Devised by the company One Step at a Time, En Route is an audio-guided promenade.
In August, the Y is offering guided tours: the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, on Aug. 6 at 2 p.m.; the Hudson River promenade in Battery Park, on Aug. 13 at 6 p.m.; the Empire State Building, on Aug. 20 at 1 p.m.; and the St . Regis Hotel on Aug. 20 at 3 p.m.
Central among them is the Frick's own Renoir, "La Promenade" (1875-6), in which a stylish young woman guides two equally well-dressed girls along a public garden path. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700, frick.org.org
Central among them is the Frick's own Renoir, "La Promenade" (1875-6), in which a stylish young woman guides two equally well-dressed little girls along a public garden path. 1 East 70th Street, (212) 288-0700, frick.org.org
Meanwhile, another newly announced production to open in April: Dear Scotland, directed by Joe Douglas and Catrin Evans, will guide audiences through the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in a promenade performance taking in the nation's iconic historic figures.
The mixed-use proposal for the warehouse is part of a community-generated master plan from 2000, guiding the economic development of Brooklyn Bridge Park, a 67-acre stretch of waterfront between Atlantic Avenue and Jay Street that would be turned into a riverside promenade with recreational and cultural amenities and limited commercial development.
At Rockefeller Center the guide explained that the promenade is called the Channel, because it separates the British Buildings from the French buildings.
I head for the tree-lined promenade by the seafront.
In "La Promenade," for instance, a young woman guides two identically outfitted little girls along a public garden path.
Dancers scramble up the walls of the set, crawl up its ridges, promenade along the top clinging to guide-ropes like woodcuts from "The Ship of Fools".
