Staff Picks No. 85
Why Am I Here? : Aneesa Folds
Asylum
Monday, March 3rd 2025
Humor, hiphop, heart: this lite-musical is both a celebration and nightmar-ification of creating a life as an artist, blending Aneesa's lived experience with the prayers and dreams and doubts that have sustained her. One night only!
Staffer: Billy McEntee
NEXT SESSION : Lucyana Randall
Here Cafe BK
Wednesday, February 26th 2025
It may not be legally defined as psychotherapy, but I think this show could help you sort some shit out. Or not. I would put money on you having a good time, though.
Staffer: Theresa Buchheister
Floating Points Live: Floating Points, Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick, Arushi Jain
Knockdown Center
Friday, February 21st 2025
I cannot overstate the potency of seeing *live* experimental ambient music. It’s a matter of scale. Dense tones through huge speakers, sound resonant through your body, deep waves enveloping. And this lineup is so stacked! Arushi Jain makes surprising soundscapes informed by the Indian classical music tradition. Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick drift in gorgeous sweetness and sadness. Floating Points careening between calm and tension. This will be an incredible night. Tix still available for the early show. Come through!
Staffer: Joshua Dumas
Georgia and the Butch : Carolyn Gage, Andrew Coopman
The Tank
February 25th-March 12th 2025
Letters between artist Georgia O'Keefe and Native American advocate Maria Chabot come to life in this new play at The Tank. Queer attraction, art making, and how another soul becomes a mirror for self-discovery are all on display in this play tracing the women's nine-year intimate relationship. Carolyn Gage adapts the letters in Andrew Coopman's production!
Staffer: Billy McEntee
Katy Pinke Album Release Show (and mooooore!) : Katy Pinke, Jana Horn, Black Lazarus
Sultan Room
Tuesday, February 25th 2025
Go for a deep dive into Katy's album and the worlds that swirl in it. There will be puppets and orchestration and levels of exploration that bend and fold all around you. The album was inspired by 3 texts - 1) The Archetype of Initiation by Robert Moore 2) Antero Alli's 'All Rites Reversed' and 3) Jodorowsky's Psychomagic... I mean, what more could you want?
Staffer: Theresa Buchheister
Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study : Annie-B Parson, with Tommy DeFrantz, mayfield brooks, maura nguyễn donohue, Keith Hennessy, Bebe Miller, Okwui Okpokwasili, Eiko Otake, Javier Steel-Frésquez, Ogemdi Ude, Mariana Valencia, and Andros Zins-Browne
BAM
Thursday, February 20th 2025
In case you missed their book launch at The Chocolate Factory, Dance History(s) is back for a Book Reading: Book Dance this week. As someone who is tired of reading books about dance by non-dancers, I'm relieved to see that this incredible cohort of choreographers and authors has banded together to consider what dance history can and should be.
Please note that this event is free on a first-come, first-served basis, so get there early!
Staffer: Noa Rui-Piin Weiss