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septiembre 2019
¡hola, difus@s!
the last two months of summer passed by much too quickly, and amid some travel, a workshop, and a new job, i caught far, far less than i’d hoped (hence the absence of commentary in this issue). i do, however, really regret missing “i don’t care if we go down in history as barbarians” and ardently hope it will be online soon…
this fall is shaping up to be an excellent season, and september gets us off to a particularly auspicious start:
dance: anne teresa de keersmaeker’s fase comes to new york live arts at the end of this month, and everyone should see it. i saw it for the first time five years ago and was absolutely awestruck, so i’ll see it at least twice during this run. jerome bel’s (another personal favorite) isadora duncan premieres in the crossing the line festival, which also features germaine acogny & mikaël serre and a number of other performances (highlighted below) that make it one of this season’s most important events. other dance performances worth looking into are the dance now festival at joe’s pub, the balanchine + wheeldon program at new york city ballet, liz gerring at the barynshikov arts center, and siti company & streb extreme action (who take on the dubious task of adapting charles mee’s work) at montclair state. (note: if you're thinking about catching next month's fall for dance festival at city center, you'll want to get tickets as soon as they go on sale this month, 11am on the 8th.)
performance / theater: the crossing the line festival brings three shows that i’m quite eager to see: 600 highwaymen’s manmade earth (which continues exploring the themes of the fever), fanny de chaillé’s the disorder of discourse (#foucaultfanboy, if you’ve found his work off-putting, i honestly recommend this guide for giving it as second—or even first—chance), and peter brook & marie-hélène estienne’s why? (in the hands of almost any other director, this kind of inquiry would be insufferably portentous, but these two can make it transcendent). two other shows that are equally high on my list are novenas for a lost hospital at rattlestick and antigone at the park avenue armory. sarah jones' sell / buy / date is back at new york live arts (see it! i’ve seen it twice and may well see it again), and bushwig makes its annual appearance at the knockdown center. also piquing my interest are as much as i can at joe’s pub, make believe at second stage, sincerity forever at the flea, heroes of the fourth turning at playwrights horizons, and magic agency chapter 4: bro-tox at la mama.
film: bam’s series “on memory” closes at the start of the month, and the new york film festival opens at the end of the month. though i’ve long found the latter terminally frustrating for its poor logistics and unadventurous programming (issues still unresolved in this edition), the two galician films in this year’s line-up, fire will come and endless night, will have me giving the festival another chance. other series i have my eye on are “sci-fi visionary: piotr szulkin” and “two free women: lily tomlin & jane wagner” at lincoln center and “show & tell: takashi makino” and “lutz dammbeck” at anthology film archives. other films that are high on my to-see list include where’s my roy cohn?, the golden glove, monos, and américa .
music: death of classical’s september offerings both look terrific: “the instant and the eternal” opens the crypt sessions series, and “listz: poetic and religious harmonies” kicks off the angel’s share season. the annual resonant bodies festival, a thrilling showcase of new music and musicians, comes to roulette, du yun spends a week at the stone, national sawdust presents an evening of women composers, porgy & bess opens at the met, and the hunger plays at the kaufmann music center with the support of the irish arts center.
art: i’ve got a long, long to-see list left over from this summer, so i’m loathe to add much to it. a few things that i am adding, though, are “the life and times of alvin bastrop” at the bronx museum, josiah mcelheny’s "observations at night" at james cohan gallery (for which blank formshas curated a terrific series of performances), pope.l’s conquest in downtown manhattan, micheal wang’s extinct in new york on governor’s island, the group show "sex crimes" at clampart, and sam gilliam at dia:beacon.
below is the full (and, as always, very idiosyncratic) list of noteworthy events, and you can share this with anyone you’d like by signing them up here.
