Rabih Mroué & Lina Majdalanie: Four Walls and a Roof
Mroué and Majdalanie turn Bertolt Brecht's run-in with the House Un-American Activities Committee into theater: bleakly funny, and pointed about how an artist talks his way out of a room.
Everything in Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village — change
ABERIKULA
Harris Eisenstadt plays batá drums with pianist Angelica Sanchez and bassoonist Sara Schoenbeck, an unusual trio, in a residency where every night brings a different lineup.
Tom at the Farm
Rodrigo Portella stages Michel Marc Bouchard's play on a ring of open earth, as a grieving man is pulled into a family that won't let him leave or be known. Threats slide into tenderness.
DUO
Harris Eisenstadt plays drum set and batá drums opposite pianist Aruán Ortiz. It's one of several piano duos in his residency, and the only one with Ortiz.
Exhibition Walkthrough of "by Alison Knowles" at the Grey Art Museum
A guided walk through the Alison Knowles exhibition, a chance to take in the work at a slower, more informed pace. Space is limited, so registration is required.
Manual Cinema: The 4th Witch
Watch a film get made live: overhead projectors, paper puppets and tiny sets build the screen image, with a live score. The story begins where Shakespeare's play ends.
ATL Noise and Rhythms
Opens trumpeter Alexandria Smith's curated run with an experimental quartet: Klimchak on percussion, Iriamu on prepared bass, Nathan Chamberlain on guitar, and Smith on trumpet and electronics.
An Evening with Anne Fadiman: Looking back on The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down after three decades
Anne Fadiman sits down with Perri Klass to trace how her book on Lia Lee, a Hmong child with epilepsy, came together and why its lessons on cross-cultural care still hold.
TWO DUOS
Trumpeter Alexandria Smith pairs up with bassist Kathryn Schulmeister, violist Jessica Pavone and bassoonist Katie Young, with electronics woven through. One night of her residency.
Polio Vaccines: Wanted Dead or Alive
A conversation with David Oshinsky, Frances Bernstein, Perri Klass, and Trace Jordan on the two kinds of polio vaccine developed in the 1950s, one made with killed virus.
NOLA x NY
A quintet of improvisers from New Orleans and New York, with Billy Martin on drums, Jeff Albert on trombone and Byron Asher on woodwinds, joined by trumpeter Alexandria Smith, who curated the week.
BRASS
Closing night of trumpeter Alexandria Smith's residency, a one-time septet of trombones, saxes and trumpets plus percussion and electronics, with Jeff Albert, Byron Asher and Dave Taylor.
TRIO
Anna Abondolo plays fretless electric bass with Hans Young Binter on keyboard and Orchid Mcrae on percussion, one of several very different formats in her residency.
Jason Marshall Quartet
A quartet led by a musician, educator, and self-described thought leader who frames his playing as community wellness work, gathering ancestral history into sound. Two sets, with seating throughout.
The Mingus Dynasty
Sue Mingus formed this band after Charles Mingus died, working with his own sidemen to play his music. He saw himself as a composer first and left over 300 pieces.
The Max Light Quartet
Guitarist Max Light's album Chaotic Neutral drew an Editor's Pick from Downbeat, which called it a master class in cutting paths through tricky meters.
HOW TO PLAY BASS
Anna Abondolo plays solo double bass, just the instrument and one player, opening her four-night residency in a small, artist-curated room for experimental music.
Sexmob Kurt Weill Halloween
Sexmob takes on Kurt Weill in a one-night program that closes Steven Bernstein's residency, with Bernstein on slide trumpet, Briggan Krauss on sax, Tony Scherr on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums.
Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height
Ushio Amagatsu's farewell work: seven dancers, bodies chalked white, beneath one monolithic form, a raised arm taking a full minute to fall. Butoh at its most austere.
Dead Centre: Deaf Republic
After a soldier shoots a deaf boy, a whole town turns deaf in defiance. A deaf and hearing ensemble tells it with sign language, puppetry and live cinema, from Ilya Kaminsky's poetic narrative.
