Placeholders

A site-specific dance performance/art installation created by experimental contemporary dance artist Sharon Mansur and architect and installation artist Ronit Eisenbach. This performance is part of Discover Long Branch's fall community event, Flower Fiesta: A Celebration of Art & Place.

Placeholders will explore what it means to seek, shape and preserve "place" in the face of transition through a public, participatory event in the Silver Spring neighborhood of Long Branch, which is on the cusp of change and growth. This free performance affirms Long Branch’s identity in anticipation of expected physical and demographic changes resulting from construction of the new Purple Light Rail Line.

A quartet of performers will invite the audience on a stroll to three separate spaces within the community—the parking lot at the corner of Arliss and Flower, the Flower Avenue Park, and the sidewalks and stores along Flower Avenue. In addition, artists will engage the public by inviting them to consider their own placeholders: objects, images, and traditions that establish their identity and sense of place.

Placeholders is supported by a University of Maryland Advance Institute Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research SEED Grant; the UMD School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; the UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies; and UMD Women's Studies Multimedia Studio

Presented in partnership with the Long Branch Business League, Montgomery Housing Partnership, and the Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs.