Award Winning Performing Arts Troupe Launches National Tour in Brooklyn's Von King Park

On Thursday, June 22, Anna Myer and Dancers /beheard.world (BHW), a Boston-based performing arts and dance company funded by a National Endowment for the Arts grant is bringing its critically reviewed work, Invisible: Imprints of Racism, to Herbert Von King Park in Brooklyn. The performance will feature a community barbecue at 6:30 PM followed by a short performance by Crown Heights youth and will conclude with Invisible: Imprints of Racism. The full program is free and open to the public.

Invisible is an hour-long piece that explores the embedded psychosocial and racial challenges that permeate life in America. This deeply thoughtful and multidimensional production features nine dancers who mesh various styles of movement to create a kinesthetic language influenced Hip Hop and modern dance. Merged with this dynamic group of dancers is a trio of Boston's top poets whose stories weave simultaneously alongside the movement. The work is followed by a facilitated discussion with the audience.

The event is in partnership with Herbert Von King Park Conservancy and their mentor through the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation's Community Parks Initiative, Madison Square Park Conservancy.

Keats Myer, Executive Director of Madison Square Park Conservancy said "We are very excited to support the Von King Park Conservancy in developing engaging and meaningful public arts programming in their local park. For more than a decade, Madison Square Park Conservancy has been demonstrating the galvanizing effect that public art in a local park can have for a community, and we are very enthusiastic about the efforts to do the same for Von King Park in Brooklyn."

Anna Myer and Dancers/beheard.world have performed throughout the Northeast and in Europe. Critics in both The New York Times and The Boston Globe have hailed its work.