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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 two tickets for “Lotto Royale”—a performance lottery featured in LMCC’s annual River to River ...

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