NYU TISCH DRAMA STAGE WORKS: THE WHO'S TOMMY Previews February 4 & 5
February 6-13
The Who’s Tommy is Peter Townshend’s tale of a young boy’s journey from pain to triumph. First produced on Broadway in 1993, its thrilling score and MTV-style storytelling is viewed by many as the seminal musical that brought Broadway into the rock era. Directed by Kent Gash. Presented by New York University’s Tisch Drama Stage Works through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Previews: $15, $5 students and seniors
General Admission: $20, $10 students and seniors
JOHN ZORN'S MASADA MARATHON February 17 & 18 | 8 pm
Written in a flash of creativity during three months at the end of 2004, the 316 compositions in John Zorn's Book of Angels contain some of his most lyrical and inspiring music. Performed by a wide variety of ensembles over the past five years the music has generated thirteen CDs to date, with four more scheduled for release in 2010. This special marathon concert brings together ten different groups in two evenings — five bands per night. Featuring Cyro Baptista, Erik Friedlander, Mark Feldman, Ben Goldberg, Shanir Blumenkranz, Sylvie Courvoisier, John Zorn, and many more.
DAY 1 (February 17):
Banquet of the Spirits Ben Goldbert Quartet Mark Feldman/Sylvie Courvoisier Duo Mycale Masada Sextet
DAY 2 (February 18):
Uri Caine Masada String Trio Jamie Saft Trio Erik Friedlander Masada Quintet featuring Chris Potter
WAXFACTORY: QUARTET V4.0 Part of the WaxFactory Year 11 Retrospective February 24-27 | 8 pm
February 28 | 5 pm
WaxFactory’s sci-fi QUARTET v4.0 stages East German playwright Heiner Müller’s controversial text in a sterile, post-apocalyptic world that serves as the arena for the vicious endgames of its protagonists. In WaxFactory’s production, the actors’ live performance is simultaneously broadcast with video images captured from multiple angles by surveillance cameras that are edited, processed, and projected in real time. Conceived and directed by Ivan Talijancic, and featuring performers Erika Latta and Thomas Peters, the premiere of QUARTET v4.0 is presented as part of Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe, a festival coordinated by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Since its formation in 1998, WaxFactory has created new performance, installation, film, and video works featuring a highly innovative blend of physical performance, audio-visual, architectural and fashion design, and an integrated use of the new media and technology. They usher in their second decade by presenting a Year 11 Retrospective featuring their two most recent international co-productions, BLIND.NESS and DELIRIUM 27, and the brand new re-imagining of QUARTET v4.0.
JODY OBERFELDER DANCE PROJECTS: HEADS OR TALES March 11-13 | 8 pm
An eccentric retrospective celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects, this fairy tale-like journey careens from the epic to mundane and from operatic to ordinary with acrobatic physicality, emphasizing the connections and stories of our lives. Heads or Tales will not be a superhero blockbuster or a romantic comedy. However, the work, augmented with cameo appearances from an all-star cast of former company dancers, is an amalgam of the past and present weaving together a philosophical narrative. Dances to be re-visited include excerpts from Oberfelder’s raucous Head First, a crash helmet dance, and the tender Rock Me Mama danced by new mothers and their babies, along with original cast members and their now-teenage children. Also featured are the hilarious and perky X-Cheerleaders, the fantastical The Story Thus Far (based on Grimm Fairy Tales), and clips of Dido & Aeneas. Thursday's show will be a gala performance to benefit Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects.
Head First, courtesy of the artist
$20, $15 students and seniors
$150 Gala seating and reception
$250 Gala seating, reception, invitation to open rehearsal, and DVD
WAXFACTORY: DELIRIUM 27 Part of the WaxFactory Year 11 Retrospective March 24-27 | 8 pm
March 28 | 5 pm
DELIRIUM 27 is a hybrid performance/installation featuring the work of the WaxFactory ensemble, employing an unconventional blend of text- and movement-based live performance. In an unknown amount of time, under the hum of the electric lights, a fever takes hold of Ode Black, who is being held under investigation for a crime. On the border of a breakdown, remnants of his former life blur the lines of memory, imagination, and forgotten thoughts, while humor becomes his only compass out of the darkness. Written and directed by Erika Latta, DELIRIUM 27 was first staged in January 2008 in collaboration with Bunker Productions in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and this engagement marks its American premiere.
Since its formation in 1998, WaxFactory has created new performance, installation, film, and video works featuring a highly innovative blend of physical performance, audio-visual, architectural and fashion design, and an integrated use of the new media and technology. They usher in their second decade by presenting a Year 11 Retrospective featuring their two most recent international co-productions, BLIND.NESS and DELIRIUM 27, and the brand new re-imagining of QUARTET v4.0.
