PORES: site. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3 Grassy Knoll was presented through the Current Showcase Take.6 performance series on September 25th, 2021.

The curiosities we have about friendship and understanding each other are transferred within a grassy knoll of Pier 3 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The grassy knoll is an elongated narrow shape with wide circular ends, on one end lays a log and on the other stands a tree. Our questions spark storytelling, momentum, interruptions, and responses that create temporary relationship structures and understandings. We seek to create an experience of ever changing terrain and continual reassessment of place while in dialogue through movement and voice to experience evolutions. Streams of consciousness conversing and lost in thought dance collide with the edges of space, bringing us into states of spread, cluster, divide, smush, and dispersal with each other and the terrain. It feels like a performance for each other, with nature watching closely, giving insight and guiding us. Over the hour and half duration, we felt our connection through blissful memory recalls, pensive observation, tactical reorienting, and energized exchanges of instinct. Audience members followed guides around the pier viewing multiple performances, which meant sometimes we were our own audience and that brought a freeing destruction of performative expectations. Tethered to each other in the act of collaboration, we thank the support given by the space, we lean backwards into the rope wrapped around our backs feeling a wavering sense of present time, and absorb this experience to carry us forward.