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< back							November 16-22, 2009 Monday, November 16th Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm Tix: $25.00 The Floating Brothel BUY TICKETS HERE! London, 1789. A whirlpool of filth, thievery and political unrest. Jails overflow with petty criminals, many of them women forced out of work and onto the streets as jobs are reclaimed by soldiers returning from the American war. The penal code hasn't been updated in more than a century, and crimes as trivial as pickpocketing are hanging offenses. Faced with a legal system in crisis, and a growing humanist movement opposed to executions, the courts hit upon an innovative solution: ship the woman convicts to Australia to revive the failing all-male penal colony in New South Wales. Adapted from historical accounts, Floating Brothel follows three of these women—a down-on-her luck country girl, a thirteen-year old prostitute and a high-class con artist—on their harrowing year-long voyage from the underbelly of London to the underside of the world. Performed by five actors on a 3 x 6 platform, the epic tale unfolds in a radically reduced space that functions as a camera lens, enabling cinematic shifts in time, scale and location. Through the course of an hour, using only their bodies and a handful of props, the ensemble creates myriad characters and locales, transforming the raw platform into the bustle of London, the din of the courtroom, the dank bilge of the ship, and the rolling expanse of the ocean. * Pre and post show hors d'oeuvres provided by the DUMBO General Store* * Complimentary pre-show cocktails provided by Prohibition Distillery Thursday, November 19th Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm Tix: $20.00 21cLiederabend BUY TICKETS HERE! 21cLiederabend (a multi-media event) will showcase a vast array of works by post-classical composers Caleb Burhans, Leah Coloff, Corey Dargel, Osvaldo Golijov, Judd Greenstein, Ted Hearne, David T. Little, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Milica Paranosic, and Paola Prestini. The event will be capped off with the presentation of a piece commissioned for the occasion by composer/singer/accordionist Kamala Sankaram. FEATURED SINGERS include Grammy award winner Hila Plitman, Abigail Fischer, Amelia Watkins, Anne-Carolyn Bird, Daniel Gundlach, David Adam Moore, Helga Davis, Isaiah Robinson, Kamala Sankaram, and SKIM accompanied by the VisionIntoArt ensemble with very special guest stars ETHEL. FILM WORK by Stephen Taylor and Carmen Kordas. Friday, November 20th Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm Tix: $15.00 New Amsterdam Records & Galapagos Art Space Present: ARCHIPELAGO Arturo en el Barco & Victoire BUY TICKETS HERE! The third night of Archipelago will mark the debut of the newly-reformed lo-fi electro-chamber group Arturo en el Barco, the brainchild of composer *Angélica Negrón. The seven-piece ensemble will premiere Negron's Let the sun shine on me and make me feel special, a collection of six songs that, according to the composer, will "explore feelings of isolation, abandonment, longing and desperation." They will be joined by Victoire, composer/pianist Missy Mazzoli's much-lauded, genre-defying quartet, a dreamy, stirring blend of winds, strings, keyboards and lo-fi electronics. Victoire was picked as an "eMusic Selects" artist this Spring, leading to Pitchfork* calling them "so good... a pleasing, accessible entree into the world of pseudo-classical music"; on this show, they will perform a set that includes tracks from their upcoming 2010 New Amsterdam release. Friday, November 20 @ 10:30PM Doors: 10pm Tickets: $10.00 in advance/$15.00 at the door Cabaret Magyar BUY TICKETS HERE!* A three-part series of fin-de-siècle cabarets with 21st-century spirit. New York and Hungarian artists, writers, and musicians take on a variety of Hungarian subjects you never knew were Hungarian: from Harry Houdini and Zsa Zsa Gabor to Cicciolina, Transylvania, and Ex-Lax. Foot juggling, mustache animations, Communist-era Hungarian commercials—everything you crave in a cabaret! With over 20 performers including *Mike Albo, Julie Atlas Muz, Tanya Gagne, and Hungarian singer Marianna Falusi. Hosted by New York playwright/performer Nick Jones* (Jollyship the Whiz-Bang). http://extremelyhungary.org/cabaret.php Saturday, November 21st Doors: 10:30am/Show: 11:00am Tix: $5.00 (kids/seniors)/$10.00 (adults) Coyote and