Kurt Rohde will be collaborating with artist Marie Lorenz and writer Dana Spiotta on a new transdicsciplinary performance work that will take place over the course of several evenings on the Newtown Creek. The Newtown Creek is one of the most fraught waterways in the country, and also one of the most neglected. Recent advocacy and activism has forced a confrontation and appraisal of the state of this vital, yet toxic waterway.
Organizations such as the Newtown Creek Alliance and other Newtown Creek based groups are committed to take action and remediate centuries of damage and abuse.
Newtown Odyssey will be a large scale, mobile work. Performers and audience members will take part in a narrative constructed drawn from the Newtown Creek’s story - its present, past & future - while being based in both reality and fantasy. It is our goal to have us all come together collectively and be a part of a solution to the environmental and ecological disasters on this waterway.