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Beau Kenyon's "the SOUND"

the SOUND: if trees were water
Site Specific Performances in the Public Parks and Public Spaces of Boston
August-November 2018


Collaboration with Sound Composer, Beau Kenyon. For more information: beaukenyon.com
Commissioned by composer/installation artist Beau Kenyon, PDM created improvisational dance structures to accompany different sections of his multi-part installation, the SOUND.

To create the SOUND, Kenyon gathered voice recordings from immigrant students of the Boston International Newcomers Academy [BINcA] and connected them throughout the city of Boston in a series of live performances and sound installations. 

Calling upon the tree as a metaphor for family and heritage and water as a symbol for migration and connection, the SOUND is encompassed by three movements: if trees were water, from roots grew branches, and of hope extending. All work together to convey a single story of hope, family, and success (past and present) from the perspective of newly immigrated young adult Bostonians. 

Pieces were placed in seven neighborhoods of Boston: Back Bay, Chinatown, Dorchester, Fenway, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and West Roxbury.

the SOUND is a project conceived and created by Beau Kenyon and is supported by NEFA's Creative City grant.
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM) is under the fiscal sponsorship of The Dance Complex.  Tax deductible donations can be made through The Dance Complex's website.  Follow this link, and select Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion when making your donation.
  • PDM NOW
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    • Funny Uncle Cabaret & Nut/Cracked (2020)
    • Postcards from the Front
    • Stones to Rainbows/Gay to Queer Lives
  • PDM COLLABORATORS
    • Peter DiMuro
    • Ann Brown Allen
    • Angelina Benitez
    • Albulena Borovci
    • Alexander Davis
    • Kara Fili
    • Ann Fonte
    • Tony Guglietti
    • Heidi Henderson
    • Shannon Humphreys
    • Beau Kenyon
    • Lindsay Caddle LaPointe
    • Kris Lenzo
    • Rachel Linsky
    • Irene Lutts
    • Frederick Moss
    • James O'Gilvie
    • Stephen Petrilli
    • Elver Ariza Silva
    • Brooke Stanton
    • Lonnie Stanton
    • Mary Teuscher
    • Nate Tucker
    • Kristin Wagner
    • J Michael Winward
  • PDM THEN
    • Sequins In My Sink! A PDM Ga(y)la
    • Love & Other Nonsense
    • Waterway/Lightway/Greenway
    • Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends & Lovers
    • Funny Uncle Cabaret & Nut/Cracked
    • Small Visitations in a Near Empty Room
    • The House of Accumulated Beauties
    • the SOUND: if trees were water
    • RSVP (no regrets)
    • Running From/Running To: South End
    • Naive & Known Journeys II
  • JOIN US
  • Contact