Danced Invocations for Red Hook Recovery
A musical conversation between diverse singers performing traditional maritime songs including English sea shanties, spiritual Baptist hymns, Jamaican banana boat folksongs and more.
June 01, 2013
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Louis J. Valentino Park (The Pier)
Held at 20th Annual Red Hook Fest
Harborlore participates in Dance Theater Etcetera's annual festival with a special dance tribute to Superstorm Sandy survivors in Red Hook and beyond. Dancers from diverse religious and spiritual traditions invoke blessings and healing for ongoing recovery, with participation from Rita Silva (candomblé invocation to Yemaja, Bahia), Vongku Pak (Korean shamanic) and Kaina Quenga (Hawaiian ceremonial hula).
Presented by Dance Theatre Etcetera (DTE) with participation from BAC.
THIS EVENT IS PRESENTED AS PART OF:
Harborlore Festival
Where the River Meets the Sea in Brooklyn’s Folk Imagination
Dance, Music and Storytelling
May 10 – June 15, 2013
It’s no secret that Brooklyn is surrounded by over 50 miles of water from Greenpoint to Canarsie, and is also home to thousands of immigrants hailing from coastal locales across the globe—Jamaica, Bangladesh, Italy, Guyana, Egypt—where water is omnipresent. These immigrants, especially the artists among them, have brought cultural traditions to Brooklyn that capture the beauty, meaning and vulnerability of living at water’s edge. For Harborlore Festival, BAC presents a series of free concerts, panel discussions and performing arts events exploring the role of water in the artistic traditions of Brooklyn’s diverse immigrant and diaspora communities. In post-Sandy New York, Harborlore Festival signals the importance of learning new respect and reverence for the power of water.
SPONSORS
Harborlore is sponsored by TD Bank.
BAC Folk Arts is sponsored by Con Edison.
Major support for Harborlore is provided by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council. Additional support is provided by New York Council for the Humanities.
Promotional Partner: Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. Media partner: WNYC Radio.