Sunday, October 18· 5:15pm– 6:15pm
Performance - “Choreographies of Care” by Kim Ye
Model Airplane Field (Flushing Meadows Corona Park)
The 30-minute movement-based performance combines choreography from the Asian tradition of park dancing with US military parade sequences, Qigong, and gestures taken from pregnancy, childrearing, and sex work. Performed by an intergenerational ensemble to a score that layers Chinese nursery rhymes, traditional East
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Asian instrumentals, in utero recordings, and “Taps,” the piece proposes caregiving as a form of national service that requires the sacrifice of feminized, immigrant, and Asian bodies.