Dates, times and locations subject to change—be sure to check www.RiverToRiverNYC.com for
up-to-date information. Please note that all events are free, but due to limited capacity some
require advance RSVPs. ALL RSVPs open on June 1.
- CARABALLO-FARMAN
THE SIGNS OF PARADISE
June 15–July 14, 8:00 am–8:00 pm daily
The Battery
Tags: Visual Art, Public Installation
Since 1886, the Statue of Liberty has invited immigrants from across the world to seek out their
own piece of worldly paradise here in the United States. Today, each of the 50 states has its own
town called “Paradise.” With this installation, celebrated artist caraballo-farman offers visitors to
Battery Park directions and distances to each of the 50 Paradises within eye-shot of Lady
Liberty.
- FLUID: CONSTRUCT
June 15–July 14, Weekdays, 8:00 am–6:00 pm
One Liberty Plaza, Lobby
Commissioned by Arts Brookfield
Tags: Visual Art, Public Installation
Recently, water has played a prominent role in the political and cultural dialogue of New York
City. The artists in Fluid: Construct—David Baskin, Jason Head, Wyatt Nash and Emily Sartor —explore this relationship through their work to reveal its complex and interconnected nature,
utilizing color and scale to make objects that keenly observe and comment on our ever-changing
urban landscape. On display June 3–Aug 2. Curated by Tom Kotik.
- NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL
SUZANNE THORPE
PHLOQ
June 15–July 14, Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00–6:00 pm
Governors Island, St. Cornelius Chapel
Co-presented with Harvestworks as part of WaveForm
Tags: Music, Public Installation
In addition to two concerts at Pace University, River To River’s New York Electronic Art
Festival offerings include a series of sound installations called WaveForm in St. Cornelius
Chapel on Governors Island. WaveForm begins with a month-long installation of Suzanne
Thorpe’s Phloq, a multichannel work composed to evoke the sensorial experience of a flock of
birds preparing for flight. Phloq’s content addresses issues of communication and interference,
referencing the swirling mass of information we encounter on a daily basis. The work creates a
provocative space that allows listeners to suspend their ties to previously known aural reference
points, creating a new and unexpected sensory experience. Composed and created by Suzanne
Thorpe. Design collaborator Paul Geluso.
- ENRICO D. WEY
OPEN, END
June 15 at 2:00 pm
LMCC Project Space, 125 Maiden Lane
Tags: Dance
open, end is commissioned by LMCC and presented as part of the River To River Festival. The
work was developed during an LMCC artist residency in May, 2013 as part of Lower Manhattan
Cultural Council’s Extended Life Dance Develo pment program, made possible in part by The
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- BANG ON A CAN
MARATHON
June 16, 1–10 pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street
Co-presented with Pace University
The Bang on a Can Marathon is a non-stop, nine-hour super-mix of boundary-busting music
from around the corner and around the globe. Experience an astonishing range of musical styles
including contemporary sounds, fresh voices and an unmatched diversity of performances all in
one place. This year’s marathon includes compositions by Hans Abrahamsen, Derek Bermel,
Jeffrey Brooks, Caleb Burhans, Peter Evans, Michael Gordon, John King, David Lang, Lukas
Ligeti, Annea Lockwood, Nico Muhly, Tamar Muskal, Angélica Negron, Charlie Piper, Kendall
Williams, Julia Wolfe, Shara Worden, Tatsuya Yoshida, Tom Ze and many more. Performers
include Alarm Will Sound, Asphalt Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Maya Beiser with the
Provenance Project Band, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Le Cabaret Contemporain, David Cossin& Ben Reimer, Peter Evans, Monica Germino, Hotel Elefant, Yungchen Llamo & Anton Batagov,
NYU Steel Pan Ensemble, NYU Contemporary Music Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Talk Normal,
TILT Brass and Shara Worden, with more to be announced.
- THIRD RAIL PROJECTS
ROADSIDE ATTRACTION
Open Rehearsals: June 16–22, 6:30–8:30 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Performances: June 23–26 at 12:00 pm & 1 pm (15 min.), June 27 at 1:00 pm & 7:00 pm (60 min.)
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Performances: July 1 & 2 at 12:30 pm (60 min.)
One New York Plaza
Commissioned by Arts Brookfield
Tags: Dance
Created by Bessie Award-winning Third Rail Projects, Roadside Attraction is a new work
housed in and around a 1977 Coleman pop-up camper that has been retrofitted to become a stage
and setting for a new dance-theater performance incorporating the intimate, quirky, stunning and
startling choreographic sensibility that is the hallmark of Third Rail’s work.
- JOANNE AKALAITIS
BAD NEWS!
June 17 at 6:30 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Co-presented with Poets House
Tags: Literature/Spoken Word, Theater
Acclaimed American theater director JoAnne Akalaitis welcomes audiences into her creative
process with this staged reading of her newest piece Bad News!. Stitching together messenger
speeches from classic plays, Akalaitis and her guest performers explore the role these deliverers
of information have played in the evolution of the dramatic moment.
