Please join is at the beautiful Mark Morris Dance Center, diagonally across from the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, for this intimate performance by the Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble that will include the New York City premiere of What Will You Do When You Feel Their Absence? 

The performance is free and followed by a Meet-the-Artists reception.

What Will You Do When You feel Their Absence? features choreography, text & costumes by Michele Brangwen and music by Thomas Helton, with additional text by Peter Josyph. Guest artist vocalist Danielle Reich Seale joins the dancers and musicians for an exploration of what the symbol of the Statue of Liberty, and the ideas and ideals behind her, mean to us today. Set in an intimate bar/café that could be in any city, What Will You Do When You Feel Their Absence? invites the audience to watch as stories unfold about how we are all connected to each other.

The program also includes Unending, with choreography and costumes by Michele Brangwen, music by Tim Hagans, and movement and music created spontaneously in the moment by all performers. Unending tributes the incredible musical legacy of John Coltrane. 

Performers are special guest: Danielle Reich Seale, voice; Robin Gilbert Campos, Yuritzi Govea, Cristian Laverde König and Michele Brangwen, dancers; Tim Hagans, trumpet; Thomas Helton, double bass; Robin Verheyen, sax; Joe Hertenstein, drums