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LIMINAL ARCHIVE (L.E.S Edition)
A Performance Caravan and Audio Archive of Stories from Lower East Side Residents Liminal Archive returned, this time to the famed Manhattan neighborhood, the Lower East Side. On a bicycle-drawn stage, Al Límite Collective brought a mobile performance caravan into the streets of Lower Manhattan. The audience traveled with us to each performance site. Liminal Archive began as an open-source platform, providing a cultural exchange where international artists could collaborate together during a lockdown and mass uprisings, and it has collected more than 40 artworks, including music, digital art and theater. In Mid July 2021 we brought the Liminal Archive to life for a fully staged production in the New Ohio Theatre's Ice Factory Festival. Inspired by our company's inception as core members of The Living Theatre's last decade with co-founder Judith Malina, we returned to our original home from which gentrification had displaced us. After a deep investigation into the history of the Lower East Side through stories from long time residents, legendary artists, gardeners, elders, poets and activists, we celebrate the resilient spirit of the community and draw upon our own stories about the search for belonging, place-making and survival. The LES edition of this project also features an online audio archive where you can listen here to the powerful stories we collected for this iteration of the show. Let the tales from the LES lead you through the radical history of this legendary neighborhood we once called home. |
Producing Directors: Leah Bachar, Monica Dudárov Hunken, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Dramaturg: Tom Walker
Featuring Performers/ Co-Devisers: Leah Bachar, Sanam Erfani, Monica Dudárov Hunken, Ann Treesa Joy, Bry Payne, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Sound Operator/ Musician: Sebastian Bouknight
With original tracks from Brad Hamers and Cypress Atlas
Contributing Interviews & Poetry: Barbara Robin Lee, Don P/ LES Fortunate, Clayton Patterson, Steven Englander, JK Canepa, Aresh Javadi, Tom Walker, La Bruja, Maria Mendez, Wendy Brawer
Liminal Archive created by Al Límite Collective
Thank you to MOCA (Museum of Chinese in America) for offering rehearsal space.
Parade Bicycle was built by Black Label Collective
Our workshops and performances were made possible through the generosity of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant.
Dramaturg: Tom Walker
Featuring Performers/ Co-Devisers: Leah Bachar, Sanam Erfani, Monica Dudárov Hunken, Ann Treesa Joy, Bry Payne, Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li
Sound Operator/ Musician: Sebastian Bouknight
With original tracks from Brad Hamers and Cypress Atlas
Contributing Interviews & Poetry: Barbara Robin Lee, Don P/ LES Fortunate, Clayton Patterson, Steven Englander, JK Canepa, Aresh Javadi, Tom Walker, La Bruja, Maria Mendez, Wendy Brawer
Liminal Archive created by Al Límite Collective
Thank you to MOCA (Museum of Chinese in America) for offering rehearsal space.
Parade Bicycle was built by Black Label Collective
Our workshops and performances were made possible through the generosity of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council grant.
"The secret to this kind of fluid, seemingly borderless work is actually hidden discipline. .... The collective makes us feel this sense of connectivity, first by demonstrating their own decentralized artistic partnership, then by sewing us — with six quick stitches — into their tapestry."
-Helen Shaw, NY Magazine
-Helen Shaw, NY Magazine
