At 8:00 on the Red Steps in Duffy Square, acclaimed musician and artist
Arto Lindsay begins a procession, SOMEWHERE I READ, featuring 50 dancers
in large white trench coats. Serving as Performa 09’s opening event,
Lindsay’s procession of dancers will swerve and jive from block to block
down the Broadway pedestrian plazas to 42nd Street. A central element
of the piece will be the use of cell phones as musical instruments in a
sort of pared-down marching band. Arto Lindsay’s Performa Commission was
developed in collaboration with choreographer Lily Baldwin and
architects Bureau V. and is presented in partnership with the Times Square Alliance Public Art Program.
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