“With this grant, we will highlight the area as a cultural hub, create educational opportunities for local youth and will provide free, accessible artistic programming for the local community. “The Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund is a perfect match for A Skate Play as a core part of our work is to activate skateparks as sites of social, artistic and educational engagement,” explains Creator/Director Noelle Ghoussaini, Producer Nilou Safinya and Associate Producer Esther Chang. With additional support from The Theater Development Fund, A Skate Play will be performed for local schools, offering an enriching and multi-sensory opportunity for youth to explore their imaginations and thrive physically, emotionally, and socially. Located under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Golconda Park is at the intersection of neighborhoods that were disconnected by the construction of Robert Moses era infrastructure - highlighting the missions of both the DRI and the production to unite and bring programming to underserved neighborhoods. Spectators will experience the performance through individual wireless headphones to amplify a soundscape of live music, dialogue, and skating. A fable about persisting in our beliefs, even if they run contrary to the norms of society, skateboarders represent the flight of the birds, engaging proficient skaters from the community and local children through an open and public rehearsal process. Jonathan is up against all odds - his community banishes him, and he goes on a powerful journey to learn the meaning of freedom, flight, and limitlessness. One of the projects funded through the Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund, under New York State’s Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI), A Skate Play is a multidisciplinary production that takes place in skate parks with skateboarders and actors performing in tandem to integrate skate choreography with theatrical dialogue and storytelling in underserved communities.Ī Skate Play is inspired by Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a novella that tells the story of Jonathan, a young, visionary, and adventurous seagull, impassioned by the art of flight. Downtown Brooklyn + Dumbo Art Fund presents Eyes Up Here’s production of “A Skate Play” at Brooklyn’s Golconda Skatepark From Palestine to Brooklyn, A Multi-Disciplinary Free Production Brings Theater and Storytelling to Downtown Brooklyn September 29, 2021ĭowntown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) and DUMBO Improvement District (Dumbo) present Eyes Up Here Production’s A Skate Play at Golconda Skatepark in Downtown Brooklyn, October 4-10.
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