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Posts Tagged ‘Water performance’
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, […]
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
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 […]