Kinesis Project dance theatre Announces Bridge Matter/The Reach Performance

Summer on the Hudson and Kinesis Project dance theatre, the New York City and Seattle large-scale, outdoor dance company, led by Melissa Riker, is thrilled to announce the 2025 September performances in Riverside Park. The company known for their colorful, surprisingly intimate, yet spectacular works is offering a new colorful performance for visitors of Riverside Park. Kinesis Project will perform Bridge Matter/The Reach as part of Summer on the Hudson on Sunday, September 21 at 5:30 PM at Riverside Park South, Hudson River Greenway & W.62nd St New York, NY 10069. For more info, visit https://www.kinesisproject.com/events.

Kinesis Project dance theatre builds a stunning evening experience of dance, music and dramatic colors along the river amongst the unique spaces of Riverside South. The performance will last an hour and traverse from Locomotive Lawn (62nd Street) to the Transfer Bridge (68th Street).

Rebecca Kanach’s costumes mixed with Celeste Cooning’s quilt-inspired art pieces evoke a sense of finished, yet unfinished elements. Choreographer Melissa Riker explains, “Bridge Matter/The Reach is a dance of care, echoes and how our very human ways of bridging our “cracks” parallel the Earth’s constant processes.” This colorful work is the dance company’s second collaboration with geologist Dr. Missy Eppes and her colleagues, specifically Dr. Stephen Laubach and Rob Lander, all three are award winning and internationally respected scientists.

Beginning at Locomotive Lawn, audiences will experience a dance that appears in surprising spaces, invites them to move along the edge of the Hudson and mimics the colors of the sunset – with performances and movement collaboration by Kinesis Project NYC: Aryanna Allen, Jorgie Ingrahm, Ryan G. Smith, Stephanie Shin, Gioia von Staden. Costumes are created by Rebecca Kanach with Visual Art Design by Celeste Cooning. There will be improvised music lead by Grammy winning saxophonist, Johnny Butler with saxophonists Matt Nelson and Nick Lyons.

A MAP Fund grantee, Kinesis Project has been developing and creating Bridge Matter/The Reach since 2024 in NYC and Seattle, in partnership with Summer on The Hudson.

Kinesis Projectis a dance organization that creates dance as public art, facilitates educational programs and produces site-specific performances with diverse communities. A company at the forefront of the international discussion of placemaking, art engagement and the cultural imperative of art in public space, Kinesis Project dance theatre invents large scale, space-changing, breath-taking experiences. 

For more information visit https://www.kinesisproject.com

Kinesis Project-Bridge Matter, Photo by Hisae Aihara