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THE FALL AFFORDABLE ART FAIR NEW YORK CITY

7W New York
7 West 34th St.
September 30 – October 3, $15-$20 per day
www.aafnyc.com

The Affordable Art Fair has been a mainstay of the spring season, but it is now holding its first-ever New York City fall fair. From September 30 through October 3, more than seventy-five exhibitors will be selling contemporary art, including paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture, with prices ranging from $100 to $10,000. The fair will also feature such workshops as “How to Live with Art” and “Get Your Art On: Navigating the Landscape of Collecting” and daily open studios. And as a bonus, admission is free Friday night from 6:00 to 8:00. It doesn’t get much more affordable than that.

NEW YORK 19th CENTURY PUB CRAWL

Meet at Bridge Cafe
279 Water St.
Saturday, October 2, 4:00
Pay as you go, including $10 cocktail specials
www.19thcpubcrawl.com

There’s room for only fifty people at the New York 19th Century Pub Crawl, which begins Saturday at 4:00 at the Bridge Cafe, a onetime brothel that is the oldest continuous drinking establishment in the city and where pub crawlers will start off with an Old Fashioned, ten-year-old Glen Grant, and specially prepared hors d’oeuvres. The drinking tour will continue with a history talk at Swift Hibernian Lounge with Bowmore 12 Year Old, the original Cock-Tail, and mini-sausages, followed by Glenrothes 1998 at Rye House and stops at the venerable institutions the Old Town and Pete’s Tavern. Advance RSVP and nineteenth-century dress are strongly suggested for this unique evening of old-fashioned fun, where pub crawlers will learn plenty about scotch as well as Jonathan Swift, O. Henry, and East Village history.

SEVEN WORKS BY TRISHA BROWN

Stephen Petronio walks down the outside of the Whitney as part of Trisha Brown “Off the Wall” show at the Whitney (photo by twi-ny/mdr)



OFF THE WALL: PART 2
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
September 30 – October 3, free with museum admission of $12-$18
212-570-3600
www.whitney.org
Stephen Petronio: “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building” slideshow

The Trisha Brown Dance Company continues its fortieth anniversary celebration with four days of live performance art at the Whitney, re-creating seminal works inside a second-floor gallery, in the museum’s outdoor sculpture court, and down the side of the building. The exciting weekend begins Thursday afternoon at 3:30 with “Falling Duet I,” “Leaning Duets I,” “Walking on the Wall,” and “Spanish Dance” in the Mildred & Herbert Lee Galleries, along with films and the sound installation “Skymap,” and will be repeated on October 1 at 3:30 & 7:00 and October 2-3 at 12 noon and 3:30. “Floor of the Forest” will be staged by members of the 2010-11 Second Avenue Dance Company at 4:30 in the sculpture court on Thursday and repeated numerous times through Sunday. Yesterday people marveled as a woman made her way down the outside facade of the Whitney, but that was no mere daredevil; it was choreographer Elizabeth Streb rehearsing Brown’s “Man Walking Down the Side of a Building,” which will be performed by Stephen Petronio Thursday at 5:00 and Saturday at 1:30 and 5:00 and by Streb Friday at 5:00 and Sunday at 1:30 and 5:00.

VICTOIRE

Victoire will celebrate release of their debut CD at Joe’s Pub on October 2

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St. between East Fourth St. & Astor Pl.
Saturday, October 2, $14, 7:30
212-967-7555
www.myspace.com/victoiremusic
www.joespub.com

Atmosphere is everything when it comes to Victoire, and what an atmosphere they create. Led by Brooklyn-based keyboardist and composer Missy Mazzoli, Victoire is a five-piece all-woman avant-garde chamber ensemble that tests the limit of classical music by incorporating elements from a myriad of genres, along with haunting vocal samples and pure noise. Mazzoli, violinist Olivia de Prato, clarinetist Eileen Mack, keyboardist Lorna Krier, and double bassist Eleonore Oppenheim have followed up their 2009 EP, A DOOR INTO THE DARK, with their debut full-length, CATHEDRAL CITY (New Amsterdam, September 2010), a stunning collection of eight forays into the unknown. Throwing in a hint of jazzy percussion in the title track, some German Expressionism with Irish tinges in “A Song for Mick Kelly” (featuring the National’s Bryce Dessner on guitar and soprano Mellissa Hughes on vocals paying tribute to the American peace activist) and more than a touch of Coldplay-esque piano in “A Door into the Dark,” Victoire glides along on a cloud of mystery. Things turn rather melancholy on “I am coming for my things,” while “India Whiskey” ends the record in an exciting blur of experimentalism. CATHEDRAL CITY is like a journey through the dark, daring world of the Brothers Quay. Victoire will be celebrating the release of the new record with a launch party at Joe’s Pub on October 2, promising that there will be “special secret guests.” The band will also be playing at the Brooklyn gallery Smack Mellon on November 4 at 7:00. (In addition, “Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Snider: A Night of Chamber Music” will take place October 5 at Galapagos in Brooklyn, featuring the New York premiere of Mazzoli’s “Death Valley Junction,” performed by the MIVOS Quartet.)