abrazos,
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septiembre / september
1-5: on memory (film)
1-8: worse than tigers (theater)
1-15: make believe (theater)
1-29: dust (theater)
1-: american moor (theater)
1-: mac wellman: perfect catastrophes (theater)
1-: sincerity forever (theater)
1-: wives (theater)
2-7: as of it (dance)
3: jonas mekas tribute screenings part 2: program 6 (film)
3-5: resonant bodies festival (music)
3-7: du yun (music)
4: knife cuts both ways (theater)
4: notes on an american film director at work: martin scorsese (film)
4: revenge (theater)
4: the spirit of the earth – philip glass and the spiritual voice of the wixarika music (music)
4-6: bridgett everett & the tender moments (music)
4-7: dance now 2019 (dance)
4-17: ága (film)
4-21: see you (theater)
4-: blue velvet (film)
4-: runboyrun and in old age (theater)
5: j d emmanuel / james ferraro / eve essex (performance)
5: polyester (film)
5: the endless day (film)
5: the spirit of the earth – philip glass and the spiritual voice of the wixarika music (music)
5-7: treasure by machine dazzle (performance)
5-15: vito acconci (art, film)
5-21: junk (theater)
5-: novenas for a lost hospital (theater)
6: ensemble connect (music)
6-8: joanne akalaitis: bad news! i was there… (theater)
6-8: sci-fi visionary: piotr szulkin (film)
6-12: jinn (film)
6-19: mr. klein (film)
6-: aise hell: the life and times of molly ivins (film)
6-: linda ronstadt: the sound of my voice (film)
6-: say amen, somebody (film)
6-: super size me 2: holy chicken (film)
7: black rock coalition: history of our future (music)
7: ensemble connect (music)
7: jessika kenney (music)
7-8: bushwig (performance)
8-17: paulin soumanou vieyra (film)
10: stephen gosling (music)
10-11: bridgett everett & the tender moments (music)
10-11: josh lawrence & fresh cut orchestra present "philly twisted" (music)
11: 12th annual circle wind concert (music)
11: hamid al-saadi with amir elsaffar (music)
11: the forgotten (performance)
11-12: close encounters of the third kind in concert (film, music)
11-13: show & tell: takashi makino (film)
11-: chained for life (film)
11-: our dear dead drug lord (theater)
12: rajna swaminathan: rajas (music)
12: stylepointe (dance)
12-14: the south african songbook (music)
12-14: thick blood, thick water (theater)
12-15: sell / buy / date (theater)
12-16: as much as i can (performance)
12-16: two free women: lily tomlin & jane wagner (film)
12-: crossing the line festival (art, dance, performance, theater)
13: holes in the sky (music)
13-14: psycho in concert (film, music)
13-14: the kathryn posin dance company: evolution, triple sextet and memoir (dance)
13-14: the moles (performance)
13-14: ying liu: pigtail - a swivel stool dance™ (dance)
13-20: purpose and passion: the cinema of john singleton (film)
13-21: magic agency chapter 4: bro-tox (theater)
13-27: américa (film)
13-: cracked up (film)
13-: depraved (film)
13-: heroes of the fourth turning (theater)
13-: monos (film)
13-: ms. purple (film)
13-: tattoo uprising (film)
13-: the sound of silence (film)
14: sun ra arkestra (music)
16-24: lutz dammbeck (film)
17: email pro (performance)
17: fast forward (dance)
17-22: rubberband (dance)
18: balanchine + wheeldon (dance)
18: flutter echo: living within sound - david toop & tania caroline chen (music)
18: susan alcorn (music)
18: the instant and the eternal (music)
18-19: salty brine’s living record collection: bigmouth strikes again (performance)
18-21: sell / buy / date (theater)
18-: midnight traveler (film)
18-: the wrong man (theater)
19: jonas mekas tribute screenings part 2: program 8 (film)
19: kim so ra (music)
19: the hunger (music)
19-21: thick blood, thick water (theater)
19-29: this is why we live (theater)
20: tomas fujiwara’s 7 poets trio ensemble: album release (music)
20-22: animation block party (film)
20-22: white noise (theater)
20-26: adrienne truscott's (still) asking for it (a stand-up rape about comedy starring her pussy and little else) (performance)
20-26: nashville (film)
20-27: the cinema of gender transgression: trans film (film)
20-: diego maradona (film)
20-: loro (film)
20-: where's my roy cohn (film)
21: lindsay packer: call and response: transposition with anaïs maviel (performance)
21: louise landes levi (performance)
21-: why? (theater)
22: balanchine + wheeldon (dance)
22: purbayan chatterjee & ojas adhiya (music)
22: the fabulous tangos of piazzolla (music)
23: porgy and bess (music)
24: balanchine + wheeldon (dance)
24: scenes from the life of raimund abraham (film)
24-27: liszt: poetic and religious harmonies (music)
24-28: fase (dance)
24-29: jazztopad festival (music)
24-29: siti company & streb extreme action (dance, performance)
24-: the jazz singer (performance)
25: (re)source (performance)
25: anthony braxton (music)
25: makoto kawashima (music)
25: wendy eisenberg (music)
25-: antigone (theater)
26: dance now 2019 (dance)
26-27: la negra: a theatrical installation / an event to honor your dead (work-in-progress) (theater)
26-27: show & tell: ian helliwell (film)
26-28: playdate (theater)
27-22: en el ojo de la aguja (theater)
27: a night of women composers: from clara schumann to meredith monk (music)
27: liz gerring (dance)
27: porgy and bess (music)
27-28: (re)source (performance)
27-28: the golden glove (film)
27-28: wild bore (theater)
27-: first love (film)
27-: fritz lang’s indian epic the tiger of eschnapur and the indian tomb (film)
27-: justin vivian bond: under the influence presented as part of judy collins’ vanguard residency (performance)
27-: new york film festival (film)
27-: the day shall come (film)
28: nicole mitchell (music)
28: wajde ayub & ensemble | wasla: soul music of syria (music)
28-29: requiem por la lluvia (theater)
30: porgy and bess (music)