Enjoy an old-fashioned celebration at “Nightfall: Danse Macabre” at Green-Wood Cemetery.
Photo courtesy of Green-Wood Cemetery
“The undeniable truth is, we are all going to die. So why not embrace the inevitable and go dancing to our graves?” reads the invitation to “Nightfall: Danse Macabre,” Green-Wood Cemetery’s crowning event of the fall.
“Danse Macabre,” or dance of death, is a celebration made up of music, moving images, performances and entertainment all around the graveyard on Oct. 19, and 20, from 7 p.m. – 10 p.m.
The event takes inspiration from Danse Macabre, an artistic genre that originated in Europe — especially in France — in the late Middle Ages, between 1300 and 1500. Danse Macabre works showed people following a medium who personified death, commonly dressed as a skeleton, into a graveyard to have a celebration and dance. From kings and popes to humble families, everyone would join to be reunited with their ancestors and predecessors — and be reminded of their fate.
In modern-day Brooklyn, visitors to the cemetery can make their way through illuminated paths throughout the evening, and head deep into the graveyard to encounter musicians, storytellers, circus acts and short films across a dozen stages.
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