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Here are sample (Jan 18 - 20 '08) handpicked event highlights:
(This is a plain-text copy of our weekly mailer. Get your own here.)
WEEKEND & WEEK
MUSIC: The Golden
Festival
http://www.zlatneuste.org/au22.htm
http://zlatneuste.tix.com
The Golden Festival is
New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle
Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles
on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists
to folk traditionalists, over 40 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening,
dancing and partying. For the first time we have advance ticket sales and we
will be limiting the number of attendees, so if you want to be sure of getting
in on either night, purchase your tickets in advance. [G&S note: if you've
been a subscriber for any length of time, you know how much we love the
beautiful madness of balkan/gypsy/brass music and the lyrical beauty of
bulgarian/klezmer/ethnic folk music. Golden Fest is packed to the rafters with
the most authentic music of this type found in NYC, as well as tons of dancing,
smiles and old friends. We wouldn't miss it for the world, despite the hefty
price tag and the far trek north. These musicians are worth it.] (Good Shepherd
School, 620 Isham, near 207th St. and B'way.)
- Friday: 7:30
pm: Balkan dance workshop with live music. 9-Midnight: Ethnic snacks and
great live music with Lefteris Bournias and Kavala Brass Band; Nikolay Kolev;
Zurli Društvo; Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band. ($20, students $15, children
(under 12) free)
- Saturday: 6
pm-until 4 am: The whole deal - three music venues, snacks, party, etc.
Over 40 groups from the Balkans and beyond! ($35, students $25, children
(under 12) free)
PERFORMANCE: Banana Bag
& Bodice re-mounts The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen
http://bananabagandbodice.org
http://www.ps122.org/performances/the_fall_and_rise_of_the_rising_fallen.html
The multi-award
winning theatre troupe Banana Bag & Bodice concoct their own alter ego in
the form of a concept punk band by the name of The Rising Fallen. With their
guitar steel and drum-tense electro-dense lyrics, The Fall and Rise of the
Rising Fallen catalogs these mythological legendary failures and tells tall
tales of fateful, prodigious gigs on Scandinavian oil rigs where they
unwittingly begat their own brand of rousing idolatry. "Their shows
have a visual excitement that bigger budgets would be hard pressed to
match." Helen Shaw, Time Out New York. "Brutally scathing, brilliant
satire that sends up conventional thought about irony, sincerity, contemporary
theatre, and society norms, while kicking up buckets of piss and vinegar
throughout." Flavorpill. Named "Best Of Time Out New York"
2007/Nominated for 3 Innovative Theatre Awards 2007. 5 Shows Only. [G&S
note: special offer for friends makes this a $10 show with code BBB at the box office
for Friday's show.] (Performance Space 122, 150 First Ave at 9th St, Fri/Sat,
8:30pm, $20)
PERFORMANCE:
DISINFORMATION
http://www.publictheater.org/UTR/disinformation.php
http://myspace.com/reggiewatts
Performed by Reggie
Watts/Directed by Tommy Smith. "Watts' voice is astonishing; it's sort of
Meredith Monk-meets-Mel Blanc and at parts of [‘Disinformation'], it will most certainly
blow your mind." – Portland Mercury. Anthropological humorist Reggie Watts
utilizes the latest in presentational technologies to comment on humanity's
refusal to accept an eventual global shift towards unimaginable destruction. A
mélange of absurdist storytelling, video imagery, geometric movement sequences
and spontaneous musical compositions, Disinformation is a comedic conceptual
deconstruction of the human need to understand itself. Featuring Amy O'Neal and
Orianna Herrman. A staple of the international performance scene, Reggie
received the 2006 Andy Kaufman award for comedic performance. (Fri-Sun plus
next Wed, Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, $15)
PERFORMANCE: INHABIT:
A SOCIAL ART FEAST
http://www.joyce.org
http://www.lingodance.com
As part of the Joyce
SoHo's Inbound series, Seattle's Lingo company performs a site-specific
interactive work featuring dance, food and drink, and conversation between the
audience and dancers Bianca Cabrera, KT Niehoff, and Aaron Swartzman with
guests Jessica Jobaris and Oscar Gutierrez. (Fri/Sat, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer
St. between Houston & Prince Sts, 8pm, $25 (flexible seating, including
standing and moving about)
DRINK: Daze of the
Devil Strong Beer Festival
http://www.hopdevil.com/
Strong beer is the
name of the game this afternoon as the Hop Devil hosts a festival of strong
ales akin with Mug's annual Barleywine festical. Over 15 beers of 8%+ alcohol
will be on tap for the tasting. 21+, obviously. (Sat/Sun, Hop Devil Grill, 129
St. Marks Place bet 1st & A, 12:00pm - 6:00pm, FREE)
SHOP: Taschen
Warehouse Sale
http://www.taschen.com/
This weekend is
Taschen's bi-annual warehouse book sale. Thousands of slightly damaged and
display copies on sale at bargain basement prices, 50-75% off for 3 days only.
If you are looking to buy some art or design books, this is definitely the
place to be. In addition, there will also be a selection of rare and
out-of-print Taschen books (like The Stanley Kubrick Archives, The Complete
Works of Leonardo DaVinci, The Wood Book, REM Koolhaus's Project on the City
etc.) and discounted copies of the collector's editions. (Fri & Sat 11:00am
- 8:00pm; Sun 12:00pm - 7:00pm, Taschen New York, 107 Greene St btw Prince and
Spring, FREE)
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE:
Paul Green School of Rock Music presents Rocky Horror Vs. Hedwig
http://www.schoolofrock.com/newyork/main_school.php
http://www.crashmansion.com/
We're presenting
Hedwig and Rocky Horror back to back - complete with staging, props, and
costumes. For those that don't know, the School of Rock is a performance-based
instruction program where kids 6-17 get private lessons and group rehearsals
geared towards preparing them for huge tribute shows at downtown rock clubs.
With Puppets by the Boring Incorporated and Costumes by the House of Yes.
Directed by Aaron Goldsmith. (Fri/Sat, Crash Mansion, 199 Bowery at Prince,
6pm, $10 - proceeds go to the School of Rock)
BURLESQUE: The Bawdy
House / Marx Brothers Burlesque
http://www.pinchbottom.com
Dateline: Hollywood,
the 1930s. It was the heyday of the Pinchbottom Motion Picture Company, the
golden years when the studio produced their finest work: the madcap black and
white comedies featuring the antics of the vaudevillian troupe THE PINCH
BROTHERS (also sisters). The last of these films, entitled "THE BAWDY
HOUSE", was so salacious that some consider it singlehandedly responsible
for the institution of the Motion Picture Production Code. "THE PINCH
BROTHERS (also sisters) are hired to save an ailing legit theater, which they
accomplish by converting it into a BAWDY HOUSE, complete with ribald comedy,
risque magic, and of course, burlesque, burlesque, burlesque! But on opening
night, everything goes wrong - buttons keep popping, pants keep dropping, and
the schtick keeps getting schtickier. Can Nasto (Nasty Canasta), Porko (Jonny
Porkpie), and their siblings Basto, Cadabro, Drunko, Gigo, Li'l Brooko, Litto,
Naughtio, Neilo, Peeko, Rubo, Rayo, and Tiggo, get through the show with their
clothes intact? No, they cannot! [G&S note: likely sold out, which is why
we're listing the Pinchbotom show on Monday, too.] (Fri/Sat,
Collective:Unconscious, 279 Church St. btw. White & Franklin Sts, 10pm,
$15)
MULTIMEDIA: The Zombie
Chronicles
http://www.bax.org
Art and zombies. Music
and zombies. Theater and Zombies.
Cagey Productions
(Karen Grenke, Andrew Hurley & David Vining) has been awarded a Space Grant
from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange to develop THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES, a multi-part
avant-garde project exploring theatrical devices with zombies. Art and zombies.
