Keen [No. 2] Ivy Baldwin Dance Abrons Arts Center 466 Grand St June 1-11 A massive installation constructed out of white paper (by the artists Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen) fills the back wall of the Abrons Playhouse. Its elaborate, vaguely ominous assemblage of coils, tendrils, and vortexes loom...
Los Angeles Performance Practice Jeanine Durning's inging May 12–13, 2017 Los Angeles Performance Practice (LAPP) presents inging, created and performed by celebrated choreographer Jeanine Durning, an Alpert-Award winning artist and influential dance maker. For the first Los Angeles presentation of her choreographic work, Durning performs this intimate exploration of rarely charted territory at the intersection of thought,...
FCCC #1 Future Clinic for Critical Care Saturday May 6, 2017 from 14:00 - 18:00 Location: The Aquarium, Berlin Skalitzer Str. 6 Organized and curated by Jeremy Wade Featuring: Locomotive Labels - Solo Dance by Justin Kennedy Totemic Identity Healing - with Katerina Kokkinos Kennedy NAGELNEU: Death-Nails-Special by Quast & Knoblich The Battlefield Nurse...
A companion piece to Rosenblit’s Clap Hands, which ran most recently at the 2017 American Realness festival, Swivel Spot continues Rosenblit’s line of performative inquiry into pairing and relationships, and marks a new collaboration between Rosenblit and music/performance/installation artist Geo Wyeth. Comprised of gently accumulating scored...
La Melancolie des Dragons Philippe Quesne/Vivarium Studio Walker Art Center A group of long-haired metalheads sits in a stalled vintage Citroën in a wintery forest. They fiddle with the car radio, share snacks, and chat under cover of blasting music. Then arrives their friend Isabelle, a wise Snow...
Poor People's TV Room Okwui Okpokwasili Walker Art Center (Out There Festival) As in 2014’s Bronx Gothic, Okwui Okpokwasili is in motion before the audience enters the space. In fact, all four performers (Okpokwasili, Thuli Dumakude, Katrina Reid, and Nehemoyia Young) are already present and in motion. A...
Thank You For Coming: Play Faye Driscoll Walker Art Center (Out There Festival) “The book of the show is not yet written,” Faye Driscoll intones as she welcomes a small group of audience members onto the stage. The show’s interactive opening sequence has the feel of a ritual:...
Co-presented with The Invisible Dog Art Center Jan 15 – 7pm at The Invisible Dog Art Center 51 Bergen Street, Brooklyn Eleven acts participated in a special COIL edition of the CATCH series at The Invisible Dog. The series - as described by curators Andrew Dinwiddie, Jeff Larson &...
M.LAMAR - FUNERAL DOOM SPIRITUAL Friday January 13, 7pm Saturday January 14, 7pm + 10pm National Sawdust 80 North 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11249 Funeral Doom Spiritual starts in discord. Strings play wildly and we hear the drone of endless bombs. Time slows as M.Lamar glides to his place...
Matt Marks and Paul Peers Mata Hari January 5-7 and 11-14 at 7pm January 8 at 2pm PROTOTYPE HERE Arts Center 145 6th Ave Mata Hari tells the story of historical figure Mata Hari, a dancer/courtesan who was executed by the French during WWI for being a German spy. When we first...
Deadline: 10 February 2017 New England Foundation for the Arts-National Dance Project (NEFA-NDP), the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and FACE Foundation announce the 2017 call for application for the FUSED program. The goals of FUSED: French U.S. Exchange in Dance are...
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster (COIL 2017) Nicola Gunn Jan 11 – 8:30pm Jan 12 – 8:30pm Jan 13 – 7:30pm Jan 14 – 5pm The Ellen Stewart Theatre @ LaMaMa - 66 East 4th Street, NY NY Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster is Australian performer Nicola Gunn’s subversively funny...