"seNSATE' in The Vaults

Carrie Ahern rehearsing seNSATE 

(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Choreographer Carrie Ahern reprises seNSATE, her acclaimed dance installation, at The Vaults (14 Wall Street) for six Swing Space performances, beginning this Saturday at 8pm.


             all photos (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Premiered at the Brooklyn Lyceum in November 2009, Ahern's seNSATE runs for three hours in a cyclical loop. Viewers may drop in and leave at any point during those times, and they will freely move around to follow the flow of action in various pockets of space beneath Wall Street.

Click here for audio interview with Carrie Ahern

Carrie Ahern Dance

The Vaults

14 Wall Street (Level B), Manhattan

Performance schedule, directions and ticketing

Swing Space is a residency program and presentation of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

At Stuyvesant Cove

Watching the birdies

St. George Ferry terminal bus stop
(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

View down from Alice Austen House, Staten Island
(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Giving themselves away at every moment...

A luminous summer evening. Dancers slip through breezecloudsmusic at the river's edge. I still get a powerful little thrill as I look through my photographs.

We Give Ourselves Away at Every Moment: An EVENT for Merce

July 26, 2010--First anniversary of the death of Merce Cunningham

"...we come together to nod in his direction through the ritual of dance itself."

Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City esplanade

a program of the River to River Festival, co-presented by Arts World Financial Center and the Battery Park City Authority

featuring choreography by Jon Kinzel, Lucinda Childs, Susan Marshall, Faye Driscoll and Bill T. Jones. Live music by David Eggar, Geoff Hersh and Kotchy.

curated and produced by Annie-B Parson and Will Knapp

The Met: up on the roof and elsewhere

All photos (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Most shots were taken at Doug + Mike Starn's Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop installation in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art. On view through October 31, weather permitting. Read about this exhibit here and here.

Also of interest this summer at the Met:

Picasso's exhilarating linoleum cuts, which finally made me skid to a halt, heart aflutter, as I tried to race through most of Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I'm going back and taking a much longer look at everything but, in particular, those exciting prints. Through August 15.

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity. My guilty pleasure, only because I discovered that I love that drapey, delicately glittery, Isadora Duncan-ish Bohemian look (1900s) and could barely pull myself away from that particular room in the exhibit. Just call me a femme-inist!

Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950-1980. Grit and wit. Levinstein's spontaneity inspires me:

In my photographs, I want to look at life--at the commonplace things as if I just turned a corner and ran into them for the first time. (Leon Levinstein, 1954)

Through October 17.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

from Astoria Park, Queens

All photos (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

My "Moment in Time"

(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

At 11am EST today, I took this photo and submitted it to the New York Times's A Moment in Time project. It contains images of Mary of the wounded sacred heart; Yemaya, the Afro-Atlantic goddess of the sea; and endangered animals. Mindful of the oil spill tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, I call this assemblage The Wounded Heart of Mother Earth.

Ninth Street foliage

(c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

The power of photography

Face to Face with Tragedy
by Clark Hoyt, The New York Times, January 24, 2010

"back home where you came from"

So much sorrow... http://bit.ly/4nWxhz

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