Mar Português
Lisbon | Terreiro do Paço | Sunday May 6th, 2012 at Sunrise Directed by May Joseph. Performed by Sofia Varino and May Joseph. 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 a [...]
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 [...]
Chronocorpus
Digital Peformance: http://chronocorpus.wordpress.com/ Chronocorpus emerged out of the personal histories of Sofia Varino, a Lisbon based performance artist, and May Joseph, whose cultural moorings include, Doha, Dar-es-salaam, Cochin, and the former Batavia, now modern Djakarta. Their intertwining shared histories of Portugese and Dutch maritime pasts and their attendant colonial encounters in Asia, Africa and the [...]
Cabo de Tormentoso
Dias Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South AfricaDecember 12, 2011, 7-8 am. Directed by May Joseph. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope, leading the way for Vasco Da Gama ten years later to find a sea route to Asia. Dias initially called the Southern tip of Africa where the Atlantic and [...]
When the Sea Rises
Video: When the Sea Rises Vasco Da Gama Square, Fort Cochin, Cochin, India. Ocober 30, 2011 at Sunrise. Directed by May Joseph. Choreographers: May Joseph and Muthu Mozhi. Theyyem Performers: Muthu Mozhi, Similesh, Aneesh. Kalaripayyati Performers: Midhilesh, Manish. In 2004, the Tsunami swept into Cochin as a surge, an ominous portend for the city’s archipelago [...]
RIKUZENTAKATA
JUNE 11-12, 2-4 pm, Picnic Point, Governors Island, NYC RIKUZENTAKATA is a movement piece inspired by the lone tree that remained amidst the devastation of Rikuzentakata by the 2011 Tsunami. An exploration of fury and serenity, RIKUZENTAKATA revolves around the idea of Oceans and Island Cities connecting Governors Island to Rikuzentakata. This piece expresses the vulnerability and resilience [...]
Grid Scenes
A Performance Marking the 200th Anniversary of the 1811 Manhattan Grid April 3, 2011, 14th Street, Between 5-7 Ave, NYC, 7–8pm The University-wide Urban Curriculum at The New School is pleased to announce the second annual Urban Festival commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of the 1811 Commissioners’ Grid of Manhattan. A partnership between Art in Odd [...]
Confluence
Governor’s Island, NYC, June 11, 12, 13, 2010 Confluence is a performance of duration exploring the waterline of Governors Island, and the textures of the Hudson River.The Hudson River and its environments are under threat of hazardous contamination. Rights to clean water are eroding once again. Drawing on the poetry of Walt Whitman, Dante Alighieri [...]
Dreamscapes
Sep. 11, 2010 September 11 at 3 pm at Chelsea Cove, Pier 64 West 24th Street, Manhattan. Dreamscapes is an environmental performance about the scarcity of water,and the dream spaces of urban life. It will be performed on Meg Webster’s ”Stone Field” a public art project on Pier 64. Along the banks of the Hudson River,Dante [...]
Henry Hudson’s Forgotten Maps
June 12th & 14th, 2009, Governor’s Island, New York City Henry Hudson’s Forgotten Maps was performed by Harmattan Theater on June 12 and 14, 2009. It is a site specific 40 minute performance installation produced on the Eastern shore of Governor’s Island, New York City. The performance marks the importance of Governor’s Island as the [...]