Hello lovelies,
An early notice for you this week on our very last sailboat party of the year, this one (finally) a PIRATE theme. YARGH! Tickets will go on sale this weekend, so you can beat the crowds that sold our last week's boat. More details TK.
We're plotting more fun stuff for fall, but will also be gone for the next few weeks (Burning Man! whee!). We'll likely be off our regular Friday schedule with listings, but will keep you updated on NYC happenings to the best of our ability regardless.
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OUR NEXT EVENT
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Gemini & Scorpio
present
Pirate Adventure on the High Seas
Saturday, Sep 11
Aboard tall ship Clipper City, Pier 17, South St Seaport, 21+
11:30pm - 2:30am boat party w/cruise, $30 adv/$40 dock (limited tix)
Official site: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
Tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/125007
FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=119983424720665
Taste of last cruise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3AvHJgtA1o
Join us as we raise the massive square-rigged sails of New York's only Tall Ship for a surreal dance party on the high seas. Rebuilt from original plans borrowed from the National Archives, the 160-foot Clipper City, with its masts rising 135' off the deck, is a faithful replica of the clipper ships that plied America's waters more than a century ago. Expect wild music to delight your ears, colorful costumes to delight your eyes, full cash bar to delight your gullet, and plenty of surprises to delight your soul. Find yourself face to face with the Statue of Liberty with a cocktail in one hand, a dance partner in the other, and towering sails soaring above. Dress: pirate, of course!
100 cruise tickets available for advance presale, 25 more at the door, first come, first served. We highly recommend buying your tickets early.
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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PERFORMANCE: Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=F#Friend
Follow Dorothy from Kansas to the strange and beautiful Land of Bras, where she meets some memorable friends and foes, but none as fierce and fabulous as the Wicked Bitch of the West. Will Dorothy make it through the forest of glitter and fringe to the Wizard with her friends? Can she keep the Wicked Bitch of the West from getting her hands on the Ruby Red Pasties? Journey over the rainbow and down the yellow brick road with Dorothy as she discovers the true meaning of what it means to be home. Influenced by the traditions of vaudeville and circus, and bringing a fun modern edge to the classic Wizard of Oz story, "Friends of Dorothy: An Oz Cabaret" features some of the best in New York City burlesque, drag, aerialists, magic, and downtown music! Featuring: Bianca Del Rio; Harvest Moon; Mary Cyn; Schaffer the Darklord; Jenny C'est Quoi; Veruca Honeyscotch; Rita MenWeep; Sizzle Dizzle; Go-Go Harder; Atta Girl and more. (Thur-Sun, The Ellen Stewart Theater @ La Mama, 66-68 East
4th St. bet Bowery and 2nd Ave., various times, $15/adv, $18/door)
THEATER: SPACEMEN FROM SPACE
http://bricktheater.com/collisionworks
An Exciting New Serial for the Stage in 6 Thrill Packed Episodes. A loving pastiche of 1930s-40s b-movie serials intended to keep hyper children entertained during extended Saturday matinees, this new show combines as many elements of the straight-faced, sincerely-played episodic genre works into one big mashup of fast-moving fun – a single play made up of 6 episodes played one right after another (with cliffhanger endings, of course), that fills The Brick's stage with a cast of 21 talented comic actors running around telling this overly-complicated, barely sensical plot with absolute seriousness and belief. There is, however, a deeper, darker metaphoric level to the play – something, the playwright keeps saying, about anti-science and anti-intellectual thought in America today – but all that can and should be safely ignored (who wants to listen to that serious-minded playwright, anyway?), 'cause jet-packs are just plain fun! (Fri & Sun, The Brick, 575 Metropolitan Ave., Wbur
