River to River Festival / LMCC
Interactive walk begins at 100 Wall St.
July 9, 10, 11, free with advance reservation, 7:00
www.rivertorivernyc.com
www.lachugar.org
Brooklyn-based choreographer Luciana Achugar, a two-time Bessie Award winner whose work is familiar to New York audiences from performances at the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, and Abrons Arts Center, among other venues, has developed a fascinating multisensory movement experience to share with a dozen participants on an indoor/outdoor journey through downtown New York’s Wall Street district. Using touch, sight, coordinated movement, voice prompts, and more, the Uruguayan-born Achugar (The Sublime Is Us, Puro Deseo) leads the group on an offbeat exploration of an area of the city that is usually ignored, hurried past, or even denigrated, in order to discover the delights of absolute absorption in a place, a moment, and our own internal and external being. Elastic City, which copresents these participatory walks with a group of artists in other locations as well, including Todd Shalom’s Host in Nakameguro, Nina Katchadourian and Andrew Zarou’s The Lesser-Known Sounds of Times Square, and Michelle Boulé and Niegel Smith’s Admission through the New Museum, promises to bring “each audience member closer to a more sensual, connected, magical, deeper-than-the-marrow-of-the-bone, vibrational body.” The unexpected vibrations between participants, outdoor diners, the summer heat, bicyclists, spouting fountains, and the occasional curious security guard are all part of the event to be savored. Feeling Is Believing, which continues July 9-11 at 7:00, is fully reserved at this point, but you should check the River to River website for instructions about first-come, first-served wait-list possibilities; as we can attest from the July 2 opening, it’s well worth it.