- DANA LEONG TRIO
June 18 at 5:30 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Music
Bringing together an exciting blend of jazz, classical and pop, the Dana Leong Trio is the latest
incarnation of Leong’s ever-expansive oeuvre. Leong’s enterprising spirit, prolific compositions
and arrangements, and energetic performances have garnered him critical acclaim and wowed
audiences around the world.
- LAURIE ANDERSON
THE LANGUAGE OF THE FUTURE
- June 18 & 19 at 7:00 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented by LMCC and Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music, Literature/Spoken Word
One of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers, Laurie Anderson joins guest
writers and musicians on stage for two singular events exploring themes of transportation,
politics, money and love:
- June 18 at 7 pm: STORIES
Laurie Anderson with Gerry Leonard (guitar), Doug Wieselman (horns) and Eyvind Kang
(viola), with more guests to be announced.
- June 19 at 7 pm: SONGS
Laurie Anderson with Richard Devine (electronics), Doug Wieselman (horns), Eyvind Kang
(viola), Jacob Garchik (horns) and Yuka Honda (keyboards), with more guests to be announced.
- SO PERCUSSION
WHERE (WE) LIVE
June 18, 20, 21 & 23, see below for schedule
South Street Seaport, storefront end of Pier 17
Presented as part of LMCC Open Studios
Tags: Music
So Percussion opens up their creative process to the public as they develop their new piece
Where (we) Live. Directed by Ain Gordon, Where (we) Live invites artistic colleagues working in
various mediums to participate as both co-collaborators and muses in the creative process and
performance.
- June 18:
Open Rehearsal with Kaoru Watanabe, 1 pm–4 pm
Work-in-Process showing with Kaoru Watanabe, 5 pm–6 pm
- June 20:
Open Rehearsal with Cenk Ergun, 3 pm–6 pm
Work-in-Process showing with Cenk Ergun, 7 pm–8 pm
- June 21:
Make Music New York, schedule TBD
- June 23:
Open Rehearsal with Angelica Negron, 1 pm–4 pm
Work-in-Process showing with Angelica Negron, 5 pm–6 pm
- ROBERT POLITO
AN EVENING WITH ROBERT POLITO
June 19 at 6:00 pm
Fiterman Hall, 245 Greenwich Street
Co-presented with Poets House
Tags: Film, Poetry
Poet, essayist and biographer Robert Polito explores the history of film through poems and
presents film clips from some of his favorite movies from film noir to foreign-language gems.
Polito is the author of the poetry collections Hollywood & God and Doubles.
- ADÉLIA PRADIO & ELLEN DORÉ WATSON
AN EVENING WITH ADÉLIA PRADIO & ELLEN DORÉ WATSON
June 19 at 7:00 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Co-presented with Poets House
Tags: Poetry
One of the foremost poets of Brazil, Adélia Prado is author of eight books of poetry, two of
which have been translated into English. In this rare visit to New York, Prado reads poems with
her English-language translator Ellen Doré Watson.
- LIUBO BORISSOV AND KONRAD KACZMAREK
PERIPATETIC AUDIO VISUAL ENSEMBLE
Open Rehearsal: June 20 at 7:00 pm
June 21 at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm as part of Make Music New York
June 22 at 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
Join in at the northern entrance to River Terrace, Rockefeller Park
Presented by LMCC as part of R2R’s Laurie Anderson-curated track
Tags: Music, Technology, Interactive
Curated by Laurie Anderson
This collaborative project brings together digital bricoleur Liubomir Borissov and awardwinning
composer Konrad Kaczmarek to superimpose new sights and sounds onto the streets
and parks of Lower Manhattan. Download the app, take the trip, and experience this historic
neighborhood with new eyes and ears. Made with the Palimpsest Toolkit © Augmented
Mountain.
- SAM GREEN + THE QUAVERS + yMUSIC
AN EVENING OF LIVE MUSIC AND CINEMA
June 20 at 9:00 pm
East River Esplanade, Pier 15
Presented by LMCC as part of R2R’s Laurie Anderson-curated track in partnership with Rooftop
Films
Tags: Film, Music
Curated by Laurie Anderson
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) teams up with
two local musical outfits, the Quavers and yMusic, to create a night of outdoor music and
cinema. Green will screen two new pieces exploring the sublime, fate and the human experience.
- MANTRA PERCUSSION
CORNELIUS CARDEW’S THE GREAT LEARNING
June 21, 12:00–9:00 pm, check website for locations
Presented as part of Make Music New York
Tags: Music
As part of the seventh annual Make Music New York celebration, Mantra Percussion presents
Cornelius Cardew’s 1970 masterpiece The Great Learning, which travels between six locations
over nine hours in Lower Manhattan. The feast of “varied sound-theater” includes a pipe organ,
percussive sounds, and more.
- THE JAZZ SAXOPHONE
June 21 at 12:00 pm, 12:30 pm & 1:00 pm
15-min. performances simultaneously at three locations:
Brookfield Place Plaza, One New York Plaza, Zuccotti Park
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield as part of Make Music New York
Tags: Music
Arts Brookfield celebrates Make Music New York 2013 with an afternoon honoring the jazz
saxophone. Some of the hippest voices of NYC’s jazz scene shine over three 15-minute solo sets
at three different Downtown locations. Bring a lunch, join the musical journey and experience a
unique adventure that could only happen in New York City.
