7:30 doors, 8pm show,
Smut
Hosted by: Desiree Burch
"It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."
--New York Times
This week:
Monday, 2/26, frontroom, free
7:30 doors, 8pm show,
Smut
Hosted by: Desiree Burch
"It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."
--New York Times
This week:
Monday 2/26 frontroom $5
9:30pm
Monday Night Burlesque Presents:
The World Famous Bob!
Every month The World Famous Bob brings to Monday Night Burlesque the best and brightest of the new burlesque performers on the scene. This is your chance to see these gals (and sometimes boys!) before they make it big! Bob's show is a must see every month!
Monday, 2/26, backroom, free
7:30 doors, 8pm show,
Punch
The city’s only consistent puppet slam!
THIS MONTH FEATURES PUPPET FILMS!
PUNCH is a monthly showcase for all things puppet.
Curated by Gretchen Van Lente, of Drama of Works.
This month features puppet films (of both live shows and films
made to be films – we’ve got it all!) and whole bunch of other
FUN stuff!!!
• FILMS from Jeanette Yew, Claire Beaudreault and various
O’Neill Puppetry Conference folks!
• RON BINION presents “The Electroconvulsive Puppet Show” = a
shocking good time!
• AMANDA MADDOCK presents "Night on Egg Mountain." 3 Eggs + 1
Newspaper Mountain = Unknown Outcome.
• ANNA SOEBEL makes her PUNCH debut with a witty and
environmental take on the Tortoise and the Hare. Guffaw while
being horrified by the US Farm Bill!
• HOWIE LEIFER presents one of his wacky humanette puppets!
• EXPLODING PUPPET PRODUCTIONS (of “Die Hard!” fame) rounds out
the evening with a few wacky, funny shorts…if there’s time…
Monday 2/26 backroom $6
10pm doors
10:30 show
Occurence
OCCURENCE is a rollicking alternative performace + film event curated
by comedian Reggie Watts and playwright Tommy Smith. The stellar
lineup includes storyteller Todd Levin,
dancer Amelia Zirin-Brown,
monologuist Mike Daisey, spoken word artists Ian Merrigan & Ramiz
Monsef, percussionist Quilken, as well as the genre bending films of
Reggie and Tommy. The evening will close with a comedy set by Reggie
Watts.
www.reggiewatts.com
"Amazing and unlike anything you have ever seen. Unless you have seen
a comedic stream of conscious operatic beat-boxing marvel. Then it's
like that."‹Eugene Mirman
"Reggie Watts just blew everyone's minds as usual. Seriously, if you
haven't seen this guy, make it a point to do so."‹Aziz Ansari
Tuesday 2/27, front, $5
7pm doors
7:30 show
9:30 end
59 Seconds Video Festival
59 Seconds Video Festival introduces 59 videos, 59 seconds each, including the new collection gathered by recent calls. Along with new arrivals we will show a collection of the best videos, chosen by audiences in USA, Austria, Australia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy and Spain.
Mini documentary, political satire, tragedy, comedy; metaphorical, narrative, experimental, edgy, controversial, creative and thought provocative video, including a unique collection of videos that integrate number 59. "Maximum entertainment in minimum time" – San Francisco Bay Guardian
"If 30-second TV commercials can bear the burden of our entire economy, just think what you could do with 59 seconds..
Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper
"What's the best thing you could do for yourself in 59 seconds? You could eat a taquito, take a really long pee, put on your socks and shoes-or you could see a creative and thought-provoking international film. The ideal film festival for those with short attention spans..."
San Diego CityBEAT
Tuesday 2/27, front, free
2/27 front FREE
10pm doors
10:30 show
2am last call
The Hazards
featuring:
THE HANDSOME PUBLIC! (pictured)
http://myspace.com/thehandsomepublic
From Lower Manhattan : THE HANDSOME PUBLIC, a progressive rogue pop foursome serves up crooning voices, breathaking beats, and total disregard for Team Facelift's tears.
Tuesday 2/27 back $5
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wednesday, 2/28, $5 suggested donation
7pm doors
7:30pm show
9:30pm end
Darmstadt in collaboration with Red Light New Music Presents:
Morton Feldman's Three Voices
Daisy Press, Soprano
www.redlightnewmusic.org
Darmstadt in collaboration with Red Light New Music Presents
Morton Feldman's Three Voices
Daisy Press, Soprano
Darmstadt: "Classics of the Avant Garde" is excited to announce a
performance of Morton Feldman's beautiful masterpiece of vocal
harmonic texure,Three Voices by the renowned new music soprano, Daisy
Press. The piece is a setting of Frank O'Hara's poem "wind" and is the
culmination of recording project that Ms. Press has been developing
for over a year and is her first live performance. This concert is
presented in collaboration with Red Light New Music, a New York-based
contemporary music series dedicated to the presentation of new
American and European classical music.
