CO-CREATED BY:

Lee Sunday Evans, Ásta Bennie Hostetter, & Mariana Sanchez

CO-CHOREOGRAPHED + PERFORMED BY:

Camila Canó-Flaviá, Sunny Hitt, Eleanora Pienta, Devika Wickremesinghe

DATES

June 18-27, 2021

LOCATION

Governors’ Island: Picnic Point

DESCRIPTION:

June Rites !!  is an original hour of visually stunning and viscerally contagious live performance. Conceived as a civic ritual in dialogue with state fairs and summer solstice festivals, this piece will be an opportunity for collective reemergence into public spaces after a long, hard winter and more than a year of isolation. By turns reflective, playful, somber and ecstatic, the performers and musicians of June Rites !! provide an essential way to experience New York City opening up a new chapter of live performance.

June Rites !!  will feature original music written and performed by Mauro Refosco and Gustavo Di Dalva, who were recently seen on Broadway with David Byrne in American Utopia. A celebrated percussionist, Refosco has toured and recorded with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, joined Dirty Projectors for their self-titled album, and is a member of experimental supergroup Atoms for Peace alongside Flea and Thom Yorke. A Bahia instrumentalist and singer from a young age, Di Dalva has traveled the world for 20 years playing with the greatest Brazilian musicians and has performed on multiple Grammy-winning albums.