Ok, so I blew it last Saturday and didn’t make it to Agora II (the site specific dance performance/social experiment by Noémie Lafrance) as I had hoped and posted about before, (rain, friends birthday parties… excuses, excuses).

Anyhow, it seems to have worked out ok, because this is the last week (09.27-10.01) that Agora II will be at McCarren Park Pool and on Friday they are going all out! They’ve invited Critical Mass to join in the form of 500 bicycles riding through the performance, and there will be a huge dance party after the show!

Note that when buying tickets to the show you have the option of being a either a Viewer or a Player.
From my understanding, people that opt to be Players are allowed into the pool at certain points during the performance and given some basic choreography to do within the show.

The good news is that The Winger has been granted PRESS access.
I’ll be there on FRIDAY, shooting the performance as a “Player” with my hands-free Samsung Sportscam (It’s inaugural outing).

Also, readers of The Winger get a 25% discount on tickets!
Enter Code: POOL at checkout.
And if you’ve already seen Agora II this year, you can bring your program and ticket stub on Friday to get $10 tickets to the show and party.

So, between the discount, and the fact that I’ll be there shooting…

How about getting a team of Wingers out on FRIDAY night for the performance and the party?
Whether you want to be a Player or Viewer, we can all congregate afterwards at the party. ">Drop me a line so that I know to look out for you.
C’mon. It’ll be fun!

More details…

From the SENS/Noémie Lafrance press release:
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.
AGORA II brings together into the empty pool a cast of hundreds including appearances by guest
groups/performers BreaksKru, Celeste Hastings and the Butoh Rockettes, Daria Fain, Ice Theatre
of New York, Malcolm and the Hoop Entourage, Non Grata, Radiohole, STREB, Jon
Kowalski/Prudenia, The Young Dance Collective and many more in addition to a group of 60
independent performers. All will be mapping and layering visceral narratives of urban life inside the
vast pool basin. Original score is by Brooks Williams and Norm Scott, with live sound directed by
Bora Yoon and lighting design by Thomas Dunn.

And some links to recent press on Agora II:

The New Yorker 09.06
Artforum Diary 08.06
Time Magazine 10.06