Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – WEDNESDAY, FEB. 05, 2014
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PAM TANOWITZ
“A choreographer whose disassembly and reassembly of ballet and Cunningham-influenced modern dance can be thrilling, Tanowitz makes her Joyce Theatre début with two premières. In “Passagen,” the electrifying dancers Melissa Toogood and Maggie Cloud remix recent Tanowitz choreography while the onstage violinist Pauline Kim Harris plays John Zorn. In “Heaven on One’s Head,” a cast of nine takes on the knotty complexity of Conlon Nancarrow’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 3, played live by the Flux Quartet.” (NewYorker listings)
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea,
at 7:30 p.m./ $10 to $25
212-242-0800, joyce.org
Selected Shorts: ‘One More Thing With B.J. Novak’
“A reading, with dramatizations, from Mr. Novak’s new collection of stories, “One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories,” to be released on Tuesday, starts at 7:30 p.m. Characters from his book will be brought to life by the performers Allison Williams of the HBO series “Girls” and Anthony Rapp, an original cast member of the Broadway musical “Rent.”” (NYT)
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street,
212-864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $28
Keith Jarrett, Solo Piano Improvisations
“Woe unto him who attempts to take a flash photo—don’t even try it. Yet the bad boy of jazz piano is such a brilliant solo artist that it’s well worth putting up with a few temper tantrums and hissy fits. His solo recitals have the feeling of a man talking to himself in front of a hall full of people; it’s an internal communication externalized, a one-man-show with 3,000 people participating.
These unaccompanied performances are ostensibly completely improvised, but part of the fun is listening intensely and working out what familiar chord changes might be lurking deep in the background recesses of Mr. Jarrett’s formidable mind.” (WSJ)
Carnegie Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue
At 8 p.m./$45 to $100.
(212) 247-7800 / carnegiehall.org
“AFTERNOON OF A FAUN” (OPENS FEB 5)
“This new biographical film by theNancy Buirski documents the extraordinary dancing of the American ballerina Tanaquil Leclerq, as well as the terrible illness that ended her career at the age of 27.
Intelligent, stylish, witty, and deeply musical, Leclerq became a muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Both men loved her—she married Balanchine—and created ballets for her, drawing on aspects of her complex personality, including “Afternoon of a Faun” (Robbins) and “La Valse” (Balanchine). In 1956, she contracted polio and almost died; she never danced again. The film brings together extremely rare footage of her dancing.’ (NewYorker listings)
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
Gerald Clayton Quartet (through Feb. 9)
“Gerald Clayton, a pianist of smartly soulful exposition, received a Grammy nomination for “Life Forum,” his most recent album, which reveals his sure-footed ambition as a composer-bandleader. He’s likely to bring a similar scope to this engagement.” (Chinen-NYT)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street, West Village,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. / $25 and $30 cover, with a one-drink minimum
212-255-4037, villagevanguard.com
Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, dates and times, as schedules are subject to change.
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What’s on View:
Special Exhibitions @ 3 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. Museums:
‘Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom’ (through Feb. 23)
“Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa, The Venini Co., 1932–1947” (through March 2, 2014)
‘Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China’ (through April 6)
‘The American West in Bronze, 1850-1925’ (ends April 13)
William Kentridge: ‘The Refusal of Time’ (through May 11)
‘Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C.F. Martin’ (through Dec. 7)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org
‘Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925’ (through Feb. 10)
Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street,
212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org.
Neue Galerie: “Kandinsky in Paris, 1934–1944“ (through Apr. 23, 2014)
Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.
========================================================== Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Ten museums can be found along this section of Fifth Avenue:
• 110th Street – Museum for African Art
• 105th Street – El Museo del Barrio
• 103rd Street – Museum of the City of New York
• 92nd Street – The Jewish Museum
• 91st Street – Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• 89th Street – National Academy Museum
• 88th Street – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• 86th Street – Neue Galerie New York
• 83rd Street – Goethe-Institut
Last, but certainly not least, America’s premier museum
• 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Additionally, though technically not part of the Museum Mile, the Frick Collection on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 70th St. and the The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Ave and 37th St are also located near Fifth Ave. Now plan your own museum crawl. ==========================================================
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