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Dance/Movement
Sea Dike
May 10th, 2014 | Amsterdam Island Cities are performative environments. Living in one as the sea rises is an unsettling dialogue with the sea. Amsterdam’s historic management of the Amstel river and the North Sea is an imaginative instance of how island cities and a water bound urbanism can evolve. In Sea Dike, Harmattan collaborated with […]
Far Rockaway
September 14, 2013 at 2pm, Rockaway Park, Beach 116. Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of New York’s coastline. Many communities continue to reel from the after shock of the unprecedented storm surge. Harmattan’s performance Far Rockaway is a communal reclamation of a neighborhood vulnerable to the sea. Images Courtesy of Joshua Kristal. All rights reserved.
Mar Português
Lisbon | Terreiro do Paço | Sunday May 6th, 2012 at Sunrise Directed by May Joseph Performed by Sofia Varino & Diana Bastos Niepce Mar Português is a performance of Vasco Da Gama’s feverish dreams, as he lay dying in Cochin, India, longing for Lisbon. Created as a hallucination on the Tagus River, this is […]
Cabo de Tormentoso, Cape of Good Hope
In December 2011, Harmattan Theater collaborated with the Cape Malay community of Cape Town to create an environmental performance at the historic site of colonial arrival: Dias Beach at the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape Town Malays were brought to South Africa as part of the Dutch maritime slave economy to work as laborers […]