- CHASSOL
INDIAMORE
June 21 at 9:00 pm
Pier 15
Presented by LMCC as part of R2R’s Laurie Anderson-curated track in partnership with Rooftop
Films
Tags: Film/Mixed Media, Music
Curated by Laurie Anderson
Filmed in Calcutta and Varanasi, INDIAMORE combines arresting imagery of local sitarists,
dancers, children and the chaotic city with harmonized voices, music and sounds, creating an
unforgettable multimedia, multi-sensory documentary. Experience Chassol’s INDIAMORE while
immersed in the panoramic views of New York Harbor at Pier 15, one of Lower Manhattan’s
newest waterfront surprises.
- REGGIE WILSON
MOSES(ES)
June 22 at 2:00 pm
Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Tags: Dance
Moses(es) is an evening-length dance performance focusing on how we lead and why we follow.
Grounded in Wilson’s re-reading of Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain (the
Moses story told as a Southern folk tale in African-American vernacular), and with his
exploratory travels to Israel, Egypt, Turkey and Mali, Moses(es) examines the migration of
peoples and culture from Africa out into the World, paying attention to the effects migration has
on beliefs. Wilson’s research for this project has landed on the intersection of the origins of
Monotheism and African cultures.
Moses(es) is commissioned by LMCC and presented as part of the River To River Festival. It
was developed during an LMCC artist residency in 2013 as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council’s Extended Life Dance Develo pment program, made possible in part by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation.
- ANDREW SCHNEIDER
TIDAL
June 22 at 9 pm
East River Esplanade, Pier 15
Presented by LMCC as part of R2R’s Laurie Anderson-curated track
Tags: Film/Mixed Media, Theater
Curated by Laurie Anderson
A palindromic live multimedia performance. After the sun sets to the west, the East River
becomes the backdrop and the stage for this highly physical and technological live-art
experiment in time travel. Cameras, projectors, microphones and underwater camera housings
turn the viewer’s perception of time backwards in a city that is uncompromisingly charging
forward. May not be suitable for audiences under 18.
- LOVID
U R QR
Workshops: June 22–23, 1–6 pm at South Street Seaport, Cannon’s Walk
Installation: July 6–14, 8am–10 pm daily, location TBC, see website for details
Tags: Family-Friendly, Public Installation, Interactive, Technology
U R QR is an interactive project that unfolds in both public and digital spaces. Join this
participatory project, which explores ideas of identity in the networked era and includes QR
face-painting and discussions on secret codes. The project culminates in a large-scale QR code
installation based on portraits of the participants.
- VANESSA ANSPAUGH
OPEN STUDIO SHOWING
June 23 at 3 pm
Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Tags: Dance
Vanessa Anspaugh is a participant in LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Develo pment program,
made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. During her residency, Anspaugh
will address the complex power relations embedded in the director/performer paradigm with her
work REVERSE TO REVERENCE. The work is a solo made by Vanessa’s performers: Mary
Read, Lydia Okrent and Lindsay Clark, and is to be performed while her dancers perform being
an audience. Questions addressing directorship, authorship, collaboration, sacrifice and evolution
will emerge. By looking at ways to subvert the dynamics and/or reverse the structures around the
act of choreographing, the work stands as a metaphor for multiple power dynamics in the world
at large.
- NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL:
JG THIRLWELL WITH THE MANOREXIA PROJECT
PAULINE OLIVEROS
SUSIE IBARRA & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ
June 23 at 7:30 pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street
Co-presented with Pace University and Harvestworks
Tags: Music, Technology
In two evenings of concerts and performances (June 23 & 30), The New York Electronic Art
Festival provides audiences with an opportunity to experience cutting-edge electronic artwork
from artists working across the arts and technology spectrum. This Festival within a Festival
brings talent into Lower Manhattan from around the globe to showcase new technologies and
new artistic practices, and celebrates the transformational intersection of the two.
Program:
- JG Thirlwell with the Manorexia Project: Dinoflagellate Blooms & Plastic Island in the
Pacific
JG Thirlwell’s chamber ensemble version of his Manorexia project perform selections
from the acclaimed surround-sound album Dinoflagellate Blooms, plus other pieces from
the Manorexia oeuvre including the premiere of a new arrangement of Plastic Island In
The Pacific.
- Pauline Oliveros: Along the Way
“Along the way there are many diversions that may lead to unexpected locations and the
Way is not necessarily familiar or unfamiliar; It is the Way.” Embark on the journey of
Along the Way, a solo improvisation by Pauline Oliveros using the V-Accordion.
- Susie Ibarra & Roberto Rodriguez
Electronic/percussion duo Susie Ibarra and Roberto Rodriguez’s music has been
profoundly influenced by the interconnection of nature and cities. At the intersection of
indigenous and urban ecologies Ibarra and Rodriguez invite cultural dialogue through
music.