Music and zombies. Theater and Zombies. Send shivers of delight up your spines
and join them for a twenty minute excerpt. Discussion with the artists
following the performance. (Fri/Sat, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), 421 5th Ave.
@ 8th St, Park Slope, BK, 8pm, $15 / low income $8)
THEATER: Terminus
http://www.publictheater.org/UTR/terminus.php
David Mamet wrote
someplace that the model of all theater is a story told around a campfire.
Terminus, Mark O'Rowe's new play from Ireland, is one of the weirdest, most
transfixing campfire stories this city has seen in years-or rather, has heard.
At the Under the Radar Festival at the Public, three actors stand in spotlights
onstage. They don't move much and never interact, instead delivering monologues
directly to us. (Brian Friel used a similar setup years ago in The Faith
Healer, the major difference being that Friel's dialogue wasn't written
entirely in incantatory-but never singsongy-rhyming couplets.) "Gripping,
grotesque and deliriously good... (Terminus) makes O'Rowe pretty much the most
exciting contemporary Irish playwright." - Sunday Tribune (Fri 7pm, Sat 2pm,
6pm, Sun 7pm, Joseph Papp Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St, $15)
FRIDAY
BODY/SPIRIT:
Parashakti's Dance of Liberation
http://www.parashakti.org
Dance * Ritual * Live
DJ and Special Guest- Certified Jivamukti Yoga Teacher Shanna
Lee. Parashakti & Gatekeepers lead participants into the realms of
Dance of Liberation; a Jivamukti Yoga class leading into a Yogic TranceDance
Dancers ride the wave of sacred rhythm guided by Globesonic/ DJ Fabian
Alsultany. By use of healing sounds, hypnotic percussive rhythms, Yogic
transformational breathing techniques and the use of sensory deprivation
through blindfolding while dancing, the ceremony takes the dancer into 'trance'
state that promotes physical emotional release and spiritual awakening. Through
this transformational fusion of exploring the essence of spirit, dance, breath
work and contemporary shamanism, we can access ancient wisdom and healing. This
communal ceremony allows dancers to journey with clear intent and liberate
their inner light. The use of blindfolds help shed inhibitions and heightens
awareness, allowing dancers to go on a "vision quest", moving them to
deeper states of consciousness and closer to their soul's purpose. (Jivamukti
Yoga School, 841 Broadway , 2nd flr, 8:30pm, $15 adv/$20dr)
MUSIC/DANCING: Swing!
Doors Open/Basic Swing
Dance Lesson 7pm
Live Music Starts 8pm
- The Flipped Fedoras; 9pm - 1am Ron Sunshine's Full Swing. Plus DJ Paolo
Lanna. Full Bar and Dinner Menu Available. NICE HARD WOOD DANCE FLOOR: GREAT
FOR DANCING!!! (Connolly's, 121 West 45 Street (between 6th Ave. &
Broadway), Take elevator to 3rd Floor party room, $20 - includes one free drink
ticket)
ART/DRINK:
Italian Wine Party & Photo Exhibit
http://manhattanwinegroup.com/events.php
Join us
in Little Italy where we will feature great Italian Wine, hot and cold
appetizers and a small photo exhibit of Italy. Plus we have a limited amount of
tickets on sale for the Australian Wine Festival Jan 24 - 350 + wines.
