As Watermill Center Spring Artists-in-Residence, Kevin Doyle and his company Sponsored by Nobody developed ATM or this is [not] new york, a new play that investigates New Yorkers’ interactions with their city’s homeless population and the shifting demographics and values these encounters reveal. The piece is an installation that simulates the automated teller sections of banks, where the city’s homeless have long masqueraded as “doormen” for bank patrons in return for change, and which, ATM suggests, serve as modern-day confessionals. In their open rehearsal, audiences were able to get a glimpse of the artists working through choreography in the installation environment they created, replete with text appropriated from financial institutions and the surveillance cameras used in ATM machines. A mixed cast of actor-dancers recreate a ritualistic routine of entrances, transactions, interactions, and exits. Live cameras capture dialogue and the stylized physicality of pedestrian gestures. The words and movement comprising the performances were transmitted via closed-circuit television and multiple monitors. After their residency, the artists continued to develop ATM in collaboration with University Settlement, which serves economically challenged families on New York’s Lower East Side. ATM will go on to MONTY, in Antwerp, Belgium, in November 2010, and will return to New York City to tour in January 2011. This video is an excerpt of their open rehearsal on March 23, 2010 filmed and edited by Carlos Soto.