Leaf on Water
Commissioned performance inaugurating the opening of New York City’s Little Island.
Concept & Direction by Sarah Cameron Sunde
Music & Sound by Joshua Dumas
Costumes by René Stewart-Pearce
Performance by DZ Maciel, Tori Ashley Matos, Burcin Ayebe
Production Assistance by Christopher Bisram
with special thanks to Simone Johnson and community participants Christopher Berg, Jèontè Flowers, Mayadevi Ross, and Roberto Monticello
Commissioned by Little Island for the NYCFREE Festival
The performance expanded and contracted across Little Island, drawing attention to and inviting us to become more intimately acquainted with this unique site. Artist and Director Sarah Cameron Sunde collaborated with performers and long-time local community members to continue her investigation of oceans and rivers as well as the forces and structures that aim to stand between or connect us to water. All were welcomed to participate in creating a “citizens topography” in, on, and with, this new construction.