Artist and choreographer Matty Davis presents a site-responsive work undertaken by Davis and five collaborators—Nile Harris, Chloé Cooper Jones, Anna Thompson, Taylor Knight, and Bryan Saner. Each evening, the performers and the audience traverse the High Line together, from the park’s southern entrance at Gansevoort Street to the Spur. Each performer navigates the work’s choreographic structure in four parts: “The Critical Gesture of Arrival,” “The Gem,” “Send the Heart Deeper,” and “Oppositional States.” This happens one performer at a time, in linear succession, at six pre-determined stops along the High Line. Each performer signals to the next through the felt beat of their hearts—the heart signifying a baton in the relay of life—and in the forward motion of performance itself.

Supported by an original publication that mirrors the path of the performance, Die No Die engages a wide range of concerns: architectural, historical, ecological, and personal. Together, the performance and publication explore freedom, demand, and our responsibility to the transference of life between and among bodies that propel all of us forward.

The performance will begin each evening on the High Line at Gansevoort Street, and will conclude at the Spur at 30th Street.