BIRD EYE BLUE PRINT

(2007)

 
 

A project of Pearl D’Amour

Bird Eye Blue Print was a site-specific installation and “performance tour” designed for audiences of 20 people at a time who were led through the space by a mysterious woman known only as “the Blue Dress Lady”.   The space was actually an empty office suite in the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan.  Through her tour the Blue Dress Lady revealed a private, often whimsical world filled with lost sisters and prescient birds, surrounded by an elusive “raw space” that was literally and figuratively just outside the audience’s reach.   The audience began by moving through spaces as a group; later they were free to wander individually from room to room, giving them a closer look at the space and installations.

 
 

CREDITS

Written and Performed by
Lisa D’Amour   

Directed by
Katie Pearl

Visual Design
Krista Kelley Walsh

Choreography by
Emily Johnson

Light design by
Mark Barton

Sound design by
Jimmy Garver

Additional Composition by
Brendan Connelly

Costume design by
Olivera Gajic

 
 

Performed with
The Red Dress Girls: 
Tricia Baldwin, April Matthis, Vinie Burrows, Emily Johnson, Krista Walsh Larissa Husiak.  Also performed with one Security Guard, provided by the World Financial Center.

 

Commissioned and Produced by
Brookfield Properties at the
World Financial Center in 2007

 
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Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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