PILOBOLUS
Pilobolus collaborates with Art Spiegelman on HAPLESS HOOLIGAN IN “STILL MOVING,” at the Joyce this summer (photo by Joseph Mehling)
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
July 12 – August 7, $10-$75
212-645-2904
www.joyce.org
www.pilobolus.com
The uniquely creative Connecticut-based Pilobolus Dance Theatre has something very special planned for its annual summer season at the Joyce, a multimedia collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegleman. In HAPLESS HOOLIGAN IN “STILL MOVING,” the dancers will interact with Spiegelman’s colorful artwork, animated on backdrops by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson, with sound design by FELA!’s Rob Kaplowitz. HOOLIGAN will be part of Program 1, which also includes Jonathan Wolken’s REDLINE, Michael Tracy’s dazzling SYMBIOSIS, and Inbal Pinto, Avshalom Pollak, and Robby Barnett’s RUSHES. Program 2 consists of Wolken’s GNOMEN and HITCHED, THE TRANSFORMATION, RUSHES, and Moses Pendleton’s beautiful and sexy DAY 2, with Program 3 featuring Tracy’s LATERNA MAGICA, Wolken’s stunning PSEUDOPODIA, Matt Kent and Renee Jaworski’s CONTRADANCE (featuring music by kids rocker Dan Zanes), Barnett and Wolken’s GNOMEN, and Wolken’s MEGAWATT. On July 15 at 2:00 at the Joyce, Pilobolus will be holding a public memorial service for cofounder (with Pendleton) and artistic director Wolken, who died on June 13 at the age of sixty, leaving behind a wife and four daughters.
LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL: MIROKU
Saburo Teshigawara immerses himself in questions of time and space in beautiful MIROKU
Rose Theater, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Broadway aat 60th St.
July 9-11
Tickets: $30-$60
www.lincolncenter.org
www.st-karas.com
Tokyo-based dancer-choreographer Saburo Teshigawara dazzled a rapt audience on July 9 at the New York premiere of his beautiful one-man show MIROKU. Last seen at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2006 with the solo performance BONES IN PAGES, Teshigawara, currently celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his KARAS company, designed the set, costume, and lighting design as well, placing himself within a large three-sided box as if he is walled in. Playing with light, shadow, and color to an electronic soundscape (compiled with Neil Griffiths and KARAS cofounder Kei Miyata), Teshigawara first moves with jerky, spastic motions, angulating his arms and legs as if he is uncomfortable in his own skin, trying to get out of his body, but over the course of the sixty-minute production his movement becomes more fluid as he gains control of his being. Meanwhile, the lighting design gets more and more complex, flashing rapidly changing patterns against the three walls. At one point Teshigawara holds a lightbulb that hangs from the ceiling, creating a dazzling series of shadows of different shapes and sizes. Occasionally, light projections form windows and doorways, as if offering tantalizing glimpses of what is on the outside, but Teshigawara is in no hurry to leave as he continues to examine time and space within the confines of the human body and soul. Miroku is a Buddhist term that refers to the final reincarnation of the Buddha, and the show more than hints at such concepts as heaven and hell, life and death, but Teshigawara has claimed that there’s nothing religious about MIROKU, and there doesn’t need to be, as the narrative works merely as an examination of beauty and art itself.
BASTILLE DAY ON 60th ST.
Large crowds will convene on 60th St. for annual Bastille Day celebration
60th St. between Fifth & Lexington Aves.
Sunday, July 11, free, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
www.bastilledaynyc.com
www.fiaf.org
One of the most highly anticipated street fairs of the year, the annual Bastille Day celebration along East 60th St. is always a fun-filled day of French food and music, sponsored by the French Institute Alliance Française. The festivities honor the storming of the Bastille prison on July 14, 1789, paving the way for the French Revolution. Among the live performers appearing on the main stage will be Michèle Voltaire Marcelin telling Haitian stories in krik-krak style, Pierre de Gaillande singing George Brassens tunes in English, and Gay Marshall channeling Edith Piaf in addition to concerts by Malika Zarra and Les Sans Culottes. There will also be stationary Tour de France bike races, the annual Garçons de Café race with waiters holding serving trays making their way down the street, a Citroën Car Show, mimes, an accordion player, and other events combining for an entertaining mix of both cool and strange. If it gets too hot outside, you can head into the FIAF gallery for ticketed wine and cheese tastings or beer and cheese pairings in the lobby ($8-$15).
YOSHIKO CHUMA & THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS: A-C-E- ONE
Yoshiko Chuma will present the world premiere of A-C-E- ONE at LentSpace this week
RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL: LMCC SITELINES
LentSpace
Between Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sixth Ave.
