Friday evening's GOODNEWS helicopter poised over Central Park's 79th Street western edge. Our view revealed a pulsing ribbon of multimedia aficionados moving toward the Swedish Cottage. Inside this thoughtfully appointed nineteenth century schoolhouse, hours of preparation -and years of training - would herald many 'firsts.'
The most obvious 'first' was Kim Chi's enactment of the avante-guarde dance performed decades ago at Lincoln Center by venerable multimedia artist, Elaine Summers. Summers, now in the winter of her Rainbow-rich SkyTime adventure, cheered on the live ensemble of musicians, lighting and laptop technicians, and of course the dancer!
Kim Chi, still in the springtime of her life, moved like a butterfly emerging ever so slowly from an invisible cocoon. Elaine's legacy of of choreographing kinetically-aware dance held the audience in suspension -we could hear a pin drop! Time virtually stood still for ten full minutes -eyes entranced- as Kim Chi allowed the inner momentum alive within the tiniest of muscles move her practiced body gracefully from the floor to standing!
"No one had ever done this before," intimated choreographer Elaine Summers - referring to her first performance of this particular dance forty years earlier. Acknowledging each one of the artists, critics who attending the very first production, and the organizations that supported and publicized this innovation, Elaine simply sparkles with appreciation, sizzles with zeal!
This list of contributors and benefactors are readily available at
www.Skytime.org.
There is one more first to report! Anticipating many more than the Cottage could comfortably seat, the UArmory Planning Council requested nearby installation a Big Screen - so the performance inside the 1876 Centennial celebration by Sweden, was projected outside for thousands to see outside! Blankets and sit-upons made a patchwork quilt of enthusiastic viewers -international visitors to the Big Apple, as well as athletes and families here for Sunday's marathon (Good luck today, guys and gals!)
GOODNEWS Reporter, Bendt Woulfe, FirstYear Palladio
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