Two fun YouTube finds.
Dan Deacon! I own a CD of his music. Local television in Savannah/Hilton Head is pretty hip if this is the kind of thing they present!
Deee-Lite
It’s not as mortifying as I feared, although the bags under my eyes are pretty impressive. He did leave out my favorite part. When I said, “Collectors: don’t let anyone else tell you what to buy,” a cheer rose from the crowd.
Apparently, Jack Shainman isn’t the only art dealer involved in real estate these days. Check out the website for The Machinery Exchange, which lists Max Protetch as one of the developers.
The Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet performing “Arab Line.” (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
Cedar Lake Dance, the well-funded dance company on 26th Street in the former Annie Leibovitz studios, hasn’t always received stellar reviews for its choreographic choices. While I hope they find some younger, underknown choreographers to work with, I have to say I am thrilled with what happened when they brought Ohad Naharin in for a residency with the company’s dancers. If you didn’t know it, you would think these dances had been working with him for years. It was one of my favorite evenings of dance in some time, and the music ranging from Arvo Pärt to Vivaldi to John Zorn is great fun too.
It runs through July 1. If you go, do NOT spend intermission away from the stage. The night we attended, Jon Bond performed a sexy and funny solo during that time. Go here to buy tickets.
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I wrote about this excellent short work when we saw it in March. Now there is another chance to see it. It will be the best five bucks you spend this summer!
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The Hellenic Laboratory, a collection of works of Greek drama, poetry, and philosophy, continues for one-night only!
Monday, June 25th @ 7:30pm, Tickets only $5
The Kitchen 512 West 19th St (btw 10/11 Ave)
To reserve tickets call 212-255-5793 x11
(more) MEZE, an evening of five short pieces to whet your appetite
I’ve uploaded a flickr set from Jacques’s opening on Friday. The show is titled “Wood Folks is Good Folks,” and here is a video of part of the performance in which Jacques is helping transform people into the highest plane of being — wood people. That’s Jacques in the “house hat.”