- JAMES MADDOCK
June 25 at 5:30 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
June 27 at 12:30 pm
One New York Plaza
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Music
British-born James Maddock, a mainstay on non-commercial and satellite radio, gained notoriety
and accolades for his work with the band Wood and as a solo musician. His Americana sound
won him praise at the 2010/11 NY Music Awards and WFUV’s 2011 Listener’s Poll.
- ANGELIQUE KIDJO
June 25 at 7 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented with Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music
Once deemed “Africa’s premier diva” by Time magazine, Grammy-winner Angelique Kidjo is
known for her dynamic and uplifting music, and her thrilling live performances.
- CAPTURE/RELEASE: A CELEBRATION IN HONOR OF LAR LUBOVITCH
June 25 at 7:30 pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street
Co-presented with Pace University
Produced by VisionIntoArt
Tags: Dance, Music
An evening of five composed works—including two music and dance world premieres—with
Lar Lubovitch and his Dance Company in honor of the 45th anniversary of the company and
Lubovitch’s 50th year in dance. The evening will feature live performances by Ransom Wilson’s
group, Le Train Bleu, and special musical guests.
Program:
- As Sleep Befell is a world premiere dance with music by composer Paola Prestini and
choreography by Lar Lubovitch (choreography commissioned by VisionIntoAart). The
dance features vocalist Helga Davis, Cornelius Dufallo, Pablo Rieppi, and Jeffrey Zeigler
with a large ensemble, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. As Sleep Befell is inspired
by the adhan, both a Middle Eastern call to prayer sung by muezzin to summon people to
the mosque and a song that Islamic fathers sing to their newborns.
- LIgNEouS 1 for Marimba and String Quartet by composer Andy Akiho and featuring
marimba player Ian David Rosenbaum, re-imagines the marimba through a woody
assemblage of no-headed mallets. Described by the The New York Times as “moldbreaking” and “vital,” this quartet is not to be missed.
- Lar Lubovitch’s Crisis Variations with music by composer Yevgeniy Sharlat is an awardwinning
and chillingly psychological work that the choreographer describes as an "action
painting."
- Capture/Release is a new work and world premiere commissioned by VisionIntoArt for
the River To River Festival. Composed by Daniel Wohl, this work explores the concept
of music captured and dance released.
- Listen, Quiet is a world premiere dance with music by composer Paola Prestini and
choreography by Katarzyna Skarpetowska (choreography commissioned by
VisionIntoArt). The dance features Kronos Quartet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, percussionist
Pablo Rieppi, and the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company. This work consists of two parts.
Listen uses pre-recorded private conversations between a friend and an artist. Through
their recorded dialogue, it is slowly revealed that the cyclical nature of emotional pain
and organic elements of nature mirror the cyclical happenings of everyday life. The
voices, combined with the cellist as narrator and percussionist as the driving life force,
journey through a frenzied soundscape to the calm quietude of their surroundings. Quiet
is a mother’s hymn of childhood memories. The piece tells a story of magic and the
memories that shape us.
- 1959
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON, VALERIE SIMPSON AND GUESTS
June 26 at 7 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented with Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music, Poetry/Spoken Word
1959 celebrates a turning point in contemporary American culture, music and spoken word
artistry. 2012 Grammy Award-winning percussionist Terri Lyne Carrington will be joined by
lead vocalist and R&B legend Valerie Simpson (Ashford and Simpson) and an all-star jazz
ensemble including Gerald Clayton, Nir Felder, Matthew Garrison, Antonio Hart, Gregoire
Maret, Jeremy Pelt and Chris Potter.
They will perform new arrangements of music from Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s
Giant Steps, Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, Charles Mingus’s Mingus Ah Um, plus music of Billie
Holiday and Sidney Bechet. Award-winning poet and author Ed Sanders and spoken word artist
Shay Rose will perform works from and reflecting the Beat generation’s influence.
- POETS HOUSE
ANNUAL SHOWCASE OPENING RECEPTION
June 27 at 6 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Co-presented with Poets House
Tags: Exhibition, Literature, Poetry
Join Poets House for the opening of the 21st annual Poets House Showcase, a free exhibit
featuring all of the new poetry books and poetry-related texts published in the United States in a
single year from over 650 commercial, university and independent presses. This exhibition will
be on view through August 3.
- SEKOU SUNDIATA / RHODESSA JONES
BLESSING THE BOATS: THE REMIX
June 27–29 at 8 pm, June 30 at 3 pm
Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Theater Two, 199 Chambers Street
Co-commissioned by LMCC and BMCC, presented as part of BLINK YOUR EYES: Sekou
Sundiata Revisited
Tags: Theater
Blessing the Boats: the remix is a powerful re-imagining of Sekou Sundiata’s seminal play.
Director Rhodessa Jones revisits Sundiata’s story of life-threatening illness and miraculous
recovery in a “remix” that encompasses language, music and visual projections representing
healing and hope. Featuring Mike Ladd, Carl Hancock Rux and Will Power.
blessing the boats: the remix is presented as part of BLINK YOUR EYES: Sekou Sundiata
Revisited, a New York City-wide retrospective produced by MAPP International Productions.
- STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
LIKE LAZARUS DID (LLD 6/29)
June 29 at 7:30 pm
St. Paul’s Chapel, 209 Broadway
Co-presented with The Joyce Theater with additional project support from Trinity Wall Street
Tags: Dance
Inspired by the mythology of resurrection, Petronio and his powerhouse dancers explore notions
of transformation and rebirth in Like Lazarus Did (LLD 6/29), specially sited for River To River
in Lower Manhattan’s oldest surviving church, St. Paul’s Chapel. Petronio’s work has been
described by The New York Times as delivering a trademark “visceral thrill unlike anything
offered by other contemporary choreographers.” Featuring his rich, kinetic movement language,
LLD 6/29 is created in collaboration with renowned visual artist Janine Antoni and composer
Son Lux. The original electro-acoustic score, including live performance by members of The
Young People’s Chorus of New York City, draws from a range of spiritual music and texts
including early American slave songs and meditative drones of Eastern mysticism.
- ECSTATIC™ SUMMER
June 29 & 30 at 5 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Music
The second annual Ecstatic™ Summer, organized by New Amsterdam Presents in association
with Kaufman Music Center, features two full sets of newly commissioned, collaborativelybased
music, one for brass and the other for percussion. Composers will include Greg Saunier
(Deerhoof), Dave Douglas, Susie Ibarra and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family), with ensemble
musicians including members of Bon Iver, Mantra Percussion, the National, yMusic, Plastic Ono
Band, and many more. Additional composers and performers to be announced.
- NEW YORK ELECTRONIC ART FESTIVAL:
MARCO DONNARUMMA
JURAJ KOJS & CARLOTA PRADERA
MARI KIMURA WITH TOMOYUKI KATO
June 30 at 7:30 pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street
Co-presented with Pace University and Harvestworks
Tags: Music, Technology
In two evenings of concerts and performances (June 23 & 30), The New York Electronic Art
Festival provides audiences with an opportunity to experience cutting-edge electronic artwork
from artists working across the arts and technology spectrum. This Festival within a Festival
brings talent into Lower Manhattan from around the globe to showcase new technologies and
new artistic practices, and celebrates the transformational intersection of the two.
Program:
- Marco Donnarumma: Ominous
Marco Donnarumma’s Ominous traces muscle contractions and movement, turning these
often invisible impulses into amplified, processed sounds, and providing audiences with a
new perspective on the artistic body.
- Juraj Kojs & Carlota Pradera: Touch Me Hear
Juraj Kojs and Carlota Pradera’s Touch Me Hear encourages audience members to
explore various manifestations of human and machine-induced tactile sensations,
deepening our understanding of how we experience touch, sound, and movement.
- Mari Kimura with Tomoyuki Kato, Kyoko Kitamura & the Cassatt String Quartet: One
Mari Kimura with Tomoyuki Kato’s One invites the audience to explore themes of love,
humanity, faith and global solidarity through the vehicle of a high-tech, interactive audiovisual,
multi-lingual opera, with music performed by Kimura, the Cassatt String Quartet
and vocalist Kyoko Kitamura.
- NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS
ISOLDE
June 30 3 pm, RSVP Required
One Liberty Plaza
Presented as part of LMCC’s Open Studios
Tags: Theater
New York City Players open their studio for an in-process showing of their new piece, Isolde.
This new play written and directed by Richard Maxwell is the story of Isolde, a successful
actress suddenly unable to retain her lines. To occupy Isolde, her husband plans to build her a
dream house, but she falls in love with the house’s architect. Isolde is a production of Theater
Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- TWO-HEADED CALF AND YARN/WIRE
YOU, MY MOTHER: A CHAMBER OPERA IN TWO PARTS
June 30 at 3 pm & 8:30 pm
July 2 at 8:30 pm
July 3 at 3 pm
RSVP Required
South Street Seaport, Pier 17 Storefront
Tags: Music, Theater
You, My Mother: a chamber opera in two parts is an elusive investigation into the ever-shifting
relationships between mothers and their adult children. Created by two dynamic
composer/playwright teams and under the direction of Brooke O’Harra, this play comes to life as
performed by a quartet of singer/performers and the new music ensemble Yarn/Wire. Originally
presented by La MaMa, E.T.C. in 2012.
- JEFFERY BROUSSARD AND THE CREOLE COWBOYS
July 2 at 5:30 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Music
One of the most influential accordionists and vocalists in modern Zydeco music, Jeffery
Broussard has defined a new style of Creole music incorporating the soulful sounds of R&B into
Zydeco music and dance. The Creole Cowboys join Broussard on guitar, bass, scrub board, and
percussion.
- PEDRITO MARTINEZ
July 2 at 7 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented with Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music
Cuban-born, world-class percussionist and singer Pedrito Martínez has recorded and/or
performed with distinguished artists including Paul Simon, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D’Rivera,
Meshell Ndegeocello, Eddie Palmieri and Sting. Martinez and his group perform regularly at
Guantanamera in NYC, bringing “complex, blenderized Africa-to-the-New-World-Funk” (New
York Times).
