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The
Water Project, an ongoing collaboration between Christine Bennett
and Michael Dowling, combines dance, visual art, music and ritual
to explore themes of rebirth, passage, and transformation
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Performances
from the Water Project featured
at opening reception for Dwelling
Dwelling:
Memory, Architecture, and Place, the fourth outdoor sculpture exhibition
organized by the Forest Hills Educational Trust at historic Forest
Hills Cemetery, opens on Saturday, June 24 from 3 to 6 p.m. with
a festive public reception. The celebration features three short
performances from The Water Project, a powerful blend of ritual,
myth, visual art, and dance created by Michael Dowling (artist and
director of Medicine Wheel) and Christine Bennett (artistic director
of Christine Bennett Dance Co.).
For
Dowling and Bennett, water shares resonant symbolic meanings with
the cemetery’s themes of rebirth, passage, and transformation.
The Opening Reception will also feature a walking tour of the exhibition
at 4 pm with participating artists and Elise Ciregna, a historian
who specializes in Victorian culture. Victorian scholarat 4 pm.
Title:
Dwelling exhibition opening with performances from The Water Project
Presented
by:
The Forest Hills Educational Trust
Location:
Historic Forest Hills Cemetery
95 Forest Hills Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Date:
Saturday, June 24, 3 to 6 pm (rain date: June 25)
Description:
Twelve new installations are unveiled during a festive opening reception
featuring The Water Project, a performance combiing ritual, myth,
visual art, and dance by Bennett Dance Company.
Admission:
Free
Directions:
One block from Forest Hills T station, Orange Line, via Tower Street
shortcut. Free parking.
Info:
617.524.0128 or www.foresthillstrust.org
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Dwelling
is funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
