On The Waterfront (1993)

Photo credit: Charles T. Wemple

Produced by Dancing in the Streets and Dance/Theatre/Etcetera
Choreography and Direction: Martha Bowers
Composer and Musical Director by David Pleasant
Musicians: Ayodele Aubert, Lyndon Achee, Vatel Cherry, Miles Griffith, Richard Fairfax and Roert Leach
Sound Design by John Gromada,
Lighting by Tony Giovannetti
Costumes by G.W. Mercier
Dancers: Scot Willingham, Lisa Bleyer, Homer Aviles, Edissa Weeks, David Parker, Carolyn Webb and Jessica Roseman
Guest Performer: Hank Smith
With school children from PS 15 and Red Hook Seniors and local neighborhood narrators: Sue Peebles and Barbara
Teaching Artists for PS 15 Workshops: Jose Garcia and Ron McBee
Special thanks to Red Hook Arts.
Video by Ronald K. Gray

“On the Waterfront was arte povera, made of the simplest materials, using the heroic scale and architecture of empty industrial space to shelter visions of the past and to articulate the present.”

– Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice

“a piece that embraced the life of the Red Hook waterfront and ..to plot its journey from birth to abandonment.”

– Tom McKnight, The Phoenix