Catherine Gallant/Dance presents a live outdoor 1/2 hour version of their latest work, Escape from the House of Mercy, inspired by The House of Mercy, once located at Inwood Hill Park in Upper Manhattan. Described as “a home for abandoned and troubled women,” it was, in fact, closer to a prison or workhouse to which most women and girls were brought against their wills and often subjected to inhumane and demoralizing treatment. Part of the Open Culture program which places performances on NYC streets.
