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Overlooking the East River, the inaugural 4 week performance
series will feature innovative new commissions by Niall Harris,
Isaiah Barr, Poncilli Creation and more.
Domino Park is pleased to announce the inaugural edition
of Sugar Sugar, a free outdoor performing arts series taking
place over the course of a monthfrom June 4th to 28th, 2025.
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Sugar Sugar marks the first ambitious cultural program at
Domino Square, the latest addition to Domino Park S5 Acre
Public Park overlooking the EastRiver.
The program will showcase experimental performances
spanning theatre, dance, music and puppetry with featured
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artists including Troy Anthony and the Fire Ensemble.
National Sawdust presents IsaiahBar, David Frazier Junior and
William Parker plus special guests Lena Egelstein and Lisa
Fagan Niall Harris, Poncilli Creation, Eli Nixon Evan Silver
AKA Tire Science and a two nightclosing performance of the
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immersive production Quince organized by Public Assembly a
Brooklyn based creative strategyand producing practice.
Partnering with curator, director and creative producer
Ilpethic Civicos, whose production company One Whale S
Tale is known for creating maximalist multidisciplinary
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performances. Sugar Sugar takes place at
Domino Square S multi purpose amphitheater and celebrates the
legacy of North Brooklyn and NewYork S creative community more
broadly highlighting artists, collectives and institutions.
Annabelle Thompson, Co founder of Public Assembly, comments
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Sugar Sugar is a small offering to the city S already rich
landscape of outdoor programming, and we are thrilled
to invite artistic experimentation that reflects
and responds to the site of Williamsburg S waterfront.
Independent guest curators, experimental organizations and
companies in North Brooklyn are collaborating with Sugar Sugar
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to guest curate a selection of performances.
For example, Teresa Book Heister, the former Artistic
Director of the Brick Theatre, aWilliamsburg based non profit
dedicated to developing and presenting the work of
pioneering emerging artists thatpushes boundaries of the ever
evolving spectrum of performing arts, has curated a series of
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performances by Downtown Fixtures, Niall Harris and Lisa
Fagan and Lena Angle Stein. National Sawdust, which supports
artists who are passionate aboutexperimentation and innovation
rooted in sound, will present a performance by experimental jazz
musicians Isaiah Barr, David Frazier Junior and William
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Parker, plus special guests. Sasha Oakstein, a long time
producer at Performa and the Water Mill Center, will curate a
new group work by Rashan Mitchell and Silas Reiner
featuring music by Charmaine Leeas well as a time capsule of
Agoura Noemie La France S legendary site specific dance
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performance staged in the then derelict Mccarran Park Pool in
2005, which will be screened each night throughout the
duration of the series. On Juneteenth, the Fire
Ensemble, an intergenerational choir community, will present
the revival It Is Our Duty, a celebration meant to uplift
people using non religious songsand rituals that center
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collective liberation. Further highlights include Eli
Nixon, SDIY Primordial Futurism,a flamboyant invitation to
celebrate horseshoe crabs, and Deep Time, which invites
audiences to collaborate throughnature, drag comics, drawing,
fabric handling and singing. Cravey Oak Poncilli Creation
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will debut a new performance in their signature style,
transforming salvage materials into vibrant puppetry as an
energetic celebration of life, while Evan Silver AKA Tire
Science, will present a drag performance that augments the
body with puppetry contraptions to create surreal and vivid
visuals. The closing performance, Quince
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by One Whale S Tale, blends A theatrical narrative with the
cultural celebration for which it is named, a quinceanera.
The piece is a comedy with soul about a Chicano household
navigating how queerness can both contradict and fit within
their religious beliefs and unwavering commitment to family.
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This playful and profound examination of our connection to
tradition has gone from a coveted era performance in a
community garden to the BushwickStar and Lincoln Center.
Drinks, dancing, food and live music at banquet tables carries
the audience through this beautiful, immersive experience.
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I'll Pathed. Civicos Co, curator and creative
producer of Sugar Sugar CommentsQuince is a celebration of
cultural traditions and the ability of those traditions to
evolve to be inclusive of futuregenerations.
The loss of the third space, theincreased defunding of the arts,
and the desperate need for strength and community is what
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inspires me most about the new Domino Park Amphitheater.
Being able to bring live art at this capacity to the community
reaffirms my belief in the ability of art to make change.
Harold Joy and bring people together.
Capuco. We'll host each night S pre show
with NYC Domino's DJs and dancing.
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The program culminates in a joyful, community driven Plaza
party featuring live music and dancing, a vibrant marketplace,
local food vendors and interactive art activities.
