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(Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Battleworks Dance Company presents Reel Time, Juba, Ella, In/Side and Overture.
Celebrating their fifth anniversary, Battleworks Dance Company presents Robert Battle’s strong choreography with vigor and technical virtuosity. Battle’s provocative work runs the gamut from humorous to viscerally jarring, and his dancers “are magnificent, flinging themselves into movement phrases with frenzied energy” (The Boston Globe). ($34) Event Website Note: this event runs July 29 - August 2
(The Center for Anti-Violence Education, 327 7th Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11215) For adults only. (sliding fee scale) (718-788-1775) Event Website Note: this event runs July 8, 15, 22, 29, and August 5
(South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton St, New York, NY 10038) (12Noon & 1pm) A study of the intricacy of community and a meeting of two very different worlds. Event Website Note: this event runs July 21 - 23, and 28 - 30
(Various Locations) Restaurant Week is a great opportunity to try out a different restaurant every night that might ordinarily be beyond your budget! Event Website Note: this event runs July 21 - 25, and July 28 - August 1
(Washington Square Park, 5th Ave at Washington Sq North, New York, NY 10003) (8pm) A free outdoor classical and Music of the Americas concert series is celebrating its 50th season by presenting five evenings of great music under the stars performed by musicians who regularly play in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan and New York City Opera orchestras and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Free) Event Website Note: this event runs June 21, July 8, 15, 22, and 29
(Otto's Shrunken Head Tiki Bar & Lounge, 538 E. 14th St., Between Aves. A & B (closer to B), New York, NY 10009) (10:00 - 11:00 pm) T is Tara Grieco, an original singer-songwriter & spoken word artist. Come experience T as she continues her summer residency performing at Manhattan island's way coolest tiki bar. T's site: www.myspace.com/tradio (Free) (212-228-2240) Event Website
(JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave at 76th St, New York, NY 10023, 646-505-4444) This program helps people get past the dreaded first date into real relationship territory. Learn the essentials of a great first date, and how to use flirting to your advantage. Step into the JCC's date-simulator-a chance not only to discuss dating strategies but try them out over sinful desserts at our semi-private tables for two. Pre-registration is a MUST for this program. We need the right balance of men and women and will not be able to hold the program if you don't let us know that you are coming. Okay? So RSVP!! ($12 members/$15 non members) (646.505.4444) Event Website
(Joyce Theater, 175 8th Ave, New York, NY 10011) Larry Keigwin and his company of dancers make their Joyce debut with the NYC premiere of a work comprising of four suites underscored by a wide variety of music, from classical to hip-hop. Each suite is inspired by one of Nature’s basic building blocks: Earth, Fire, Air and Water. Music will include pieces by Mozart, Chopin, Unk, Patsy Cline, Devo, Etta James and Perry Como, among others. Event Website Note: this event runs July 28 - August 1 Starting Today
(Lincoln Center, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023) Explore music and art from diverse cultural traditions under the baton of Conductor Louis Langrée. Composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho will premiere oratorio La Passion de Simone. Enjoy Samoan-born theater-artist and choreographer Lemi Ponifasio’s magnificent Requiem, and Australian artist Lynette Wallworth’s installations. The season will also mark the auspicious debuts of a new, ascendant generation of conductors, including twenty-something French phenom Lionel Bringuier and British sensation Edward Gardner. These firsts will be complemented by the returns of such revered artists as the Emerson String Quartet, and pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Event Website This event runs through August 23
(Helen Hayes Theatre, 240 West 44th St, New York, NY 10036) Goldberg is temporarily filling in for Jackie Hoffman in the roles of Calliope and Aphrodite, about which she said, "What better way to stick my toe back on to the Broadway stage than to join the amazing cast of Xanadu. It's such a fun show and is definitely my sensibility, as written by the divine Douglas Carter Beane. For me, it's going to be unbelievable." We agree! Event Website This event runs through September 7
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