FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SENS/Noémie Lafrance Presents:

Agora II

AGORA II (part II) is a new work directed by site-specific choreographer Noémie Lafrance and created in collaboration with members of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg performance community. AGORA II includes the participation of guest artists, performers, dancers, actors, and audiences, together creating an infinitesimal and monumental tableau of NYC life inside the abandoned 50,000 square foot McCarren Park pool.

WHEN

Wed – Sat Sept 13-17, 20-24 and 27-30 8:00PM

Please arrive a half hour before showtime for seating and wear comfortable shoes!

Tickets: Player $20 / Viewer $30 available online soon at www.sensproduction.org

To reserve advance tickets by phone: 718-388-6309

Press 718-916-0800

WHERE

The Historic McCarren Park Pool in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Main arch entrance)

(Lorimer st. between Driggs & Bayard) Take L train to Lorimer or Bedford; G train to Metropolitan.

WHAT

AGORA brings together into the empty pool a cast of hundreds including appearances by guest groups/performers STREB, Young Dance Collective, Radiohole, Radical Cheerleaders, Malcolm and the Hoop Entourage, Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, Julie Atlas Muz, Critical Mass, Breakskru, Daria Fain/Human Behavior Explorers, Celeste Hastings and the Butoh Rockettes, The Colors, Jacob Robinette, and Johanna Meyer in addition to a group of 60 independent performers. All will be mapping and layering visceral narratives of urban life inside the vast pool basin. Original score is by Brooks Williams and Norm Scott, with live sound directed by Bora Yoon and lighting design is by Thomas Dunn.

With AGORA II, choreographer and producer Noémie Lafrance continues her exploration of the McCarren Park pool as a public site to stage innovative performance work. Expressed as one large breath, AGORA II further explores treatments of the pool site’s architecture combined with ideas of collectivity, layering strokes of audience interventions, evolving characters and cameo appearances by guest artists, creating a grand tableau – a city slice – a social experiment.

WHO

SENS is a nonprofit organization that creates and produces site-specific work in man-made landscapes using urban architecture as inspiration and setting. SENS/Noémie Lafrance has created and produced adventurous works in a variety of NYC landscapes, including Noir (2004), part of the Whitney Biennial, staged in the Essex Municipal Parking Garage, and Descent (2001-2003), performed in the stairwell of the City Court Building Clock Tower, and Migrations (2005), a commission of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria.

SENS/Noémie Lafrance has continued to devote resources to improving the McCarren Park pool site and develop the possibilities for reclaiming a public space that was long abandoned and unusable. Since its transformation last September, the spectacular site is rapidly attracting the interest of artists, locals, and concert promoters... SENS envisions the pool site as the perfect location from which to create a yearly site-specific festival emerging from the boundless cultural effervescence of the Greenpoint/Williamsburg community.

AGORA II is funded in parts by

Our audience, the Businesses and community of Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Altria Group, Inc., Con Edison, The Leon Levy Foundation and The Quebec government house in New York.

Also this summer at the McCarren Park Pool…

BENEFIT CELEBRATION DAY

Celebrating the 70^th Anniversary of The Pool at McCarren Park

WHEN: Monday July 31 2006 4-10 PM

WHAT: Join us for BBQ, GAMES by ART HIJACK (DODGEBALL! CUCUMBER! GIANT TWISTER!), A BATHING SUIT CONTEST, A PREVIEW of AGORA II by Noémie Lafrance.

Featuring performances by CIRCUS AMOK and RADIO MUNDIAL

Hosted by MC JULIE ATLAS MUZ & CO / Bands & DJ curated by JELLY NYC

TICKETS: $10 and up

Come join the efforts to improve the pool for use by members of this community! Sens Production is raising funds to implement repairs and programs to reanimate the Pool at McCarren Park with performances, recreation, and activities.

POOL PARTIES

Produced by JELLY NYC

WHEN: EVERY SUNDAY JULY 9 - SEP 3

WHAT: FREE CONCERTS FEATURING: LES SAVY FAV, QUESTLOVE, THE WALKMEN, OF MONTREAL, DEERHOOF, MARK RONSON, BEIRUT, THE DETROIT COBRAS, DEAD MEADOW, AND MANY MORE

www.thepoolparties.com

SUMMER SCREEN

Presented by THE L MAGAZINE and VOLKSWAGEN

WHEN: EVERY TUESDAY JULY - AUG 22

WHAT: FREE SERIES: 7-9 PM Music | 9-11PM Screenings

(Rain dates on following Wednesdays)