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I wonder if a lot of people here in Jersey City are in to interdisciplinary art, because Jersey City Museum and local performance company “Shua Group”, will present Public Acts.

For the uninformed, Public Acts is

“the result of three years of intensive collaboration between Shua Group and French visual artist Sylvestre Gobart. Working together, Shua Group and Gobart have created a performance and exhibition project that allow audiences to experiences their performance in unique and intimate ways.”

This event sounds classy and new to me. And even state wide press like The New Jersey Star Ledger has said something good about Shua Group: “Uncertainty about the performers’ identities was balanced by the surprise of recognizing a dancer posed casually, absorbing the people nearby into a choreographic design.”

So if you are interested in watching Public Acts, there will be two parts for this event:

Part 1 – Soft Wall – Saturday February 23, 2008 at 7:00PM – a subtle weaving together of performance, improvisation, movement, intuition, and audience response.

Part II – Full – March 1, 2008 at 7:00pm – a sound and video installation exhibiting a group emptying thousands of cardboard boxes.

If you would like to know more of the differences between the two, follow this link.

Both events will take place at Canco Lofts (few blocks away from Journal Square) at 50 Dey Street, Jersey City 07306. If you are taking a PATH train from either Newark or NYC, get off the Journal Square station, exit to Kennedy Boulevard. You can walk (10-15 minutes) to Canco Lofts or take a shuttle bus (5 minutes ride).

Admission for Public Acts is free, and here’s an added bonus: wine will be served for both events!

Is there anyone here who has seen the group performed? If you did, what can you say about them? Feel free to post your comments, we would be glad to hear from you.

Otherwise, let us know here on JCRegister.com if you are going to see Public Acts, which is made possible by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Photos taken from SHUA Group website

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