For AUNTS @ Rockaway, a collection of over a dozen artists organized by AUNTS will transform the neighborhood and take over three diverse locations  - the beach, the boardwalk, and Rockaway’s architectural marvel, The Castle - for a two-day performance with multiple performers, open dance parties, multidisciplinary, body/non-body based, time orientated, finished/experimental/process art.  Audiences will be able to join, follow, wander and experience as many as or as few performances as they choose, creating their own experiences through chance encounters.

5:00 pm: Biba Bell, Hustle on the Sand | On the sand at B110 Street
5:30 pm: AUNTS Procession | B110 Street to The Castle
6:00 pm: Evening Performances at The Castle | B117 Street and Newport Avenue

                Featuring Artists:
                Stephanie Acosta
                Chris Braz
                Justin Cabrillos
                Jessica Cook
                Tess Dworman
                Lisa Fagan
                Wojciech Gilewicz
                Lily Gold + mary read
                Jasmine Hearn
                Zavé Martohardjono + J Dellecave
                Katrina Reid
                Karl Scholz
                Tatyana Tenenbaum
                Hilary Brown | HB² PROJECTS + Kristina Hay (Dance) with Lamy Istrefi Jr. (Music)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 26:
FLIP IT AND REVERSE IT

2:00 pm: Afternoon Performances at The Castle | B117 Street and Newport Avenue 
               (Same program as 8/25)
4:00 pm: AUNTS Procession | The Castle to B110 Street
4:30 pm: Biba Bell, Hustle on the Sand | On the sand at B110 Street

About AUNTS
AUNTS is about having dance happen.  The dance you’ve already seen, that pops into your head, that is known and expected and unknown and unexpected. Dance that seeps into the cracks of street lights, subway commotion, magazine myth, drunk nights at the bar, the family album, and the couch where you lay and softly glance at the afternoon light coming in through the window. AUNTS constantly tests a model of producing dance/performance/parties. A model that supports the development of current, present, and contemporary dancing. A model that expects to be adopted, adapted, replicated, and perpetuated by any person who would like to use it.  Where performing can last five seconds or five hours; never a “work in progress.” Where the work of performing is backed by the “land of plenty” rather than “there is not enough.” Where the work of AUNTS defies the regulation of institution, capitalism, and consumerism. AUNTS is about being gracious in this world. http://auntsisdance.com/