Beauty
May 17 – May 20, 2012 at 7:30pm
by Jane Comfort and Company
Hailed by The Washington Post as “fascinating and fantastic,” Beauty takes a gimlet-eyed look at the extremes women go to achieve impossible beauty. Jane Comfort’s wildly versatile company members don false eyelashes, sequins, and Spanx to compete in a nightly Barbie Beauty Contest judged by random audience members. Ditching Barbie drag, they examine the many beauty procedures available to us lesser creatures: liposuction, botox, plastic surgeries, etc., and those that aren’t: Photoshop, the digital magic that retouches every model we see in magazines. Beauty invites men and women of all ages to consider how they perceive and project notions of female beauty in both benign and malevolent ways, consciously and subconsciously. Comfort was awarded a Guggenheim to create this wickedly funny and poignant work, which is performed in repertory with her Bessie Award-winning Underground River.
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Digital Duets
May 19, 2012 at 2:30pm
by CultureHub
Interactive Telepresence performances connecting dance artists/choreographers from Manchester, England with New York dance artists.
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East Village Dance Project
May 20, 2012 at 1:30 & 3:30pm
East Village Dance Project is a dance development program for youth founded in 1997 by Artistic Director, Martha Tornay. EVDP performs annually in New York and has been at La MaMa Moves! three seasons. The program has been recognized for its innovative approach to dance and education, and for offering pre-professional classes to all, regardless of social or economic situation. The 2012 concert features dancers age 4 to 18 who study at the East Village Dance Project at Avenue C Studio in Manhattan in 9 works, including Bal-Led, by Martha Tornay with music by Led Zeppelin and a new work by the EVDP Junior Co. with live music performed by teen musician Jack Lazar. eastvillagedanceproject.com
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The Mermaid Show
May 17 – May 20, 2012
by Ann Liv Young
Ann Liv Young, who has routinely provoked, tormented, and enraptured audiences, will do it all once again in the U.S. premiere of “Mermaid Show.” Young
is, of course, the Mermaid, but one who challenges her audience’s passivity in her turn from the sweet Disney creation into a raw fish eating, spitting creature as she emerges from her blow-up pool.
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Chamber Works II
May 18 – May 20, 2012
“So Young, So Dear” by Yuko Takahashi Dance Company, “Silent Noise” by Eun Hee Lee, “The Middle of Where She Is” by Risa Jaroslow and Dancers
Freeze Your Eggs
By Grant Shaffer
April 26 – May 20, 2012
Born in 1965 in San Francisco, Grant Shaffer has lived and worked in Manhattan as an artist illustrator for the past 17 years. He illustrates for magazines and newspapers such as The New Yorker, Interview, and The New York Times. His work was recently featured in the book “All The Art That’s Fit To Print: Inside The [...]