g, BK, various times, $18)
PERFORMANCE: Magical Exploding Boy
http://www.magicalexplodingboy.com
Dean Evans' rollicking Clown show from Chicago is being presented by the 2010 New York Fringe Festival. Darkly comical and completely wordless this one person show reaches beyond the limits of language to turn the conventions of Mime and Clown on their heads. From a child with mind control powers, to an amoeba struggling for life, to a man cast helplessly adrift in outer space, this unique new show transforms space to present an original story. Magical Exploding Boy is physical comedy that transcends the need for written word with a refreshingly offbeat and existential voice of its own. "...no less than a stunning tour de force." - New City. "...words cannot do this one-man clown show justice." - Loyola Phoenix. (Fri 8:45, Sat 4:30, Sun 11:15 & next Fri 8/27 @ 4:45, 4th Street Theatre, 83 East 4th Street, $15)
INSTALLATION: Gazela Tall Ship
http://www.gazela.org
http://www.portsidenewyork.org
Gazela, Philadelphia's flagship and the oldest wooden square-rigger still sailing in the USA, has been trying to come to NYC for several years; PortSide is thrilled to be her host. She comes with daytime tours and two cabaret performances a night, The Seven Deadly Seas, by Cabaret Red Light. Built in Portugal in 1883, Gazela sailed from Lisbon across the Atlantic over 100 times during 70 years of hard work fishing the Grand Banks off Canada. Visiting the Gazela is a way to learn about life in the age of sail and about an environmental story: the once bountiful cod, the fishery of the Grand Banks and how it was decimated. Cod changed history, and for 1,000 years was live gold, as author Mark Kurlansky illuminated in his 1997 book "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World." It was the Gazela's job to bring in this cod and feed a European appetite for a fish that goes back to the Viking period. (Fri-Mon, PortSide, Pier 11, Atlantic Basin, at Pioneer and Conover Sts
, Red Hook, BK, various times, $5 sugg donation/tour, $25/cabaret)
FILM: ACEFEST
http://www.acefest.com/about
Celebrating the American Cinematic Experience. Throughout history, American film has raised the bar in a broad spectrum of elements, including technology, performance, style, innovation and experimentation. While filmmakers all across the globe continue to stun audiences with incredible cinematic masterpieces, our primary focus is on American-made works. From the backyard to the backlot, this country has harvested some of the most talented visionaries and storytellers known to man. ACEFEST is an annual celebration of these artists of the past, present and future. By providing a nurturing forum for domestic film and video, we magnify the focus on this country's creative voice. (Fri thru next weekend, see site for details)
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FRIDAY
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MUSIC/ART: Paper Garden Records & Art Battles Present: Emanuel and the Fear
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148024038545515
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/1462
For its third round of collaborative events, Paper Garden Records and Art Battles come back to one of our favorite Manhattan venues, this time featuring Emanuel and the Fear, Eddie The Gun, and a special guest TBA on the music side as well as Gregory Siff and more on the live art side, the event will also be hosted by Radio Happy Hour's own Sam Osterhout. Emanuel and the Fear creates extravagant and climatic electro/orchestral arrangements which ebb and flow around honest and poetic lyrics, delivering a grandeur audible experience relatable to anyone who not only appreciates music, but has ever listened. (le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., 7pm-10pm, $10/adv, $12/door)
FILM: Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End + Arch Brown's Pier Groups
http://www.lightindustry.org/piers
