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“Lotto Royale” and the art of the chance encounter

TWENTY YEARS LIVING IN NEW YORK, I’ve visited the South Street Seaport exactly once, for a friend’s book launch at a swank McNally Jackson on Fulton Street. I was late and it was dark, so I didn’t get a chance to fully take in the surroundings. But two doors down, one can find the South Street Seaport Museum, if they’re interested in New York’s history as a harbor town. It was here, on a very sunny Sunday afternoon earlier this month, that I was instructed to pick up the first of my tw...

River to River Festival presents an art experiment in which audience members and dance artists, paired randomly, meet for one-on-one performances.