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Brooklyn’s Oasis
by Vanessa Manko
May 2004
I miss the urban decay feel of Dumbo pre-development and luxury condos, but when a recent walk through the new Brooklyn Bridge Park with its refurbished waterfront involved a run-in with some dancers, I began to see the neighborhood anew (and the Manhattan skyline for that matter). Between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, a meandering walkway leads to oversized granite steps that fall onto pebbles which slope down into the East River. Here, on these steps dancers from the Brooklyn-based Silver-Brown Dance rehearsed Oasis, a new commissioned work that will be performed in the park May 20 through 23. As I sat and watched the rehearsal, the dancers stretching and lengthening their limbs, I simultaneously took in the great span and stretch of the Brooklyn Bridge that serves as a backdrop to the choreography. Eva Silverstein, co-artistic director with music director Guillermo Brown, has created movement here that not only mimics the expanse and architecture of the borough’s beloved bridge, but also gradually works up and down the steps. The effect is similar to the water that ebbs and flows in the East River behind them. Silver-Brown dance is dedicated to presenting dance to nontraditional audiences and so offers several free performances of which Oasis is one.
Oasis, Thursday May 20 – Sat. May 22, 7 p.m., Sun. 3 p.m. Entrance: Brooklyn Bridge Park at Main Street, on the Water (Dumbo). FREE.
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason
Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical
guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.
Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn
www.voxpop.net
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza
(718) 230-2100 in the 2nd Floor Auditorium
Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 till 9
John Ashbery
Leslie Scalapino
Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 till 9
Kenneth Bernard
Lynda Schor
Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 till 9
Diane Williams
Christine Schutt
Curated and hosted by the Rail's Fiction Editor Donald Breckenridge
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards:
1st place: Best article about Immigrant Issues or Racial Justice--Gabriel Thompson, "One Immigrant's Journey" (September 2004).
1st place: Best article about the Arts*--Amy Zimmer, "The Brownsville Rec. Center" (April 04)
2nd place: Best article about the Arts--Brian Carreira, "Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
2nd place: Best editorial or commentary--T. Hamm, "The Issue is Free Speech" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
3rd Place: Best Investigative News Story--Marjory Garrison, "Minimum Matter of Survival" (May 04)
Honorable mention: Best Investigative News Story--Williams Cole, "Housing vs. the RNC" (June 04).
Honorable mention: Best Original Feature--Yvette Walton, "My Life in the NYPD" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
Come to the Brooklyn Waterfront Festival.
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