live performance

BOOMERANG THEATRE COMPANY: THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

Who: Boomerang Theatre Company
What: Live, free Shakespeare
Where: The Ladies Tea Room at the Prince George Hotel, 15 East Twenty-Seventh St.
When: September 24-26, free with advance RSVP (donations accepted)
Why: Just because summer is officially over on September 22 doesn’t mean that there will be no more free Shakespeare. Boomerang Theatre Company, the troupe that has been bringing the Bard to city parks since 1999, is kicking off its fall season with a free, indoor, modern-day production of William Shakespeare’s popular farce, The Comedy of Errors. The show will have four performances September 24-26 in the elegant Ladies Tea Room at the Prince George Hotel, featuring Erika Amato as the Abbess, Emily Ann Banks as Angelo, Nicholas-Tyler Corbin in several roles, Amy Crossman as Dromio of Syracuse, Jessica Giannone as Dromio of Ephesus, Anthony F. Lalor as Antipholus of Ephesus, Roger Lipson as Balthazar, Anthony Michael Martinez as Antipholus of Syracuse, Lance C. Roberts as Egeon and Pinch, Shannon Stowe as the Courtesan, Yeena Sung as Adriana, Logan Thomason as Luciana, and Viet Vo as Duke Solinus.

“The Comedy of Errors, which is at its heart about mistaken identity, reconciliation, and new possibilities, reminds us that comedy and escapism can be a way to cope with the challenges life presents us. At this moment of reopening, it is important to not only reflect on the last eighteen months but also celebrate coming together again,” director Scott Ebersold said in a statement. “So, that is exactly what the ensemble and I are doing: We’re getting all dressed up, and we’re throwing a party! We’re celebrating the return of live theater, the joy of artistic collaboration, and just how fun it is when things go terribly wrong!” Although advance tickets are sold out for what is Boomerang’s twentieth free Shakespeare production, there is a waiting list and walk-up possibilities. As Balthazar says in Act 3, Scene 1, “Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”

SUN & SEA (MARINA)

Sun & Sea brings the beach to BAM in thrilling production (photo by Barbara Pollack)

SUN & SEA (MARINA)
BAM Fisher, Fishman Space
321 Ashland Pl.
September 15-26, $25
www.bam.org

The summer beach season might unofficially come to a close on Labor Day weekend, but BAM has extended it through September 26 with the US premiere of Sun & Sea, a wonderfully engaging indoor presentation that brings fun in the sun to Fort Greene. Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale, the hour-long opera takes place on the 57×46-square-foot floor of BAM Fisher, where twenty-one tons of sand have been trucked in from South Jersey and spread out two inches deep. One hundred audience members at a time watch the show from the balcony that surrounds the stage on all four sides; you can walk around to see it from numerous angles as thirteen vocalists and about two dozen locals sing about the environment, bananas, colonialism, the threat of drowning, exhaustion, running out of water, tourism, littering, work, and vacation.

The unnamed characters do what people on the beach generally do: eat, drink, read books and magazines, apply suntan lotion, talk with one another, snooze, and catch rays. Kids play badminton, two men battle it out in a friendly game of ring toss, people check their cell phones, and a dog (Beans or Grimaldi) wanders about while certain characters break into song as the action continues around them. Wealthy Mommy (Kalliopi Petrou) confesses, “What a relief that the Great Barrier Reef has a restaurant and hotel!” Her husband, Workaholic (Vytautas Pastarnokas), surmises, “Suppressed negativity finds a way out unexpectedly.”

The Philosopher (Claudia Graziadei) asks, “Is this not a parody of the Silk Road?” Complaining Lady (Eglė Paškevičienė) declares, “What’s wrong with people?” And one of the young men from the Volcano Couple (Marco Cisco and Lucas Lopes Pereira) opines, “Not a single climatologist predicted a scenario like this / Maybe someone had a feeling.” Hope is embodied by Chanson of Admiration (Nabila Dandara Vieira Santos), who gently conveys, “O la vida.”

Among the others chiming in on income inequality, lava, shrimp, 3D printers, the extinction of the mammoth, and the end of the world are Bossanova Woman (Svetlana Bagdonaitė) and Bossanova Man (Jonas Statkevičius), Dreamer (Artūras Miknaitis), Siren (Ieva Skorubskaitė), 3D Sisters (Auksė Dovydėnaitė and Saulė Dovydėnaitė), and two Choir Singers (Aliona Alymova and Evaldas Alekna). The singing is all matter-of-fact, as if the characters’ thoughts are calmly emerging, one no more urgent than another, set to a shimmering score, mixed live by Salomėja Petronytė, that glistens like sunlight on the ocean. Each audience member is given a printout of the libretto; I got a kick out of peeking at who was next and guessing who the performer would be. (I batted about fifty percent.) Photos are allowed (but not video), and you can stay as long as you want, as the performance repeats for five hours.

