Coney Island Art Dance Event

 CONEY ISLAND ART DANCE EVENT 舞 · 岛

PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL 舞蹈节发起人

Leader & Choreographer: Anna Borou Yu Manager & Photographer: Jiajian Min Web Design & Tech Artist: Amo Zeng

Sound Design & Composer: Tiange Zhou Tech Support: Zeyu Wang Year: 2021

Official Website https://coneyislandart.dance/ www.GlobalWaterDancesNY.org www.GlobalWaterDances.org

Global Water Dances

Global Water Dances (www.GlobalWaterDances.org) began as a collective idea of an international group of individuals, certified by the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies (LIMS), with decades of experience in producing Movement Choirs: events that use community dance to create social cohesion through non-verbal communication. We connect and support a global community of choreographers and dancers to inspire action and international collaboration for water issues through the universal language of dance. 2021 is our sixth Global Water Dances event and our 10th year working and dancing together for safe water. 

Coney Island Art Dance - CIAD

Coney Island Art Dance - CIAD is a site-specific event of Global Water Dance. CIAD will engage local artists in Brooklyn, New York to raise people’s awareness about Coney Island’s pollution from the individuals, infrastructure and natural storms. Artists of different backgrounds will improvise artworks and will be documented into a short film. After the event, the artworks and film will be exhibited on CIAD website. CIAD is a site-specific event, including a Sharing Session, a Group Dance Session, and a Creation Session.

• 1 Sharing Session: First, we will begin with a Sharing Session, a show of short pieces (related to water) from the artists. We encourage each artist to bring a short piece (3minutes) to the event day and show / share with others, i.e. dance, music, instrument, costume, painting, etc.

• 2 GWD Group Dance Session: After the Sharing Session, we will dance together as a group, according to the official instruction of Global Water Dance. It’s a simultaneous choreography done by all the performers worldwide to the same piece of music, connecting participants and audience globally. The dancing motif is Dehydration - Raindrop - Pool - Ripple - River - Waves in the ocean - Circle of Unity - Splashing freely - Finale.

• 3 Creation Session: The 20 artists are encouraged to individually improvise on-site, right after the group dance, as a reflective and intuitive improvisation to the event and community. The work might be small and short, such as an improvised motion piece, a 4-line poem, a half-minute a-cappella, a sequential guitar chords, a short monologue, a sketch with pencil or on an ipad, etc. The artist improvises and takes videos of the short pieces on-site, then sends them to the CIAD team, for the online exhibition from June 15th to July 31th on CIAD Website.

  Art, Dance, Community, Environment

  We celebrate water and life through the art of dance. Dance is a universal language, a way to eliminate the barrier among us, and enables us to create, communicate and appreciate art freely and equally, beyond time and space. Holding this belief, how do our local artists respond to the issue of water and environment?

Artists

Kahirah Anderson               Painter

Astrid Brucker                     Dancer           

Andrea Clinton                    Performance Artist

Quamaine Daniels               Dancer

Charlotte Fequiere-Esser    Autobiographical Painter

Lily Haje                               Dramaturgy

Ariel Kleinberg                    Visual and Performance Artist

Mindy Levokove                  MultiMedia Performance Artist

背景介绍：GWD舞蹈节

GWD舞蹈节(Global Water Dance www.GlobalWaterDances.org) 是一场国际舞蹈艺术联合活动，由拉班运动研究中心（LIMS）认证。舞蹈节立足社区放眼全球，通过舞蹈与影像的艺术语言，提高大众对水资源和水环境的关注与保护意识。GWD舞蹈节拥有十年历史，已成功举办五届。为庆祝GWD舞蹈节创立十周年，本届舞蹈节将于2021年6月8日（世界海洋日）至6月13日，于全球五大洲136个城市142个分会场举办舞蹈周活动。

本次活动：CIAD艺术舞蹈节

CIAD艺术舞蹈节 （Coney Island Art Dance） 为本届Global Water Dance舞蹈节美国纽约市分会场之一，将艺术荟萃的全新视角融入经典的舞蹈活动，通过艺术创作与舞蹈表演来共同歌颂水与生命。“康尼岛成了一座长满草的现代曼哈顿的模型” ——雷姆库哈斯。作为曼哈顿建设的实验田的Coney Island，已逐渐逝去往日的风采，成为一片被逐渐遗忘的旅游之地。沙滩与游乐场的游人垃圾，暴风雨侵蚀，以及污水管道泄露将Coney Island变为纽约市污染第三严重的水体。我们期待通过这次位于纽约Coney Island的活动，唤起当地艺术家群体对水体和环境问题的思考与回应，并提高社区居民对于水资源的保护意识，同时唤回市民对于纽约城市历史记忆。

CIAD艺术舞蹈节6月12日现场活动包括三个环节：艺术家作品分享，共同表演GWD官方经典舞段，艺术家即兴创作。

活动环节一：艺术家作品分享: 每位艺术家在活动当天分享一件自己创作的与水相关的艺术作品，例如舞蹈，音乐，乐器表演，服装，绘画等。每位艺术家将有3分钟左右分享时间，轮流进行展示。

活动环节二：GWD集体舞蹈表演: 作品分享结束后，我们将共同表演一段GWD舞蹈节官方经典舞段。此舞段时长约5分钟，关键词包括“雨滴”、“水池”、“波纹”、“河流”、“波浪”。十年来，全球近两百个城市的艺术家通过对这一经典舞蹈的不断诠释，跨越时间与空间，将全球参与舞蹈活动的艺术家与大众紧密联系在一起。

活动环节三：即兴表演与创作: 20位艺术家在集体舞蹈环节之后在现场进行即兴表演创作，表达对活动现场和水资源话题的直觉感受。我们非常欢迎实验性或未完成状态的即兴创作，例如一段舞蹈，一首四行诗，半分钟阿卡贝拉，一段吉他弹唱，一段简短的独白朗诵，或是用铅笔/ipad/沙地绘制的素描等。艺术家在现场即兴创作并拍摄录音、照片或视频，并在活动结束后发送给CIAD团队，进行为期一个半月的线上展览。

1 Sharing Session 艺术家作品分享

2 GWD Group Dance Session GWD集体舞蹈表演