Cullberg / Faye Driscoll: flesh chariot, chariot of flesh
Fifteen dancers merge into one shifting, breathing mass in Faye Driscoll's largest work yet, made with the Cullberg company. Raw and unstable, at a scale she has never worked at before.
Everything in Greenwich Village
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WORLDWIDE SEAGULL & THE OCEAN BAND
Anna Abondolo leads a six-piece band on voice, guitar and electric bass, with two players on water foley and voice, plus an EWI and a horror noise generator. A strange, handmade sound.
flesh chariot, chariot of flesh
Fifteen bodies collide, merge and come apart as one restless, breathing organism. It's Faye Driscoll's largest work yet, made with the Cullberg company, and it's a premiere.
Milo Rau: Medea's Children
Children narrate and reenact a real criminal case woven with the Medea myth, a tragedy handed to the young to witness. Violent and mature, yet unexpectedly tender.
Angélica Liddell: Seppuku
A rare appearance by Spanish artist Angélica Liddell, who takes on Yukio Mishima in a ritual-rooted piece made with Japanese collaborators, closer to an ordeal than a performance.
Resonation Trio
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein kicks off his residency in a bare trio with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Tom Rainey, the leanest lineup of his run, with no other horns or guitar.
Julia Wolfe & Bang on a Can All-Stars: Anthracite Fields
Bang on a Can All-Stars and Trinity Choir join Julia Wolfe for Anthracite Fields, an ensemble and a choir sharing one stage in a live performance at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong
An exhibition of photographs by Ocean Vuong, open to the public. A quiet chance to take in his pictures up close, hung on the wall rather than seen on a screen.
Romeo Castellucci: Bros
Men pulled off the street, none of them actors, wear police uniforms and obey orders fed through hidden earpieces. The result is a slapstick, unsettling farce about obedience.
Minor Theater: Pity Whore
Julia Jarcho runs the Jacobean shocker 'Tis Pity She's a Whore into the present, with a waitress, her sad brother at college, and humor from somewhere unhinged.
UltraResonance
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein, on trumpets and EVI, fronts a quartet with drummer Billy Martin, bassist Scott Colley and Scotty Hard on "other music." One of four nights, each with a different band.
Nu Diaspora Blues
Trumpeter Steven Bernstein leads a quartet with Marcus Rojas on tuba, Billy Martin on drums and percussion, and Brandon Ross on guitar. It's one night of four, each with a different band.
Bioethics Colloquium: On Chaos, What we Ought to Do, and What we Ought to Regret
MIT philosophy professor Caspar Hare draws on his new book, Living in a Strange World, to explore a striking idea about how almost every action ever taken reaches future generations.
Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life
A chamber opera that starts as a pizza party, then a dying guest vanishes and opens a door to ghosts with unfinished business. Small in scale, intimate, irreverent, and aching.
Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches
A book talk with editors Angelique Nixon, Carole Boyce Davies, and Christen Smith on their collection gathering historical and contemporary Black feminist thinkers across transnational contexts.
THE JINGLE MUSICAL
The closing night of bassist Anna Abondolo's residency, after solo bass, a trio, and an ocean band with water foley. This finale is a musical with extra special guests.
Julia Danielle Quintet
A vocalist who also arranges and composes, and a winner of the International Ella Fitzgerald Jazz Vocal Competition. Her debut album was praised for a folksy wisp and a bohemian glide.
Discussion with Director of Hungarian documentary on press freedom, "80 Angry Journalists"
Director András Földes, a journalist turned filmmaker, discusses his documentary following Vera Munk, editor-in-chief of 444, and the pressure on independent reporters.
hvlt
An electric ensemble that runs modern hip-hop, pop, R&B, and folk through the improvisational language of jazz, mixing reimagined songs with originals that blur genre lines.
Pasquale Grasso Trio
Pat Metheny singled out this jazz guitarist as doing something both deeply musical and very difficult. Here he leads a trio, with two sets to choose from.