Wine is sold separately by the glass but your first glass on wine is included
and each additional glass is just $6. After the small photo exhibit we will
raffle off 10 pictures to ten lucky tasters. (Grotta Azzuraa, 177 Mulberry St,
6:30pmm-9:30pm, $10 Adv or $15 door)
DJ/DANCING: Bootie NYC
http://www.BootieNYC.com
It's been two months,
and we've missed you, New York! So this Friday, Bootie NYC is back! Once again,
we'll be at The Vault, and this month, we're excited to have Boston's DJ BC in
the house, as well as singer Katie Enlow and rapper Black Exactly performing a
couple live mashups during the night! Not only that, but we've got pirate
goodies and surprises in the Pirate Lounge, as well as some hot new tracks to
throw down. Let's start 2008 off right! Drink Specials! Special $5
"Bootie" cocktails all night! Late night drink special - 2-3 am:
half-price beer & vodka! Free Bootie January 2008 mashup CD to the first 75
people! (THE VAULT at Element, 225 East Houston Street at Essex, 10pm-4am, $10/
$5 before midnight with RSVP to rsvp@bootienyc.com)
WORDS: Erotic Poetry
Lounge
http://www.onetaste.us
The sexual tension in
the room is thick at this one-of-a-kind erotic poetry lounge where the readings
are as succulent as the atmosphere. With a different theme each month this
sensual salon is taken to the streets as people find out what limits Eros plays
in their lives -- an then write about it. The lines between imagination and
experience blur as people "literally" expose their encounters and
push the limits of their creativity. Whether it's to listen or to read come be
a part of this orgasmic evening where prose, love, sex and verse inextricably
entwine. This month's theme is: A Kiss Before Tithing. Write and read
aloud about your most "sinful" encounters with Eros in sacred spaces.
Details: Aphrodisiac elixirs and delectable treats will be served to complement
your savory and sultry desires. If you want to be guaranteed a slot to read please
call or email to reserve. Both fictional and non-fictional prose accepted.
[G&S note: brought to you by those onetaste people...icky cult or sexual
liberators? you decide.] (196 Grand St, Btwn Mulberry and Mott in Little Italy,
9pm, $10/free for those who read)
OPERA: Tchaikovsky
Opera and Ballet Theatre of Perm
http://www.carnegiehall.org/article/box_office/events/evt_10129.html?selecteddate=01182008
Making its first U.S.
visit from the Ural Mountains, the company celebrates its 135th anniversary
with selections from Russian opera. (Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall,154 W.
57th St at Seventh Ave, 8pm, $25-85)
SATURDAY
MUSIC/FAMILY: Bubble
do Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
http://bubbleland.com/bubbeatles.html
The New York pop group
Bubble mark the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by
performing the full album for a new generation of potential fans. Expect a full
orchestra plus sitars and tablas. Bonus: They'll play "Penny Lane" and
"Strawberry Fields Forever," the double-A-side single bumped from the album.
Don't be surprised if there are a lot of large children (um, adults) in the
audience. Though Bubble have done other Beatles albums, this is their first
time rocking the Pepper. (Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St, 11am,
$13-$23, $13 children)
PARTICIPATORY/ART: Dr.
Sketchy's Anti-Art School
http://www.drsketchy.com
Dr. Sketchy's is what
happens when cabaret meets art school. Artists draw glamorous burlesque girls,
compete in contests, and win booze and prizes. Hosted by Molly Crabapple and
John Leavitt. This week, Gal Friday and Albert Cadabra pose in an Adams Family
scene gone incestuous. Drinking, drawing and prizes? If SVA had been like this,
we NEVER would have graduated! (The Lucky Cat, 245 Grand St. btw. Driggs &
Roebling, W'burg, 3pm-6pm, $10/$15 for a table)
OPENING: Melville
House Bookstore
http://www.mhpbooks.com
Come see what may be
the most beautiful bookstore in New York City as Melville House opens its new,
glass-walled space with a stunning installation from artist Jeri Coppola.
