Score to: Placeholders - Sample 1 by Original music for stage, film and digital media

This site-specific performance/installation exploreed 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. With an evocative interdisciplinary collaboration that crosses creative boundaries, architect/visual artist Ronit Eisenbach joined forces with dance artist Sharon Mansur to illuminate and celebrate Long Branch as it is today, on the cusp of change and growth. Placeholders embraced this spirit of flux through its movement, sound and architectural layers. The performance work affirmed what is essential to one’s sense of place in the face of transformation and reflected upon what it means to “hold one’s place” in anticipation of the future. A quartet of performers invited the audience on a stroll to three separate spaces within the community—the stores along Flower Avenue, the parking lot at the corner of Arliss and Flower, and the Flower Avenue Park. In addition, artists engaged the public by inviting them to consider and share their own placeholders: objects, images, and traditions that establish their identity and sense of place.