Commissioned for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the fifty-eighth Venice Biennale and featuring an all-female creative team, the ingenious Sun & Sea is the second collaboration between director and set designer Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, librettist Vaiva Grainytė, and composer and musical director Lina Lapelytė, the Lithuanian trio’s follow-up to its 2013 show, Have a Good Day!, in which ten cashiers took on capitalism and consumption. It’s a seamless production, like a day at the beach; you can imagine yourself on the sand with the cast, hearing snippets of conversations here, admiring bathing suits there, wishing the kids wouldn’t run across your blanket, and turning over to get an even tan.

But as relaxed as you might feel, there is a rising tide of fear at the future of the planet if we remain on our current path. As the Vacationers’ Chorus intones, “Today they have raised the red and yellow flag up high / The whirlpools of the sea, / drop-offs / riptides / undertows. / You’re not allowed / to wade in / deeper than your knees!” If we don’t start doing something about our environment fast, there’ll be no more beaches or oceans for safe wading at all.

CURTAIN UP! FESTIVAL

A bevy of Broadway stars will celebrate reopening at free three-day outdoor fest

Who: Norm Lewis, Michael Urie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Daphne Rubin Vega, James Monroe Iglehart, Joe Iconis, Ayodele Casel, Joshua Henry, Jelani Alladin, Lauren Molina, Bryce Pinkham, Antoinette Nwandu, Lynn Nottage, A. J. Holmes, many more
What: Three-day festival celebrating the reopening of Broadway
Where: Duffy Square, Playbill Piano Bar in Times Square
When: September 17-19, free
Why: Dozens of performers, writers, directors, choreographers, podcast hosts, and others are coming to Broadway for a free outdoor three-day celebration of the reopening of the Great White Way. Playbill, in partnership with the Broadway League and the Times Square Alliance, are presenting “Curtain Up!” September 17-19, featuring live performances, panel discussions, singalongs, interviews, and more in Duffy Square and at the Playbill Piano Bar. Among the impressive list of participants are Norm Lewis, Michael Urie, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ayodele Casel, Robin DeJesús, Daphne Rubin Vega, James Monroe Iglehart, Joe Iconis, Joshua Henry, Jelani Alladin, Bryce Pinkham, Antoinette Nwandu, Lynn Nottage, and A. J. Holmes. All events are free, but be prepared for big crowds.

Friday, September 17
Wake Up, Broadway!, with Joe Iconis, Ilana Levine, and Sam Maher, hosted by Ayanna Prescod and Christian Lewis, Playbill Piano Bar, 11:00 am

Curtain Up! Festival Kick-off Event, with Chuck Schumer, Anne Del Castillo, Alex Birsh, Charlotte St. Martin, Tom Harris, Vikki Been, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Jessica Vosk, with music direction by John McDaniel, Duffy Square, noon

Divas of Broadway Sing-Along, with Brandon James Gwinn, Playbill Piano Bar, 1:00

Dear White People Panel, with Kandi Burruss, Ashley Blaine Featherson, Logan Browning, DeRon Horton, and Bryan Terrell Clark, Duffy Square, 1:30

New Broadway Hits, with Brandon James Gwinn, Playbill Piano Bar, 2:30

Sing Along with Joe Iconis, with Joe Iconis, Amina Faye, Jason SweetTooth Williams, Kelly McIntire, and Mike Rosengarten, Playbill Piano Bar, 3:00

The Playbill Variety Show, with Bryan Campione, Joshua Henry, Tom Viola, Frank DiLella, Joseph Benincasa, and T.3., Duffy Square, 3:30

Wicked Sing-Along, with Adam Laird, Playbill Piano Bar, 4:30

Jimmy Awards Reunion Concert!, with Bryson Battle, John Clay III, Sofia Deler, Caitlin Finnie, Elena Holder, Lily Kaufmann, McKenzie Kurtz, Sam Primack, Josh Strobl, and Ekele Ukegbu, directed by Seth Sklar-Heyn, with music direction by Daryl Waters, hosted by Jelani Alladin, Duffy Square, 5:30

Curtain Up After Dark Presents: Lauren Molina, Playbill Piano Bar, 6:30

Pass Over playwright Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu is part of “Curtain Up!” Broadway reopening festival (photo by Marc J. Franklin)

Saturday, September 18
The Broadway Morning Warm-Up, with James T. Lane, Jessica Lee Goldyn, Tyler Hanes, Chryssie Whitehead, and Alexis Carra, Duffy Square, 10:30

Wake Up, Broadway!, with Kaila Mullady, Anthony Veneziale, Tarik Davis, James Monroe Iglehart, and Jan Friedlander Svendsen, hosted by Ayanna Prescod and Christian Lewis, Playbill Piano Bar, 11:30

Black to Broadway — It’s “Play” Time!, with Harriette Cole, Kennan Scott III, Antoinette Nwandu, Lynn Nottage, and Douglas Lyons, Duffy Square, 12:15

The Golden Age of Broadway Sing-Along, with Logan Culwell-Block, Playbill Piano Bar, 2:00

Sing-Along with Rob Rokicki, Playbill Piano Bar, 2:30

The Playbill Variety Show, with Bryan Campione, Bryce Pinkham, Shereen Pimentel, Lauren Gaston, Austin Sora, Valerie Lau-Kee, Minami Yusui, Jose Llana, Lourds Lane, and Ted Arthur, Duffy Square, 3:00

A. J. Holmes: Live in Times Square, Playbill Piano Bar, 4:00

Musical Theatre Hits Sing-a-Long with Concord Theatricals, with Michael Riedel and Zachary Orts, Playbill Piano Bar, 4:30

¡Viva Broadway! When We See Ourselves, with Bianca Marroquín, Ayodele Casel, Janet Dacal, Robin DeJesús, Alma Cuervo, Linedy Genao, Nicholas Edwards, Eliseo Roman, Daphne Rubin Vega, Josh Segarra, Caesar Samayoa, Jennifer Sánchez, Henry Gainza, Claudia Mulet, David Baida, Florencia Cuenca, Marielys Molina, Natalie Caruncho, Angelica Beliard, Sarita Colon, Gabriel Reyes, Roman Cruz, Steven Orrego Upegui, Adriel Flete, Noah Paneto, Harolyn Lantigua, Valeria Solmonoff & Iakov Shonsky, Luis Miranda, Rick Miramontez, Emilia Sosa, and Sergio Trujillo, directed and choreographed by Luis Salgado, written by Eric Ulloa, with musical direction by Jaime Lozano, Duffy Square, 5:00

Curtain Up After Dark, with Lauren Molina, Nick Cearley, and Eric Shorey, Playbill Piano Bar, 6:30

Sunday, September 19
Wake Up, Broadway!, hosted by Ayanna Prescod and Christian Lewis, with Off Book: The Black Theatre Podcast!, with Kim Exum, Ngozi Anyanwu, and Drew Shade, Playbill Piano Bar, 9:00

Curtain Up: This Is Broadway! Finale Concert, with performances by stars of more than twenty current and upcoming Broadway shows, Duffy Square, 11:00

TICKET ALERT: THE NEW YORKER FESTIVAL 2021

Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac will talk about their new HBO series at New Yorker Festival

Who: Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, Dave Grohl, Aimee Mann, Stanley Tucci, Jelani Cobb, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Jonathan Franzen, Tara Westover, Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jane Goodall, Andy Borowitz, Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell, Richard Jenkins, more
What: Hybrid New Yorker Festival
Where: Skyline Drive-In, 1 Oak St. in Brooklyn, and online
When: October 4-10, free – $180, virtual all-access pass $59
Why: Tickets for the in-person outdoor events at this year’s New Yorker Festival go on sale September 14 at noon, along with the specially curated culinary meals, which will be delivered to your door (as long as you live in New York City). Among those appearing live at the Skyline Drive-In on the Brooklyn waterfront are Aimee Mann and Dave Grohl (separately), who will talk and sing, as well as Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, who will discuss their new HBO series, Scenes from a Marriage, and Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell, and Richard Jenkins, who will screen and discuss their new film, Stephen Karam’s The Humans, an adaptation of his hit play. The virtual programs, featuring Jane Goodall, Stanley Tucci, Emily Ratajkowski, Amy Schumer, Jonathan Franzen, Tara Westover, Roz Chast, and others, will be available September 20, including an all-access pass for $59. As always, you can expect tickets to go fast, especially for the free events and the food deliveries. Below is the full schedule.

