Step by step

Dance Magazine, June, 2004 by Wendy Perron

[NY] In a project that Stephan Koplowitz calls a mega street performance art piece, he is sending fifty dancers up and down the grand staircases of New York City from June 15 to June 29. "It's an idea that's been brewing for years," says Koplowitz, famed for his spectacular site-specific works (set DM, November 2003, p.44).

The Grand Step Project, produced by Dancing in the Streets and sponsored by Bloomberg LP, travels from the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, to the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center, to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and the Customs House in the Wall Street district. Koplowitz, who won an Alpert Award in Dance this year, wants to attract the attention of workers who may see the stairs they have sat on for lunch. "I want them to look up a little bit and take a moment to reflect. We're filling that pause with art." See www.dancinginthestreets.org.