Meanwhile, it wouldn't kill you to buy a book while you're there ... or a
Sholom Aleichem bobble-head .... And, after the bookstore closes at 6:00 pm (you
can watch the bookcases revolve back into the wall) stick around for our
first-ever event: a reading by MHP author Elizabeth Little from her hot new
book, Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic, followed by a
soon-to-be-classic beer reception. (Melville House, 145 Plymouth Street, at
Pearl Street, DUMBO, FREE)
THEATER: Penny
Dreadful. Episode 3: "The Great Switcheroo"
http://www.thirdlows.com/pennydreadful
The year is 1909 and
the discovery of a bloodless body has San Francisco abuzz. It will be up to a
second-rate showman and an oddball detective of the supernatural to put
together the clues - a mysterious hearing aid, a missing creature from the
darkest corner of the earth, a secret society bent on world domination, a man
who can control earthquakes, and the greatest magic trick ever performed. PENNY
DREADFUL is a twelve-part tale of mystery and horror that takes place in the
first decade of the twentieth century and guest stars a parade of notable
historical figures such as Theodore Roosevelt and Thomas Edison as they weave
in and out of the suspenseful tale. Inspired by the adventure-filled dime
novels of the 19th and early 20th century, PENNY DREADFUL has been serialized
into 12 monthly installments with Chapter One beginning in November 2007.
Audiences will be able to follow the labyrinthine plot twists and re-experience
the cliffhanger endings through video downloads of each episode following their
live performance. (The Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, W'burg, 11:00PM,
$8)
MUSIC: Why we think
Barbes is one of the best music venues in town... (Barbes, corner of 9th St
& 6th Ave, Park Slope, BK, $10 sugg. donation to each band)
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
7:30pm: VITAMIN D
is not a a group of fat-soluble prohormones but a group headed by Dennis Cronin
which offers sensitive songs based around vibraphonettes, tremolo guitars, and
trumpets. Cronin's trumpet has been heard with the likes of Vic Chesnutt,
Lambchop and Camera Obscura.
8:30pm: PRE-WAR
PONIES. Daria Grace is as versatile as they come, she plays with Melomane, Jack
Grace, and King County Queens. Her new project covers 20's and 30's gems such
as 'Pettin' In The Park', '(Give Me The) Moon Over Brooklyn', 'Pardon My
Southern Accent', and 'The Gentleman Just Wouldn't Say Goodnight. with Daria
Grace - vocals & baritone uke; Jon Dryden - Piano & Tim Luntzel -
bass.
9:30pm: SASHA
DOBSON. The New York TImes traced her roots to Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah
Vaughn. She's Sasha Dobson from New York City, and she was recently named by
TIme Magazine as one of "6 Jazz Singers Worth a Listen." She mixes
island rhythms, bossa nova and folksy acoustics into her toe-tapping style, and
whether it's her version of Duke Ellington's Mood Indigo or her many original
compositions, this free spirit is certainly a musical force of her
generation.
PERFORMANCE/PARTY:
Shanghai Mermaid
http://www.shanghaimermaid.com
you are most cordially
invited to the first shanghai mermaid of 2008! please join us for an evening of
cocktails, burlesque and music from another era . . . 1920's paris, 1930's
shanghai, weimar berlin, old new york . . . performers include: the
fantastic Jennifer Miller, of circus amok, as the emcee; our own lady of
burlesque, the danger dame herself, miss Veronica Varlow; the fabulous costumer
and performance art burlesque star, Amber Ray; Les Chauds Lapins, with their
beautiful french songs from the 1920's & '30's; the dynamic Tin Pan Blues
Band, playing early american jazz for you to dance to; juliette campbell,
the lovely shanghai mermette; marisa maffia on the trapeze, if she dares . .
. photos, party location and directions to the party are revealed when
you rsvp. dancing and costume is encouraged. doors open at 9:30pm, performances
start shortly thereafter, and continue to the wee hours. $10 at the
door. cash only. seating at tables is limited.
DJ/DANCING: PLANET
6362 Psytrance Party
http://www.6362MetaForce.net
Featuring LAB - LIVE!! - in his first-ever US performance.
