Dates: September 13 – 30 2006, Wednesday – Saturday, 8:00 PM
Previews: (No Press Review): September 6-8 2006

The Young Dance Collective has been invited to perform in the continuation of the site-specific piece AGORA originally created and directed by Noémie Lafrance in 2005 in the abandoned McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn. Inspired by the “Agora,” the center of town or marketplace in ancient Greece, AGORA II investigates the role of public space in contemporary urban life. In this years performance the audience is invited to participate.

Site: McCarren Park Pool, Greenpoint/Williamsburg
Main Arch (Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.)

Tickets are player or viewer. Player allows you to participate in the dance.

Agora:
In celebration of the historic McCarren Park pool site, a 50,000 square foot empty pool in Williamsburg, Noémie Lafrance is creating a site-specific dance performance that invites the community to re-experience a moment in movement of this monumental public space. Agora is a site-specific dance performance inspired by the McCarren pool site and performed by 30 dancers to a multi-channel score with theatrical lighting transforming the 50,000 square foot pool into a vast staging area. Performed inside the large pool, the overlapping narratives of Agora will produce the illusion of travel through the different layers of visceral urban experiences and explore the phenomenon of agoraphobia as a social and physical reaction to urban architecture.

Ask is an evening of work by Young Dance Collective. Asking questions about their world, their lives and their art form, the members of Young Dance Collective embarked on a creative process which is presented in Ask.

Of their performance in the Oct ’04 Terry Dean & Katie Present* DANCEOFF!, at PS122, Quinn Batson of Culturebot.org wrote:

“Young Dance Collective, a group of protodancers with an average age of ten, gave every fiber of themselves to performing. It was a joy to watch these kids give staple dance movements fresh life, and their enthusiasm was contagious.”

Young Dance Collective wants to know what questions you ask yourselves, what do you think about art, about life, about the possibilities for change or if change is even necessary. Can art make a difference in peoples’ lives