Acquanetta | PROTOTYPE
Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman’s Acquanetta observes the way the cinema has shaped racial/gender stereotypes and has created public/private identities. The piece is inspired by Mildred Davenport, the African-American star of the 1943 cult classic horror flick Captive Wild Woman, who was reinvented by Universal Studios as the “Venezualan Volcano.”
Tuesday, January 9 to Saturday, January 13 at 7:30 PM & Sunday, January 14 at 6 PM
Tickets $30-$75
Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, 29 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
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New Year Celebration
The North/South Chamber Orchestra welcomes the New Year on Tuesday evening January 9, 2018 performing optimistic and vibrant works by four living American composers.
Tuesday, January 9 at 8:00 PM
Free
Christ and St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 120 West 69th Street, New York, NY
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The Echo Drift | PROTOTYPE
The Echo Drift, an operatic collaboration between Mikael Karlsson, Elle Kunnos de Voss, and Kathryn Walat, centers on a convicted murderer trapped in a timeless prison. This world premiere production switches between the confines of a tiny cell and an expansive visual world of hand drawn animation, exploring the psychology of a woman struggling to overcome her nature and the freewheeling tendencies of the mind when robbed of external stimuli.
Wednesday, January 10, Friday, January 12 & Saturday, January 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $30-$75
Baruch Performing Arts Center, 55 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
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Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens | PROTOTYPE
Alicia Hall Moran presents Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens, a new vocal work for an ice skating audience, featuring Ice Theatre of New York. The piece draws on inspiration from the artist’s childhood as a figure skater, notions of cultural competition, and the historic 1988 Winter Olympics, when two leading figure skaters independently chose to skate to Bizet’s Carmen. Breaking Ice takes place on a public ice skating rink and uses competitive skating as a frame for exploring the feeling of otherness and the discords of holding more than one single cultural identity.
Thursday, January 11 at 1:40 PM
Free
Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park, New York, NY
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Bishi | FERUS Festival
The annual FERUS Festival is a showcase of untamed voices. The world’s most innovative artists perform their newest work: in music, multimedia, and beyond. To kick off this year’s FERUS Festival, the British-Bengali vocalist/composer Bishi premieres The Good Immigrant, a song cycle for voice looper, sitar, and electronics, co-produced with composer and sound designer Jeff Cook.
Thursday, January 11 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Black Inscription | PROTOTYPE
Karla Kihlstedt with Erik Carlson and Bridget Kibbey of ICE at Merkin Concert Hall (photo credit: Ross Karre)
Black Inscription, from Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, and Jeremy Flower, is a multimedia song cycle that follows a deep sea diver on her Odyssean journey. Written with guidance from experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and brought to life by a seven-piece band fronted by three singers, the immersive world premiere is a symbolic, scientific, and emotional plunge into the ocean where wonder, discovery, and reckoning entwine.
Thursday, January 11 to Saturday, January 13 at 9:30 PM
Tickets $30
HERE, 145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
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Nadia Sirota and Liam Byrne | FERUS Festival
Nadia Sirota – Photo by Samantha West
The annual FERUS Festival is a showcase of untamed voices. The world’s most innovative artists perform their newest work: in music, multimedia, and beyond. The second night of the 2018 FERUS Festival, Peabody-winning violist Nadia Sirota joins gamba player Liam Byrne in a full performance of Tessellatum, a singular work of art that blurs the line between music album and film.
Friday, January 12 at 7:00 PM
Tickets $25
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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Fellow Travelers | PROTOTYPE
Composer Gregory Spears (photo credit: gregoryspears.com)
Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s Fellow Travelers, based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel and directed by Kevin Newbury, is a personal journey and illicit love story between two men set during America’s gut-wrenching McCarthy-Era witch-hunts and the often-overlooked “Lavender Scare.”
Friday, January 12 & Saturday, January 13 at 8:00 PM; Saturday, January 13 & Sunday, January 14 at 2 PM
Tickets $30-$75
Gerald W. Lynch Theater, 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY
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Concert 1: 21st Century United Kingdom | The UK Commotion!
An entire concert of US and NY premieres of 21st century works by UK composers who have had little to no exposure in the United States.
Friday, January 12 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Concert 2: The Giants | The UK Commotion!
Peter Maxwell Davies
Lost Dog’s pianist Jacob Rhodebeck performs works by the ‘Big Three’ of British music, including a very rare performance of Peter Maxwell Davies’s virtuosic Sonata.
Saturday, January 13 at 4:00 PM
Tickets $20
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Secrets | PROTOTYPE
As a source of inspiration for their intimate musical production Secrets, the Netherlands-based soprano Claron McFadden and Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio crowd-sourced anonymous stories from the general public. The result is a musical and visual mosaic in which Claron McFadden, singing, whispering and laughing, merges sorrowful, mischievous and cynical passages into one another.
Saturday, January 13 at 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM & Sunday, January 14 at 12:00 PM and 5:00 PM
Tickets $30
National Sawdust, 80 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY
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The Universal Drum | SIGN & SING
SIGN & SING presents a workshop performance and post-performance discussion of our work in progress, The Universal Drum. The English text of the poem is written by Deaf playwright Willy Conley, and the ASL translation is a collaboration among Conley and his students at Gallaudet University. The English text is written by Willy Conley and the music is written by Brad Balliett.
Saturday, January 13 at 7:30 PM
Tickets $15
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, New York, NY
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Concert 3: Common Tongues | The UK Commotion!
Anna Clyne – Photo by Todd Rosenberg
Featuring works by more established UK composers, spanning ages 36 to 90, who are nevertheless underrepresented in the US.
Saturday, January 13 at 8:00 PM
Tickets $20
Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 West 13th Street, New York, NY
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Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens | PROTOTYPE
Alicia Hall Moran presents Breaking Ice: The Battle of the Carmens, a new vocal work for an ice skating audience, featuring Ice Theatre of New York. The piece draws on inspiration from the artist’s childhood as a figure skater, notions of cultural competition, and the historic 1988 Winter Olympics, when two leading figure skaters independently chose to skate to Bizet’s Carmen. Breaking Ice takes place on a public ice skating rink and uses competitive skating as a frame for exploring the feeling of otherness and the discords of holding more than one single cultural identity.
Sunday, January 14 at 2:30 PM
Free
Denny Ferrell Riverbank State Park Skating Complex, 679 Riverside Drive, New York, NY
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