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Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 5 PM

Come to the plaza at the steps of the Brooklyn Borough Hall in Columbus Park

This is a one-of-a-kind site-specific performance created for the portico of the Brooklyn Borough Hall. The façade of Borough Hall will burst alive with moving color, rhythm, dancers and fabric, creating patterns of beauty and celebrating the liveliness of the Brooklyn Borough. The musical score accompanying the dance was written specifically for this portico performance by John Henry Sheridan, a composer who is sixth generation Brooklyn. Performers will include professional dancers from New York, and also Dance Therapists from around the country.

This performance is free and open to the public. The audience will participate in the Finale.

The dance event coincides with the beginning of the national conference of the American Dance Therapy Association, which is held annually in different cities in the country, and this year is hosted by Brooklyn Dance/Movement Therapists.

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz will perform in the piece, emerging from the doors and descending the steps to a pomp and circumstance part of the music entitled “Doors..” Another section of the music entitled “The Columns” features the six Ionic pillars. During this part, children and/or individuals from six of the immigrant cultures in Brooklyn will be honored in front of each column, and will represent being a “pillar of their community.” These include the Arabic, Mexican, Caribbean, Chinese, South Asian, and Russian communities in the borough.

Choreographer Marylee Hardenbergh has been working with the Brooklyn Borough President’s office so that long pieces of fabric --- in the colors of the old Brooklyn flag – will emerge from the windows to connect with the audience gathered in the park below.

 

Composer John Henry Sheridan attended Brooklyn College and has written pieces for many dance performances. He is truly a site-specific composer, as his family has been in Brooklyn for many generations. He can be reached at johnhenrysheridan@gmail.com.