Betsey Biggs

Mobile audio, audience participation. Commissioned by Elastic City. Through the Cracks was a Time Out New York Critic’s pick.

Through the Cracks is a 45-minute long walk for up to eight people through Manhattan’s Tin Pan Alley, birthplace of American popular music. Participants explore the sepia-stained music seeping through the cracks of the city’s sidewalks, and use sound as a portal through which to discover the enchanted, hidden life buried in the neighborhood. The groups sing and walk forwards, backwards, and in time-stretched loops, as memory intertwines with the present to create a moving and layered collage. This walk was led several times throughout the course of a weekend in July 2011.

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PERFORMANCES

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 3:00pm

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 5:00pm

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 16, 2011, 7:00pm

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 17, 2011, 3:00pm

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 17, 2011, 5:00pm

Elastic City Walk, Sat, Jul 17, 2011, 7:00pm

PRESS

"Through the Cracks" featured and listed as a "Critics' Pick" in the Great Walks issue of Time Out NY on 7/13/11.

Interview on "Where We Live"–WNPR/Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network.