Partners include the Brooklyn Cumbia Festival, which will
showcase a series of performances organized by
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Escuela Popular de Arte Sonoro, a free music program for BIPOC
youth that operates out of Mayday Space, an organizing hub
in Bushwick, and Ruda de Oro, a collective musical initiative
working to maintain the Afro indigenous drumming and dance
traditions of the Colombian coast, as well as community.
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Event organizers Logist, Inc, New York City tape artist, Kooky
Go Recess Art and more to be announced.
Free admission by reservation. Tickets are available beginning
May 8th, 2025. The full schedule of events can
be found on the Domino Park website, www.dominopark.com.
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Sugar Sugar performance schedule.
Niall Harris Untitled Teresa Book Hyster Wednesday, June 4th
at 8:00 PM Guest curated by Teresa Book Hyster Niall Harris
is a performer and a director oflive works of art.
Through performance, Harris creates immersive experiences
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that use the body on stage to manipulate 1S relationship to
time and self perception. In this untitled work in
progress presentation, Harris responds to the architecture of
the Domino Park Amphitheater, using the Manhattan skyline as a
launching point on a desultory meditation on the characters
past, present, future that make New York City, NY City.
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Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein This could be you Wednesday,
June 4th at 9:00 PM Guest curated by Teresa Bookheister.
Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein have worked together since 2017.
Intensely physical and visually maximal, the Pier S works are
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rooted in dance adjacent physicality, but reimagine what
choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically.
Evan Silver AKA Tire Science Tire Science presents Mysteriosa
Thursday, June 5th at 8:00 PM, Guest curated by Teresa Book
Heister Evan Silver AKA Tire Size is a hybrid writer,
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director, composer, performer, puppeteer, myth maker and
ritualist based in Brooklyn. Recently called a rare avis of
experimental theater by The New Yorker and one of the most
enchanting performers in New York City by the Brooklyn Rail,
their work explores queer ecologies, weird mythologies,
and speculative futures. Featuring some of the most
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visionary performing artists in New York City, Tiresias Presents
Mysteriosa is a Fantasia of short new works that promises
untold mystery and magic. Rashan Mitchell and Silas Reiner
outside out Wednesday, June 11that 8:00 PM.
Guest curated by Sasha Oakstein.Rashawn Mitchell and Silas
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Reiner are New York based dance artists whose work involves the
building of collaborative worldsthrough improvisational
techniques, digital technologies, and material
construction. Rashawn and Silas will create a
new group work for Domino Park featuring music by Charmaine
Lee, Eli Nixon, DIY primordial futurism, and flamboyant
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invitation to celebrate horseshoe crabs and deep time.
Thursday, June 12th at 8:00 PM. Eli Nixon builds portals and
gives guided tours to places that don't yet exist.
They collaborate on imaginative interventions through cardboard
constructionism, theater making,drawing and choreography of low
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tech public spectacle. Join Suitcase Theater artist and
rabble rouser Eli Nixon to explore what and how to
celebrate so as to survive for 450 million years or at least
tomorrow. Audiences will be invited into
low stakes opportunities for participation including nature,
drag comics, drawing, fabric handling and singing.
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Cravey Oak power ballads with altered lyrics about crabs.
Poncilli Creation, Dirty Laughing Molecules.
Thursday, June 12th at 9:00 PM. Poncilli Creation is a
puritorican performance duo thatfocuses around their foam rubber
sculptures to create activities based on the concepts of raw
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magic and beautiful nothingness.These sculptures, created to be
manipulated by the human body orparts of it, some as small as a
cherry, others as large as trees, are tools for creating
whimsical power that stains reality for dirty laughing
molecules. The audience will be forcibly
caught in a traffic jam and fallwitness to life and death in
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ginormous proportions through the windshield, a warped mirror
of reality. National Sawdust presence Back
to Nature featuring Isaiah Barr,David Frazier Junior and William
Parker plus special guests. Wednesday, June 18th at 8:00 PM
Guest curated by National Sawdust, Back to Nature is a
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focus on improvisation on acoustic instruments from around
the world colliding with minimalelectronics, creating his own
for contemplation about past, present and future through
sound. Presented by National Sawdust,
the performance will feature artist, multi instrumentalist,
composer and producer Isaiah Barr, Co founder of the
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multidisciplinary group Onyx Collective, alongside drummer
David Frazier Junior and free jazz double bassist William
Parker, plus additional special guests Troy Anthony and the fire
ensemble. The Revival It is Our Duty,
Thursday, June 19th at 8:00 PM. Written by Troy Anthony,
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additional songs by Sam Appiah, Tony George and Jonathan
Johnson, additional lyrics by Boney McRae and Acida Shakur,
music direction by Sam Appiah, Dramaturgy by Avitai.