Wednesday, July 7, and Thursday, July 8, 5:30 & 7:30
Admission: free
212-219-9401
www.lmcc.net
www.yoshikochuma.org
Japanese-born, New York City-based choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and her collaborative group, the School of Hard Knocks, will be presenting a site-specific piece on July 7 & 8 as part of this summer’s Sitelines program, sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Dancers Ursula Eagly, Aaron Mattocks, Yuko Mitsuishi, Ryuji Yamaguchi, and Chuma will move in and around the unique architecture of LentSpace, to a score by John King, with costumes by Gabriel Berry, and live music by Genghis Barbie, Rachel Drehmann, Danielle Kuhlmann, Jacquelyn Adams, Ann Ellsworth, and Eric John Eigner. Among the props involved are a limousine and shredded paper. Also at LentSpace is the sculpture exhibit “Avenue of the Americas,” with works by Julieta Aranda, Judi Werthein, Carla Zaccagnini, and Carlos Motta with David Sanin Paz.
undergroundzero festival
A FESTIVAL OF THEATER ARTISTS
P.S. 122
150 First Ave. at East Ninth St.
Tuesday, July 6, through Sunday, July 25
Tickets: $15-$20
212-352-3101
www.ps122.org/undergroundzero
The fourth annual undergroundzero festival, presented by East River Commedia as a place where artists are encouraged to experiment as part of a creative summer lab experience, returns to P.S. 122 on July 6 for three weeks of innovative, unique, and rather strange theater. Adding an international flavor, this year’s productions come from Australia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Romania, Wales, and New York. Among the shows are Fabiana Iacozilli’s ASPETTANDO MIL (WAITING FOR NIL), a wedding drama inspired by WATING FOR GODOT; Alexandru Mihaescu’s futuristic THE CONCRETES (AFTER VLADIMIR SOROKIN); Dermot Bolger’s timely THE PARTING GLASS, about Ireland’s attempt to qualify for the 2010 World Cup; John Wesley Zielmann playing Andy Warhol in FOREVER ART; Eliza Bent, Jasmin Hoo, and Elizabeth Stevenson’s multimedia BLUE DRESS REDUCTION; FROM DAWN TILL NIGHT (THE EARTH IS UNINHABITABLE LIKE THE MOON), Dangerous Ground’s adaptation of Fassbinder’s apocalyptic IN A YEAR WITH 13 MOONS; and Performance Lab 115’s THE RING CYCLE: Part 1, set in the world of professional wrestling. You’ll also be able to find Butoh, Henry Miller, magic, James Dean, suicide clubs, Jean Cocteau, a vegan’s foray into the world of meat, Jayne Mansfield, burlesque, Dwight Eisenhower, a Zen garden, and other interesting and unusual themes and characters. In addition, the festival includes three “playgroundzero” staged readings, the most intriguing being Saviana Stanescu’s POLANSKI, in which Grant Neale plays the controversial Polish film director interviewing himself. Every Tuesday night will feature a “commonground” theatrical cultural talk show, and on Fridays at 11:00 the “latenightzero” dance party gets the weekend going in style.
WARM UP
Prepare for some massive crowds at weekly PS1 Warm Up (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
MoMAPS1
22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Ave.
Saturdays from 2:00 to 9:00, July 3 – September 4
Tickets: $15 (free for Long Island City residents)
718-784-2084
www.ps1.org/warmup
One of the hottest, sweatiest weekly dance parties of every summer will get people moving and grooving beginning on July 3 when Warm Up returns to PS1 in Queens. The series features live bands and DJs from all over the world, including Spain, Sierra Leone, France, Sweden, Canada, and Brooklyn, playing in the shadow of Solid Obectives — Idenburg Liu’s “Pole Dance,” winner of the annual Young Architects Program and displayed in the courtyard. The opening-day lineup is a mere taste of things to come, with live sets from Delorean, Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang, and Glasser, with John Talabot and Korallreven manning the turntables. On the horizon are Kalup Linzy and JD Samson on July 24, Animal Collective DJ’ing on July 31, a DFA showcase with James Murphy and Pat Mahoney on August 7, DJ ?uestlove and These Are Powers on August 14, and Holy Ghost!, House of House, and DJ Mehdi on closing night, September 4. And don’t forget to check out the expansive “Greater New York” exhibition. PS1 is one of the treasures of New York City, with something to see and do in every little nook and cranny, so be prepared for anything and everything.
NYC PRIDE
Even dogs can get in on the action at the inaugural PetPride festivities, part of the PrideFest street fair on Sunday at 12:30 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Multiple venues
Saturday, June 26, and Sunday, June 27
Free - $100
www.nycpride.org
The annual Gay Pride celebration shifts into high gear this weekend with several of its signature events. On Saturday night, the seventh annual “Rapture on the River: A Women’s Dance” takes place at Pier 54, featuring music by Susan Morabito ($25 in advance, $35 day of show). The 2010 NYC LGBT Pride March gets under way Sunday at noon, beginning at 36th St. & Fifth Ave. This year’s grand marshals are Dan Choi, Judy Shepard, and Constance McMillen, with Frank DeCaro, Bruce Vilanch, and Romaine Patterson among the reviewing stand judges. The PrideFest street fair, on Hudson St. between Abingdon Sq. & West Fourteenth on Sunday, includes emcees Hedda Lettuce, Vanessa Valtre, and Kiiara Monteiro, with a special performance by Antigone Rising in addition to Nikki Exotika, Justin Utley, London Bridgez, Sprio, Melinda Hansen, and many others. And things come to a rousing conclusion Sunday night with “Dance on Pier: Dance 24,” a hot party on Pier 54 with DJs Steven Oliveri and Freemasons ($100).
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