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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 […]
Chronocorpus
Digital Performance 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 Portuguese and Dutch maritime pasts and their attendant colonial encounters in Asia, Africa and the Americas, […]
When the Sea Rises
Vasco Da Gama Square, Fort Cochin, Cochin, India | October 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 like structure. Cochin’s many barrier […]
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 […]
The River That Flows Both Ways
Pier 70, NYC, October 17, 2009 This performance is an invocation to the Hudson River. Drawing on the work of Walt Whitman, Dante Aligheri and contemporary women poets, “The River That Flows Both Ways” mark’s 400 years of the Hudson River’s plenitude. Video Clip