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The bus leaves from and returns to Spanish Harlem at The Elmendorf Church (136 East 121st Street between Lexington and Third Avenue)

THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY is a poetic travelogue performed on a bus touring the South Bronx. As we travel the streets of the neighborhood route , Rankine's evocative text points out and reflects upon the sites that pass by outside the windows. Some of these landmarks might go by unnoticed--a Con Ed station dressed up as townhouses, the theatre where La Lupe held court that’s now a church; these complicated places raise questions about what creates a neighborhood in a city in a country in the world.

The audience boards the bus in Spanish Harlem, puts on headphones and for 90 minutes eavesdrops on the voice--both live and recorded--of this historic place. PROVENANCE looks deeply at this landscape--its sites, history, present and future--and maps out a poetic cartography of a neighborhood--and of any neighborhood--in its eternal state of evolution.

Read more at The Provenance of Beauty website.