Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

Overview

Schneemann's classic 1966 aerial "Kinetic Theatre" work was first staged at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, with eight performers moving to a score of randomized encounter on layers of rigged ropes and pulleys. One of two video documents of this early and influential performance, this version is enacted outdoors in trees and across the surface of a lake, in sequences directed by Schneemann.

Cast

Lee Baxandall

Jim Flynn

Meredith Monk

Yvette Nachmias

Phoebe Neville

Dorothea Rockburne

Larry Siegel

Howard Smith

James Tenney