Monday, October 4
Dining In with the New Yorker Festival: Yellow Rose, three-course vegan menu delivered, with on-demand access to Helen Rosner’s interview with the chefs, Dave and Krystiana Rizo, $50

Tuesday, October 5
Dining In with the New Yorker Festival: Dacha 46, three-course vegetarian meal delivered, with on-demand access to Helen Rosner’s interview with the chefs, Jessica and Trina Quinn, $50

Wednesday, October 6
Dining In with the New Yorker Festival: Reverence, three-course vegetarian meal delivered, with on-demand access to Helen Rosner’s interview with the chef, Russell Jackson, $50

Thursday, October 7
Dining In with the New Yorker Festival: Kimika, three-course meal delivered, with on-demand access to Helen Rosner’s interview with the chef, Christine Lau, $50

Friday, October 8
Jessica Chastain, Oscar Isaac, and Hagai Levi talk with Esther Perel about Scenes from a Marriage, free, 6:30

Dave Grohl talks with Kelefa Sanneh about his upcoming memoir and performs, $90-$180, 9:00

Saturday, October 9
Aimee Mann talks with Atul Gawande and performs, $60-$120, 6:30

Drive-In: The Humans, preview screening of Stephen Karam’s debut film, followed by a conversation with Karam, Beanie Feldstein, Jayne Houdyshell, and Richard Jenkins, moderated by Michael Schulman, $25-$50, 9:00

Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, and Amy Hwang will celebrate the history of women cartoonists at the New Yorker at virtual event (illustration by Liana Finck)

Virtual Events, available September 20

Jane Goodall talks with Andy Borowitz

The Matter of Black Lives, with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Jamaica Kincaid, moderated by Jelani Cobb

Stanley Tucci talks with Helen Rosner about his TV series and his new book, Taste: My Life Through Food

Politics and the Novel, with Yiyun Li, Valeria Luiselli, and Viet Thanh Nguyen, moderated by Parul Sehgal

Emily Ratajkowski and Amy Schumer talk with Michael Schulman

Globalism’s Legacy, with Esther Duflo, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, moderated by Evan Osnos

Jonathan Franzen and Tara Westover talk with Henry Finder

Some Very Funny Ladies, with Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Liana Finck, and Amy Hwang, celebrating the history of women cartoonists at the New Yorker, moderated by Emma Allen, free

Rachel Cusk and Patricia Lockwood talk with Deborah Treisman

How to Accelerate Climate Action, with Katharine Hayhoe, Bill Ulfelder, and Allegra Kirkland, free

GREGG BORDOWITZ: I WANNA BE WELL / BENYAMIN ZEV’S SUCCOS SPECTACULAR!

Gregg Bordowitz, Pestsäule (after Erwin Thorn), mixed media, 2021 (photo by twi-ny/mdr)

GREGG BORDOWITZ: I WANNA BE WELL
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Ave., Queens
Virtual performance lectures September 17-19, free with advance RSVP
Exhibition continues Thursday – Monday through October 11, $5-$10 (free for NYC residents)
www.moma.org
www.greggbordowitz.com

At the heart of the MoMA PS1 exhibition “Gregg Bordowitz: I Wanna Be Well” are two disparate images. On your way into the building itself and in the gallery, you will see a large banner declaring, “The AIDS Crisis Is Still Beginning.” Meanwhile, at the top of Bordowitz’s 2021 mixed-media sculpture Pestsäule (after Erwin Thorn), inspired by a seventeenth-century plague monument in Vienna as well as the murder of George Floyd, the AIDS epidemic, and the Covid-19 pandemic, is a blank protest sign, raised up by a man in a medical mask surrounded by a maelstrom of bodies, a murderous cherub, and sandbags on the floor, like a warped scene from Les Miz. “Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?” Mildred (Peggy Maley) asks Johnny (Marlon Brando) in the 1954 film The Wild One. “Whadda you got?” Johnny replies.

Born in Brooklyn in 1964 and raised in Queens — home base for the Ramones, whose 1977 song “I Wanna Be Well” from the Rocket to Russia album gives the exhibit its name — Bordowitz, who has been living with HIV/AIDS for more than three decades, was an early member of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which was founded in 1987. He has been documenting his own life and the global AIDS crisis through film and video, poetry, sculpture, lectures, and poetry, much of which is on view at MoMA PS1 through October 11. His 2014 twenty-four-part poem Debris Fields lines the walls of the galleries, amid such works as self-portraits in mirror, Tom McKitterick’s black-and-white photographs of Bordowitz and others at AIDS protests in the late 1980s, the corner wall drawing and sculpture installation Kaisergruft (centered by the word Sympathy), and Drive, a repurposed vintage derby car stickered with Big Pharma logos.