In 1975 Gordon Matta-Clark created a monument—or an anti-monument—to New York's industrial history with Day's End (23 min), his transformation of the dilapidated Pier 52, which stood at the end of Gansevoort Street. He cut a channel in the pier's floor and another in the roof above, so that when the sun reached its high point at noon, it shone down into the water. And he cut cat's-eye-shaped holes in the tin walls, one at the side of the channel, another at the pier's west end so that the sun came streaming in as it set over New Jersey. His film made with Besty Susler is one of the few records we have of both this great work and of the abandoned Hudson River piers before they were torn down...but not the only one. In 1979, Arch Brown released a gay porn film called Pier Groups (57 min). In it, two neighbors head for the piers, one for some fun on a day off, the other because he has an assignment to prepare for his demolition company to put in a bid for the piers' destruction—
"No one uses them," says his boss. The engineer, played by Johnny Kovacs, wanders through the piers checking out their architecture and again and again happens upon guys—including his neighbor, played by Keith Anthoni—getting it on. He stops, watches, moves on, checks out another part of building, stumbles upon more sex play. Straight-acting, wearing his hard hat, he might be the hottest guy in the film. (177 Livingston Street, BK, 7:30pm, $7)
LECTURE: Angels Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement
http://observatoryroom.org/2010/07/27/posthumanism
Posthumanism is currently a hot term in certain scientific and academic circles. Deplored by many as yet another fashionable post, defended by its supporters as a term that reflects our current fears, hopes and changing reality, posthumanism is an attempt to think seriously about the effects that technology and its rapid pace has in our society, our bodies and our minds, and to consider that these effects might change the human species as we know it. In a time when pacemakers, prostheses, cloning and cryogenics are making old dreams of human enhancement a reality, it can be fruitful to look back and compare the wildest fantasies of posthumanism with its intellectual predecessors, to get a better picture of what is going on. This lecture will touch on some key examples of visions of human enhancement, in order to put the hopes and dreams of posthumanism in perspective, and try to sketch a genealogy of this set of ideas. Salvador Olguin was born in Monterrey, Mexico. He holds a
Master's degree in Humanities by the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and he worked as an Assistant Professor and Course Coordinator for three years in that same institution. [G&S note: Lecture will be followed by the opening party for the Observatory exhibition Substructure Superstructure.] (Observatory, 543 Union St Brooklyn, 8PM, $5)
CIRCUS: Sky Box End of Summer Variety Show
http://www.theskybox.org
Monthly Variety Shows are extra special because they happen every month. After a huge success in July with our largest crowd ever and a write up in the New York Times, we've put together an all new line up of all-star aerial acts for August. Whether your missed last month's epic show or you want to come back for more, August's show is a great opportunity to see what all the fuss about aerial is about. Featuring Sky Box co-founder Jordann Baker and burlesque and trapeze wonder Harvest Moon, this month's show will also include doubles lyra, corde lisse, rope, silk, trapeze and whatever surprises MC Kae Burke has up her sequined sleeves. (The House of Yes, 342 Maujer St at Morgan Avenue, Bushwick, BK, 8pm doors, 9pm show, $10)
MUSIC: Rock with a twist
http://www.mercuryloungenyc.com/event/4940
Bands: The Poison Control Center; Mother Father; Project Jenny, Project Jan; Jupiter One [G&S note: see site for band descriptions.] (The Mercury Lounge, 217 E Houston St., 8pm, $10)
PARTY: Dances of Vice: The BIRTHDAY PARTY Party!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149042391776649
http://www.dancesofvice.com
