New York City.
As part of the FIGMENT festival in 2010, the piece Confluence was staged by Harmattan Theater, an ensemble theater company, on Governors Island this weekend. The eight performers danced on the water's edge in slow movement beginning at Picnic Point and slowly meandering towards the historic Fort Williams. Drawing on German, Tagalog and English, the performance explores the centrality of water to modern life. Performers drew on Bharata Natyam, Kyogen and Kalaripayatti movements as techniques of moving through urban space. Using ekhtaras, cymbals,the accordian and indian tambourines, musical invocations of trance music accompanied physical gestures. Confluence explores the Hudson Raritan River estuary as an important site for rethinking the importance of water in contemporary life. The piece is an investigation into new ways of thinking about eco systems, water quality and human uses of water in our daily lives.