The show also features several of Bordowitz’s films, including the 1993 autobiographical documentary Fast Trip, Long Drop, which deals with his contracting HIV, coming out to his parents, a friend getting breast cancer, and the tragic deaths of his grandparents; the 2001 documentary Habit, about the AIDS epidemic in South Africa; the five-minute The Fast That I Want video he made last year with Morgan Bassichis for his family’s virtual Yom Kippur; and the vastly entertaining Only Idiots Smile, a 2017 lecture commissioned for the New Museum presentation “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” and that, at only twenty-two minutes, is far too short as Bordowitz discusses his relationship with his father, Judaism, Eastern European men kissing on the lips, and homophobia.

You can see much more of Bordowitz this week when MoMA hosts several special events held in conjunction with “I Wanna Be Well.” On September 13 (and available on demand through September 27, for members only), “Modern Mondays: An Evening with Gregg Bordowitz and Jean Carlomusto” consists of a live discussion between the longtime friends, artists, collaborators, and activists, along with videos they made in the late 1980s for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City. From September 14 to 28, MoMA Film will stream Bordowitz’s 1996 reimagination of Nicolai Erdman’s 1932 long-banned play The Suicide, also for members only.

From September 17 to 19, Benyamin Zev’s Succos Spectacular! comprises a trio of livestreamed performances, free with advance RSVP, specifically taking place after Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), the ten Days of Awe (meditation and reflection), and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) and before Sukkot (the Harvest Festival and the Feast of Tabernacles). The three shows — “The Rock Star” on Friday at 7:00, “The Rabbi” on Saturday at 7:00, and “The Comedian” on Sunday at 4:00 — feature Bordowitz as his alter ego, Benyamin Zev (his Hebrew name), a Jewish entertainer, stand-up comic, and tummler, hanging out in a Sukkah, joined by special guests and the klezmer ensemble Isle of Klezbos. “Any laughter is purely accidental,” Bordowitz says on the MoMA website. “My performances disturb, upset, and resist the pressures to conform and align genders and ethnicities within a fascist phantasy of American nationalism.” And finally, on October 2 at 5:00, in person and online, Bordowitz will launch his new book from Triple Canopy, Some Styles of Masculinity, at the Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore, where he will speak with poet, professor, and cultural theorist Fred Moten.

A SNAIL’S TALE: A PERFORMANCE BY KRIS LEMSALU AND KYP MALONE ON THE HIGH LINE

Kris Lemsalu Malone and Kyp Malone Lemsalu will perform on the High Line this week (photo by Eric Martin)

Who: Kris Lemsalu, Kyp Malone, others
What: Live performance in seven parts
Where: The High Line, between Fourteenth & Thirtieth Sts.
When: September 13-15, free, 6:30
Why: For the 2017 Performa Biennial, Estonian multidisciplinary artist Kris Lemsalu and New York–based musician and artist Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio, Rain Machine) collaborated on Going, Going, which took place on a kinetic bed. In February 2020, they collaborated on the exhibition “Love Song Sing-Along” at KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The two are teaming up again for A Snail’s Tale, a seven-part site-specific performance installation that runs the length of the High Line, from Fourteenth St. to the Thirtieth St. Spur.

Admission is free and no advance RSVP is necessary; the audience will walk across the gorgeous park, making seven stops, each offering a chapter in the story, featuring musicians Lara Allen, Kate Farstad, Forrest Gillespie, Andi Maghenheimer, and Katy Pinke as well as Lemsalu and Malone, in celestial costumes designed by Malone, and joined by a mobile snail shell fabricated by Tarvo Porroson. “A Snail’s Tale is a never-before-heard fairy tale,” High Line Art associate curator Melanie Kress said in a statement. “Kris Lemsalu and Kyp Malone’s phantasmagorical performance is an invitation to slow down and connect to the natural world during this moment of global instability and transition.” Along the way, you will also encounter the current High Line exhibition “The Musical Brain,” consisting of pieces by Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero, Vivian Caccuri, Raúl de Nieves, Guillermo Galindo, David Horvitz, Mai-Thu Perret, Naama Tsabar, and Antonio Vega Macotela, in addition to commissions by Ibrahim Mahama, Hannah Levy, and Sam Durant.

