by: Jessica Sheridan Assoc. AIA LEED AP
Changing Room
The Changing Room photo/installation/performance.
Deborah Lohse photo ©Anja Hitzenberger
Architectural performing arts are thriving throughout the city this summer. Changing Room is a photo/installation/performance series presented by Anja Hitzenberger in an abandoned storefront at 145 Nassau Street in Manhattan. Each week a new installation by Illya Azaroff, Assoc. AIA, Director of Design, the design collective studio, is installed for live performances. Hitzenberger also photographs performers and dancers of different body shapes and movement backgrounds every week. Gallery hours are Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 8pm and performances begin every Friday at 6pm through July 28. For more information and performance schedule, click the link.
Metapolis II
Ballet National de Marseille performs the North American premiere of Metapolis II, an evening-length convergence of contemporary dance with cutting-edge architecture created by Frédéric Flamand, the Ballet National de Marseille’s artistic director, and Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize-winning Iraqi-British architect.
Pino Pipitone, courtesy Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
And, if you haven’t heard, Metapolis II, a collaboration between choreographer Frédéric Flamand and Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, will be making its North American premiere at the Lincoln Center Festival 2007. Performed by the Ballet National de Marseille, there will be three performances at the New York State Theater July 25, 26, and 27. The piece synthesizes video (some created in real time) with the dancers’ bodies and Hadid’s moveable sculptures. Click the link to order tickets.