 7:30pm Lampman Chapel, Union Theological Seminary Reservations: email clarebyrne@juno.com (seating limited to 25) Donations: baked goods or artwork Reception following performance Byrne received a Fellowship from the Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Bogliasco Foundation for study at the Liguria Center in Italy in October/November 2006, during which she visited Rome and the Vatican. Letter to the Church is a response to this visit and The Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists, 1999. These performances take place at: Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York 3041 Broadway at 121st Street, New York, NY 10027 1 train to 116th Street or 125th Street Enter at 121st Street and sign in at Main Desk Kneelings Sunday April 22 - Sunday May 6, 2007 New York City, Free, See 2-week schedule below. Byrne re-dedicates herself to "living in the cracks" -- existing in constantly shifting ideological territory, digging into movement lexicon in order to consume it, reprise it, and renew it. Kneelings is a series of solitary or group genuflections over a period of two weeks, each location and time collectively making a peeled-fruit-skin-spiral around the city. The order spends moments on the sidewalk cracks of New York City, kneeling as a basic root-word in the grammar of movement: in wonder, solidarity, remembrance. The kneelers are Clare Byrne, Sharon Estacio, Patrick Ferreri, Nicholas Leichter, Meredith Mandel, Jeffrey Peterson, Will Rawls, Whitney Tucker, and others expected and unexpected. You are invited to attend these moments, or hang the mobile-map at home and remember their passing. Sunday April 22, 9:30pm West sidewalk of 9th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets, Manhattan Monday April 23, 4:45pm Northwest corner of 120th Street and Riverside Drive, Manhattan Tuesday April 24, 11:00am Northeast corner of Tompkins and Decatur Avenues, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Wednesday April 25, 2:00pm Nostrand Ave between Halsey and Macon, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Thursday April 26, 10:30am Northeast corner of Carlton Avenue and St. Mark's Place, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn Friday April 27, 8:15am East side of Fulton Street between Front and Water Streets, near South Street Seaport Saturday April 28, 12:00noon Northeast corner of Crosby and Howard Streets, SoHo, Manhattan Sunday April 29, 11:00am Central Park, The Pool near the footbridge, enter Park at 103rd Street and Central Park West Monday April 30, 11:00am Exxon station on 110th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan Tuesday May 1, 10:00am Southwest corner of 31st Street and Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, Queens Wednesday May 2, 2:00pm Northwest corner of Water and Dock Streets, DUMBO, Brooklyn Thursday May 3, 7:00pm East side of Sixth Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets, Manhattan Friday May 4, 11:00am Northeast corner of Driggs Avenue and North 7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Saturday May 5, 2:30pm Northwest corner of 11th Street and Second Avenue, East Village, Manhattan Sunday May 6, 10:00am Southern tip of South Point Park, Roosevelt Island |
