Staff Picks No. 3
The Embrace: Miles Greenberg
Miles Greenberg's live performance installation features two people trapped in (or clinging to) an embrace for hours, showing each Saturday from 1–7 PM. This Greenpoint gallery screams of wealth (the square footage alone!), but also, if you can believe it, taste: Yoko Ono's arboreal exhibit is a sensory highlight, and Greenberg's and other works in this temporary exhibit highlight the need for and challenges of community in a bifurcated society. Enjoy; it's free admission!
Staffer: Billy McEntee
Garden Variety Performance Series: David Greenspan
David Greenspan. Garden. Odyssey. SOLD.
Staffer: Theresa Buchheister
Iranian Girlfriend: SB Tennent, Dave Tennant
The airport bar is a location of limbo where one is in such close proximity to other people, but good fucking lord is it isolating. What better setting for a "a performance, a report, a wet lecture"?
Staffer: Kanishk Pandey
PAGEANT Presents: WIP Volume 1
This is PAGEANT'S first ever, lottery chosen, open call, work in progress showing. I sense that these two nights are going to be like sharing an appetizer sampler platter on a date at Chili's, delighting in forbidden pleasures like bang bang shrimp and little quesadillas, which have no business being on the same plate but there they are anyway. Nothing feels like community more than sitting at the bar at Chili's—and this is going to be like that for dance.
Staffer: Lena Engelstein
Feralpy: Jemila MacEwan and Amelia Heintzelman
On an island that feels like a true oasis, Feralpy is an exploration of therapeutic activity born from creative practice. Workshops on doing nothing, watching sheep. Performances that are meditative and communal. I recommend bringing a picnic and taking the free ferries before noon.
Staffer: Travis Amiel
Dither plays Laurie Spiegel: Dither, Laurie Spiegel, Leila Bordreuil
In 1977, Bell Labs engineer and pioneering electronic music composer Lori Spiegel had her realization of Kepler's “Music of the Spheres” included on the Voyager satellite’s Golden Record. Traveling at 38,000mph, it is currently 14.86 billion miles from Earth. I figured I’d never hear her music performed live, but no, cosmic blessings upon us: NYC guitar quartet Dither is performing Spiegel’s brilliant groundbreaking 1979 LP “The Expanding Universe” in its entirety at the best sounding room in the city, Public Records. Extraterrestrials, robots, humans, anyone hungry for starlight: Come through!
Staffer: Joshua Dumas
Daphne Always: I Do, I Think: Daphne Always, James Sheppard
If you haven't seen Daphne Always perform, prepare to meet a magnet. A cabaret artist, song reinterpreter, and good ol' Jersey Italian gal, her shows are always intimately delight and chaotically good. Here, she defies traditional conventions (as always) and, at the monumental age of 30, decides to marry...herself. I do, I do, I do!
Staffer: Billy McEntee
Rotten Rotten Rotten!: Adrienne Truscott, David Ilku
The show description self-proclaims to showcase the worst-best things you've never seen. But if Adrienne Truscott is on it, I bet it's actually the best-best things you need to see that are simply thematically dirty and rotten. I will go to see anything Adrienne does and my recommendation is you do too.
Staffer: Lena Engelstein
MALVOLIO @ The Classical Theatre of Harlem: Written by Betty Shamieh, Directed by Ian Belknap and Ty Jones, and Choreographed by Dell Howlett
It’s Black AF. It’s a Shakespearean sequel. It’s a free, Black AF Shakespearean sequel… in a park… in Harlem… and there’s a lineup of dope community vendors and partners before select performances? Say less.
Staffer: Marissa Joyce Stamps