Dances of Vice celebrates its 3rd anniversary in a playful 1930-40s pinup themed romp, featuring live gypsy swing by LES Hot Club and accordionist Marni Rice, beguiling burlesque by Veronica Varlow, Pandora, Gin Minsky and Medianoche, and an exclusive pinup fashion show with Dances of Vice birthday girls, Elena and Sara! Bring a Birthday gift to the event to receive a complimentary cupcake created by Nine Cakes and exchange your gift with another guest of your choice. Gifts must be wrapped. (Inc Lounge, 224 West 49th Street 2nd Floor, 8pm, $20 or $15 if you re-post the event on Facebook and arrive before 9pm with pass code "Facebook")
MUSIC: Ghost Train Orchestra
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
The Ghost Train Orchestra performs unearthed music mined from the dusty vaults of a basement record collection, new arrangements of "voodoo music" and spirited stomps from the most incredible of the late 1920s Chicago and Harlem jazz bands, plus original music commissioned for cartoon scores and vaudeville shows. Trumpeter Brian Carpenter resurrects spirited stomps from the most radical of the late 1920s Chicago and Harlem bandleaders. (Barbes, corner of 9th St & 6th Ave, Park Slope, BK, 10pm, $10 sugg. donation to band)
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SATURDAY
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COMMUNITY: Save Our Gardens Celebration and Potluck BBQ
http://times-up.org
We will be making flags and banners for our Save Our Gardens campaign. Bring food, friends, family, and garden stories to share. Time's Up SAVE OUR GARDENS Action Group: For the last three weeks Time's Up has been engaged in an emergency campaign to protect and save community gardens in NYC. The 2002 Spitzer agreement that was protecting the community gardens is expiring in September and the new contract that is being drafted does not ensure the protection and preservation of all community gardens. Time's Up has been working around the clock to inform the public and organize the community about this urgent situation. A lot of these gardens were ones that Time's Up helped save years ago and our organization will stand by them until the end. We need your help to keep the pressure up, it seems like a sure victory for the gardens but we are running out of funding to keep our campaign going. Time's Up is requesting your support, donations will go directly to our community garden e
fforts. You can donate online via our PayPal account http://times-up.org/index.php?page=membership-support or mail a check to Time's Up P.O. Box 2030 New York, NY 10009. (Generation X Community Garden, 4th Street between Avenues B and C, 4:30pm, FREE)
EVENT: The Ritual
http://www.michaelalanart.com/drawathon/
Michael Alan presents a five-hour performance / installation happening. The Ritual will ask you to focus on a time and place that can't be explained only witnessed. Seven performers will create jittery movement, possessed dishevelment, and body brutality. Repetitive action, sacred dance, and attempts to raise the dead. What will be built? What will be left? What will be found? Join us for our version of horror, no noise, no screams, fear through illusions of body gesture. Staged and performed in front of the metal doors in the main lobby, on the stairs, and inside the second theater of the Gershwin. (The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th St, 7pm – 12am, $17 online/ $20 door)
PARTY: Video Installation Party
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152277204786127
Video Installations by Glassbead Collective, Shelby Voice, Aukuras Visual Design, and Jackie & Miles. 3GAllin (Sasha from Blissed Out) plays a live set in the dome. A collaboration between VJ Vlad T and DJ GSTOMPZ combines dark industrial music and images to form a totally immersive visual and audio environment. 360 degree video projection all night on our 25 foot inflatable dome. Installations will be up from 7 - 10pm and there will be discussions with the artists. Free food will be available til we run out. At 10pm the bands, DJs and VJs will get the party moving. No alcohol for sale; BYOB. LEOs not invited. (13 Thames Art Space, 13 Thames St. Brooklyn, 7PM, $5/ $4 before 10pm)
PARTY: Pirate Takeover
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100474046680613
