Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials
Fields Medalist Terence Tao talks with Janna Levin about his first popular book, tracing its six pillars, from algebra as abstraction to the mathematics of change, as a creative way of thinking.
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The Music of Siena: Graindelavoix
Björn Schmelzer leads Graindelavoix in a visceral, ornament-rich take on early music, hearing Siena's golden age through the Franco-Flemish polyphonists who sang in its cathedral.
Joris Lacoste: Nexus de l'adoration
Nine officiants sing, chant, testify, and dance through devotional phrases from many faiths, part concert and part ceremony. Hypnotic, funny, and genuinely strange.
CONDOLENCE Or A Rug & An Elf
Ain Gordon and Josh Quillen mourn family absences in a world premiere of little songs and tales, from a thrift shop rug to a garden elf, with bracing candor and silly detail.
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.
boiling rain
A gathering built around a medical mannequin named Jeanie, made by a choreographer who has worked as a frontline nurse for ten years. It honors health care workers and closes a grief trilogy.
HANDEL + HENDRIX With Dither, R.B. Schlather, and Ruckus
Electric guitar quartet Dither open with new commissions channeling Hendrix's experimental language, then director R.B. Schlather and Ruckus shrink Handel's final opera, Deidamia, to chamber scale.
Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls, with imagery by Annie-B Parson. Strange, funny and tender.
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.
inti figgis-vizueta’s Music for Transitions with Andrew Yee and Rothko String Quartet
Composer inti figgis-vizueta brings her debut album to life with cellist Andrew Yee and the Rothko String Quartet, in playful, ecstatic improvisation on land, wind, and rivers.
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.
Trouble x Diamond Terrifier: Emanate / Crenellate with Antenes, Luke Stewart, Patrick Higgins, Dome Theater, and DJ sets by R. Gamble & Heidi Sabertooth
A multi-channel video installation made for site-specific performance, with sets from Antenes, Luke Stewart, Patrick Higgins and Dome Theater, plus DJ sets by R. Gamble and Heidi Sabertooth.
Vampyr + Live Score
Vampyr screened with a live score, so the music is played in the room as the film unfolds. It's part of the cinema's Kaboom lineup.
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.
Disco Bambino Presents: An Italian Disco Revolution
Giuseppe Savoni, aka Disco Bambino, opens with a conversation on Italian disco, then plays a set from his own archives of forgotten gems from the '70s and '80s, made for dancing.
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.
Segue Reading Series: Joon Oluchi Lee & imogen smith
A poetry and prose reading pairing Joon Oluchi Lee and imogen smith, part of the long-running Segue series, a curated program with a distinct literary point of view.
Big Crown Records 10 Year Anniversary ft El Michels Affair + special guests
Big Crown, an independent NYC soul label, celebrates a decade by putting its own roster on one bill: El Michels Affair, Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek, Thee Marloes and Brainstory.
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.
Switch n’ Play Presents: Slash n’ Spray
Slick, irreverent drag and burlesque from one of the longest-running queer performance collectives, with core members like Divina GranSparkle and Vigor Mortis plus rotating special guests.
