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Dans le Jardin, an improvised dance created and performed by the Netherlands-based choreographer Michael Schumacher, is set to live music performed by cellist and composer Alex Waterman. Using the park as a backdrop and inspiration for his performance, Schumacher dances around and with his surroundings. Partnering with a statue, moving gracefully under a tree or exploding across the grass, the park, music, and audience play equal parts as inspiration and observers for this improvisational piece.

Transports Exceptionnels, by Compagnie Beau Geste, is a unique and whimsical outdoor duet for one man and an excavator. Choreographed by Dominique Boivin and accompanied by the dramatic voice of Maria Callas, the dancer Phillippe Priasso meets, greets, and embraces a moving excavator; transforming the construction site into a stage, street into playground, and dance into a tentative balance between nature, man, and machine.

Contigo is a solo work combining acrobatics and dance by Portuguese choreographer Rui Horta and Joao P. Pereira Dos Santos, an accomplished acrobat and master of the Chinese pole. In this awe-inspiring piece that defies gravity, Dos Santos traverses a 20 foot vertical pole, flipping and spinning with brut strength and drilled precision.

Contigo: For more Information about Dance Out! Contigo please read above (Wednesday, July 16th).

CityParks Concerts presented by Verizon

Brother and sister Matt and Eleanor Friedberger started The Fiery Furnaces after moving to Brooklyn in 2000 from their native Oak Park, Illinois. They blend blues, garage, and folk and are influenced by bands such as The Who and Os Mutantes. After playing gigs throughout New York City, they were discovered and signed by British Record label Rough Trade in 2002 and released their debut Gallowsbird’s Bark in 2003. The Fiery Furnaces have toured with Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Shins, and Franz Ferdinand and have even recorded an album, Rehearing My Choir, with their grandmother.