In 2010 I joined the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to curate Sitelines, the organization’s site-specific performance series as part of The River to River Festival and to serve as Director of Public Programs where he worked with neighborhood stakeholders such as American Express, Goldman Sachs, Brookfield Properties, CBRE, The Port Authority of New York/New Jersey, the Alliance […]
Project Tag: River To River
Laurie Anderson
Collaborated closely with Laurie Anderson to co-curate and produce a series of events for the 2013 River to River Festival. Programs included film maker Sam Green with musicians The Quavers and yMusic performing work-in-progress live score film collaborations, the live score film “Indiamore” by Chassol, an interactive app-based soundwalk by Liubo Borissov and Konrad Kaczmarek, […]
Alarm Will Sound
Programmed and produced Alarm Will Sound’s multimedia re-imagining of John Cage’s seminal 1970 work Songbooks for the River to River Festival. A co-commission with The Holland Festival and the Cork Opera House. Alarm Will Sound (Alan Pierson, artistic director) is a 20-member ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance, and recording of today’s music. It is an […]
Beth Gill
Programmed and produced Beth Gill’s Electric Midwife into the 2012 River To River Festival. Beth Gill is a choreographer making contemporary dance and performance in New York City. She has accumulated a body of work that critically examines issues relating to the fields of contemporary dance and performance studies, through a focused exploration of aesthetics and […]
Deganit Shemy
Andrew Horwitz has worked with Deganit Shemy since 2005, curating her into Performance Space 122 (2008), into Beyond Gaga: Contemporary Israeli Dance and the Reinvention of the Jewish Body (2009) and The River to River Festival (2010) with a new site-specific work 2 Kilos of Sea that was later presented in a stage version at the Baryshnikov […]
Maria Hassabi
Curated Maria Hassabi‘s “SHOW” into the River To River Festival in 2012. Maria Hassabi is a New York-based director, choreographer and performance artist. Over the past ten years, she has developed a practice involved with the relation of the body to the image—defined by sculptural physicality and extended duration. Her works are presented in theaters, museums, galleries […]