- luciana achugar
FEELING IS BELIEVING
July 2, 9–11 at 7 pm
Walk begins at 100 Wall St. 21st Floor
RSVP Required
Co-presented with Elastic City
Tags: Interactive, Dance
Using voice, touch and imagination, choreographer luciana achugar shepherds 12 participants
through Lower Manhattan on a walk like never before, bringing each audience member closer to
a more sensual, connected, magical, deeper-than-the-marrow-of-the-bone, vibrational body.
Elastic City intends to make its audience active participants in an ongoing poetic exchange with
the places in which we live and visit.
- RASHAUN MITCHELL + SILAS RIENER
r e v e a l
July 3, 5 & 6 at 1:30 pm
77 Water Street
Created specifically for The Elevated Acre, r e v e a l is a site-responsive performance
choreographed by Silas Riener in collaboration with Rashaun Mitchell and Cori Kresge, with
costumes created in collaboration with Julia Donaldson and Martha Friedman. Certain portions
of the creative material for this project were initially developed for the installation VEAL, which
was a project of Harrison Atelier, with choreography by Riener.
- CONTROL VOLTAGE
July 6
Fair: 3–8 pm
Performances: 8 pm–12am
South Street Seaport, Cannon’s Walk
Co-presented with Harvestworks
Tags: Interactive, Music, Technology
Part exposition, part block party, Control Voltage is New York City’s annual fair dedicated to
celebrating the modular synthesizer. Synth makers share their creations by day, inviting
audiences to see, hear, touch and talk about the modular synth. Musicians perform at night
celebrating invention, community, creativity, and the inspirational intersection of science and art.
Produced by Abby Echiverri.
- PAOLA PRESTINI
ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP’S EX-SITU SERIES
July 7, 9, 10
Various Locations (see individual listings, below, for details)
Co-presented with Original Music Workshop in partnership with Arup
Tags: Film/Mixed Media, Music, Interactive, Literature/Spoken Word
Original Music Workshop (OMW) invites you to attend their new EX-SITU series. These
performances take place in unexpected spaces, away from the Williamsburg site where OMW is
constructing its heralded future home, set to open in 2014. EX-SITU combines acoustic design,
installation work, and auditory experiments from renowned performers and composers. Concerts
in found spaces with acoustical design by Dave Rife. Architectural consultant Peter Zuspan.
For full descriptions see individual project listings, below.
- MAJA S.K. RATKJE
EX-SITU SERIES CONCERT
July 7 & 10, times TBC, see website for details
South Street Seaport, Cannon’s Walk
Co-presented with Original Music Workshop in partnership with Arup. Curated by Paola Prestini
Tags: Music
Maja S.K. Ratkje gives a quadrophonic mix of voices in site-specific sets, improvising with the
acoustics in the room and using her own voice as a sound source. With the help of samplers and
live electronics, she will create unique soundscapes for each set. Concerts in found spaces with
acoustical design by Dave Rife. Architectural Consultant Peter Zuspan.
- WALLY CARDONA & JENNIFER LACEY
THE SET UP: JEAN-CHRISTOPHE PARÉ
July 9–11 at 5:30 pm
Pier 15
Tags: Dance
This third installment of the eight-part series The Set Up began in Paris with French baroque
dance artist Jean-Christophe Paré and continued with a response period, a final stage of
reflection, and the making of “a dance.” Each installment of The Set Up is made in unique
cooperation with a dance/movement-based artist viewed as a “master” of their form, operating in
their own culturally informed aesthetic, and happens in the layers of superficiality and depth
inherent in the assumption of the universality of dance.
- CLYNE, DUFALLO, KAUFFMAN AND DORMAN
EX-SITU SERIES: THE VIOLIN
July 9, time TBC, see website for details
Federal Hall
RSVP Required
Co-presented with Original Music Workshop in partnership with Arup. Curated by Paola Prestini
Tags: Music, Mixed Media
The Violin is a multimedia exploration of music and animation. Anna Clyne, composer-inresidence
of the Chicago Symphony, has created a suite of seven pieces for multi-tracked violins
performed live by violinists Cornelius Dufallo and Amy Kauffman with visuals by Josh Dorman.
Concerts in found spaces with acoustical design by Dave Rife. Architectural consultant Peter Zuspan.
- ORQUESTA SALSA CON CONCIENCIA
[FORMERLY KNOWN AS LA EXCELENCIA]
July 9 at 7 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented with Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music
Best known as the “New Generation of Salsa Dura,” this nine-person salsa ensemble was a
crowd favorite at Global Fest 2010 and brings modern vitality and social consciousness to the
salsa genre. The band won Best Latin Artist in the 2010 UK Salsa Awards.
- 600 HIGHWAYMEN
THIS GREAT COUNTRY
July 10–13 at 8 pm
RSVP Required
South Street Seaport, storefront end of Pier 17
Tags: Theater
This Great Country is 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s re-spin of Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
drama Death of a Salesman. In an everyday, vacant space near Wall Street, 17 individuals come
together to breathe new life into Miller’s epic portrait of self-worth amid shifting economics and
fading dreams.
- POETS HOUSE
PROUST BIRTHDAY POETRY READING
July 10 at 7 pm
Poets House, 10 River Terrace
Co-presented with Poets House
Tags: Poetry, Literature
Join Poets House on Proust’s birthday to celebrate the publication of The Collected Poems of
Marcel Proust, edited by Harold Augenbraum and featuring the work of 20 poets and translators.
