Date: Monday, July 7th - 8th Time: 12:00pm & 1:30pm Location: Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street (near food kiosks) Cost: Free
"Risa Jaroslow's new work, 311, will take place under the massive archways of the city's Municipal Building. Six dancers will engage in a range of interactions, while an interviewer queries passersby and people, entering and leaving the building about their thoughts on city government. What will emerge when onlookers are asked to engage with these questions in the larger context of the current national focus on government and civic engagement and the immediate context of a dance performance where you don’t expect to see one? These amplified conversations will provide the dance’s sound score." Full set of dates and more on the troop below. All Ages
Full event dates: July 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 12:00pm and 1:30pm
"There are as many ways to move as there are people. I include both the incredible virtuosity of highly trained dancers and the unique and deeply human contributions of non-trained movers in my work. By combining them, I aim to create a rich, complex picture of the human experience that is resonant with all kinds of audiences.
Our creative process begins with questions like, What feels like "home" to you? What is the meaning of maleness and masculinity in our society, and what could it mean? We bring our questions to people of different ages, backgrounds and abilities in community settings, and they answer us in words and movements that open up universes of possibility. In the studio, the company turns those answers into dances - stretching them, turning them into daring partnering, whirling them through space and arranging them in patterns across many bodies."
Date: Tuesdays through August 12th Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm Location: Rockaway Beach 5 (84th Street next to the boardwalk, Far Rockaway) - map (info and map) Cost: Free
If you've got 2 left feet like me then Dancing under the Stars is for you. Each week is a free, absolute beginner, outdoor dance class presented by the American Ballroom Theater. Learn classics such as the merengue, foxtrot, and waltz, and strut your stuff to the beat of a live band on the final night. All ages, no partner needed.
Date: Tuesdays through August Time: 6:30pm Location: Pier 45 at Christopher St Cost: Free
Tuesdays hit a high note with jazz and classical performances from Mannes College The New School for Music and The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music on one of Hudson River Park's most beautiful piers by star students from around the city. Tonight the Ross Clark Trio play a selection of jazz and contemporary music while you watch the sunset. All Ages.
New York Classical Theatre's mission is to reinvigorate and create audiences for the theatre by presenting free productions of popular classics and forgotten masterpieces in non-traditional public spaces throughout New York City. This week they present Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth staged throughout Battery Park and Castle Clinton—as the play moves from scene to scene, the audience follows the performance from place to place. Full dates below. All Ages.
Date: Tuesday, July 8th Time: 7:00pm Location: St. Mary's Park (146th St at St. Ann's Ave, Bronx) - map Cost: Free
Eddy Zervigon’s famed charanga band brings its flutes, violins and congas to the Bronx as Orquestra Broadway (or Orquesta depending on the website you read) plays a free sunset show this evening. More on the band below. All Ages.
This release from the oldest charanga in "El Norte" (U.S.A.), Orquesta Broadway, celebrates four decades of continuous devotion to the traditional sounds end styles of Cuban music. Led by the magical flute of Eddy Zervigón, the orchestra was originally founded by the Zervigón brothers (Eddy, Rudy, and Kelvin) and baptized Orquesta Broadway by Catalina Rolón (manager of New York City's popular Palladium nightclub) in 1962, because all of its members lived on or near Broadway. Immediately the bend became the musical sensation at the Palladium and throughout the Big Apple. Zervigón's use of a five-key French wooden flute with excellent high pitched tones set the orchestra's sound apart from all others. The blending of a lead flute with violins and Afro-Cuban percussion and vocals created the successful sound of Orquesta Broadway, which rapidly earned the love of aficionados from all corners of the world. This recording delivers a repertoire of some of the orchestra's best-known hit songs, as well as new material. They open with the Eugenio Hernández classic compositions Mulata (a Cuban favorite) and Isla Del Encanto (the Nuyorican national anthem). Other favorites are Arrepiéntete, featuring the guest vocals of Rafael "Felo" Barrio (ah original member of the orchestra), and the charanga classics Yo Bailo Con Ella and La Negra Fuló. Special guest musicians in the recording include Alfredo de la Fé (violin), Roberto Rodriguez, Jr. (trumpet), Iván Zervigón (percussion), plus Eugenio Hernández and Verny Varela on vocals. (Latin Beat Magazine)
Date: Tuesday, July 8th Time: 7:00pm Location: Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park - map Cost: Free
Since 1905, the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts has continuously presented free, outdoor classical music concerts to New Yorkers of all walks of life. Named after founder and philanthropist Elkan Naumburg, who donated the Naumburg Bandshell to New York City in 1923, and inspired by his own love of music, the series seeks to stimulate and encourage new and expanded audiences for classical music in the informal and beautiful setting of Central Park. Tonight's program below. All Ages.
Date: Tuesday, July 8th Time: Doors and performances at 4:00pm; Movie at dusk (about 8:00pm) Location: The McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St between Driggs and Bayard Ave) Cost: Free
Today is the Williamsburg Block Party and the kick off of Summerscreen, the L Magazine's summer movie series. Helena Maria, Mattison, A Million Years and and The King Left perform as part of a benefit for Open Space Alliance, plus a sunset screening of Wet Hot American Summer with and introduction from Michael Showalter.
Date: Tuesdays Time:10:00pm Location:Happy Ending (302 Broom St) Cost: Free Open Bar: Well Vodka, 11:30-12
Happy Ending is always good for a little late night booze-fest and tonight is no exception. Dirty Disco mixes all the sounds the kids are diggin' these days... or in 1987... disco (duh), brit pop, indie, and new wave. While this will never replace the insanely debaucherous Sh!t Hammered weekly where I once saw 4 Hassids shoot tequila while 2 lesbians made out on a bed in the middle of the dance floor - it should still prove to be a good time. 21+
