FLINT "We're pulling off something that's very uncanny and unique and something that
people are going to stop in their tracks," said Jessica Back, Flint Public Art
Project producer.
For the first time in 10 years, Genesee Towers will come to life, projecting
colored lights and music, while performance artists dance in the windows.
"We're going to have a drag queen, the Fischer Body Burlesque Girls, hula
hoopers, someone on the ground level spinning poi, and just movers who are
interested in coming and being in the windows and looking fabulous," Back said.
Only the performers will be allowed inside the Towers, and getting approval and
waivers from the city to make it happen wasn't easy.
"They asked us lots of questions and had some concerns, but in the end, they
wanted to accommodate us," said Stephen Zacks, Flint Public Art Project
director.
Bleachers will be set up at street level, and organizers hope spectators leave
with new ideas on how the condemned structure might be made useful again in the
future.
"There is a kind of magic and a kind of power in re-imagining something that's
been abandoned for a long time, and people want to see it thrive in the city,
and so do we," Back said.
