... this festival brings the idea of transforming public spaces with bodies and movement to the East River waterfront of Queens, setting 24 dance companies loose amid the picnic tables and playgrounds of four parks. New York Times SITE-SPECIFIC DANCE FESTIVAL PLAY. ENGAGE. CREATE. EXPLORE. CONNECT. August 4-5, 2018 FESTIVAL OVERVIEW & SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Here, twenty-four companies... dance on and around the playgrounds, picnic tables, and piers of parks situated on either side of a line that divides gentrification and public housing: the Queensboro Bridge. The New Yorker Magazine
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WHAT IS? The first of its kind in Queens, Dance Festival, a New York Times Top Pick of 24 Outdoor Performances to See in the Summer in NYC is a unique cultural offering that takes place at four public parks along the East River waterfront in Queens. Comprised of a two-day dance festival and a month-long community dance workshop, invites neighborhood residents and visitors to discover LIC through dance and strengthen community bonds. All programming is free and open to the public, making the arts accessible to a wide population and encouraging audiences and community members from different backgrounds to engage, create and connect. The art of dance, especially, thrives when it is alive, unbounded, and fully accessible to the public. wholeheartedly infused our local community with the energy and vitality of site-specific dance. Audrey Dimola, Director of Public Programs at Socrates Sculpture Park OUR MISSION s mission is to activate public spaces through dance, spark dialogue and create community through the arts. It is an initiative that aims to strengthen, bridge and celebrate the diverse communities living along the Long Island City waterfront by using dance as a tool for deeper community engagement. Through dance we can connect and inspire people, create a space for dialogue and integration, and contribute to the cultural visibility of Queens.
The performances were a spectacular combination of imagination, art and public space... Dancers took over play spaces, piers, picnic tables, and even the water s edge to give spectators unmatchable performances with the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop. Dance.com
2017 FACTS 2017 featured a total of 75 performances by 24 emerging and established NYC-based dance companies who created unique site-specific dance works in response to specific locations within Hunters Point South Park, Gantry Plaza State Park, Queensbridge Park and Socrates Sculpture Park. attracted a total of 7,500 festival attendees over the two-day festival, both destination audience and passers-by, a melting pot of diverse ages and ethnicities motivated to experience. received 15 features and 35 listings in top media outlets such as New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, TimeOut New York, and Metro NY, among many more city-wide and key local publications. 45 residents participated in 27 workshop sessions from April through June, hosted by Jacob Riis Neighborhood Settlement and facilitated by Kinematik Dance Theater. 7,500 creatively designed Festival Maps were handed out to audiences to follow the flow of the performances and gain more information about the festival, the neighborhood, its sponsors and partners.
OUR AUDIENCES: Wide range of ages and ethnicities including: Teens, young couples and families, Gen Yers, Millenials, Gen Xers, and Seniors, Destination visitors and passers-by, Dance, culture and community enthusiasts All from the five boroughs of NYC and parts of New Jersey
It was an unforgettable and powerful experience. 2017 Artist
2017 attracted more than 7,500 enthusiastic attendees over the two-day festival. The audiences were a melting pot of diverse ages and ethnicities, both passerby and destination, including teens, families and young couples; Gen Yers, Millenials, Gen Xers and seniors, all dance, culture and community enthusiasts living in the five boroughs New York City and parts of New Jersey. 2017 FIGURES 35,000 website visits 26,700 people engaged with our top Facebook post 10,000 postcards distributed throughout NYC 7,500 attendees 7,500 festival maps handed to Festival attendees 4,000 posters seen in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan 142 performers 139 choreographer applications 75 performances 50 individual donors 45 workshop participants 45 volunteers 35 listings in top media outlets 34 in-kind donors 27 community workshop sessions 24 choreographers 20 promotional events 19 community partners 15 features in top media outlets
