Last Chance NYC: EVELYN by Nellie Tinder At Bushwick Starr
EVELYN by Nellie Tinder THE BUSHWICK STARR 207 STARR STREET BROOKLYN NY – 11237 Until March 10, 2012 A musical fever-dream delivered by a chorus of some of downtown’s smartest new talent, Evelyn is an idiosyncratic genre mash-up and a haunting yet humorously parodic love letter to things past. Riffing on the classic stranger-comes-to-town-story, Evelyn...
In Performance: The Wooster Group & New York City Players Early Plays (NYC)
Early Plays The Wooster Group New York City Players based on the Glencairn Plays by Eugene O’Neill Adapted and Directed by Richard Maxwell Produced by The Wooster Group Feb 15 – March 11, 2012 St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water Street (dumbo)Brooklyn, NYC Tickets start at $22 The Wooster Group has invited Richard Maxwell of New...
In Performance: Jim Findlay’s Botanica Feb 1-25, 2012 (NYC)
Jim Findlay BOTANICA 3LD Art & Technology Center (80 Greenwich St., New York City) 2/1-25/2012 BOTANICA explores our complicated and inextricably dependent relationship to plant life, presented as a creepy futuristic black comedy where morals, ethics, and consequences unravel along with the human sense of mastery. Primary sources for Botanica include erotic literary texts by French...
In Performance: M. Lamar Presents SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD (NYC)
M. Lamar Presents SPECULUM ORUM: SHACKLED TO THE DEAD One night only at Cathedral Of Saint John The Divine. Thursday, February 16, 2012 Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York The Atlantic Ocean holds the remains of countless black bodies, people lost en-route from “home” to hell. During the transatlantic...
In Performance: Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Italy) The Minister’s Black Veil
«The theatre that I seek and practice is never an interpretation or a commentary on something pre-existing. I seek the total presence of a body that is dense and tangible; I seek the lines of force that emerge from a cold, visual objectivity that withdraws matter from reality and from time. The figure of the...
In Performance: Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods – BLESSED Jan 12-14, 2012 (NYC)
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & EIRA BLESSED Thu Jan 12 — Sat Jan 14 at 7:30pm $24 Advance Purchase / $30 Day of Performance – $15 Night: Jan 13 Pre-Show Talk Jan 12 at 6:30pm, Post-Show Talk Jan 13 American-Belgian choreographer Meg Stuart met Portuguese dancer and choreographer Francisco Camacho for the first time in New...
In Performance: Turbulence – a dance about the economy (San Francisco)
Turbulence (a dance about the economy) Zero Performance / Keith Hennessy DEC 17-18, SAT-SUN at 8PM Performer/collaborators: Jassem Hindi (France/Lebanon), Julie Phelps, Emily Leap, Laura Arrington, Jesse Hewit, Jorge De Hoyos, Hana Erdman, Gabriel Todd, Ruairi O’Donovan (Ireland), Karina Sarkissova (Sweden), Jupiter Knows, Keith Hennessy plus special guests. Unstable structures supported by unsustainable systems, this...
In Performance: Ron Athey/Julie Tolentino Resonate/Obliterate (NYC)
Ron Athey/Julie Tolentino Resonate/Obliterate Allen Street Studios (enter at 88 Eldridge St.) between Hester and Grand; 4th floor, NYC RSVP lia@participantinc.org TICKETS $20 pre-show reception 7p performance at 8p post-performance reception with DJ Scott Ewalt Julie Tolentino creates intimate solo movement-based installations including her time-based durational performances, sculptural endurance events and audio soundscapes. Currently, her...
In Performance: Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts (NYC)
Fresh Tracks New York Live Arts Dec 7 – 10 at 7:30pm $20/$16 Advance $15 Night – Dec 8 The Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, created in 1965 by Dance Theater Workshop, identifies six early career artists to receive comprehensive performance and residency support. The program begins with a showcase performance in the theater...
In Performance: Tere O’Connor Dance – Cover Boy (NYC)
Tere O’Connor Dance Cover Boy Dec 8-11, Dec 13, Dec 15, 2011 General Admission: $18 ($12 members) Danspace Project St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery 131 East 10th Street (at Second Ave) In this new evening-length work, Tere O’Connor uses the body as a site for transformation. Part expression, part exorcism, and part political observation, Cover Boy...
In Performance: SEQUEL: Irit Batsry x Jonah Bokaer (NYC)
SEQUEL: Irit Batsry x Jonah Bokaer World Premiere December 7 – 11 / 7-30pm CPR – Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1 Brooklyn, NY 11211 SEQUEL, a collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and video installation artist Irit Batsry, will receive its world premiere at CPR – Center for Performance Research, December 8-11....
In Performance: John Jasperse Company – Canyon (NYC)
Canyon John Jasperse Company Nov 16—19, 2011 at 7:30pm Witty, incessantly curious, and smart as a whip, choreographer John Jasperse (Misuse liable to prosecution, 2007 Next Wave) has trained his singularly skewed worldview on all manner of disciplines, including architecture, finance, and aesthetics. In his latest work, Jasperse tackles wonder and the ineffable—the transformative power of losing oneself...
