They dance on platforms and outdoor stages set against an imaginary backdrop of sculptures, foliage, and skyscrapers.
The digital piece, titled “An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time,” features 120 dancers and musicians from the city’s performing arts schools, personally choreographed by the artist. “I wanted to figure out how to make a digital quilt inside this landscape inspired by Central Park, to be a love letter to New York and its creative output,” said artist Jacolby Satterwhite. The video will be on display whenever the media wall is not being used to livestream performances taking place within the hall. The second commission is a 27-minute video designed for a 50-foot-long media wall in the lobby, exploring a utopian landscape where New York City’s past and future meld to produce a more equitable and vital vision of artistic life. Nina Chanel Abney and Jacolby Satterwhite pose in front of the 50-foot media wall in the lobby of the new hall. The cells also include keywords like “shelter,” citing “shelter before culture” signs demonstrators once toted to protest against Lincoln Center’s proposed construction, and more ambiguous “X” iconography that alludes perhaps to a forgotten past. Both Monk and Hillary - along with every other figure included in the tapestry - lived at some point in San Juan Hill. On Saturday, Abney highlighted two particular patches in her quilt: one at center-right showing jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, and another to its right illustrating explorer Barbara Hillary, the first Black woman to reach both the North and South Poles. Nina Chanel Abney, “San Juan Heal” (2022) (photo by Nicholas Knight courtesy Lincoln Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Public Art Fund) Thousands of residents were displaced in the process. But in 1956, Robert Moses, who deemed San Juan Hill “the worst slum in New York,” decided that it would be razed and replaced with a performing arts center funded by Standard Oil heir John D. San Juan Hill housed working-class families and incubated jazz musicians and Broadway talent alike in the first half of the 20th century. Both the title and the work keep the memory of San Juan Hill alive, the predominantly Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood that once thrived where Lincoln Center now stands. (photo Jasmine Liu/Hyperallergic)īlanketing the northern face of the new hall facing Alice Tully Hall is Nina Chanel Abney’s “San Juan Heal” (2022).
Jacolby Satterwhite’s “An Eclectic Dance to the Music of Time” is a monumental work of digital art that occupies the 50-foot media wall in the lobby.
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