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
