Placeholders

A site-specific performance/installation

Part of the Discover Long Branch fall (http://www.discoverlongbranch.com) community event

 

Visit our Facebook event page; invite friends and family to Placeholders! 

https://www.facebook.com/events/759987924060830/

 

When:

Saturday, September 13

Discover Long Branch fall community event 11:30 am - 4:00 pm

Performance begins 12 pm

 

Where:

Long Branch neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland

Along Flower Avenue between Piney Branch Road and Arliss

Meet at Flower Avenue Park (see location 1 on map below)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tickets:

Free admission, no tickets needed

Family friendly, all are welcome!

 

Related Event:

Share your own placeholders! Participate in a free photo portrait and story telling project.

Bring cherished objects and images that reflect your identity and/or describe a place, tradition or belief that is important to you. 

 

Information:

A new dance performance piece and art installation will explore what it means to seek, shape and preserve "place" in the face of transition through a public, participatory event in the Silver Spring neighborhood of Long Branch. With an evocative interdisciplinary collaboration that crosses creative boundaries, architect/visual artist Ronit Eisenbach joins forces with dance artist Sharon Mansur to illuminate and celebrate Long Branch as it is today, on the cusp of change and growth. Placeholders embraces this spirit of flux through its movement, sound and architectural layers.

 

The performance work affirms what is essential to one’s sense of place in the face of transformation and reflects upon what it means to “hold one’s place” in anticipation of the future. A quartet of performers will invite the audience on a stroll to three separate spaces within the community—the stores along Flower Avenue, the parking lot at the corner of Arliss and Flower, and the Flower Avenue Park.  In addition, artists will engage the public by inviting them to consider and share their own placeholders: objects, images, and traditions that establish their identity and sense of place.  

 

Washington, DC/Baltimore area dancers performing in Placeholders include Meredith Bove, Jessie Laurita-Spanglet, Sarah Oppenheim, and Lynne Price. Accompanying the performance is an original site-inspired soundscape developed by composer Curt Seiss with contributions by Aleksandra Vrebalov, and costumes by Stephanie Miracle.  Guest artists Krista Caballero, and the team of Edgar Alvarado, Rafael de Balanzo, and Adriana Mendoza will also contribute their talents to the participatory portion of the event.  

 

Placeholders is supported by a University of Maryland Advance Institute Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research SEED Grant; the UMD School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the UMD Women's Studies Multimedia Studio. Presented in partnership with the Long Branch Business League, Montgomery Housing Partnership and Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs.

 

If you have additional questions about the event please contact us at artinplace@gmail.com.