Angels and Accordions

There's a cultural event coming up you don't want to miss, so if you live even remotely close to Brooklyn, NY, get here somehow and check it out, because it never fails to satisfy.

I'm referring to Angels and Accordions, a site-specific, live music and dance performance appearing on October 10, 2009, at 12 pm and 3:30 pm at the Green-Wood Cemetery. The event is held in conjunction with openhousenewyork, guiding audience members through historic Green-Wood Cemetery’s rolling hills, highlighting its unparalleled collection of sculpture and monuments. This unique event, choreographed by Martha Bowers of Dance Theatre Etcetera, features a cast of 30 dancers, original music by Guy Klucevsek and Bob Goldberg (played live by a band of accordionists), singing, and a visual installation inside the Catacombs designed by photographer Alexander Heilner. Several tombs will be open to the public.

Green-Wood Cemetery is one of the most beautiful spots in all of NYC, filled with the graves of the famous and not-so-famous, landscaped perfectly for a symbiosis of spiritual somberness and natural beauty. But to see these dancers hanging from the trees, draped over the tombs, and to hear the accordions droning as you take a two hour walk through the winding lanes is truly the finest way to experience it.

As the earthly sound of the accordions melds with the celestial mystique of the dancers, you truly feel transported into a realm beyond.

Photo via Brooklyn Parrots.