INTERVENTIONS: How the Land Lies

Direct­ed and Chore­o­graphed by Lau­ra Cemin (Italy/​Finland) and Bian­ca Hisse (Brazil/​Norway)
Music by Vera Vice
Light­ing design by Sofia Ivars­son
Cos­tume design by Kairi Mähd­la
Pre­sent­ed by Gov­er­nors Island Arts
Co-pro­duced by Kias­ma The­ater, and Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava

PER­FOR­MANCE SCHEDULE

• May 17: 2:15 & 7:30pm
• May 18: 3pm

PER­FOR­MANCE LOCATION

Nolan Park, Gov­er­nors Island

ABOUT

How the Land Lies is a per­for­mance piece incor­po­rat­ing move­ment and scrolling LED signs. Usu­al­ly encoun­tered in pub­lic spaces as low-key adver­tise­ments, the LEDs become ves­sels to con­vey how lan­guage influ­ences mobil­i­ty. While the scrolling text flash­es tourism slo­gans and visa ques­tion­naires, the dancers — all of whom car­ry expe­ri­ences of migra­tion — inter­act with the signs through move­ment. Mean­ings unfold and bor­ders slow­ly blur: who can stay and who must leave? Who is seen and who remains hid­den? What is allowed and what is forbidden?

Fea­tur­ing per­form­ers Maira Duarte, Kat Bark, Vio­le­ta Tellez, Kris­tel Bal­doz, and Kather­ine Pao­la de la Cruz

Pre­sent­ed as part of INTER­VEN­TIONS, Gov­er­nors Island Arts’ annu­al mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary per­for­mance series that presents local, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al artists and invites audi­ences to expe­ri­ence work made and adapt­ed for out­door spaces. INTER­VEN­TIONS is curat­ed by Juan Pablo Siles, Asso­ciate Cura­tor and Pro­duc­er at the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island.

Gov­er­nors Island Arts presents its pro­gram with sup­port from Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, Cha­ri­na Endow­ment Fund, Star­dust Fund, Sur­go Foun­da­tion US, Don­ald A. Pels Char­i­ta­ble Trust, the New York State Coun­cil on the Arts (NYSCA) with the sup­port of the Office of the Gov­er­nor and the New York State Leg­is­la­ture, Car­rie Den­ning Jack­son and Dan Jack­son, the Rip­ple Foun­da­tion, the Howard Gilman Foun­da­tion, and the Jerome L. Greene Foun­da­tion.

Addi­tion­al sup­port for INTER­VEN­TIONS: How the Land Lies is pro­vid­ed by the Nor­we­gian Con­sulate Gen­er­al in New York.

The Gov­er­nors Island 2025 sea­son is gen­er­ous­ly sup­port­ed by the Black­stone Char­i­ta­ble Foun­da­tion, Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, and STIHL Inc.