CrossWalk

Name: CrossWalk
Start: 2024-09-21T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-21T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 612 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14212

Schedule

Sat Sep 21 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

612 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States, New York 14212 | Buffalo, NY

CrossWalk is a performance and fashion installation created by Torn Space, written and directed by Dan Shanahan and Melissa Meola; featuring the work of audio visual collective Groupwork, fashion designers Chase Cobbina, internationally known as Billie Essco, and Kylie Priscilla, streetwear designs by Tim Stegner and featuring the public as models. The production explores topics of quantum mechanics, contemporary dance and mob mentality.
These seemingly disparate subjects can be explored through the lens of complexity and unpredictability. Quantum mechanics deals with the fundamental unpredictability and non-linearity of the microscopic world, contemporary dance often incorporates improvisation and spontaneity, mob mentality exhibits emergent behavior from individual actions.
Audience members will gather at the intersection of Paderewski and Wilson Street for a live photoshoot featuring models washed ashore from the seventh dimension. The models sunbathe on rocks from 400 million years ago, prepare for a match and gather around a limousine that once acted as the party transportation for Studio 54. As the sun begins to set, the production moves inside Torn Space where the action and party begin.
Through performance movements ranging from Unity of Existence to Perception and Reality, a fashion line will emerge; designers Kylie Priscilla and Chase Cobbina aka Billie Essco will construct, shred, and manipulate garments, images will be captured and displayed on the streetwear line by Tim Stegner, the models will be transported through the audio visual wonder of Groupwork. When the production ends and the haze clears, a pop-up retail store designed by visual and tattoo artist Thea Duskin will remain and a conceptual clothing line will become real.