She Walks the Air XI

Tompkins Square Park

11/2 5pm
11/3 4pm

She Walks the Air XI is the eleventh iteration of an intermedia practice on the intersectionalities of traveling femme bodies, lasting transgenerational impact of colonization, and somatically embedded memories of war. This iteration will take place in Tompkins Square Park as a site-specific performance on the first weekend of November. Through the pairing of ensemble devised movement with intimate audio recordings, She Walks the Air XI offers the ensemble’s stories of alienation and displacement in the shared and differing Asian/American identity – creating space for connection, and a moment to acknowledge the inadvertent complicity in the colonization of Turtle Island.

Conceived and directed by 김채송 / Chaesong Kim

Dramaturgy by Begüm “Begsy” Inal

Historical Consultation by Jeongeun Park

Japanese Cultural Consultation by Asuka Morinaga Derfler

Chinese Cultural Consultation by Yejia Sun

Costume Design by Qiuyi “Nuzzi” Li

Sound Art by Anthony Sertel Dean

Video Art and Sculpture by Sherly Fan

Production Management by Chloe Chow

Co-created and Performed by Akane Little, Chan Lin, Che’Li, Manatsu Tanaka, and Wonhee Kim

She Walks the Air XI 11.03.2024 4pm @ Tompkins Square Park...

She Walks the Air XI 11.03.2024 4pm @ Tompkins Square Park...

Click on the buttons on the map to access the audio attached to each part of the performance

* three performances simultaneously “walk” from the periphery of the park (NW, SW, and East corners marked in human icons on the map), leading to “the air” in the grass field at the center of the park (marked as the wind icon on the map)

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Special thanks to LMCC Creative Engagement Grant for enabling this iteration of She Walks the Air.

Much love for the She Walks the Air alumni who continue inspiring this work: Andrew Agress, Anthony Sertel Dean, Anuka Sethi, Ari LaMora, Ariel Urim Chung, Chris Jaesuk Han, Christopher Wong, Darby Davis, Etzu Shaw, Eva Wang, Ellen Oliver, Emma Hughes, Daegi Kim, Divyamaan Sahoo, Fiona Gorry-Hines, Gabriel Szajnert, Hsin-Ho Yang, Hyoju Cheon, Jeongmoon Ryu, Jonah Yoder, Kanika Asavari Vaish, Karen Boyer, Liz Peterson, Noa Toledano, Phoebe Brooks, Sangeun Yoon, Sarazina Stein, Seongyeon Kim, Siting Yang, Sophie Kovel, Willow Green, Yongjin Kwon, Youngmin Kim, Zunbul Betul, Yining “Vivian” Cao, and Zhiwei Ma.

Immense gratitude for Junko Hanamitsu, Toshihiko Kashiwagi for granting us permission to use Ota Shogo’s The Water Station as our inspiration, and Mari Boyd, the translator of the transcript for letting us use the line “She walks the air.”