VOLLMOND (FULL MOON)

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch returns to BAM without their fearless leader (photo by Jan Szito)

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
September 29 – October 9, $25 – $85
718-636-4100
www.bam.org
www.pina-bausch.de

Back in 1984, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch performed at BAM for the first time, presenting DAS FRÜHLINGSOPFER and LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS, and over the years the insanely entertaining German troupe has returned with such memorable evening-length pieces as DANZÓN, MASURCA FOGO, NEFÉS, and last year’s BAMBOO BLUES. And for Bausch, evening-length really means evening-length, as many of her productions run between two and a half and three hours, and they rarely if ever lag. Instead they’re filled with offbeat humor, playful dialogue, unusual props, wild stage designs, and, of course, creative movement. Bausch died in June 2009 at the age of sixty-eight, so this will mark Tanztheater Wuppertal’s first BAM appearance without their endlessly innovative and always elegant director and choreographer. VOLLMOND (FULL MOON) will run at the Howard Gilman Opera House from September 29 through October 9, but tickets are already scarce, so act quickly, whether you’re a fan of contemporary dance or not, because you’ll find lots to love regardless. Bausch’s twelfth show at BAM features set design by Peter Pabst, costumes by Marion Cito, and musical collaboration by Matthias Burkert and Andreas Eisenschneider, with an eclectic score that includes songs by Magyar Posse, Cat Power, Amon Tobin, René Aubry, Alexander Balanescu, Tom Waits, Siegfried Ganhör and to rococo rot, Jun Miyake and Sublime, and others. There will also be a lot of water.

BELLE & SEBASTIAN

Belle & Sebastian will headline an outdoor show along the Williamsburg Waterfront on September 30

Williamsburg Waterfront
North Eighth St. & Kent Ave. at the East River
Thursday, September 30, $37.50, 5:30
www.myspace.com/thebandbelleandsebastian
www.openspacealliancenb.org

Belle and Sebastian, those kings of twee pop led by Stuart Murdoch and Stevie Jackson, are attempting to return to relevancy with a new album, BELLE & SEBASTIAN WRITE ABOUT LOVE (Matador, October 12), and a slew of tour dates, including a show September 30 at the Williamsburg Waterfront. The band’s recent setlists have leaned heavily on tracks from their 1996 breakout masterpiece, IF YOU’RE FEELING SINISTER, which features such songs as “Like Dylan in the Movies,” “The Stars of Track and Field,” and “Me and the Major,” along with their 2003 self-proclaimed comeback album, DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS, which was produced by former Buggles and Yes singer Trevor Horn. On the new disc, their first album since 2006’s THE LIFE PURSUIT, they make such pronouncements as “I Want the World to Stop,” “I Didn’t See It Coming,” “I Can See Your Future,” and “I’m Not Living in the Real World,” with special appearances by Norah Jones and Carey Mulligan. (Is that a return to relevancy? We’ll have to be convinced.) For the Brooklyn show, they’ll be joined by fellow Glaswegians Teenage Fanclub, who are touring behind their first record in five years.

TWI-NY TICKET GIVEAWAY: VAMPS

Hot Japanese band Vamps are coming to New York City, and twi-ny has a pair of free tickets to give away

Roseland Ballroom
239 West 52nd St. between Broadway & Eighth Ave.
Saturday, October 9, $35 ($47.20 including all fees), 8:00
212-777-6800
www.roselandballroom.com
www.myspace.com/vampsofficial

Singer and guitarist Hyde of l’Arc~en~Ciel and guitarist K.A.Z. of Oblivion Dust had been collaborating for several years, but when they finally decided to get together and form their own band, the goth-metal outfit Vamps, it sent shockwaves through the Japanese music industry. Huge pop stars in their home country, Vamps will be making a brief U.S. tour in October, playing shows in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, highlighting their latest record, BEAST (Avex Trax, July 2010), which features such heavy tunage as “Devil Side,” “Angel Trip,” “Euphoria,” ”Revolution,” and “Rumble.” Strongly influenced by such 1980s American groups as Mötley Crüe and Cheap Trick, they’ll also dip into their 2009 eponymously tilted debut record, which includes such metal madness as “Love Addict” (“Hey! Keep on rolling baby I want to explode / Oh yes, need you darling with the growling exhaust note”), “Vampire Depression,” “Redrum,” and the instant classic “Sex Blood Rock n’ Roll.”

Vamps will be at Roseland on October 9, with tickets going for $47.20 apiece (including all fees), but twi-ny has one pair to give away for free, courtesy of our good friends at New York-Tokyo. To enter, send your name and daytime phone number to contest@twi-ny.com no later than Sunday, October 3, at 12 noon. All entrants must be at least twenty-one years of age, and employees of Roseland, New York-Tokyo, and This Week in New York are not eligible. One winner will be selected at random. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see one of Japan’s hottest exports!