2017 FEATURE
A Riverbank Awash in Movement The New York Times
SPONSORS TF Cornerstone Queens Council on the Arts Mertz Gilmore Foundation NYC Ferry Rockrose Plaxall ModernSpaces Sacred Waters COMMUNITY PARTNERS Hunters Point Park Parks Conservancy Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Socrates Sculpture Park The Chocolate Factory Theater New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation LIC Landing by Coffeed NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Long Island City Partnership LIC Flea & Food It s In Queens Queens Tourism Council LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Spaceworks Green Space Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York QNS Long Island City Artists IN-KIND SUPPORTERS LIC Landing by Coffeed Lululemon Juice Press MoMA PS 1 SculptureCenter Museum of the Moving Image Bareburger Food Cellar Urban Market SugarCube Spokesman Cycles The Yoga Room Woodbines Craft Kitchen Pilates Works Manducatis Workout Factory Anable Basin Sailing Bar & Grill Big Alice Brewing Sweet Leaf Coffee + Cocktail Blue Streak Wines & Spirits SHI Nano Ecuadorian Kitchen Cosmic Fit Club Toby s Estate Communitea Brooklyn Boulders
MARKETING EFFORTS Distributed 7,500 maps at the Festival, 10,000 postcards, 25 banners, and 4,000 posters throughout Queens and New York City before the Festival Community outreach through word of mouth, information sessions, preview performances and promotional events with our festival mascot Targeted social media and email marketing campaign with Mailchimp newsletter and engaging posts on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter Extensive marketing support through all our community partners, sponsors, inkind donors, artists and volunteers via e-newsletters, social media outreach and printed materials 18 Blue Borden Ave share = Bike Vernon Blvd Blvd Ave Ave 23 Q103 Vernon Blvd Cellar 12:30 3:05 21 Urban g by Landin 22 LIC 's Point 23 Hunter Coffeed vancy Conser Parks 16 15 14 2:25 2:00 17 12:45 3:20 5:00 VIEWPOINT 1:15 8 3:50 5:30 GANTRY PL AZA Shandoah Goldman/ Carte Blanche Performance 9 PENINSUL A 10 PICNIC AREA Loni Landon Dance Project Kate Moore and Brendan Duggan Hoist + Sulk draws parallels between the historic gantries and the human body which becomes a powerful hoisting mechanism for transportation, strength, and desire. Waterfront explores the juxtaposition of a peaceful park set against fast moving urban life and dives into the separation, disconnection and numbing nature of the human condition. The Goodbye Party invites the audience into a grassy picnic area for an office party celebrating the retirement of Barry. 12:15 12:30 1:45 4:20 12 CURVED BENCHES Grounded View Bench Talk expands our perception of public space through a unique movement style, a blend of breaking, house, capoeira and contemporary floor work. 1:05 2:00 12:45 2:15 4:50 4:35 2:35 5:10 13 NORTH BASIN Melissa Riker/Kinesis Project dance theatre Timepiece, Or: Another Imperfect Measurement Of Us celebrates connection and defies distance by drawing and confronting time. The dancer's costumes release colored sand as they move, partner and spin. 1:25 3:40 6:00 15 PROMENADE Kris Seto + Shoey Sun [VESSELS] 10,500 Departures explores separation, immigration, otherness, and loss through a surrealist lens and by using the movement vocabulary of krumping and contemporary dance. 2:10 WC 18 18 Vernon Blvd e ns P Que Q103 Q103 41st Ave laza S 9th St 5 min 3:50 6:10 16 2:55 5:30 BENCHES / PICNIC AREA Kinematik Dance Theater From The Inside Out explores togetherness, separation and the essence of community in a rapidly changing urban environment. Collaborating with visual artist Julie Murphy, costumes and peace flags feature hand drawn messages from area residents. PL AYGROUND Lucy Kerr In Beyond Playing Chicken, eight performers traverse the children s playground using contact improvisation, Parkour and hip hop styles of movement to explore this unique environment. In Sleep Piece, an exploration of common movement in public space, sleep logs are archived by the all-woman cast, then interpreted and performed as dance movement in a durational performance. 