"Out of Place" Exhibition and Performance

Reston Community Center, the Initiative for Public Art – Reston, Friends of Lake Anne and the Reston Museum are proud to co-present Out of Place, a site-situated installation and contemporary dance performance conceived by architect Ronit Eisenbach and dance artist Sharon Mansur, inspired by the history of the planned community of 1960s New Town of Reston, Virginia and the sculpture and architecture of Lake Anne Plaza.

The dance performance will take place on Saturday, April 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Lake Anne Plaza. A talk-back and reception, hosted by the Reston Museum, will be held immediately following the performance.

The installation will be on view from April 23-May 13, 2012. 

Admission is FREE. No advance reservations or tickets are needed; all are welcome. For more information, contact the Reston Community Center at www.restoncommunitycenter.com or 703-476-4500.

Note: The performance rain date will be Sunday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m.

Out of Place explores the productive tensions in Mansur and Eisenbach’s creative practice and shared commitment to inquiry through making. Inspired by individual and collective acts of building and un-building, measuring and marking space, and the fluidity and mutability of both water and bodies, the artists examine the ways we perceive, shape and inhabit our world—inviting others to consider the same.

The dance performance, a duet featuring Mansur and longtime collaborator Daniel Burkholder, will take place on Lake Anne Plaza and will last for a half hour as daylight fades, activating the plaza through human actions and interactions, and drawing Eisenbach’s constellation of floating frames and tensile lines across the water. At night, the sun’s harnessed energy will transform these elements to create a landscape of luminous, hovering color in the lake. The installation will linger in the quay until May 13th delighting viewers with the memory of the duet—an architecture of situation marking temporal rhythms and reframing place.