Pumping station + Harlem = art.When Bill T. Jones and his collaborator Bjorn Amelan first laid eyes on The Gatehouse, the site of their newest work, they pronounced it "a magnificent wreck WRECK, mar. law. A wreck (called in law Latin, wreccum maris, and in law French, wrec de mer,) signifies such goods, as after a shipwreck, are cast upon land by the sea, and left there within some county, so as not to belong to the jurisdiction of the admiralty, but to the common law. ." Once a pumping station used to distribute water from Westchester to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , The Gatehouse, operated by Aaron Davis Hall Aaron Davis Hall is a Performing Arts Center located in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. History Aaron Davis Hall was founded in 1981 and is located on the campus of the City College of New York, between West 133rd and 135th Streets on Convent Avenue. Convent Ave. , is the first new performance space in Harlem in more than 20 years. Inspired by the building's 19th-century architecture, Jones' new work, Chapel/Chapter, explores both the secular and the sacred. "I try to keep my spiritual beliefs to one side and my beliefs about art to the other side," Jones says, "but they always seem to commingle commingle to mingle together, e.g. cattle mingling with deer. . Maybe that's the African in me." The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will perform Dec. 5-9. See www.aarondavishall.org. |
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