In 2018, Clemente resident Laura Nova collaborated with choreographer Naomi Goldberg Haas to produce The LES Citizens Parade. It is an activist processional and series of performances connecting community members of NYC's Lower East Side. Performed by neighborhood senior citizens and legendary senior dancers, the work created a celebratory, visual journey along East Broadway. The public art project honored the experience of long-term residents as part of the River to River Festival on June 22 and 24, 2018. The parade plays with the “migration” trope transforming residents and dancers alike into a “moving company” - one which carries boxes bearing double-edged slogans like “fragile” and “priority.” The procession culminated in a stage performance in Seward Park, the oldest municipal park in the United States and the living room of the Lower East Side.
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