Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy Inc.

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“2021 ARTISTIC SEASON Due to city-wide shutdowns and limits on large indoor gatherings in 2021, the Armory embarked on several initiatives to support the artistic community during this devastating time when the job loss in the cultural sector was nearly 70%, and to offer an artistic lens as a safe way to try to understand the incomprehensible. The result was a new "Social Distance Hall" model for commissioning and producing new work that could employ artists and provide hope for the sector. With its flat open floor, state-of-the-art ventilation, multiple entrances, and no fixed seating or stage, the SOCIAL DISTANCE HALL opened in April 2021 to present live performances within strict health and safety regulations. We worked diligently alongside NYS to develop a plan for performances that could be safely experienced by the public - long before traditional venues might be able to return. We reached out to artists in the Armory community and commissioned four new works - the full runs of which each sold out within a day: SOCIAL! THE SOCIAL DISTANCE DANCE CLUB (4/9/21 - 4/22/21): This joyful and irresistible participatory movement experience was conceived by multimedia artist and musician David Byrne (Talking Heads, American Utopia), Tony Award-winning set designer Christine Jones, and choreographer Steven Hoggett. With a playlist curated by the work's creators and mixed by New York City DJ Natasha Diggs, SOCIAL! invited audiences to dance in their own socially distanced spotlights, all while listening to an instructional voiceover by David Byrne with choreography by Yasmine Lee. Moving free-form or in sync with the spoken choreography, audiences took part in a communal moment of cathartic release that was "exhilarating, full of possibility" (New York Times). PARTY IN THE BARDO (5/5/21 - 5/9/21): Multidisciplinary artist and MacArthur "Genius" Jason Moran and multi-Grammy Award-winning performance artist Laurie Anderson performed in the Armory's 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall underpinned by the soundscape of LOU REED: DRONES, a sonic installation utilizing guitars from Reed's collection and curated by his former guitar technician Stewart Hurwood. Anderson and Moran invited two groups of artists to add their own layer of artistry over the Drones, joining them in these improvisational sonic meditations for the city of New York. AFTERWARDSNESS (5/19/21 - 5/26/21): This powerful new dance work by Bill T. Jones and Janet Wong was created in collaboration with members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company as well as composers/performers Holland Andrews and Pauline Kim Harris. The work addressed the confluence of the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19, incorporating the company's own writings while in isolation, vocal and instrumental solos, and choreography based on Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company repertory. The New York Times selected the work as a Critic's Pick, calling the performance "genuine and.resolute in its unwillingness to paint the wrong snapshot of a time.In its best moments, Afterwardsness was fully alive." ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (6/22/21 - 7/10/21): The Armory commissioned visionary British director Robert Icke (Broadway's 1984) for a new participatory production inspired by Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. Envisioned for a socially distanced time, Icke's thrilling adaptation explored themes in Ibsen's original play that resonate powerfully today: collective responsibility and the complex relationship between scientific expertise and political power, public health and economic growth. The central character played by Ann Dowd (A Handmaid's Tale) is a scientist who discovers that the water supply of her town's precious mineral baths is contaminated. The audience was engaged in the action and asked to weigh in on important decisions through interactive voting devices, allowing each performance to take its own unique path. Vulture declared that the production was "the biggest, fanciest, splashiest in-person ind”

“ARTS EDUCATION AT THE ARMORY Utilizing our magnificent historic building and unique visual and performing arts programming, Park Avenue Armory's Arts Education Program serves thousands of students from underserved New York City public schools from all five boroughs through a wide range of opportunities to be immersed in the creative process of diverse world-class artists. The Arts Education Program has three main components: (1) Production-based Programming, in which students attend major productions of music, theater, dance and visual art, and participate in pre- and post-visit workshops with the Armory's talented corps of teaching artists; (2) Partner School Program, in which deeper relationships with schools are created through attendance at productions, in-school residencies and end-of-term events at the Armory; and (3) the Armory Youth Corps, a paid and closely mentored internship program focusing on students from underserved NYC public schools. Armory Arts Education programs are offered at no cost to students or schools and are developed in alignment with the NYS Next Generation Learning Standards and the NYC Blueprint for the Arts. In 2021, the Armory adapted the Arts Education program's core values and creative methodology to remote and hybrid learning, pivoting to meet new circumstances with an unwavering commitment to the principles of unbounded creativity, community, and flexible support for NYC public school students and teachers. Through Production-Based Programs, Armory staff and teaching artists provided opportunities for community, creativity, and connection, reaching 3,477 students through live instruction workshops (remote in the spring, hybrid during the fall), and 2,150 students through a new Creative Arts Journal. Virtual Production-Based Programs were in high demand, engaging students through remote workshops and virtual student matinees inspired by the Armory's productions, including Bill T. Jones' Deep Blue Sea, Trustee Sidekick Theater Company's The Mendelssohn Electric, jaimie branch and Carol Syzmanski's Artists Studio performance, and the Armory's 100 Years | 100 Women Project Archive. The Partner School Program offered curriculum enrichment at no cost to 7 participating Title I schools, focusing on underserved NYC public schools that lack access to art programs. Partner School Residencies explored the concepts of community, inspired by the process behind the creation of Bill T. Jones' Deep Blue Sea; the current political landscape through Carrie Mae Weems' exhibition The Shape of Things; artistic practices of Armory Artist-in-Residence Theaster Gates; and the Creative Arts Journal. The Armory Youth Corps Program remained committed to its core mission and values, continuing to develop rigorous, highly mentored, and paid internship opportunities customizable to each student's unique interests, goals, and learning style. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION Since 2007, Park Avenue Armory has been consistently working to revitalize this significant historic landmark through an ambitious program of restoration and renovation with a world-class team of architects, engineers, and conservators. From the start, our initial projects focused on stabilizing the building, adding essential upgrades to the infrastructure, and making it safe. With these early phases underway, the Armory opened to the public and began to explore its unique potential as an unconventional platform for world-class artists pursuing expanding the boundaries of their artistic practice. Due to the COVID crisis, capital projects were put on hold in 2021.”