Group to present art installation, performances at Brooklyn Community Gardens

August 28, 2015 Brooklyn Daily Eagle

LEIMAY is sponsoring an art installation, “Qualia Skyhole,” in the Gil Hodges Community Garden at 534 Carroll St. in Gowanus through Sept. 9. Photo by Shige Moriya, courtesy of BAM

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As part of Brooklyn Academy of Music’s and New York Restoration Project’s Arts in the Gardens program, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary arts organization LEIMAY is sponsoring an art installation, “Qualia Skyhole,” in the Gil Hodges Community Garden at 534 Carroll St. in Gowanus through Sept. 9.

LEIMAY creates string installations that use tension and suspension in order to create a sense of expansion and collapse of space to present outdoor space as places of contemplation, rebirth and regeneration.

On Thursday, Sept. 3 and Saturday, Sept. 5, LEIMAY will also sponsor two performances, set against the background of its own installation, in the same garden at 7:30 p.m. LEIMAY will use dance, theater, music and light to explore the fragility and resilience of life through “Thresholds II,” a dance of rising and falling at sunset. In “In Illo Tempore Vignettes,” it will explore characters suspended in time to reveal what might be considered as eternity.

LEIMAY, based in Brooklyn, develops artwork and multiple community programs throughout the year.

Another dance event that will be part of the closing ceremony for Arts in the Gardens is “Take Ballet to the Streets” at Garden of Hope, 392 Hancock St., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at 5 p.m. The same piece will also be presented at Target Community Garden, 931 Bedford Ave., on Thursday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. Using interdisciplinary influences while grounded in the classical idiom, Brooklyn Ballet Company and Youth Ensemble will bring together ballet and hip-hop in an evening of recurring performances. Please note the different locations for each event.

For more info, visit bam.org.