Jenny Romaine was a lead artist on the design/collaborative team which created "Embrace the Tangle" to welcome Little Amal during her visit to New York City on September 28, 2022. Her partners included Producer Alex Aron of The Remote Theater Project, designers Ant Ma, I-chen Wang and Hester Yujie Zheng, with technical support from Janet Clancy.
From the announcement of this project:
Little Amal is a giant puppet representing a Syrian refugee girl
who is visiting NYC this month. The Amal team wanted to include
Jewish and Chinese presences in her travels. Our crew of local
artists looked to iconic Lower East Side laundry lines to remember
what we have inherited and to be faithful to it, while flagging a
commitment to being deeply entwined with each other. In our leg
of the walk, Amal will be guided on Orchard Street by an
actor/educator portraying a Greek Jewish immigrant child who
will lead Amal to the Romaniote Kehila Kedosha Janina (the
Holy Community of Janina) Synagogue. On Eldridge Street Amal
will encounter a beautiful web of laundry lines hand printed in
Yiddish, Chinese, and English. We’ll then create a giant ballet
on Eldridge street with Amal, with lines of laundry, a polyphony
of words, and live music.
This public act of commingling (us in n-95 masks) is a street art vow:
To stay bound together through the tangle!
To find unexpected forms of consequential coordination!
To create mutual complex webs of kinship that honor our
separate ways of being!
https://www.brut.media/us/news/meet-little-amal-45758d97-8258-4d99-a729-9434110d97bd
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