Plus Vishwaatmaaa - Psy DJ Set; PsyOps - Psy DJ Set; SuKhuSH - Chill out
DJ Set with Live Flute; Randy Lee - Drum 'n Bass
DJ Set; Artemis - Psy DJ Set. 6362MetaForce
invites you to explore a psychedelic EcoSystem in our celestial home, Planet
6362. Anticipate a fully transformed UV jungle where sister Sue will help
you feel the tropical sun in the middle of winter, while sensing the warmest
rainforest vibes. Visually we bring you more original work by our
European sister organization NEUROTIKA - - and all of this will be set to the
soundtrack of one of the best new psy producers in international trance - -
LAB, aka Renato Moreira - -who is that rare producer that continually delivers
clean production, powerful structures, and happy full-power sound in the
tradition of the original Goa frequency. Non-alcoholic beverages and
smoothie bar provided by Wonderland Collective. 18+ event - please bring photo
ID. (Wonderland 38-01 23rd Avenue in Astoria, Queens, 9pm-sunrise, Before
11:30pm: $20 with RSVP to info@6362MetaForce.net before Friday 1/18 at
midnite, 11:30pm and later: $25 general admission.)
SUNDAY
PARTY: Bowie Ball
http://www.bowieballnyc.com/
David Bowie once said,
"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human." But
for the revelers of the Bowie Ball, it's Bowie himself that they've always
wanted to be-that is, the glam-rockin' Ziggy Stardust Bowie, to be precise.
(The Bowie Ball is not to be confused with the Birthday Bowie Bash at Rififi
earlier this month-this is the party for really showing off your obsession.)
Draw a lightning bolt on your face, pull on a one-piece jumpsuit and an orange
mullet wig, and enter the costume contest to win $200 worth of prizes. Ziggy
outfit at the cleaners? Onsite makeup artists will hook you up with a glam-rock
makeover. Hosting the space-age debauchery are Project Runway contestants
Christian Siriano and Kevin Christiana. DJs Paddy Boom (of the Scissor
Sisters), former Motherfucker Michael T, June D, and Ruff Kids spin the hits.
(Don Hill's, 511 Greenwich St, $10 W/RSVP or costume, $15 w/out)
PARTY: BYTE
http://www.BYTEnyc.com
NYC's synthetic sexy
dance monthly. Inviting all PERVERTED POLICIA! INDECENT INMATES! TORRID TROOPERS!
PROVOCATIVE PRISONERS! ENTICING ENFORCEMENT! JUICY JAILBIRDS! CD RELEASE PARTY
FOR Recording Artists, Ambassador 21. AUDIO: DJs : Residents - Lucien, ash,
Joined by special guest DJs Cyn (Salvation) & Ian Fford (Club Anubis) Live
Music: CERVELLO ELETTRONICO (VENDETTA MUSIC ) VISUAL: Performance: Miss Fleur
de Lys! P-CULT... "Keystone SEX Cop Show" Dungeon with BYTE.
Led Go-Go Sergeant, Amber Star. Desk Sergeant: Miss Persia. 21 and over
please... no exceptions! DRINK SPECIALS $5 vodka red bulls, $5 bloodbaths .$6
for a bud and a kamikaze shot. (The Delancey, 168 Delancey bet Clinton and
Attorney, 9pm, $5 For fetish divas, creative goths, cyberpunks cyberdrags,
material girls fashionistas, alternative sexiness/$10 for all black/$15 all
else)
DJ/DANCING: Body
& Soul
http://www.bodyandsoul-nyc.com/main.html
http://www.wantickets.com/EventDetail.aspx?e_id=34648
Body & SOUL kicks
off the New Year with its now traditional MLK weekend party. Danny Krivit,
Joaquin "Joe" Claussell and Francois-K are back with Ariel on Lights.
Legendary DJs, legendary NYC house music. (Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St. at 4th
Ave, 6pm till late, $20)
MONDAY
BURLESQUE: PROF.
