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.
Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills
Queens
Category, free
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.
This Is Unreal
Liz Santoro recounts her life onstage, but some memories are AI-generated and some movements come from an algorithm trained on her dancing. It asks where the body ends and the machine begins.
Noguchi Museum × Ikenobo: 40 Years in New York — A Living Tradition of Flowers and Space
The Ikenobo Ikebana Society's New York chapter marks four decades with an exhibition in the museum's Education Studio, treating flowers as sculpture shaped by time, place, and close looking.
Nature Is My Co-Curator
Guest curator Stephanie Acosta frames nature as sci-fi, not a crunchy walk. Video projection by Dakota Gearhart, live sound from Kerosene Jones and Julia Santoli, and a listening session with visuals.
Incubations
Andrea Kleine shares three works-in-progress: a book, a performance, and a microbudget feature, all circling nature, personal horrors, and the weirdness of performing. Music by Bobby Previte.
Saturday Salons
AUNTS The hAUNTing
An artist-run performance platform stages its first haunted house, a Halloween experiment from a collective that treats art as something that can happen anywhere, from basements to dance floors.
Next Dance
A 50-minute work from choreographer Neil Greenberg, built from the performers' own recorded improvisations and set to music Zeena Parkins and James Lo composed together. Greenberg dances in it too.
Mindfulness in the Galleries: Ikebana
Mindful ikebana teacher Anjie Cho leads a special edition among Isamu Noguchi's sculptures, treating Japanese flower arranging as a practice of presence alongside the art.
