Amy Khoshbin on the Scent Bed, which provides Seekers with pleated tactile and aromatherapy for trauma response. All sculptures designed by Amy reappropriate materials and methods used in trauma care under the guise of Mother Earth and Her All-Powerful Warmth — also including the reimagination of weighted blankets as Seeker Capes, a guitar-ladden Rocking Chair, and a pulsing sound bath. Similarly, choreographic research delved into movement reprocessing, rhythmic soothing and pressure points, and the past and recent practices of ritual and cult identity. As a result, movement direction straddled deliberate sensory activation in body and sculptures, alike, as well as a conscious breaking of “The Rules.”
Images courtesy of the LMCC, Gregory Gentert, and Barbara Hermor, 2022.
CHOREOGRAPHY & MOVEMENT DIRECTION FOR
THE SUN SEEKERS
BY AMY & JENNIFER KHOSHBIN
WITH YULIYA TSUKERMAN
Performance by Amy Khoshbin with Ching-I Chang, Eshe All Day Hues, Alex Koi, Mercedes Searer, Malcom McMichael, and Jon Panikkar
Heal from the burnout, detach from your phone (Wreck-tangle), and connect with yourself, each other and the natural world. We'll make together and lead you through a series of collective movements and somatic prompts both in the Sunport and outside in the sun. Engage with the large-scale sensory sculptures in the Sunport to awaken senses left untapped in the Wreck-tangle world – enter the sun and be reborn!
The Sun Seekers Induction Ceremony is an hour-long participatory performance led by Amy Khoshbin, co-written by Yuliya Tsukerman and choreographed and directed by Danielle Russo.
Induction begins in the Sun Seekers Sunport – the large-scale immersive installation of analog and interactive sensory sculptures that doubles as an initiation space to the Sun Seekers world. The Sun Seekers is a sci-fi narrative about an alternate world that maintains a direct correlation to our experience of the isolation and anxiety of indoor on-screen life (the Wreck-tangle), espeically during COVID-19.
The Arts Center at Governors Island
June 18 & October 16, 2022
The Oculus at the World Trade Center
October 15, 2022
Admission-Free
Masks Encouraged
· Produced by the Lower Manhattan Arts Council (LMCC) and the 2022 River to River Festival ·