Years ago pirates plundered along the Atlantic coast and Caribbean bringing their booty back to the northeast with revelry! This Saturday a different breed of urban pirates will be doing the same across several Bushwick locations! From the preliminary address you will receive a treasure map you can follow for the full pirate adventure. There will be prizes for the gnarliest looking pirates! Pirate Takeover is a collaboration between the last of the Brooklyn Taino Tribe, Thunder Gumbo, Brooklyn Pirates, Cima Down productions, The WES, The Cumba Mela Crew and many others. Featuring a wide array of piratical music and art by: 2melo, Unstoppable Death Machines, Fake Money, Lex Leonard, DJ Cosa Nostra, Atropolis, The Gunner, Greg Canicio, Thornato and aerial performance by Anya Sapozhnikova. (322 Bogart St. Brooklyn, 10pm, $10)
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SUNDAY
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EVENT: The Traffic Jam
http://www.volkswagentrafficjam.com
The Traffic Jam is a spectator-judged vintage Volkswagen car show and picnic. Get bumper-to-bumper with Beetles, buses, dune buggies, Things, and other original and custom VDubs circa the 1950's through the late 1970's from NYC and beyond. Food and beverage vendors will be present, but we encourage you to bring picnic food and non-alcoholic beverages, as well as bikes and blades for exploring. Sorry folks, but Governors Island does not allow overnight camping, pets, grilling, or byo alcohol. Beer will be sold at the event. (Governors Island, 10am – 4pm, FREE)
FOOD/MUSIC: 11th Annual Hudson River Park Blues BBQ Festival
http://www.hudsonriverpark.org/events/eventpanel/bluesBBQ.html
Back for the 11th year, Hudson River Park's annual Blues BBQ Festival brings the best Blues
bands from across the country together with the finest New York City BBQ restaurants for a
fantastic summer day on the river. Blues bands: Smokin' Joe Kubek and Bnois King Band 2:30pm, Janiva Magness 3:45pm, Joe Louis Walker featuring Murali Coryell 5pm, Teeny Tucker Revue 6:15pm, Cyril Neville 7:30pm. BBQ: Brother Jimmy's BBQ, Char No.4, Dinosaur Bar B Que, Fatty 'Cue. (Pier 54 at W. 14th St, 2-9pm, FREE, rain or shine)
VARIETY: The Sunday Show
http://www.sundayshownyc.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=102519936472801
When times are tough, courtesans have always not only survived, but thrived. An early inspiration to Pablo Picasso, a bankroll for David LaChappelle and a devastating scandal for Eliot Spitzer, the performance collective will demonstrate acts revolving around prostitution and those who have notoriously honored, immortalized and patronized it. The show's unique concept - derived from an artist's desperation in a failing economy - portrays acts spotlighting Parisian courtesans, call girls, scandal and the interesting history of prostitution in New York City; according to statistics, in the 19th century 75% of men in the city had some type of STD. Starring: Bea B. Heart, international burlesque superstar; Michelle St. Darling, master of batons, fire and breaking hearts; Juliet Jeske, the one to bring home to mother; Billy Dee Bedlam, the clown that's too hot for Cirque du Soliel; and special musical guest Ninja Sex Party; plus Blacky 2, our beloved DJ and your host, Kiki Valenti
ne. (Fontana's, 105 Eldridge Street between Grand & Broome, 9pm, $10)
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TUESDAY
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MUSIC: Edan
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=12699
Edan is known for his unlikely take on hip-hop culture, where traditional rap songs are often skewed by 60's rock samples, tape echoes, and foreign language choruses, not to mention the off-beat humor and surrealist imagery incorporated via his lyrics. His latest mega-mix, entitled ‘Echo Party', is an astounding pastiche of dance, rapp, and punk that utilizes everything from turntables to tape echo, glockenspiel to guitar, and moog to kazoo. His previous effort, "Beauty And The Beat" drew worldwide acclaim. Edan plans to start the evening with a deejay set, followed by an exclusive screening of his brilliant new "Echo Party" film (directed by Tom Fitzgerald), followed lastly by a rapid-fire rapp extravaganza with Paten Locke on the assist. (Knitting Factory main space, 361 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, BK, 8pm, $10 adv / $12 DOS)