PINCHY'S HEATED DEBATES: U.S.A. vs. THE WORLD
http://pinchbottomburlesque.com/
Pinchbottom returns to
Williamsburg with the second in our series of PROF. PINCHY'S HEATED
DEBATES. Previously at Galapagos, Prof. Pinchy undressed the question of
Art vs. Commerce. On Monday, Pinchbottom celebrates the ongoing primaries and
the spirit of contemporary politics with U.S.A. VS. THE WORLD: the foreign
policy show. Nasty Canasta, Jonny Porkpie, and special guests Anita Cookie,
Clams Casino, and Peekaboo Pointe will present burlesque arguments embracing
all sides of these hot topics. This spirited discourse promises to strip the
issues down to the basics, and keep pounding the podium until the naked truth
is finally exposed. Who will emerge the victor? America, with its fierce
national pride and inability to admit when it's wrong? Or the rest of
World, with everything it has going for it? Whatever your point of view, one
thing's for sure: in a discussion this passionate, everybody wins. (Galapagos
Artspace, 70 N. 6th Street, W'burg, BK, 10pm)
ONGOING
ART: Modified Eros
http://www.arenastudios.com
Experience the
modified body beautiful in a gallery setting, with photography featuring
tattooing, piercing, corsetry and scarification. "Modified Eros"
features photographs by seasoned artists and fresh talent alike, and will
display images by Patrick Reardon, Brian Mackey and many others. Many of the
models and photographers will be present at the public opening for the show.
Additional viewings by appointment only through curator Audacia Ray. (thru
1/18, Arena Studios, 407 Broome St. Suite 7A)
PUPPETS: Frankenstein
(Mortal Toys)
http://here.org/see/now/
"A production of
ultra-restrained elegance and arresting beauty." -- LA Times.
"Frankenstein rivals Hollywood films in its ability to sweep viewers into
another world, a world so carefully crafted that you can't help but lean
forward, entranced, as the story draws you toward its haunting conclusion." --
LA Weekly. Frankenstein (Mortal Toys), a miniature spectacle, follows the
haunted alpine journey of Victor Frankenstein, as he confronts the
loneliness and rage of his alienated monster. The story is told within a
small proscenium, with puppets based on 18th Century portrait paintings, lush
sets inspired by Romantic era landscape painting, and an evocative musical
score by Severin Behnen. Formed in 2004 by artists Susan Simpson and Janie
Geiser, Automata is a Los Angeles based organization committed to the creation,
presentation, and preservation of puppet and object theater, experimental film,
pre-cinematic attractions, and other lost and neglected forms. (January
8-19, Here Arts Center, 145 Sixth Ave (between Spring and Broome), $20/$15
students)
THEATER: UNDER THE
RADAR
http://www.publictheater.org/UTR/index.php
An explosively diverse
kaleidoscope of NEW THEATER - examples from around the U.S. and the world that
spotlight artists ranging from emerging talents to masters in the field. UTR 08
promises to be an INTENSE and WILD celebration of theater. (January 9, 2008 -
January 20, 2008, Joe Papp Public Theater & other venues, $15)
PERFORMANCE:
Culturemart 2008
http://www.here.org/see/now/cmart08/
A laboratory where our
Resident Artists merge dance, theatre, music, new media, puppetry, and visual
art, melding these forms to support their visions. Culturemart is a vital
testing ground where you can sample art in progress, provide feedback, and play
a crucial role in the development of new work. (Jan 4 - 21, HERE
Performing Arts center, 145 Sixth Ave bet Spring and Broome, $15)
PERFORMANCE: Coil
Festival
http://www.ps122.org/performances/coil_2008.html
Winter festival of
theater, dance and performance. Performance Space 122 presents its annual
winter event The Coil Festival featuring some of the best up and coming artists
in New York's underground performance scene. Dancers, actors and performance
artists round out this incredible line-up for January. (thru January, PS122,
$20)
ART: Tattooed Limbs
& Other Oddities
http://www.nybarolo.com/MF/MartinaLIMBS.cfm
