The Foundry Presents THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY: A South Bronx Travelogue, Runs Saturday and Sunday Afternoons

THE Foundry Theatre PRESENTS THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY
A South Bronx Travelogue On a tour bus traveling from East Harlem thru this historic neighborhood

DID YOU KNOW THAT ON AN AVERAGE DAY OVER 50,000 VEHICLES PASS OVER THE HARLEM RIVER ON THE WILLIS AVENUE BRIDGE? WE ARE ONE OF 50,000.

THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY is a poetic travelogue performed on a bus touring the South Bronx. As we travel the streets of the neighborhood, Rankine's evocative text points out and reflects upon the sites that pass by outside the windows. Views that to an outsider might go by unnoticed - a former factory now a Con Ed Station dressed up as townhouses, the theatre where La Lupe held court that is now a church - these complicated places ask what creates a neighborhood in a city in a country in the world.

The audience boards the bus in Spanish Harlem, puts on headphones and for 90 minutes eavesdrops on the voice - both live and recorded - of this historic place. PROVENANCE is an experience that both responds to and redoubles the landscape - its sites, history, present and future - mapping out a poetic cartography of a neighborhood - of any neighborhood - in its eternal state of evolution.

WHEN: SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS // 2 SHOWS EACH DAY
@ 1PM & 4PM
THROUGH OCTOBER 25TH ONLY!
WHERE: THE BUS DEPARTS FROM AND RETURNS TO SPANISH HARLEM
THE ELEMENDORF CHURCH, 171 E. 121ST (btw Lexington & 3rd Ave.)
4, 5 OR 6 train to 125th St. Walk 4 blx down Lex, turn left
TICKETS: $35