FILM/COMEDY: Raspberry Brothers: Sloppy Superheroes
http://bk.knittingfactory.com/event-details/?tfly_event_id=12317
Film and live comedy...at the same time. The Raspberry Brothers' cast consists of writers and performers who also contribute to SNL and the Onion. And lead Raspberry Brother, Jerm Pollet, performed with this comedy format since 2000 in Austin at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. This time the Raspberry Brother boys take a look under Batman's hood and Superman's cape as they mock clips from the live action duds; Daredevil, Wolverine, Batman and Robin, Spiderman, and MORE! It's the Raspberry Brothers vs. Hollywood Comic Book Movies. (Knitting Factory front bar, 361 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg, BK, 8-10pm, FREE)
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WEDNESDAY
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PARTY: "Fish our of Agua" Book Release Party
http://www.tenement.org
http://www.michelecarlo.com
Most book launches are just readings, but if you're Art Star/writer/storyteller Michele Carlo (aka Carmen Mofongo, aka ToxicPopTwin MicheleC) your book launch is not just literary, it's LIT—a party with live music by Eddy Jo (Lone Vein) Martinez, a video screening and free snacks and drinks, including Carmen Mofongo's world-famous Triple-X Coquito, (if you've ever been lucky enough to sample this Caribbean-vacation-in-a-shot-glass, you'll get there early). Plus special guests and a short reading from FISH OUT OF AGUA: My life on neither side of the (subway) tracks, Michele's coming-of-age memoir of growing up as a red-headed, freckle-faced Puerto Rican in an Italian hood in the Bronx—when it was burning. (Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 97 Orchard Street off Delancey Street, 6:30 – 8:30pm, FREE)
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THURSDAY
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FOOD: Canoli Crawl
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=144658538899646
Chocolate, Vanilla, crispy and sweet...cannoli is perfectly precious and portable! Cannoli can range from more balanced (with a higher ricotta ratio) to tooth-achingly sweet. Chocolate covered or dusted in powdered sugar, however you like yours we're totally stoked to hear what tickles your fancy. For those among you fabulous food lovers who are new to crawling, here's how we roll: a meetup location is announced a couple days before the crawl, and folks assemble there at the appointed time. We'll break out into groups of about 5 or 6 and route assignments are distributed. Some folks know who they want to crawl with and some don't. It's all good either way, you'll probably go home with new friends! If you don't have a group we help put y'all together. RSVP via Facebook (Meetup location TBD, 7-10pm, $5-6 for a group money pot)
PARTY: Launch Party for TAROT OF THE BOROUGHS
http://www.tarotoftheboroughs.com
Mystical tarot decks are easy to find. But it took Art Star/writer Courtney Weber (ToxicPopTwin CourtneyW) and photographer George Courtney to reinvent the tradition with Tarot of The Boroughs, a full 78-card Tarot deck composed of spectacular original photography and set in New York City. Inspired by the classic Tarot, Tarot of the Boroughs captures the Tarot's timeless images in contemporary incarnations, easily taking the reader into the heart of the Tarot's stories. Tarot of the Boroughs is also unique in that it features New Yorkers from all walks of life as well as well-known writers, visual and performing artists including: Moby, Jonathan Ames, Reverend Jen Miller, Velocity Chyaldd, Reverend Billy and more. The launch party will include performances by several of the models, including: Imakhu Mwt Shekemet, Francis "Faceboy" Hall, Master Lee and Chink Floyd, and more. Plus there'll be readings by dynamic Witches, raffle giveaways of the new deck, a Q & A with the creato
rs and Sweet Snacks by the Queen of Coins herself. (Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery btw. Bleecker & Houston, 8:9:30pm, $?)