Uncle Dale's Sack of Stones BUY TICKETS HERE! Directed by Karmenlara Ely Advised by Muriel Miguel of Spiderwoman Theater In this devised physical theater piece for young people, overworked and dispassionate Coyote leaves the big city to find himself. Lost and hungry, he meets (and nearly eats) an unfortunate child and a sack of stones at the edge of a great northern wood. As the drama unfolds, jokes, stories and secrets are revealed on the long road back to Uncle Dale’s house. Coyote doesn’t know whom he belongs to or where he comes from, but he will be forever changed by the child and the many entities they encounter along the way, including contested representations of Native histories. Fumbling with his own body, hungers, prejudices and errant cleverness, Coyote’s complex becoming is performed through the weaving together of true stories, trickster tales from select nations, and contemporary Native social issues. Saturday, November 21st Doors: 7:30pm/Show: 8:30pm FREE Myopenbar and Drambuie presents: Cinema 16 with musical guest These Are Powers During the silent film, live music enhanced the moving picture and brought communities together through a visceral, interactive audio-visual experience. Today, the film experience has been reduced to the tiny screens of our laptops and iPods, oftentimes experienced alone. Cinema 16 offers a revival of community, recreating the experience of the silent film era. Curator and artist Molly Surno programs obscure vintage films and pairs them with contemporary New York musicians. Bands are commissioned to compose a musical score in order to modernize the 1920’s tradition of live music accompanying films. Cinema 16 initially began in 1947 as a New York based avant-garde film society. Inspired by Maya Deren’s Greenwich Village exhibition of experimental films, Amos Vogel and his wife Marcia decided to create a community based on this type of filmmaking. Now over four decades later Molly Surno brings the spirit of experimental and underground cinema back to New York. Saturday, November 21st Doors: 10:00pm/ Shows: 10:30pm Tix: $12 in advance / $15 at the door The Peach Tartes’ Rita Men Weep and Joe the Shark present: Get a CLUE! BUY TICKETS HERE! Featuring: Hosted by Burke Heffner Rita MenWeep as Ms Scarlet Veronica Varlow as Mrs. Peacock Veruca HoneyScotch as Mrs. White Jo Boobs as Prof. Plum Bambi the Mermaid as Col. Mustard Dirty Martini as Mr/Mrs. Green The Peach Tarte’s Rita MenWeep and Joe the Shark bring this classic detective board game right to your laps and to life burlesque style, as only they know how! Was Mr. Body done in by Professor Plum with the glove in the water closet, or choked by glitter in the ballroom by Miss Scarlett? Follow along as our story unfolds and the clothes come off, revealing not only luscious lovelies, but the what/where/why of Mr. Bodie’s murder. The only burlesque show where the audience decides the outcome as they solve the crime with a rotating cast of suspects, burlesque weapons, and a ton of Who-Done-It fun! Show will be followed by a dance party with DJ Mel! A FLOATING KABARETTE PRODUCTION Sunday, November 22nd Doors: 7:00pm / Shows: 8:00pm Tix: $15.00 Vision Into Art presents: Sounds and Traveling Songs BUY TICKETS HERE! Music by Paola Prestini, Milica Paranosic and Pablo Rieppi. Stars Helga Davis and jazz sensation Magos Herrera join the VIA collective. Film by Carmen Kordas and sound by Brian Mohr. VisionIntoArt’s Traveling Songs is a transmedia work about migration and travel that reflects the modern minstrel nature of our diverse ensemble. Traveling Songs expresses notions of home and far away lands, artistically and literally carrying the audience through new environments and sounds. VisionIntoArt’s Sounds is inspired by Kandinsky’s manuscript of woodcuts and prose by the same name from 1912. Composers Paola Prestini and Milica Paranosic chose to interpret the work in different ways. Prestini’s Sounds is a meditation on the meaning and implications of blue, red, black, and white in our society. Through the personification of each color, new perspectives on race, love, and the difficulties of connection in this era of extreme communication are uncovered. Paranosic’s Sounds addresses the balance between collective identities and individualism, expressed through largely choral sections of music movement and film. VIA explores the roots of artistic creativity and the possibilities of synthesis. www.visionintoart.com