Friday: Movies and Dance at Greenpoint Ave Street-end Park

What? Kickoff for Greenpoint Open Studios Weekend: An evening of dance and film
Where? WNYC Transmitter Park, Greenpoint Avenue and West Street (western terminus of Greenpoint Avenue, along the East River)
When? Friday, September 25, 7 - 9 p.m.
Schedule: Dance, 7 - 8 p.m.; films 8 - 9 p.m.
After party: Coco 66 (66 Greenpoint Ave., 9 p.m. - ?)

To kick off the first-ever Greenpoint Open Studios weekend, local artists are filling WNYC Transmitter Park with site-specific dances and films inspired by water. The rawness of the space at the edge of an industrial block along the East River served as the inspiration.

For the dance portion of the program, the audience will experience, witness, and, at times, participate in a series of short works that celebrate unexpected moments of impromptu creative exploration. Curated by choreographer and neighborhood activist Jackie Moynahan, the pieces include improvisational happenings that explore the park's surroundings, dances that poke fun, installations of rhythm and funk and mini mobile multi-media spectacles.

The film program, organized by Mary Billyou, is entitled, "Not the River, But the Sea," taking a nod from the element that surrounds Greenpoint: water. The six films take a closer look at our relationships with water as individuals, as citizens and as natural beings ourselves. The works include a visual correspondence between filmmakers living along the East and Colorado rivers, a documentary about pollution in Greenpoint and an image of countryside in the city - an outcropping of rock in the middle of an industrial zone in Queens.

For more about Greenpoint Open Studios visit greenpointopenstudios.wordpress.com