NEW YORK, NY June 30, 2004 — The city's grand, public staircases are not just a means of transporting people up from the street to the doorway of a courthouse, or a museum. They're a place to sit and watch the world go by. And, for choreographer Stephen Koplowitz, they are a stage. As part of the 20th anniversary of the public arts program, Dancing in the Streets, Koplowitz has created a dance for 50 people, and placed it on six different staircases. The work has already appeared at the World Financial Center, the New York Public Library, and the Bronx County Building, where I caught up with him and asked, why staircases?



Stephan Koplowitz' Grand Step Project can be seen three times tomorrow, starting at noon, at Brooklyn Borough Hall....on Saturday, starting at two, at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and Monday, starting at 5, at the U.S. Customs House near Bowling Green.