Produced in partnership with 651Arts, the Fire Ensemble is an
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intergenerational choir community dedicated to using
song and ritual as tools for collective liberation.
Centering by Polk and Lukia plusFox, the Fire Ensemble will
present the revival It Is Our Duty on Juneteenth, a
celebration about the self liberation of Black people.
Composed and officiated by celebrated Creative Director
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Troy Anthony, the revival is meant to lift people out of
their sorrow using non religioussongs and rituals that center
collective liberation. 651 Arts,an organization that deepens
awareness of and appreciation for contemporary performing arts
and culture of the African Diaspora and provides
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professional and creative opportunities for artists of
African descent, is a producing partner for this event.
Quince Wednesday, June 25th and Thursday, June 26th at 8:00 PM.
Produced plus created by One Whale S Tail directed by
Ilpathed Civicos Written by Camilo Queer Oz Vasquez Quince
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is a magical immersive comedy born in Bushwick that follows a
15 year old Chicano confronting her queer identity, family and
religion on the eve of her Quincy and era.
A rite of passage ushering a girl S transition into
womanhood. Emphasizing the importance of
family and community, the vibrant immersive experience
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features music, dance, food and art inspired by Latin American
rituals, mythology and magic. A workshop of quints premiered
at the People's Garden in Augustof 2020 as part of the team's
Petrie Projects. It was the first live theater to
happen in New York during the pandemic and revolutionized the
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way we explored the arts and community within covered.
This was followed by a full run as the inaugural performance at
the Bushwick * S New Theater. Join us for a party closing
celebration Saturday, June 28th at 1:00 PM to 6:00 PM.
Closing the series will be a daytime celebration featuring
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live music, DJs, Domino tournaments, and food and drink
vendors with artists and partners including Capuco Recess
Art, Kuki Go, Logista Incorporated, Brooklyn Cumbia
Festival, Escuela Popular de Arte Sonoro and Mayday Space,
Ruda de Oro and more to be announced.
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Credits presented by Domino Park, organized by Public
Assembly. Curated and creative produced by
Public Assembly plus I'll pathedCivicos About Domino Park Domino
Park designed by landscape architecture firm Field
Operations and privately funded by Brooklyn based developer 2
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Trees Management. Open to the public in summer
2018. The Quarter Mile waterfront
features a broad range of recreational options for all
ages. Reclaimed sugar refining and
industrial artifacts are interspersed throughout the
site, uncovering the story of sugar trade in New York and the
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sugar refining process that occurred on the site for over a
century. In fall 2024, two trees open the
one acre Domino Square that serves as an extension of Domino
Park. Designed by Field Operations in
collaboration with Brooklyn based architecture firm Studio
Kadena, Domino Square is a programmable public Plaza and
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flexible outdoor space. The space hosts large scale
community activations such as farmer S markets, graduations
for neighborhood schools, salsa nights and more.
Domino Square also serves as a hub for seasonal activities
including Williamsburg S 1st Waterfront ice Skating rink
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during the winter. About Public Assembly Operating
at the intersection of culture and social impact, Public
assembly is a strategy and producing practice providing
insights, programming, project and event management, and
community engagement for their clients.
Their work is grounded in the core values of
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intersectionality, interdependence and Co creation
to drive equity based work and transformation.
About I'll Pathed Civicos I'll Pathet Civicos is a Cypriot
American artist, director, curator and producer who makes
lively, subversive dialogue ikeland immersive work in community
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gardens, public parks, NYC waterways and the occasional
theatre. As the Co founder of One Whale S
Tale, a multidisciplinary arts incubator that fosters
independent work with emerging and established artists, she
strives to create decentralized ecosystems that give artists
agency over their ideas, stories, voices and ancestry.
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She Co founded a creative arts healing program, I Wish I Knew
How, where she leads and mentorsa community of formerly
incarcerated people, and she continues her lifelong advocacy
for her homeland. As the founder of the Cypress
Foundation, Ilpetha has created work with and at Lincoln Center,
The Public Theater, The Shed, The People, S Garden, The
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Bushwick Star, the Team onasistigi, Fannaromena 70, The
Cell Theatre, the Gerda Institute, Double Edged Theatre,
We Are Here, and The ExponentialFestival.