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Nick Cave a creative genius celebrated everywhere he goes, has done it again! This week, he was the toast and talk of the town but not here in Chicago, he was being feted in New York City for his collaboration with Creative Time and MTA Arts for Transit titled HEARD•NY to celebrate Grand Central Terminal’s centennial.
Notable attendees of this special perfomance included: Carter Cleveland, Will Cotton, Anne Pasternak, Donnamarie Baptiste, Cary Leibowitz, Kenya Robinson, Jack Shainman, Bob Faust, Jerry Otero, Chrissy Cochra, Agnes Gund, Elissa Goldstone, Sherry Dobin and many more.
Creative Time along with Jack Shainman Gallery hosted a specical invite only evening performance of HEARD•NY on Wednesday March 27. Vanderbilt Hall inside the Grand Central Terminal was closed to the public and the choreography was revised in order to accommodate a larger performance space within the Hall where the ‘horses’ had a great deal more room in which to ‘gallop’ and dance, enabling audiences to see how truly versatile these costumes and the dancers who inhabit them were.
The major project which transformed Grand Central terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall with 30 life-size, multi colored horses grazing and breaking into choreagraphed movement, features 60 dancers from The Ailey School of The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater donning Nick Cave’s Soundsuits to specially choreographed performance.
Each performance taking place from March 25-31 is about 15-20 minutes long(at 11am & 2pm), which includes the dressing and undressing of the dancers, which takes place ‘onstage’ in full view of the public. This was Nick Cave’s first public art project in New York City and with the amount of reviews he’s been getting, it certainly won’t be his last.
images & video: Creative Time, Christos Katsiaouni, Travis Magee
