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Enjoy concerts and dance performances staged against the dramatic architecture, sculpture and landscape of The Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Angels & Accordions
500 25th St/ 5th Ave, New York
program name: architecturemoves
borough: Brooklyn
neighborhood: Sunset Park
Sat 12, 3:30 pm   Sun rain date 12, 3:30 pm

The cemetery’s rolling hills and woods come to life in this site-specific tour/performance by choreographer Martha Bowers and Dance Theatre Etcetera. Original music by Guy Klucevsek and Bob Goldberg, visual installations designed by Alexander Heilner. Organized by historian Jeff Richman and The Green-Wood Historic Fund.

capacity: Unlimited
program status: past

subway: R to 25th St.
bus: B63.


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Encampment, The
Southpoint Park, New York City
program name: architecturemoves
borough: Manhattan
neighborhood: Roosevelt Island South End
Sat 7 pm – 1 am   Sun 7 pm – 1 am

Image, music and performance converge in a cluster of 100 luminous 19th-century tents adjoining the abandoned James Renwick, Jr. Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. Thom Sokoloski's nocturnal artwork can be experienced from afar or entered as a labyrinth of singular installations, performances and original compositions- all inspired by the island's social and architectural heritage.

capacity: unlimited
program status: past

subway: F to Roosevelt Island, walk south on Main St to Southpoint Park.
bus: Q102.
other transportation: Roosevelt Island Tram, walk south on Main St to Southpoint Park. Parking available at Motorgate Garage.

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New Amsterdam Boys Choir, The
Webster Avenue & East 233rd Street, Bronx
program name: architecturemoves
borough: Bronx
neighborhood: Woodlawn
Sat NA   Sun 11:30 am, 1 pm CANCELLED

The New Amsterdam Boys Choir brings the marble-clad Woolworth chapel to life with a program of sacred, secular and folk music. The community-based choir includes boys ages 8 – 18. (See Woodlawn Cemetery site listing for more information.)

capacity: 100
program status: past

subway: 2 to E 233rd St, 4 to Woodlawn.
bus: Bx16, Bx34.
other transportation: Metro-North Harlem Line

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