TWENTY LOOKS OR PARIS IS BURNING AT THE JUDSON CHURCH (S)
New Museum of Contemporary Art
235 Bowery at Prince St.
Tickets: $18
212-924-3363
Thursday, October 1
and
Friday, October 2 Trajal Harrell performs as part of the 2009 Crossing the Line festival, 7:00
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LUCY GUERIN INC.
Dance Theater Workshop, Bessie Schonberg Theater, 219 West 19th St. between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
Tickets: $15
Thursday, October 1
through
Saturday, October 3 STRUCTURE AND SADNESS, evening-length piece inspired by the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in Australia in 1970, 7:30
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Big Dance Theater brings revives Varda classic onstage
COMME TOUJOURS HERE I STAND
512 West 19th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Tickets: $15
212-255-5793
Thursday, October 1, through Sunday, October 4
and
Wednesday, October 7, through Saturday, October 10 Big Dance Theater presents a multimedia reimagination of Agnès Varda’s 1961 Nouvelle Vague classic, CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7, 8:00
Varda film is Nouvelle Vague classic
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (CLÉO DE 5 À 7) (Agnès Varda, 1962)
Available on DVD
After getting a biopsy taken and drawing the death card while consulting a fortune-teller, popular French singer Cléo (Corinne Marchand) begins looking back at her life — and wondering just what’s left of it — while awaiting the dreaded results. The blonde beauty talks with old friends, asks her piano player (Michel Legrand, who composed the score) to write her a song, and meets a dapper gentleman in the park, becoming both participant and viewer in her own existence. As Cléo makes her way around town, director (and former photographer) Agnès Varda shows off early 1960s Paris, expertly winding her camera through the Rive Gauche. Just as Cléo seeks to find out what’s real (her actual name is Florence and that gorgeous hair is a wig), Varda shoots the film in a cinema verité style, almost as if it’s a documentary. She even sets the film in real time (adding chapter titles with a clock update), enhancing the audience’s connection with Cléo as she awaits her fate, but the movie runs only ninety minutes, adding mystery to what is to become of Cléo, as if she exists both on-screen and off, alongside the viewer. A central film in the French Nouvelle Vague and one of the first to be made by a woman, CLÉO DE 5 À 7 is an influential classic even as it has lost a step or two over the years. Varda, now in her eighties, has also made such well-regarded films as LE BONHEUR (1965), VAGABOND (1985), THE GLEANERS AND I (2000), and THE BEACHES OF AGNÉS (2008), among others. Big Dance Theater has reimagined the film in a multimedia production, COMME TOUJOURS HERE I STAND, that will run at the Kitchen October 1-4 and 7-10.
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TICKET ALERT: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER
130 West 56th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves.
Thursday, December 3
Tickets: $20
212-581-1212
Thursday, October 3 Specially priced $20 tickets go on sale at 9:00 am at the box office only for the December 3 performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at City Center, with special activities, chair massages, a treats truck, and more, in celebration of Judith Jamison¹s 20th anniversary as artistic director
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LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE
175 Eighth Ave. at 19th St.
Tickets:
212-645-2904
Monday, October 5 Dance Talks: Screening of LUCINDA CHILDS (Patrick Bensard, 2006), followed by a Q&A with Lucinda Childs, Joyce SoHo, 155 Mercer St., free with advance RSVP to 646-792-8377, 6:00
Tuesday, October 6
through
Sunday, October 11 Lucinda Childs Dance performs DANCE, featuring music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt, CONCERTO, commissioned by the Theatre de la Ville, and LARGO, created for Mikhail Baryshnikov and danced by Childs
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ERYC TAYLOR DANCE
405 West 55th St. at Ninth Ave.
Tickets: $25 ($35 with postshow reception)
Tuesday, October 6 NYC-based Eryc Taylor Dance presents four world premieres, including SOLOTANGO (music by Gotan Project), GINGA (Katy Perry), INSIDEOUT (Terry Davies and Erik Satie), and SOMEWHERE//OUT THERE (Fakesch, Marianelli, Kaneshiro), as well as EMINENT DOMAIN and THE LOOK (Dusty Springfield), 8:00