http://www.tattooculture.net
Martina Secondo Russo
is a New York artist and co-owner of MF Gallery. For her "Tattooed
Limbs" series, she starts by cutting the shape out of plywood. After
priming and painting the skin details with acrylic, she works with enamel
markers to cover each square inch with all kinds of tattoos ranging from old-school
designs to classic Halloween decorations, to her own drawings, or sometimes
even images from other artists she admires. (thru Jan, Tattoo Culture Gallery,
129 Roebling St, W'burg, BK, reception 7-11pm, FREE)
ART: Biomorphic
and Geomorphic Imaginings: Paintings by Ten (Jan ten Broeke)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tensart/
As burlesque shimmies
into galleries, fine art in making its way back to The People and the places
they love to gather: BARS! Ten (Who's Who in American Art, Best American
Erotic Artists) will be showing some of his most exuberant and life-affirming
sensual paintings at Lolita in celebration of the solstice and the perseverance
of life, love, and light through the c-c-cold months ahead! Ten's
astonishing fantasies of biological and geological phenomena are rendered in
oil with exquisite technique, brushwork, and style that often engenders
virtuosity. Sure to be unlike anything you've ever seen! Free cheese and
experimental cookies at the opening, 6:30pm onward! (12/17--1/31, Lolita, 266
Broom St. @ Allen, NYC)
ART: "Hansel and
Gretel" Exhibit
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Schwartz_Gallery_Met.html
The Arnold & Marie
Schwartz Gallery Met celebrate a unique collaboration between the Metropolitan
Opera and The New Yorker bringing together artists from the magazine, plus
special guests, for a colorful exhibition of original artworks titled "Hansel
and Gretel". Artists including Roz Chast, Ian Falconer, Jules Feiffer, Ana
Juan, Ed Koren, Anita Kunz, Lorenzo Mattotti, Christoph Niemann, Lou Romano,
Owen Smith, William Steig, Gahan Wilson, and Bob Zoell, John Currin, George
Condo, and William Wegman. (thru 2/08, The Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery
Met, South side of the lobby of Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, Mon
through Sat 10:00am - 11:00pm; Sun 12:00pm - 6:00pm, FREE)
OPENING: Sci Fi Art
Show
http://www.mfgallery.net
Aliens! Robots! And
Monsters! Oh My! Beginning today the MF Gallery invites you to a Sci-Fi Art
Show! All you sci-fi geeks rejoice and check out art by such strange creatures
including Stephen Blickenstaff, Aya Kakeda, Daniel Kelly, Stacy Lande, Drew
Maillard, Jesson Manukonda, Angie Mason, Jeff McMillan, Jeff Owens, Jonathan
Rodriguez, Frank Russo, Martina Secondo, Nicole Steen, Joe Simko, Suckadelic
and others. We hear that anyone wearing a Sci Fi costume will drink beer on the
house, 7-10pm, but the rumor has not been confirmed. (through 2/16, MF
Gallery, 157 Rivington St. btw. Clinton & Suffolk Sts, 7-10pm, FREE)
ART: Projects 86: Gert
& Uwe Tobias
http://moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5630
The Transylvanian twins
and New York newcomers give their folkloric creatures a fractured, geometric
look (think Soviet art circa 1935), in works like the untitled woodcut
pictured. Their graphic-heavy creations-gouaches, "typewriter"
drawings, and ceramics, often enriched by cartoonish color-make up the latest
installment of MoMA's Projects 86, an ongoing series for emerging
artists. (thru 2/25, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St nr. Sixth Ave,
$20, $16 seniors, $12 students, children under 16 free)
MULTIMEDIA: Brainwave:
Sacred Science
http://www.rmanyc.org/Programs/brainwave.cfm
Entertainment,
Education, and Enlightenment. BRAINWAVE asks how art, music, and meditation
affect the brain and offers countless answers in talks and conversations,
performances, Cabaret Cinema, Saturday family programs, and lunchtime film
screenings with moderated discussions. (Jan-May 2008, Rubin Museum of Art, 150
W 17th St NYC, costs vary)
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