Month: December 2006

  • This Town Just Ain’t Big Enough for the Both of Us…Right?

    On October 17th, 2006 the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Relations (Chaired by NYC Council Member Domenic M. Recchia) and the Committee on Economic Development (Chaired by NYC Council Member Thomas White Jr.) hosted an oversight hearing entitled “In Search of a Blueprint for a Cultural Community: Exploring the Creation of Cultural…

  • Chez Bushwick in manhattan

    Starting this Wednesday, Chez Bushwick will be presenting SALON, three performances at the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery. The performances, which will take place over three weeks, are in conjuction with the opening of Peggy Jarrell Kaplan’s photography exhibition, “Contemporary Dance; Portraits of Choreographers 1981-2006.”

  • Le Petit Mort

    There’s some good dance coming your way! Thursday night is the opening of Palissimo dance company’s Le Petit Mort. Zustiak’s world is full of “striving, sweating bodies, but beyond what they actually do lies another, more enigmatic kind of “doing.”” -Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice Choreographer Pavel Zustiak teams up with famed video artist Tal…

  • Feed on more than just lunch

    For those of you who can never get enough and wish there was a way to continue your over-priced, under-appreciated liberal arts education……. try doing it for free at the MOMA’s Brown Bag Lunch Lectures. Mondays and Thursdays, 12:30–1:15 p.m. The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building Most are taught by Phd.…

  • Mr Jones Goes to Harlem

    BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY CHAPEL/CHAPTER TUES-SAT, DECEMBER 5-9, 2006 See the premiere of Chapel/Chapter, a new work by choreographer Bill T. Jones which explores the duality between the sacred and the secular. In his visionary stage design Bjorn Amelan transforms The Gatehouse into an indeterminate space–as much an introspective sanctuary as a courthouse.…

  • Traveling Uptown can be Worthwhile

    Coming up this week at Juilliard…… always a treat to see the “creme de la creme.” COMPOSERS & CHOREOGRAPHERS … PLUS COMPOSERS & CHOREOGRAPHERS: Alexandra du Bois and Collin Baja Cristina Spinei and Chanel DaSilva Yui Kitamura and Carolyn Rossett Tian Zhou and Kendra Samson Jude Vaclavik and Timothy Ward Jakub Ciupinski and Adam Weinert…

  • spoke the hub opportunities

    Spoke the Hub Dancing invites All performers to strut their stuff at the 6th Annual “Winter Follies” January 26-28, 2007 at Spoke the Hub’s Space in the Gowanus Arts Building 295 Douglass Street, Brooklyn Calling All Dancers, Musicians, Actors & Interdisciplinary Performing Artists More continued on the next page. Spoke the Hub also has an…

  • Kiki & Herb at Joe’s Pub

    “They drummed you out of the Helen Hayes, so you come crawling back below 14th street”(to mangle a quote form Valley of the Dolls). Actually, the boozy chantoosie and her gay-jew-tard pianist received a rave mention in the New York Times, and possibly could have extended their run on the Great White Way, if not…

  • Tim Miller Talks Politics and Bed-Hopping

    Perusing the internets, as is my wont, I came across this great interview with performer and P.S. 112 co-founder Tim Miller. Miller speaks to the Austin Chronicle about politics, hope and his new book and show, both entitled 1001 Beds. Read the article here. For additional info on Miller and his body of work, check…

  • P.S.122’s Annual Red & White Holiday Blowout

    You are NOT going to want to miss this year’s The Red & White Party II Performance Space 122 Holiday Festacular!! last year’s party was unforgettable, although maybe a bit blurry in memory. Let’s just we were all together to see the sun rise on a Wintry City! Come and be a part of it…

  • The fall and rise of the Rising Fallen

    Those of us who have been on the downtown scene for awhile have very fond memories of one of the greatest bands never to hit the NYC stages – The Rising Fallen. They were formed about 7 years ago and have cancelled nearly all their gigs through lost metrocards, drunken-ness, getting lost, bad hair, bad…

  • Screen Test Opening Party

    That’s Theo and Rob Roth at the opening party for Screen Test at Beauty Bar on Tuesday night. Good times! Click here to see all the pix!