Dance at Socrates is back for its third year in Long Island City park
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd.
Saturday, August 8, 15, 22, free, 4:00
718-956-1819
socratessculpturepark.org
Walking around Socrates Sculpture Park’s spring/summer installations is a kind of artistic dance unto itself, beginning by going under Vera Lutter’s “Broadway Billboard: Degas Horses” and them making your way to Gabriela Albergaria’s “Two Trees in Balance,” Heide Fasnacht’s “Suspect Terrain,” IK Studio’s “Folly: Torqueing Spheres,” and Agnes Denes’s “The Living Pyramid.” But the Long Island City waterfront haven and Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts are teaming up for the real deal, the third annual Dance at Socrates, three Saturdays of free dance performances at 4:00. Each of the presenters spends six days in residency in the park before taking the stage. The August 8 show features a preview of Randy James (10 Hairy Legs Projects) interpreting C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, with music by Mozart, and the work in progress Three Rites by Edisa Weeks (Delirious Dances), about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, set to music by the Occidental Brothers, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Perpetual E-Motion. The August 15 program consists of Siren’s Realm by Christopher Rudd (RudduR Dance), set to Mike Murphy’s “Sail by Night,” the world premiere of No Strings Attached by Gierre Godley (Project 44), with music by Stromae and the Balanescu Orchestra, an excerpt from Jenni Hong Dance’s I Am You, with music by Brian Eno, Sylvain Chauveau, and Tindersticks, and I hope it’s not too late by Lara Gemmiti and Katharina Morales (L & K Dance). The three-week festival concludes August 18 with the world premiere of Where Can You Be? from Meagan Woods (Meagan Woods & Company), set to music by Johnny McEvoy, the Andrews Sisters, the Black Keys, and John Hopkins, a sneak peek at the work in progress Knight Moves by Julia K. Gleich (Gleich Dances), which is inspired by the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Jack Tworkov, Gut Check by Matty Davis/Kora Radella (Boomerang), with text by Will Arbery, and the world premiere of Brynt Beitman’s WAKE. Admission is free, and no advance RSVP is required.