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| "Burrow" by The Bardos Ballet Theater takes to the indoors to avoid rain falling. |
Time does not diminish his popularity, nor our curiosity
about William Shakespeare, who turns 450 on April 23, 2014. His talent is timeless, and oft feted.
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| From Wikipedia |
In celebration of the “Bard of Avon” on his upcoming birthday, Ross Williams’ New
York Shakespeare Exchange initiated a year-long Sonnet Project, in which all 154
sonnets will be filmed at various locations around New York City. The invitation only launch party for the
Sonnet Project at the Museum of the Moving Image on May 20th, will
feature Tony-winner Cady Huffman. She will read a sonnet and joins actors Lynn
Cohen, Austin Pendleton, Michael Urie, and Joanna Gleason, among others, all of
whom also appear in an upcoming sonnet film.
The goal is for the films to reach an audience of 1,000,000,
with each short film released on the website www.SonnetProjectNYC.com.
Sites for the films include courthouses, and parks, the Brooklyn Bridge and the
Queens Unisphere, Chelsea Piers, and the Bronx. There is now an app for Android mobile devices available at Google Play and a mobile app available for iPhone and iPad at the Apple App Store, so you can catch these short films anytime.
Here's a "Burrow" thank you from the Bardos Ballet's outdoor [and sometimes forced-by-weather indoor] performances in late May:
Here's a "Burrow" thank you from the Bardos Ballet's outdoor [and sometimes forced-by-weather indoor] performances in late May:
Also happening in public spaces and the parks are the Bardos
Ballet Theater’s free dance performances. Billed as “Burrow,” the dances by choreographer
Cynthia Anne Stanley and architect Maria Sieira will pop up as “sneak attacks”
in sites around town. In “Burrow,” twelve women construct and deconstruct
dwellings, as they keep the homefires buring during WWII.
“Burrow” will be at Foley Square Fountain on May 19th at 7pm, on the 24th at Fort Greene Park Steps. Two hush-hush appearances on June 2nd will be in Manhattan at 11am and then somewhere in Brooklyn in the early evening. Picnics are welcome, but only friends of the Bardos Ballet will get exact directions to participate in these stealth events.
The Bardos Ballet has made contingency plans for rain outs. So if they can't perform at Fort Greene Park, for instance:
They'll head indoors to the Martha Graham Studios. Stay in touch with The Bardos Ballet Theater so you can be there.
“Burrow” will be at Foley Square Fountain on May 19th at 7pm, on the 24th at Fort Greene Park Steps. Two hush-hush appearances on June 2nd will be in Manhattan at 11am and then somewhere in Brooklyn in the early evening. Picnics are welcome, but only friends of the Bardos Ballet will get exact directions to participate in these stealth events.
77 films are now available for download through www.SonnetProjectNYC.com and thanks to New York Shakespeare Exchange
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