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ONGOING
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PUPPETRY/PERFORMANCE: Princes of Persuasion - Recipes for Romance
http://www.princesofpersuasion.com
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.php?ltr=P#THEPRI
Princes of Persuasion is an international band of four robotic puppets and one tall human with a guitar. Expect pop songs, sing alongs, vegetable casseroles and animal assholes: It's a Recipe for Romance! Written & Directed by Ithai Benjamin & Rebeca Raney. (thru 8/26, check website for showtimes, HERE Arts Center, Dorothy B. Williams Theater, 145 Avenue of the Americas, $15)
PERFORMANCE: Bagabones
http://WWW.BAGABONESTHESHOW.ORG/BAGABONES_the_show/Home.html
Contortionist Jonathan Nosan is proud to present "BAGABONES": a contortionist's charming nightmare. From primal spaces, to final spaces, and places in between, Jonathan travels through varying states of being. Multiple roles are played by Nosan as well as four ordinary objects: a six foot tall pine cubicle, a desk, a small coffin, and a ceramic vessel of his creation. Just like his own body, the objects are manipulated from one reality to another--the terror that some experience in confined space shape shifts into the peace Nosan found during his year spent in a tiny Kyoto mountainside cabin. As his body moves through seemingly impossible postures, extreme pain turns to ecstatic pleasure, confinements bring escape, heaven mingles with hell (thru 8/26, LA MAMA: The First Floor Theatre, 74A East 4th St, 2nd Avenue & Bowery, check website for showtimes, $18/$15 advance)
MUSICAL: Shine - A Burlesque Musical at the New York Fringe
www.shinemusical.com
Internationally-acclaimed comedy cabaret duo The Wet Spots present 5 performances of "Shine". A recent winner of a Vancouver Ovation Award for Outstanding New Work, "Shine" is a tassel-twirling original, full-book musical about an infamous burlesque theatre and the family of talented misfits who try to save it from demolition… or worse, respectability. At the crumbling but historic Aristocrat theatre, Shine Mionne and her chosen family of sexpots and misfits struggle to save the theatre from imminent gentrification in the guise of smooth-talking money man Richard Suit. Along the way Frankie, the newbie actor from out of town, and Grace, the dimpled graduate student who can't seem to keep her clothes on, are drawn into the vortex of life at The Aristocrat by a diva named Lulu. As Suit and Shine fight for control of the show, Lulu finds her leading-lady status jeopardized by Suit's meddling and a series of whirlwind affairs threatens to throw the impending opening into chaos.
(thru 8/28, La Mama, 74A East 4th St, check website for showtimes, 18+, $15)
THEATER: Macbeth and Triumph of Love
http://www.reddtale.org/
Redd Tale Theatre Company is proud to present these two critically acclaimed productions. RTTC prides itself in taking a piece of text and adding its signature "spin" of the supernatural/creepy, and these shows are no exception: living statues, dead coming to life, and men in utilikilts. This tightly edited version of Macbeth hones in on the ruthlessness of ambition. RTTC examines the play's theme of grasping for power while adding RTTC's tradition of making the audience shudder by bringing unexpected objects to life.
The Triumph of Love takes the original 18th century French farce and throws in a healthy dose of RTTC's signature sci-fi twist. Princess Leonide had barely won the Prince's heart when he and everyone they both held dear were killed. In desperation, she hires the help of a sorceress to bring her love back from the dead, but in order to do so she must prove to the powers above that she's worthy of such a gift. Use the discount code BURNER online. (thru 8/28, Nicu's Spoon Theatre, 38 West 38th St, 5th Floor, bet 5ve Ave and Avenue of Americas, various times, $15 or $10 w/discount code)
***OUT OF TOWN: Going Places (Doing Stuff) III
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Flux Factory is pleased to announce our third annual Going Places (Doing Stuff) artist-led bus tours! Think of it as "adventure as performance art." The content of the tours is entirely up to the artist, and destinations are kept secret. Artists have "carte blanche" to lead a bus-full of people on an odyssey around the greater New York/Quad-State area. Before each tour, we provide only the following information: artists' name, title of adventure, duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when people sign up for a tour, they know what to bring and how long they'll be gone, but will have no idea where they're going or what they'll experience. Last year's adventures included ziplining to swimming holes, breaking world records, a trip to an abandoned mental asylum, a demolition derby, and camping in the rain. The tours will be on board a school bus propelled by vegetable oil provided by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. All tours are first-come, first-serve. Tickets g
