Picture-in-Picture responds to the site of Williamsbridge Oval Park, which was originally a natural body of water that the City of New York converted into a reservoir in the 19th century. By the 1920s, the water level of the reservoir was drained to only a few feet deep from overuse. In the 1930s the Works Progress Administration (WPA) converted the reservoir into Williamsbridge Oval Park , keeping the architecture of the original reservoir mostly in tact. Picture-in-Picture considers the history of the park through a lens of bifurcation as a formal line on inquiry.

Performed by Zullyvette Muniz and Glenn Potter-Takata on July 10, 2022 as part of Butoh What.

Photos by Shintaro Ueyama.

Picture-in-Picture was created with support from the Bronx Council on the Arts, funded through support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation with additional funding from Amazon.

This project was made possible, in part, through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation; Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew M. Mellon Foundation; the Harkness Foundation for Dance; the Davis/Dauray Family Fund; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.