IN REMEMBRANCE OF 9/11: TWENTY YEARS

Eiko Otake returns to Belvedere Plaza in Battery Park City for twentieth anniversary of 9/11 (photo by William Johnston)

EIKO OTAKE: SLOW TURN
Belvedere Plaza, Battery Park City
Saturday, September 11, free with advance RSVP, 7:00 am & 6:00 pm
lmcc.net
www.eikootake.org

In 2000, Eiko & Koma were artists in residence on the ninety-second floor of the World Trade Center, in the North Tower. In July 2002, they presented Offering: A Ritual of Mourning in six city parks, starting at the Belvedere in Battery Park City, just west of where the towers stood. The meditation on loss ultimately toured the world. On September 11, Eiko Otake, who has been performing solo for several years, returns to the Belvedere for Slow Turn, consisting of movement, a monologue of personal memories of 9/11, and music by clarinetist and composer David Krakauer. Presented in partnership with NYU Skirball, the Battery Park City Authority, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Slow Turn takes place at 7:00 am, as the sun reaches the plaza, and again at 6:00 pm, as the sun sets over the Hudson River. Admission is free with advance RSVP.

BUGLISI DANCE THEATER: TABLE OF SILENCE PROJECT 9/11
Josie Robertson Plaza, Lincoln Center
65th St. between Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
Friday, September 11, free, 8:00 am
www.tableofsilence.org
www.lincolncenter.org

Every September 11, there are many memorial programs held all over the city, paying tribute to those who were lost on that tragic day while also honoring New York’s endless resiliency. One of the most powerful is Buglisi Dance Theatre’s “Table of Silence Project,” a multicultural public performance ritual for peace, inaugurated in 2011, that annually features more than one hundred dancers on Josie Robertson Plaza at Lincoln Center. Because of the coronavirus crisis, it has been reimagined for the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as part of Lincoln Center’s “Restart Stages” programming. The event will begin with artistic director Jacqulyn Buglisi’s 2001 piece Requiem, her response to 9/11, with costume designer Elena Comendador transforming the original ten-foot-long red, gold, and green silk costumes into white and silver, representing ashes, purity, and sacredness.

Thirty-two dancers will gather around the Revson Fountain for Table of Silence Prologue, joined by bell master and principal dancer Terese Capucilli, electric violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, and spoken-word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph delivering “Awakening.” The performance will be livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube, and will also include the world premiere of Nel Shelby Productions’ short film Études II and the full 2019 performance of Table of Silence Project 9/11.

Tadej Brdnik will come out of retirement to honor the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 with Battery Dance (photo courtesy Battery Dance)

BATTERY DANCE MEMORIAL
Traffic island bordered by Varick and Franklin Sts. and West Broadway
Saturday, September 11, free, 8:46 am
facebook.com/BatteryDance

On September 11, 2001, shortly after the towers fell, Tadej Brdnik of Tribeca-based Battery Dance performed a solo on the traffic island bordered by Varick and Franklin Sts. and West Broadway, accompanied by four musicians. For the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, Brdnik will come out of retirement, joined on the same location by company members Sarah Housepian, Jill Linkowski, and Vivake Khamsingsavath, who will direct the piece, set to a composition by violinist Yu-Wei Hsiao. There will be no speeches, no fanfare, just a peaceful memorial of movement and music, occurring at the exact moment the first tower was hit on that fateful day. “We welcome passersby, neighbors, and anyone who may feel inspired to join us as a way of marking this tragic, life-changing occasion with the beauty and solemnity of this performance,” Battery Dance founding artistic director Jonathan Hollander said in a statement.

New York City AIDS Memorial Park will honor twentieth anniversary of 9/11 with special gathering

A VILLAGE GATHERING: HONORING AND REMEMBERING 9/11
New York City AIDS Memorial Park
76 Greenwich Ave.
Saturday, September 11, free with advance RSVP, 5:00
villagepreservation.force.com

Art2Action, Greenwich House Music School, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Village Preservation are joining forces on September 11 at 5:00 for a twentieth-anniversary remembrance at New York City AIDS Memorial Park, a safe space where people can participate in sharing stories, singing songs, and expressing themselves in other ways to honor those lost on 9/11 as well as celebrate the resiliency of the city.