o on sale one week before each tour. They go like hotcakes. Please check the Flux Factory website for details. (thru 8/28, location with ticket, $20)
***PERFORMANCE: New York International Fringe Festival
http://www.fringenyc.org
FringeNYC is the largest multi-arts festival in North America, with more than 200 companies from all over the world performing for 16 days in more than 20 venues. In addition to 1200 incredible performances. [G&S note: we'll be listing individual Fringe shows, but can't possibly cover the whole fest.] (thru 8/29, see site for full info)
*CIRCUS/COMEDY: The Rotten Plantains
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149150848430882
Never before have you seen such a gathering of clowns, comedians, and a Brazilian alcoholic take the stage. A mix of clowns and circus, cultures and experiences, together, form this new comedy show. From Cirque du Soleil's Varekai/ Love/Banana Shpeel/Dralion, Jean Pierre Jeunet's Micmacs, Franco Dragone's Le Reve, and the Betty Ford Clinic - comes this flawlessly rehearsed production of beautiful idiots attempting to make you laugh. This is the beginning of their collaboration together, and after these final 8 shows, will plan their world tour - from NYC, London, Paris, Rio, Calcutta, Nigeria, Osasco (SP), Australia, Beirut, and the Netherlands. Come join in on this ground-breaking event. (thru 8/29, 45 Bleecker Theatre, 10:30pm, $15)
THEATER: Much Ado About Nothing
http://www.newyorkclassical.org/index.php
New York Classical Theatre's hallmark is accessibility and a panoramic staging approach to performance. Site-specific productions are adapted to showcase the unique visual components of each venue through innovative design and choreographic elements. Throughout the performance, the audience follows the actors from place to place, as the plot unfolds from scene to scene. In this way, the spectators become active participants in the drama itself. Our current production, Much Ado About Nothing, is a Shakespearean comedy about two pairs of lovers, Benedick and Beatrice, and Claudio and Hero. (thru 8/29, Battery Park thru 8/1, W. 103rd St. and Central Park West thru 7/27-8/29, see site for details, FREE)
ART: Daniel Merriam
http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals
http://www.danielmerriam.com
If you dream in full color, Daniel Merriam's paintings are a wildly-hued journey into the imagination. "In Merriam's watercolors, drowsy moonfaces, Victorian houses and the matic repetition create a childlike whimsy layered with meaning." - Art & Antiques. "The ... artist's stunning erotic, fanciful drawings of the primordial garden have earned him a worldwide reputation among serious collectors and connoisseurs. Working in the unforgiving medium of transparent watercolor, his artistical style is the product of solid technical skills, an illustrator's precision and storyteller's sense of adventure." -- EGO Magazine. [G&S note: we are rarely blown away by new art, perhaps because so much of it is post-post-post you-name-it. This artist speaks directly to our theatricality & surrealism-loving little hearts: think Alice in Wonderland meets Gaudi via MirrorMask. (Or, a more whimsical Mark Ryden.)] (Through summer, Animazing Gallery, 461 Broome Street, (bet Greene and Mercer), FRE
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PARTY: PS1 Warm Up
http://ps1.org/news/view/64/
MoMA PS1's historic Warm Up music series begins this Saturday. This highly anticipated outdoor series celebrates its twelfth year of exposing audiences to the best in experimental music and live bands, performances, and DJs. Coinciding with the annual Young Architects Program, this year's Warm Up will merge with a new courtyard installation, Pole Dance, created by the architectural firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO - IL). (Every Sat thru 9/4, PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave, 2pm-9pm, $15)
PHOTO: David LaChapelle: American Jesus
http://www.paulkasmingallery.com/exhibitions/2010-07-13_david-lachapelle/
David LaChapelle's most recent solo show in New York since 2008. LaChapelle draws on an immense lexicon of art historical references, current events, and popular culture, to make visually compelling images each unique in their narrative and evocative content. LaChapelle's photographs typically begin with a series of compositional graphite drawings, collages, watercolors, and mixed media sketches—a little known facet of his artistic process. This exhibition will allow viewers the opportunity to examine LaChapelle's artistic process, from conception to the completed works. (thru 9/18, Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 10th Ave at 27th St, FREE)
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