Daisy Press, soprano, received her Bachelor's Degree from the
Manhattan School of Music, where she specialized in contemporary
music. While at MSM, she performed as a soloist in works by
Schoenberg, Webern, Crumb, Scelsi, Tavener, Saariaho, Ives, Bresnick,
Stravinsky, Cage, and numerous works by Steve Reich. For the last two
years, she has been the singer-in-residence at the Bang on a Can
Summer Institute at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Ms.
Press has also performed Reich's "Drumming" with So Percussion and was
a guest artist at Juilliard in their performance of the same work with
choreography by Eliot Feld. In the spring Ms. Press will be on the
faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, teaching a course about
American vocal repertoire. She currently studies voice with Trish
McCaffrey and North Indian classical singing with Michael Harrison.
Wednesday 2/28, backroom, $5
10pm
Jon Irabagon's Outright
Jon Irabagon's Outright! is a
progressive jazz group
that takes both modern and traditional jazz elements
and devices and wraps them all up in highly energetic
and interactive group improvisation. The group is
recording its debut CD in March and hopes to have it
available in the fall.
>Jon Irabagon's Outright! has been called "fierce and
fiery" by Hank Schteamer of Time Out New York, and Jon
has been called "one of the city's deadliest horn
players."
Thursday 3/1 frontroom $5
7pm doors
7:30pm show
9:30pm end
IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION
is pleased to annouce
The Proboner Show Tour
A special performance by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Andres Laracuente will open forthe Proboner Show on March 1, 2007 with J.J. and Cecel: Melt in the Sun Freeze Underground.
The Proboner Show is a vaudevillian musical comedy about two frustrated penises that
can’t seem to get enough satisfaction in their life. They confide in eachother’s
misogynist stories until a strange female visitor arrives.
This shadow-puppetry act is the latest production from the experimental puppetry
collaborative IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION. Emerging from a fine arts background, the
group creates shows that have addressed sex-positive feminism, existentialism, art theory,
beastiality, and stand-up comedy. They have been working in New York City for 2
years, performing for such venues as Theater for the New City, Zebulon Bar, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
www.imaginationexplosion.com
Music - Robin Schavoir
IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION is Lea Cetera and Amber Marsh
Thursday 3/1 frontroom
$10. For $5 reduced list, RSVP: digitalheroine@gmail.com
10pm 
DIGITAL HEROINE presents: HEROINE CHIC
w/ Drop the Lime
Born and Raised in New York City, Drop The Lime,
continues his global rise in the underground Dance music scene. Ever evolving in style and ahead of the game, expect four to the floor bangers spiked with Grime, House, B More, Electro, and growling bass Techno, while he drops jaws to the floor with his bad boy Sinatra vocals. Venezia grew up in New York City's underground rave scene, drawn to the high energy of Acid,Techno, Jungle and Drum & Bass. Responsible for the bass heavy Trouble & Bass parties w/ co-founder Math Head, DTL is bringing a fresh spin on underground club music.
Venezia's energetic live performances and vicious DJ sets havecaptivated audiences and artists worldwide with their innovative
sound.
www.myspace.com/dieselandraw
www.myspace.com/habitnyc
www.myspace.com/dropthelime
www.myspace.com/heroinechicparty
www.sonicbids.com/mikedextro
Thursday 3/1 backroom 
7pm doors
7:30pm show
9:30pm end
Variety Shac
The Variety Shac is a sketch comedy program from Andrea Rosen, Chelsea Peretti, Heather Lawless, Shonali Bhowmik and a calvalcade of special guests. The Shac is part comedy, part music, part film, and part experiment.
http://www.chelseaperetti.com
http://www.tigersandmonkeys.com
Thursday 3/1 backroom $6 
10pm doors
10:30pm show
American Business Machines TOUR KICK OFF!!!
http://www.myspace.com/americanbusinessmachines
With:
Sal Feathers and the Bird Cage,
http://www.myspace.com/salfeathers
The Goddam Rattlesnake &
http://www.myspace.com/thegoddamnrattlesnake
$24,000 (ex Good Lookin Shoe) (here's their old band)
http://www.myspace.com/goodlookinshoe
]
3/02 frontroom $5
7pm doors
7:30pm show
9:30pm end
7:30 pm
Ward Williams
Cellist/guitarist/vocalist Ward Williams hails from North Carolina and plays his intimate, country-tinged tunes on cello and guitar, with recorded loops combining the two instruments. Of a recent performance, the Charleston Post and Courier wrote, "Ward kept the crowd mesmerized." wardwilliams.net.