Augenbraum, founder of the Proust Society of America, will be joined by contributors Meena
Alexander, Marcella Durand, Wayne Koestenbaum, Anna Moschovakis, Mark Polizzotti and
Susan Stewart.
- LEON RUSSELL
July 10 at 7 pm
Rockefeller Park
Co-presented with Battery Park City Authority
Tags: Music
Leon Russell has spent nearly seven decades in music as a singer-songwriter, pianist and
guitarist. A longtime member of the famed studio ensemble The Wrecking Crew, Russell has
played with Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, among others. He was inducted
into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2012.
- HUNGRY MARCH BAND
July 11 at 12:30 pm
One New York Plaza
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Music
Roaring out of Brooklyn comes the Hungry March Band, New York City’s legendary brass
ensemble that embodies the spirit of the city’s streets with their inimitable sound and inspired
eclectic dance. Their performances have included guerilla art events, European jazz and circus
festivals, subway parties, protests, and other forays into the territories of free spirit.
- HAUSCHKA, KOSMINEN AND ZEIGLER
EX-SITU SERIES CONCERT
July 11 at 7:45 pm
East River Esplanade, Pier 15
Co-presented with Original Music Workshop in partnership with Arup. Curated by Paola Prestini
Tags: Music
This new trio comprises three celebrated experimentalists: pianist Hauschka (aka Volker
Bertelmann), percussionist Samuli Kosminen and cellist Jeffrey Zeigler. Together they perform
in a dramatic setting overlooking the East River. The evening features a medley of music
including prepared piano, electric cello, drums, and an arsenal of live electronics. Concerts in
found spaces with acoustical design by Dave Rife. Architectural consultant Peter Zuspan.
- JG THIRLWELL
CINEMA FOR THE EAR: MANOREXIA
July 11 at 10 pm
Tribeca Cinemas, RSVP Required, check website for details
Co-presented with ((audience))
Tags: Music
Experience cinema-for-the ear as ((audience)) presents JG Thirlwell's Manorexia: Dinoflagellate
Bloom. This 5.1 album features 11 compositions composed, produced and performed by
Thirlwell, running the gamut from orchestrations and cathartic noise-rock to abstract electronics
and chamber music soundtracks.
- COME OUT & PLAY
AFTER DARK
July 12, 7 pm–12am
South Street Seaport, Cannon’s Walk
Co-presented with Come Out & Play
Tags: Interactive, Technology
Join in the fun with After Dark, an annual evening of street games that turn one of New York
City’s historic landmark neighborhoods, the South Street Seaport, into a giant playground for
adults. From real-world versions of classic video games to new massively multiplayer
innovations, there’s enough to keep you and your friends playing through the night.
- SOULEYMANE BADOLO
BARACK
July 13–14, 2 pm & 4 pm
77 Water Street
Tags: Dance
In Gurunsi, choreographer Souleymane Badolo’s native language, “Barack” means greeting.
Badolo conceived of this dance as an offering to his adopted country—the U.S.—and the people
who have helped him along the way.
Souleymane Badolo is a participant in LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Develo pment program,
made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Barack is commissioned by
LMCC and presented as part of the River To River Festival.
- COME OUT & PLAY
FIELD DAY AND FAMILY DAY
July 13, 11am–5 pm
Governors Island, Parade Ground
Co-presented with Come Out & Play
Tags: Interactive, Family-Friendly
City-sized fun for kids and adults, Field Day and Family Day events turn Governors Island into a
giant playground for all. New games, new experiences and new takes on old favorites, Field Day
and Family Day give participants the opportunity to rediscover each other and the city they call
home through joyful interactive play.
- ANDREW ONDREJCAK
July 13–14, 2–6 pm
Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Presented by LMCC as part of Open Studios
Tags: Theater
Writer, director, designer Andrew Ondrejcak invites you to view an open rehearsal of his new
adaptation of influential Swedish playwright August Strindberg’s A Dream Play. The piece
investigates and explores what happens when the divine visits and interacts with everyday
humans in ordinary and unremarkable circumstances.
- BRASSLANDS
July 13 at 6:30 pm
Brookfield Place Plaza, 220 Vesey Street
Co-presented with Arts Brookfield
Tags: Film, Music
For one night only, experience the best Balkan Brass this side of Serbia! Four brass bands—
Zlatne Uste, Slavic Soul Party!, Inspector Gadje and Raya Brass Band—create the experience of
being enveloped in the frenetic energy of competing bands, ordinarily possible only in the
Balkans. As the sun sets on the Hudson River, watch the much anticipated feature documentary
Brasslands by the Meerkat Media Collective, which captures the fiery sounds and incredible
sights of Balkan brass music at the world’s largest trumpet competition in a hidden Serbian
valley.
