The Why Collective
Hildegard, Heals
The Why Collective
Sunday
1–5pm
14th Street, Park
Hildegard, Heals is an interactive performance art offering–a fusion of a new play about the 12th century composer and healer Hildegard von Bingen, and The Why Collective’s cornerstone creativity workshop, SYNTHESIS. Blending these two projects, both shaped by the artists’ caring hands, was a serendipitous alignment for the AiOP 2024 CARE theme. Each of these was an act of care and together, they offer a connective through-line of creative care across nearly a millennium of spirituality through song.
thewhycollective.artRocky Duval, singer, performance poet, and show creator, has performed with The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Glimmerglass Festival, Festival Bach Montreal, The Seattle Symphony, on Spanish National TV (La1) and ARTE TV Germany. She has written five touring shows, including Hildegard, Reborn, which premiered at Lincoln Center Spring 2024 to a sold out house. Duval is resident artist at 2B&2C Gallery, guest professor of communications at Cooper Union School of Engineering and Riverdale Country School, where she co-produces TEDx Riverdale. Her children’s opera series, Playground Opera (2019-202)3, was twice nominated for Opera America’s Opera Innovation award.