8:30 pm
Rob Kendt
Rob Kendt writes songs that have been called "wonderfully constructed short stories" and renders them in a style described as "Tom Waits if he'd never smoked." Debuting his new band, Kendt will showcase songs from his new CD, I'm Not Sentimental. cdbaby.com/robkendt2.
www.cdbaby.com/robkendt2
3/02 frontroom
$8
10pm
Crashin' in presents:
http://www.crashinin.com/events.html
Djs: Oil (KanineRecords), Toby Rascal (KanineRecords), and Gerald(OtherMusic)
Brit/Indie/PostPunk/Grime/Nu-wave/Remix Dance Tunes
(10:30pm) The Depreciation Guild live performance
(11:30am) Vampire Weekend live performance
(12:30am) The Lab Rats live performance
(1:30am) Up The Empire live performance
(2:30am) Life In Bed live performance
Air (Astralwerks) "Pocket Symphony" new album listening/release party with
giveaways from Filter.
*new and old school sk8 videos projected on a huge screen all night long!
*new and old school sk8 videos projected on a huge screen all night long!
03/02 backroom, FREE!
10pm
ECLECTIC METHOD,
A SPECIAL ONE NIGHT ONLY APPEARENCE
*ECLECTIC METHOD HAVE DONE MASHUPS FOR U2, FAT BOY SLIM, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, DJ SPOOKY, HBO, PALM PICTURES & MORE! THIS IS THEIR ONLY NYC APPEARENCE - GET THERE EARLY YOU DO NOT WANNA MISS THIS!!!
http://www.eclecticmethod.net/home.aspx
Saturday 3/3 frontroom
7:30pm
$15 at the door, $13 in advance-click
HYBRID
a forum for new evolutions in contemporary global performance
Galapagos resident artist Sarah Johansson Locke presents HYBRID, a performance series featuring artists who explore new forms and fusions from ancient and contemporary sources. Dancers, musicians, spoken word and circus artists, they sample ethnic and electronic elements -- from India to the Balkans, North Africa to Brooklyn -- remixing them into a moving collage across cultures.
This month features dancers from NYC, San Francisco,
and 
Washington DC whose work is inspired by fusions of ancient and
contemporary sources:
...Sarah J. Locke, Irina Akulenko, Anasma, and Geneva Bybee of Alchemy Dance Theater
...bodypoet Kazuma Motomura (HYBRID resident artist)
...Susan Frankovich
...Shakra Performance Group (pictured)
...Uyum Dans (Kittarina & Elisheva)
For more info please visit www.alchemyperformance.com
Saturday 3/3 bothrooms free
10pm
Disco Lobos w/ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Saturday 3/3 backroom $5
7pm doors
7:30 show
9:30 end
Kitty Poole - A Birth(day) of Sorts + 3 Solo Acts You Can and Should Laugh At
Come to Galapagos and be encouraged to laugh a lot, at four short solo pieces by four fine actor/comedians. In the backroom you'll find filth and funny from Desiree Burch (52 Man Pick-Up, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, SMUT), classy wacked out characters from Livia Scott (MEAT, "Goodnight, OJ"), crazy lovely songs and people from Becky Yamamoto ("Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven", Stickerbook), and to end it, the birth of Kitty Poole, 5 yr old performance artist/ alter-ego of Becky Poole (MEAT, Stickerbook, Becky & Noelle). There will be cake served by a monster, musical saw, and more fancy character work than you can shake a Toni Collette at. With house musician Jen Hammaker (Stickerbook) tickling the Theremin.
Saturday 3/3 bothrooms free
10pm
Disco Lobos w/ Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Sunday 3/4 front room $5 suggested
7pm doors
7:30 show
Sulu Series
Sunday 3/4 
7:30 pm
CATCH ++
ASUBTOUT ! The Lady Centaur Show, a nouveau New Age Fantasy Death Metal Poperetta
ABBY BROWDE ! Janet & Tina (hardup and land locked), Dancing vs. the Rat Experiment Witness Relocation
DYNASTY HANDBAG (pictured)! Hell in a Handbag,Baby, Miss Lower East Side 2005
EAGLE AGER ! 2006 US tour, banned from the Neuberger Museum of Art
JOHN MORAN and his neighbor SAORI ! The Manson Family, AIR City of Paris, 2004-2006
Catch presents the second installment in its new program to support the most exciting creators in the downtown scene: the quarterly Catch ++, in which we disregard our rigorous 7-minute time constraint to allow two of our seasoned artists to stretch out and get nice and deep. Asubtout and John Moran will each present 21 minutes of amazingness.
CATCH is a Bimonthly Performance + Video Series
Curated by JEFF LARSON and ANDREW DINWIDDIE.
more info: catchseries.org
"Dance, theater and performance from the wilder shores." - The Village Voice