- LMCC ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
OPEN STUDIOS
July 13–14, RSVP required, see website for details
Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island
Tags: Visual Arts, Mixed Media
Visit LMCC’s studios on Governors Island, view works-in-progress and meet LMCC artists-inresidence:
Negar Ahkami, Ariana Carossa, William Corwin, Andrew Haik Demirijian, Jamie
Diamond, Dahlia Elsayed, Karl Erickson, Tamar Ettun, Lena Henke, Riel Hilario, (ACC Fellow), Kong Vollak, (ACC Fellow), Oyster City (Meredith Drum and Rachel Stevens), Maria
Rapicavoli, Andrew Ross, Kimberly Ruth, Elisabeth Smolarz, Nicolas Touron, Jeanne Verdoux
(On-Site Assistant), Jody Wood and Ezra Wube.
- SO PERCUSSION AND THE JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW
AMID THE NOISE, IMAGINARY CITY AND WHERE (WE) LIVE
July 13 at 7:30 pm
Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, 3 Spruce Street
Co-presented with Pace University
Tags: Music, Mixed Media
So Percussion and legendary performance visualists The Joshua Light Show collaborate to create
a River To River event to remember! So Percussion performs works of their own from Amid the
Noise, Imaginary City and Where (we) Live along with special guests including Grey Mcmurray
(guitar, vocals), Angelica Negron (accordion, toy instruments) and Kaoru Watanabe (flute, taiko
drum). May not be suitable for audiences under 18.
- IMPROV EVERYWHERE
THE MP3 EXPERIMENT TEN
July 14 at 3 pm & 7 pm
Location to be announced week of July 7
Co-presented with Improv Everywhere
Tags: Interactive, Technology
Chaos, joy, and pure fun—that’s what you can expect to experience when you join this
participatory public event. Participants download an mp3 file, arrive at the designated
destination, and see what happens when everyone presses play all at the same time!
Creators: Charlie Todd & Tyler Walker
ABOUT RIVER TO RIVER
River To River was founded in 2002 by American Express, the Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, The Downtown Alliance, Arts Brookfield, Battery Park City Authority, Lower
Manhattan Cultural Council, and South Street Seaport in an effort to showcase Lower Manhattan
as a hot-bed of cultural activity and a key destination for experiencing New York City’s wealth
and diversity of history, commerce, and art. In 2011, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council became
the lead producer of the Festival.
Over the last 11 years, River To River has become an essential component of Lower Manhattan’s
vibrant culture. Together, Festival partners are working to foster conversations about sustainable
art, communities, and environments, showcasing New York City, and in particular Lower
Manhattan, as creative, green, and global, with shows and events that speak to the diverse
cultures and tastes of audiences from across the region.
The 12th annual River To River Festival offers audience members cultural experiences in
unexpected spaces. These experiences, created by contemporary artists working in a variety of
disciplines, will respond to the architecture of some of the City’s most iconic locations and
hidden gems, as well as timely social issues and interests. Audiences are encouraged to
investigate and discover new artists and art-forms, new perspectives, and life off the grid in
Lower Manhattan. www.RiverToRiverNYC.com
ABOUT THE PARTNERS
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL (LMCC), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has been a
leading voice for arts and culture since 1973 dedicated to presenting cultural experiences
Downtown, making Manhattan a thriving center of arts activity with relevance to the arts
community worldwide, and working in partnership to improve the quality of life for the New
York City’s artists, workers, residents, and visitors. http://lmcc.net
ARTS BROOKFIELD, a free, year-round, privately funded performing and visual arts
program, has presented more than 5,000 dance, music, theater, visual art and film events to more
than 5 million people in New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver and Perth,
Australia.
BATTERY PARK CITY AUTHORITY is a New York State public benefit corporation whose
mission is to create and maintain a balanced community of commercial, residential, retail, and
park space within its designated 92 acre site in Lower Manhattan.
PACE UNIVERSITY is located one block east of City Hall and immediately adjacent to the
Brooklyn Bridge. The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts regularly hosts academic and
community events in addition to its yearly schedule of cultural activities.
SOUTH STREET SEAPORT continues to anchor the east side of Lower Manhattan with
dynamic entertainment and this year you will ‘See Change’ before your eyes as new activities
are revealed within the 12 block Seaport district and along the east river esplanade.
FUNDING
Leadership Support provided by: American Express, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The
Downtown Alliance, The Lower Manhattan Develo pment Corporation, and HUD, The Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey, Westfield World Trade Center, and in part by the New
York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Lead Media Partners: THIRTEEN, WNYC and WQXR.
Major Support provided by: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Conrad New York,
Goldman Sachs, and The Howard Hughes Corporation, as well as CBRE, Century 21
Department Store, The Moody's Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts with the
support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Friends of the Festival: New York Marriott Downtown, NYC&Co, Savanna, SPUN, Union
Square Events, Gild Hall, Smyth TriBeCa, TheaterMania, and TKTS Seaport.
Additional support for River To River projects is provided by The Battery Conservancy, Ford
Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and The Trust for Governors Island. The River To River
Festival is also supported by public funds from NYC Council Member Margaret Chin, NYC
Department of Parks & Recreation, and Office of Manhattan Borough President Scott M.
Stringer.
With support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, LMCC is also working with their
partners toward three primary goals: achieving operational sustainability, developing a
framework for sustainable event management for the River To River Festival, and positively
influencing public practice in the arts. |
