The Piers Project at the Whitney Museum: a co-presentation of Matthew Westerby Company & Hudson Guild Theatre Company 

The Piers Project is a collaborative contemporary dance work conceived by choreographer Matthew Westerby. The work was inspired by the history and documentation of the world that existed on Manhattan’s west side piers in the 1970’s & 80’s. In the post-Stonewall era, before the advent of the AIDS crisis, the area became a space of sexual freedom and artistic expression among the crumbling relics of the piers. Through the photos and writings of the Piers at the time, the work imagines the moments and movements that occurred here, creating a dance work that evokes the freedom, the exuberance, the anonymity and the dangers of the Piers.

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