PLATFORM: An Evening of Crowdsourced Transit Culture at the New York Transit Museum

Jamie Benson, choreographer of the Shakedown Dance Collective tells us about these dance “riffs” on common transit experiences, detailing the vignettes that will be shown in the piece entitled Third Rail:

MANSPREADING: Exaggerated leg spreading dance to depict lack of courtesy towards other people’s space

BLOCKING: Football Metaphor with people actively trying to block each other from entering and exiting the train

MINGLE: Overlapping sways, stumbles, noises and gestures to create a sense of being on a packed train

SCHOOL’S OUT: Teens dominating the space, pushing, yelling and wreaking havoc on the train

MAKE-UP/PHONE TAI CHI: Intense focus on phones and applying make-up illustrated through moves inspired by Tai-Chi

GROSS THINGS: People dance dodging gross things on the floor

SERENADE: Drunk man singing to the passengers while just trying to catch his balance.

Click here for tickets and full list of performances on PLATFORM’s April 1st return.