Ryan Maxwell Photography

People Watching | Extreme Lengths Productions

People Watching creates connections between audiences and performers over extreme distance. From a rooftop, audience members view the performance through binoculars while performers are off in distance throughout Navy Yard and across the Anacostia River, located on rooftops, balconies, and bridges. People Watching explores intimacy through distance, uniting a diverse mix of performance forms using elements of movement, sound/music/song, and poetry/text.

June 2021, Navy Yard + Anacostia, Washington, DC

PRODUCING DIRECTOR: Ben Levine

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Annie Peterson

CHOREOGRAPHY: Sadie Leigh

DRAMATURGY: Eric Swartz

SOUND DESIGN: Stephen Johnson III, Emma Pauline Rothman, and Sadie Leigh, featuring songs by Emma Pauline Rothman, Sadie Leigh, Bad Brains, and Black Box

COSTUME DESIGN: Lucy Wakeland

PERFORMANCE: Krystal Collins, Carolyn Hoehner, Stephen Lyons II, Annie Peterson, Emma Pauline Rothman

People Watching was co-produced by CulturalDC and Extreme Lengths Productions as part of CulturalDC's 2020-2021 Mobile Arts Season, in partnership with The Kelvin and eNvy Condominiums (Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners) and HQO (DC Water Headquarters).