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bois vs grrls

This is actually about Dan Fishback’s show boi with an I, but its going to take a minute for me to work up to it. So keep reading.

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dance blowout

This Saturday, ten of the most interesting and surprising choreographers around will be performing together (for one night only!) at Joe’s Pub in the finale event to the Dancenow/NYC festival. It should be a blast and a great opportunity to see a variety of awesome

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scary music

This past weekend I went to a performance of Decasia at St. Ann’s Warehouse to see (well, hear) a friend play in the orchestra. I was surprised to find myself clutching my boyfriend’s hand in fear. Who would’ve thought that “new music” mixed with cryptic

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she’s lump

Yeah, we’re supposed to cover just performance, but hey I’m the boss of this place! So I’ll see you tonight at Bowery Ballroom for The Presidents of the United States of America. I think people thought these guys were kind of a novelty band but

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Psychasthenia

On August 14th Jon Keith Brunelle will be presenting An Evening with the Psychasthenia Society, as part of Performance Space 122’s ongoing series Schoolhouse Roxx. Keep reading to find out more about the evening in Jon’s own words… I didn’t know what was more of

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Neal for President

Neal Medlyn is a very sexy lady. Except he’s not a lady. But if you are a lady, he reminds you to be a sexy one, in his gently subversive and humorous way. You’re a lady! Be proud! Wear cute panties at all times!

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It’s Gotta Be The Shoes!

Who would have thought a couple of pairs of funky shoes, a beat-up 80s boom-box and a laptop could create magic? Not me until I saw Joshua Fried’s performance of Anything Bass, an excerpt from his work Radio Wonderland on Tuesday night at HERE.

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it’s gettin’ hot in here

I went to the opening shindig for Dixon Place’s 13th annual HOT festival on Tuesday. They’re back at 258 Bowery while they finish the construction on their new building, and it was just like it always was. Well, a little better since the air conditioning

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Dancing without Soft Pants

It’s been a year since Jenny Seastone Stern started her bi-monthly (which means every other month, not twice a month, for all you idiots like me out there) emerging artist dance/performance series. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that this one, Catch 6 (as in

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Northern Nights

Here at Culturebot we see lots of shows. Sometimes we go out of devotion to an artist, sometimes we go because we’ve heard good things through the grapevine, and sometimes we go just because we’re curious – which is why I attended Norwegian playwright Jon