In Conversation: Jad Abumrad and Paola Prestini
The pair will discuss their collaborative work Por(tal), which premiered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in May 2025 and was also presented at PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance in June 2025.
Functioning as a "musical séance," Por(tal) is a site-specific choral theater work that reawakens the ghosts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard—a place steeped in history as the center of America's war-making effort, and an engine for social progress.
In this rare opportunity to hear directly from the creators, go behind-the-scenes with firsthand insights into the evocative visual and auditory artifacts that reveal the project's evolution—including raw, atmospheric video tracking performers through the industrial Agger Fish building, "graphic scores," historical maps, and handwritten libretto notes that map the emotional arc of the Navy Yard's legacy.
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