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12 Miles Uptown
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12 Miles Uptown 12 Miles Uptown will be a live site-specific fusion of dance, jazz music, and theatricality in an uptown speakeasy. Dress up and enjoy a night out!
This multidisciplinary production about community, culture, and immigration will immerse audiences in Upper Manhattan’s history during the 1920’s, and reflect how our present-day parallels and diverges from our past in its diversity and multiculturalism one hundred years later.
This world premiere production will be for and by the Inwood and Washington Heights community, featuring Uptown-based dance artists, jazz quartet, and creative team.
Directed and Choreographed by Julia Bengtsson
Music Direction and Arrangements by Brian Morales
Produced by Aaron Simms
Dance Ensemble:
Claire Van Bever, Emily Bordley, Brendon Chan, Valentina Fory, Jose Rojas, Tara Lynn Steele
Quartet:
Brian Morales – piano
Thiago Fernandes – saxophone, clarinet and flute
Andrea Veneziani – upright bass
James Knoerl – drums
Uptown history consultant – Don Rice
Beer, wine, soda, and water available for purchase.
Proceeds Benefit Good Shepherd School.
12 Miles Uptown is funded, in part, through a Seed Fund for Dance grant from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, thanks to the support of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
