A Part of the Main Full Little Island.mp4

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

A Little Island commission for the NYC Free Festival, 2021

Sarah Dahnke – concept and lead direction/choreography
Sunny Hitt – associate choreographer/director
Karilyn Surratt – assistant choreographer
Gloria Babini, Eunice Bae, Sofía Figueroa, Estefania Giraldo, Sereena Marcano, Anthony Vaughn Merchant, JoAnna Powell, and Jaki Soreff – cast and choreography collaborators
Jessie Wayburn – production stage manager
Karen Boyer – costumes
Community Collaboration: Hudson Guild

Director and choreographer Sarah Dahnke offers a repeatable series of phrases and vignettes that converge and accumulate as they travel across Little Island. Shaped by the imagination and desires of long-time local residents in surrounding neighborhoods, who will collaborate on and perform in the project, a central question persists, “What would it feel like to create your own island?”