Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute presents SOIL:FIELD of AWARENESS, An Immersive Performance-Ritual by Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina
Taking place at the origin point of the historic Greenpoint oil spill along Newtown Creek, SOIL:FIELD of AWARENESS invites audiences into a deep sensory encounter with the ecological history and living environment of the place.
Where Did All the Showtime Dancers Go?
Last Saturday, dancers from the It's Showtime collective gathered in a sun-filled Greenpoint film studio to teach a class in FlexN, a street dance style pioneered on New York City's streets, and sometimes its subways. […] Saturday before the class, they were performing at the Kingsland Wildflowers Festival, celebrating wildflower fields on the roofs of buildings. Dozens of dancers have now participated in It's Showtime, a project of the nonprofit Dancing in the Streets, which in 2015 was the beneficiary of de Blasio's fund to get Showtime dancers off the subway and into the "schools, stage, studio, and the screen."
The Dart Board: 07.29.2026
This Saturday, the 25,000-square-foot native green meadow becomes the canvas for a celebration of community ecology and the arts. Organized by Noosphere Arts, the multi-level wildflower spaces, set against the Manhattan skyline, will host performances, with interactive dance, live music, and circus aerialists aloft.
IMPRESSIONS: Karley Wasaff’s "Growing Takes Time" at Noo Arts Wildflower's Green Roof
Imagine walking up to a rooftop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and suddenly becoming immersed in a video game world replete with challenges to complete and characters to engage with.
Karley Wasaff, a non-binary movement artist and the creator and director of Growing Takes Time, created such an otherworldly landscape on Noo Arts Kingsland Wildflower’s rooftop. From here, audiences were brought on a journey through conflict, growth, and community building.
Karley Wasaff with Bleu Pablo
Walking into Growing Takes Time, the space immediately feels alive with movement, sound, and a kind of structured play. There’s a balance between choreography and unpredictability where nothing feels fully fixed, but everything still feels intentional. The work blends contemporary dance, immersive theater, and the whimsical unpredictability of New York’s experimental gallery scene. Audiences can expect a beautiful wildflower rooftop run by Noo Arts, gorgeous sunset city views, live gameplay, unexpected interaction, absurd humor, and a strange little world where collective problem-solving becomes choreography.
Kick Off Summer with “Growing Takes Time,” An Immersive Rooftop Dance Party at Kingsland Wildflowers
Noo Arts felt like a natural home for Growing Takes Time because the space already embodies so much of what the work is about: the intersection of art and environment. Their wildflower rooftop garden creates this feeling of stepping into a hidden world above the city, which aligns perfectly with the immersive universe of the piece. I’ve also loved consistently collaborating with Tribe & Vibe Collection and intertwining their Hydroponic Tower Gardens and community-centered mission into the immersive experience. The show already has a legacy of helping activate these community spaces while encouraging more spaces to invest in sustainable growing systems.
Be The Change You Want To See: Celebrating 15 Years of NOoSPHERE Arts
For the past 15 years, Noo Arts has been transforming Greenpoint’s industrial rooftops into venues for environmental art and community collaboration. The nonprofit cultural center — founded by Norwegian artist Sol Kjøk and powered by an international team of creatives and scientists — produces year-round programming that blends performance, visual art, film, and poetry with eco-awareness and public engagement.
Editors’ Selects: September 2025 - Jeannie Rhyu: Entanglement Noo Arts at Kingsland Wildflowers
Across the Atlantic Flyway, specifically over Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, many species such as the Barn Swallow, Yellowthroat, Black-Crowned Night Heron, and Double-Crested Cormorant use the quantum spin to orient their yearly migration towards their ancestral breeding grounds, a feeling and particle entanglement very familiar to immigrants arriving in or leaving New York. Entanglement, Rhyu’s installation at Noo Arts activating Kingsland Wildflowers’ Green Roof, nests four pairs of ceramic eggs amongst wildflowers, recording the stories, journeys, and legacies of these four birds migrating through the area.
Noo Arts Is Reimagining Public Space Through Performance and Nature
In the bloom of native flowers on a rooftop once part of an ExxonMobil factory, something astonishing is happening. Art is taking root—not just as performance or installation, but as ecology, ritual, and resistance. Noo Arts, the multidisciplinary arts center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, has steadily emerged as a quiet powerhouse of cultural and environmental transformation.
This Weekend in Greenpoint: May 23-25
Enjoy the impeccable vibes of art and dance at sunset during Noo Arts‘ season opener We Are Nature: The Microcosmic Dance at 6:15 p.m.
The Dance Enthusiast's TOP PICKS IN NEW YORK CITY
The Dance Enthusiast released its list of Top Picks in New York City for the week of May 19: Noo Arts’ opening event, We Are Nature: The Microcosmic Dance, has been selected as one of the featured highlights.
NYC’s $60 Million Cultural Development Fund Will Benefit Dozens of Brooklyn Non-Profits
This week, the DCLA released the full list of awardees, revealing dozens of Brooklyn-based nonprofits that stand to receive grants from the fund. They include rooftop experimental arts and theater group Noo Arts.
Gardens of Memory
Chinchakriya Un’s latest endeavor in service of this greater good was at New Inc.’s Creative Science Dinner this year, which brought together the community working within the New Museum-associated incubator’s “creative science” track. Now in its fourth year, the dinner was held at Noo Arts, a Greenpoint performing arts center located in a building formerly owned by ExxonMobil, also marking the site of an oil spill in the late 1970s that bled into the adjacent Newton Creek and ultimately affected 52 acres of surrounding land and waterways.
Resonant Nature
Resonant Nature celebrates an environment’s vibratory properties. Resonant Nature is an installation made of vertical sculptural pieces resembling vibration patterns emanating and echoing from nature. The sculpture includes four sets of progressively growing biological forms resembling an echo shape framing nature representing the idea of nature emitting vibrational life.
Brooklynites bring sustainability and creativity together at 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival
The 8th annual Kingsland Wildflowers Festival, a nature-inspired arts celebration, welcomed hundreds of visitors over the weekend to explore a 24,000-square-foot green roof, listen to music, and see how the natural world and the artistic world often coincide and interact.