Flight of mind.Birds have been on Jennifer Monson's brain since she noticed a sky full of pigeons in her Brooklyn neighborhood. For three years Monson traveled over 7,000 miles following the migratory migratory /mi·gra·to·ry/ (mi´grah-tor?e) 1. roving or wandering. 2. of, pertaining to, or characterized by migration; undergoing periodic migration. migratory emanating from or pertaining to migration. paths of gray whales, ospreys, and ducks and geese geese domestic geese which were derived from the wild goose Anser anser. There are many other species in this genus and in the other genus of geese, the Branta spp. of which Branta canadensis is typical. . Flight of Mind distills her travels into an evening-length work. "The piece transfers all this information I learned about navigational systems Noun 1. navigational system - a system that provides information useful in determining the position and course of a ship or aircraft Global Positioning System, GPS - a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and to a theatrical indoor space," says Monson. "We are trying to create our own integrated interactive system." She transforms the Dance Theater Workshop Dance Theater Workshop is a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies. Located on West 19th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, DTW was founded in 1965 by Jeff Duncan, Art Bauman and Jack Moore as a choreographers' collective. space with buckets of phragmites (a common reed) from September 19-24. The evening begins with a self-guided building migration. See www.dtw.org. |
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