STUDIO SERIES
Kathy Westwater
PARK
$5 Suggested Donation
Post-Show Talk Feb 18
Call 212.924.0077 to make a reservation. Click here for Box Office Hours.
“Westwater reminds us that we are irrevocably connected, not merely biologically but also psychologically, to that original ooze and the blunt impulses that lay within it.” - Tobi Tobias, The Village Voice
Kathy Westwater concludes her 100-hour creative residency, as a part of Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series, with two work-in-progress showings of PARK, a piece about worlds we create and worlds that disappear. Inspired by a dream in which her face became a part of the forest floor, Westwater’s PARK explores how nature consumes itself to regenerate, and how humans construct and consume nature through the creation of parks. The work integrates field research in parks – iconic ones like Yosemite; emergent ones at post-industrial sites like the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island; and neighborhood parks – sites of everyday recreation and leisure as well as home to displaced people. PARK exists within anthropological, topographical, economic, and architectural constructions of body and space. It asks how we perceptually organize our bodily experiences of constructed spaces of ‘nature’ as they appear, disappear, and transmogrify.
- Dance Theater Workshop’s Studio Series Commissioning and Creative Residency Program is supported by The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.