PORT(AL), a mesmerizing choral theater experience unlike any other, opens a hidden doorway to the past within the depths of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
This immersive journey, crafted by the GRAMMY Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, invites you to navigate the eddies and flows of history, where the voices of forgotten lives echo through the ages.
Co-created by a team including Dianne Berkun Menaker, Paola Prestini, Jad Abumrad, and Jessica Grindstaff, delves into the history of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, exploring its evolution as a bustling port through a confluence of song, movement, and immersive storytelling within the unique acoustic landscape of the vast, industrial space. The production served as a "port" into the past, aiming to tune into the "whispers" of history within the building and offering audiences a journey through time.
A sprawling, ambitious, innovative new collaborative production
- Vogue
The musical composition wove together historical moments in a beautiful tapestry of unified force designed to intoxicate the mind...The message of this performance will echo along the human journey for generations to come!
...exceptionally well written...Prestini is unafraid to take risks concerning the magnitude or moving parts of a production, and those risks certainly paid off for an inspiring performance of 'Port(al)'
Though 'Port(al)' was written for young singers, there was nothing toned-down or unsophisticated about it...'Port(al)' is an anti-war requiem
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