Undercurrents & Exchange: Day #1 Performance Video

Day #1 Created by Tom Pearson

Music by Kris Bauman

Performed by: Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O'Con, Tom Pearson

"Third Rail Projects is at it again, continuing their mission to rescue dance from the twin devils of classical stagnation and academic obscurantism by bringing it to the streets—or in this case, the World Financial Center." - The SoHo Journal

Undercurrents & Exchange
by Third Rail Projects
Presented by Arts World Financial Center
and the River To River Festival

July 12 - 16 & July 19 - 23
12:00-12:10pm & 1:00-1:10pm (repeat)

July 23, 7:00-8:00pm Evening-length full performance
World Financial Center Winter Garden, NYC

As part of the River To River Festival, Third Rail Projects returns this summer to the World Financial Center

New art installation and free daily performances

"Given the current economy, we imagine that lunchtime down on Wall Street isn't the entertaining, three martini affair it once was. Enter Zach Morris and Tom Pearson of Third Rail Projects..." -Flavorwire

Click here for press release.Click here for more info on the project webpage.

Undercurrents & Exchange
Presented by Arts World Financial Center
and the River To River Festival
July 12 - 16 & July 19 - 23
Daily at 12:00pm-12:10pm
Repeated at 1:00pm-1:10pm

July 23, 7:00pm - 8:00pm:
Evening-length full performance

World Financial Center Winter Garden
220 Vesey Street, NYCClick here for directions

Undercurrents & Exchange is a rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation and connection in modern America, manifested in a series of lunch-hour performances. Each day artists present a new dance grappling with improbable relationships and unearthing the hidden, interpersonal undercurrents of our daily routines. These daily dances are episodic and will culminate on July 23 when they are performed together to reveal an underlying web of meaning. Undercurrents & Exchange is created in correspondence with The Drifting Encyclopedia, an art exhibition in the WFC Courtyard Gallery. Created by Tom Pearson & Zach Morris with additional choreography by Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, and Tara O'Con. Performed daily by Pearson, Willett, Nielsen-Pincus, O'Con and guest artists.
photo by Chad Heird

The Drifting Encyclopedia

Presented by Arts World Financial Center and the River To River Festival
July 12 - September 3; Monday - Friday, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery, 220 Vesey Street, NYCClick here for directions

The Drifting Encyclopedia is an assemblage of American oddities, scientific and historical ephemera, questionable accounts and implausible representations thereof. Part Victorian cabinet of curiosities, part roadside attraction, this immersive art installation houses exhibits that echo the themes of unlikely connections and contemplates the actual, illusory and anomalous nature of love. The Drifting Encyclopedia is created in correspondence to Undercurrents & Exchange, a series of performances in the WFC Winter Garden. Created by Zach Morris in collaboration with Elizabeth Carena, Tom Pearson, and Kryssy Wright.

photo by Will Femia
Undercurrents & Exchange and The Drifting Encyclopedia are presented by Arts World Financial Center and made possible, in part, by the River To River Festival, and made possible, in part, by Materials for the Arts/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs/Department of Sanitation, The Lucky Star Foundation, and by Third Rail Projects with support from individual and institutional donors.

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U&E: First Impressions

posted by Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

The following is from notes written prior to our first performances in the Winter Garden, from research done a few months back:I had two thoughts on entering the Winter Garden for the first time on a Wednesday morning a few months ago:

First- Where is the garden?

And then- Wow! It's a shopping mall!!

I must say that at first I was a little disappointed to find that it isn't much of a garden and that it did have a rather sterile and corporate feel (though the palm trees are gorgeous!).

But, as I sat there that first morning for a few hours, things began to appear that I couldn't see at first. They uncovered themselves, one by one, to help me form a very different impression. We had already come up with the name: Undercurrents & Exchange, and that morning was a good lesson that undercurrents don't show themselves with first impressions.

Undercurrents & Exchange: Performance #9

posted by Third Rail Projects



Above is an excerpt from Performance #9 of Undercurrents and Exchange, presented by arts>World Financial Center, Thursday, February 12 at 1pm in the World Financial Center Winter Garden. Day #9 is created by Marissa Nielsen-Pincus and performed by Zach Morris, Tara O'Con, Nikki Berger, Arianne Gallagher, Rachel Hardin, and Matthew Wagner. Music Mark DeNardo: markdenardo.com.

Read more about the project in previous blog entries or visit thirdrailprojects.com.

Undercurrents & Exchange: Performance #5

posted by Third Rail Projects



Above is an excerpt from Performance #5 of Undercurrents and Exchange, presented by arts>World Financial Center, Friday, February 6 at 1pm in the World Financial Center Winter Garden. This performance was in conjunction with another event in the space, a musical set performed by Baby Jane Dexter & Her Trio. Day #5 is created and performed by Zach Morris and Marissa Nielsen-Pincus. Live musical performance by Baby Jane Dexter & Her Trio.

Read more about the project in previous blog entries or visit thirdrailprojects.com