2:50 3:05 4:30 TREES Valerie Green/Dance Entropy Immeasurable will wind its way through the landscape, offering twists and turns inspired by the park s eclectic terrain. 12:20 24 23 21 5:20 24 20 on Vern NORTH ENTRANCE The Blue Bus Project + Tyler Gilstrap 25 Ver i 3:40 22 WC Blv d 6:50 17 TREE TRIANGLE Community Dance Group Community Dance Group will present a performance which they developed during the 3-month dance workshop series. 2:40 4:20 6:40 6:25 STAIRCASE Parcon NYC 20 non 19 4:05 4:50 7:05 SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK 4 min East River 10th St PL AYGROUND BS Movement Christopher Unpezverde Núñez 5:00 RED HOUSE Fragile, performed by an all male quartet, explores the development of masculinity and questions how to foster fragility and a secure sense of masculinity in today's society and popular culture. 19 i Vernon Blvd 5 min 4 Peur searches for the place/ adventure between denial and acceptance of adulthood by swinging, flying and falling into choreographed sequences that are woven into the environment designed for children to play and enjoy life. 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brought the LIC waterfront to life for one beautiful weekend in a truly inclusive and accessible way...it was a magical event, expanding the audience s experience of public space! Audience volunteer
2018 In its second year, will commission 20 new works by regional, national and international choreographers and will feature a total of 160 performances and 32 hours of dance. We re adding a new programming element, four participatory workshop experiences created by 2017 artists. And the Community Dance Workshop will be hosted by Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement and fcilitated by a socially engaged choreographer over four weeks in June, culminating with a performance in the festival in August. 2018 SNAPSHOT WHEN Community Workshop Weekly in June 2018 hosted by Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Festival Saturday, August 4 and Sunday, August 5, 1pm-8pm daily WHERE Four public parks along the East River in Long Island City, Queens Hunters Point South Park Gantry Plaza State Park Queensbridge Park Socrates Sculpture Park WHO Svea Schneider, Founder/Artistic Director, Co-Producer Karen Kitchen, Co-Producer Michelle Tabnick Public Relations Cstudio Design / Christine Sullivan & Kanan Shah
COMMUNITY PARTNERS (confirmed as of Jan 2) Jacob A Riis Neighborhood Settlement Hunters Point Parks Conservancy Friends of Queensbridge Park Socrates Sculpture Park Chocolate Factory Theater LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Long Island City Partnership Spaceworks LIC Landing NYC Parks NYS Parks and Recreation 2018 FUNDERS (confirmed as of Jan 2) Queens Council on the Arts TF Cornerstone ADVISORY BOARD Rob Basch, President, Hunters Point Parks Conservancy Christopher Hanway, Executive Director, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Paul Januszewski, Vice President, Rockrose Development Corp. Sheila Lewandowski, Executive Director, Chocolate Factory Theater Rob MacKay, Director of Marketing, Queens Economic Development Corporation ARTIST SELECTION COMMITTEE Our 2018 Selection Committee is a group of acclaimed 2017 artists: Gierre Godley/Project 44 Loni Landon/Loni Landon Dance Projects Katherine Maxwell/Hivewild Dance Joya Powell/Movement of the People Dance Company Melissa Riker/Kinesis Project dance theatre Svea Schneider/Kinematik Dance Theater/ Dance Festival John Zullo/Raw Movement
24 Outdoor Performances to See in the Summer in NYC The New York Times
THANK YOU! Dance Festival is a grassroots initiative with a strong vision, powerful mission and a small, dedicated team. With your support, we can continue s mission and realize another year of inspiring and engaging audiences, artists and community members through the arts. We have BIG IDEAS and with YOUR SUPPORT we can make a BIG IMPACT! LET S CONNECT We d love to meet you in person to talk through all the ways you can support s mission and be part of this exciting initiative! Svea Schneider, Founder/Artistic Director and Co-Producer svea@insitudancefestival.com (646) 591-9706 Karen Kitchen, Co-Producer karen@insitudancefestival.com (917) 327-9522