DUE TO FORECAST RAIN PERFORMANCE WILL BE HELD IN GOOD SHEPARD CHURCH, 543 Main Street, Upstairs Sanctuary, Roosevelt Island

City of Forest Day is a daylong community event with iDig2Learn at Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island. At 2pm, Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance performs two ecologically-themed works exploring the connections between humans and their habitat.

Radically transformed by costuming fashioned from hundreds of plastic bags, the dancers of Plastic Harvest appear as frolicking and foraging creatures arisen from the anthropocene. The piece creates a surreal spectacle while provoking contemplation about the beauty of that—and who—society throws away. 

Following, the company performs Arbor which explores human kinship with trees. In voluminous costumes meticulously-painted with tree limbs (by textile artist Gina Nagy Burns and costume designer Mary Jo Mecca), the dancers spiral, billow, and encircle one another in gusts of action resembling timelapses of arboreal motion. Both works deepen the climate-engaged collaboration between choreographer Jody Sperling and composer Matthew Burtner.

All ages welcome!