CITY WATER TUNNEL #3 (1996 - 1999)
Solo performer, writer and Artistic
Director. Multi-media, Obie-winning play and 5 year community art
project.
Produced by Dancing in the Streets 1996 and The Working Theater 1998.
Music
Steve Elson. Premiered Dance Theater Workshop and HERE, NY NY 1996.
City
Water Tunnel #3 is about the building of the largest public works
project in
the Western Hemisphere (non-defense). The tunnel's construction began
in 1970
and is scheduled for completion in 2025. CWT#3 was created in
partnership
with Local 147 of the Tunnelworker's Union and NYC's largest city
agency,
the Department of Environmental Protection who is in charge of the
tunnel's
design, planning, financing and construction.
To date, CWT#3 has included:
- Gallery Exhibits of photographs,
artifacts and
tunnel memorabilia
- live multi-media performance(s) produced in NYC,
the NY
Upstate Watershed Region, universities, conferences and theaters
nationally
establishing a Memorial Fund which raised $20,000. towards the
commission and
installation of granite drinking fountains in each of the five boroughs
to
honor the 25 people who have died thus far
- onsite lunch time
performances
at construction sites and NYC Government office buildings
- a video by
Mary
Ellen Strom that traveled in installation form to the jobsites
- two
Fairs f
or the public and tunnel building community.
In 2000/01/02 CWT#3
toured
Rome, Stockholm, Belgrade, N. New England Tradeswomen Conference,
Vermont and
Iowa; 1999 included Danceplace, Washington DC.; George Meaney Labor
Center,
Silver Springs, MD; Working Women Festival, San Francisco CA;
University of
Kansas, Lawrence KS; 1998 included a month run at the Judith Anderson
Theater
NY NY. Lila Wallace Arts Partners, Rockefeller MAP, NYSCA, NYFA, Arts
International, Greenwall Foundation.
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