Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Paola Prestini, Jad Abumrad, Jessica Grindstaff: PORT(AL)

  • June 21, 2025 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
Ticket Price $17.50-$35.00 Buy Tickets
Description

“A sprawling, ambitious, innovative new collaborative production” (Vogue). 

 

PORT(AL) is an epic new work charting the Brooklyn Navy Yard and a history of women’s work in New York, co-created by the GRAMMY Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus (“a mammoth choir that lends a shot of instant grandiosity to everything they touch” — Pitchfork), Jad Abumrad (Radiolab), Paola Prestini, Jessica Grindstaff, Ogemdi Ude and a chorus of 50 young singers. 

 

A mesmerizing new choral theater experience, PORT(AL) opens a hidden doorway to the past within the depths of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Ebbing, flowing, and interweaving throughout this immersive piece are the voices of the youth chorus speaking to their relationship to their very own time and place, and their future.

 

Vividly evoking and honoring Brooklyn’s ghosts, PORT(AL) spins oral histories from recently passed figures like historian Howard Zinn and activist Clarence L. Irving, Sr. Discover the hidden depths of the Navy Yard’s past, where the trailblazing spirit of machinist and drag king Rusty Brown and the pioneering voice of mezzo soprano Eugenia Farrar surge like tidal waves.

 

PORT(AL) is not just a performance; it’s an immersive passage through time, where the boundaries between eras dissolve and the enduring spirit of the human story sets sail. 

 

PORT(AL) was partially developed in residency at PS21 in early 2025. 

 

Date & Time

Sat, Jun 21, 2025 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
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A vibrant center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley, PS21 “presents work that challenges and invites” (The New York Times): adventurous productions by leading and emerging American and international artists in music, dance, and theater, and visionaries creating entirely new genres. On our open-air Pavilion Theater stage, across our expansive, unspoiled grounds, and in the diverse surrounding communities, PS21 cultivates and presents productions that transcend aesthetic boundaries and revitalize existing artistic languages and grammars. Throughout the year, we host developmental residencies for dancers, musicians, actors, and creators of original, even unclassifiable new work. Rooted in community collaboration, PS21’s programming engages creatively with critical global and social issues. It is a mecca for innovative and original artistic voices, a destination for performance that can be experienced nowhere else in the region. PS21’s Pavilion Theater is a green-energy marvel surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled meadows, trails, and woodlands that are a haven to wildlife and visitors across the region.  Integrated into our unspoiled campus, the theater embodies our commitments to the public: open, inviting, and optimized for their enjoyment and encouraging citizen expression and participation.

 

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