SHOWTIMES ☁
Doors: 6:00PM / Show: 7:00PM
TICKETS ☁
$25 General Admission
ABOUT THE SHOW ☁
Presented in partnership with The Green-Wood Cemetery
Intrigued by the notion that cemeteries can act as both sites for mourning and social engagement, choreographer Loni Landon and experimental harpist Mary Lattimore have created a site-specific performance at Green-Wood exploring the possibilities of rebirth and renewal after loss. At the end of the performance, the audience will be invited to participate in a meditation and sound bath.
In each Open Air program, four/four has selected a musician, choreographer, and dancers. Evenings will begin with a 30 minute concert set from our musician, followed by a presentation from our choreographer and dancers. Each show will conclude with the premiere of a new, site-specific collaborative work by our musician, choreographer, and dancers.
All performances will be held outdoors. Audiences will be guided by our staff to socially distance and keep their masks on while on location and during the performance.
Feel free to bring blankets, snacks and non-alcoholic refreshments to the park for the performance!
We will live stream each show on our Instagram page for audiences who are unable to experience the live event.
In the event of inclement weather, the performance will be rescheduled for Friday, July 16.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS ☁
MARY LATTIMORE
Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise. Her first solo record, the Withdrawing Room, was released on Desire Path Recordings in 2014. The solo recordings that followed, At the Dam and Collected Pieces, were released by Ghostly International.
Mary has also recorded synth + harp duo projects with Elysse Thebner Miller (And the Birds Flew Overhead) and Jeff Zeigler (Slant of Light) and has co-written reimagined scores for the 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur, directed by Philippe Garrel (who approved of the project), and the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and performed these scores live throughout the US with Jeff Zeigler and the Valerie Project, respectively. She has contributed and written harp parts for such artists as Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Meg Baird, Steve Gunn, the Clientele, Hop Along, Jarvis Cocker, Karen Elson, Ed Askew and Quilt.
LONI LANDON
Loni Landon is a dancer, choreographer, and movement consultant based in New York City. In addition to creating dances for her own collective Loni Landon Dance Project, her work is commissioned by dance companies and film directors across the country. Born and raised in New York City, Landon received her BFA in dance from the Juilliard School. While a student at the NYC High School of Performing Arts, Landon was a NFAA Youngarts modern dance winner. After Juilliard, Landon performed with Aszure Barton and Artists, Ballet Theater Munich, Tanz Munich Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera.
Landon is a Princess Grace choreography fellowship winner. As a sought after choreographer, her work has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater, Keigwin and Company, Bodytraffic, James Sewell Ballet, Whim Whim, Levy Dance, The Juilliard School, American Dance Institute, Northwest Dance Project, Groundworks Dance Company, Hubbard Street II, BalletX, Ballet Austin, SUNY Purchase, NYU, Boston Conservatory, and Marymount Manhattan College. Her company has performed at The Joyce Theater, Pulse Art Fair, Jacob's Pillow, Insitu Dance Festival, Bryant Park, Beach Sessions in Rockaway Beach and Guggenheim Works and Process Series.
Landon has won numerous awards including 1st prize winner of Ballet Austin’s New American Talent Competition, Northwest Dance Project’s “Pretty Creatives” choreographic competition, next commission from CityDance Ensemble, finalist in the international solo Tanz Theater competition in Stuttgart, Germany, finalist in the Hannover International Choreography Competition and an emerging choreographer at Springboard Danse Montreal.
Landon choreographed the feature film “Saturday Church,” directed by Damon Cardasis, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Landon was a participant in the new movement residency at USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance and Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation New Directions choreography lab. Other residencies include ITE, NYU, CUNY Dance Initiative, Kaatsbaan, and Stephen Petronio’s new residency center, Crow’s Nest, in collaboration with dance lab NY and Dancers Responding to Aids. She has been adjunct faculty at NYU, Barnard, SUNY Purchase, and Princeton University.
Landon is passionate about entrepreneurship in the arts and co-founded The Playground, an initiative designed to give emerging choreographers a place to experiment, while allowing professional dancers to participate affordably. The Playground was recognized by Dance Magazine as a “25 to Watch”. Additionally, she is theco-founder of four/four presents, a platform that commissions and presents collaborations between dancers and musicians.
