Angels and Accordions (2004-2010)

A site-specific work created for Brooklyn’s Green-Word Cemetery as part of OHNY’s (Open House New York) celebration of the places, people, projects, systems, and ideas that define New York and its future.

Credits

Concept, Direction Choreography: Martha Bowers
Co-conceiver: Green-Wood Cemetery Historian Jeff Richman
Music Composed and Performed by: Todd Reynolds, Bob Goldberg, Guy Klucesvek
With additional accordionists: Rotating cast of thirty dancers

Produced by: Dance/Theatre/Etcetera, in collaboration with Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and OHNY

Certificate of Merit from the Municipal Art Society of New York which recognizes “people, places, organizations and momentous events that have, in our view, made an exceptional contribution to the life of New York City”

“Such a show may be the only one of its kind in the country, said Richman, as the 30 dancers and 10 accordionists take over the landscape and provide an opportunity to contemplate death and the possibility of resurrection, as the movement and music animate the cemetery.”

Angels and Accordions (2004-2010)

Credits

“Such a show may be the only one of its kind in the country, said Richman, as the 30 dancers and 10 accordionists take over the landscape and provide an opportunity to contemplate death and the possibility of resurrection, as the movement and music animate the cemetery.”

– Jeff Richman Green-Wood Cemetery Historian as quoted in Brooklyn Paper

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