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Saturday, November 2, 5:00 pmNothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Philippe Quesne Bivouac
Saturday, November 2, 8:00 pmNothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido | CAMPO Still Standing You
Saturday, November 2, 8:00 pmA raucous and funny performance investigating the relationship between dance and masculinity.
$20 · Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune Street
Paulo Bruscky GAME-PERFORMANCE
Sunday, November 3, 11:00 amBruscky dismantles the conventions of soccer in this chaotic afternoon match.
FREE · Macombs Dam Park
Philippe Quesne Bivouac
Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pmNothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido | CAMPO Still Standing You
Sunday, November 3, 5:00 pmA raucous and funny performance investigating the relationship between dance and masculinity.
$20 · Martha Graham Studio, 55 Bethune Street
Philippe Quesne Bivouac
Sunday, November 3, 8:00 pmNothing is quite as it seems in a performance/installation by the French director noted for both his wit and immersive sets.
$20 · 360 Smith Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn
Eleanor Bauer BAUER HOUR
Sunday, November 3, 8:00 pmA performance art variety show hosted by the one-and-only Eleanor Bauer.
$15 · Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
Eleanor Bauer BAUER HOUR
Sunday, November 3, 10:00 pmA performance art variety show hosted by the one-and-only Eleanor Bauer.
$15 · Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Monday, November 4, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Akademia Ruchu Chinese Lesson / Chińska Lekcja
Wednesday, November 6, 7:00 pmPoland's groundbreaking collective create contemporary versions of their seminal political happenings.
FREE · Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Wednesday, November 6, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Thursday, November 7, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Friday, November 8, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Bedwyr Williams A Break In
Sunday, November 10, 5:00 pmA break in at the home of a private collector is staged in one of Williams's most ambitious monologues yet.
$15 · Thea Westreich, Art Adisory Services, 114 Greene Street
Bedwyr Williams A Break In
Sunday, November 10, 6:30 pmA break in at the home of a private collector is staged in one of Williams's most ambitious monologues yet.
$15 · Thea Westreich, Art Adisory Services, 114 Greene Street
Two Arrabalesques A Surrealist Café
Sunday, November 10, 9:00 pmTwo evenings of poetry, cabaret interventions, and impromptu performances celebrating the singular Fernando Arrabal.
$15 · The Bowery Poetry Club
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Tuesday, November 12, 7:30 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Dani Gal Failed to Bind
Wednesday, November 13, 6:00 pmA lone performer and a slide projector combine narratives from current affairs photos and artist statements.
Free with RSVP · Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Wednesday, November 13, 7:30 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Alexandre Singh The Humans
Wednesday, November 13, 7:30 pmShakespearean stylings and Molière's antics meet Greek storytelling in a operatic and comedic retelling of the origin myth.
$20 · BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
Vishal Jugdeo A Shaky Picture Has No Weight
Wednesday, November 13, 8:30 pmLos Angeles-based installation artist and filmmaker creates a new work of filmic fragments in a constructed theatrical set that speaks to movement, travel, and sense of space.
$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St
Dani Gal Failed to Bind
Thursday, November 14, 6:00 pmA lone performer and a slide projector combine narratives from current affairs photos and artist statements.
Free with RSVP · Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Thursday, November 14, 7:30 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Alexandre Singh The Humans
Thursday, November 14, 7:30 pmShakespearean stylings and Molière's antics meet Greek storytelling in a operatic and comedic retelling of the origin myth.
$20 · BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
Vishal Jugdeo A Shaky Picture Has No Weight
Thursday, November 14, 8:30 pmLos Angeles-based installation artist and filmmaker creates a new work of filmic fragments in a constructed theatrical set that speaks to movement, travel, and sense of space.
$15 · Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St
Eddie Peake Endymion
Thursday, November 14, 9:00 pmA series of evocative tableaux vivants and choreographed gestures explore the politics of the displayed body.
$20 · Swiss Institute, 18 Wooster St New York, NY 10013
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Friday, November 15, 7:30 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Alexandre Singh The Humans
Friday, November 15, 7:30 pmShakespearean stylings and Molière's antics meet Greek storytelling in a operatic and comedic retelling of the origin myth.
$20 · BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
Joan Jonas Reanimation
Friday, November 15, 8:00 pmJoan Jonas and pianist Jason Moran create an icy multimedia alchemy, inspired by the novel Under the Glacier.
$20 · Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
RESCHEDULED
Nicholas Hlobo Zinintsi izinto ezimayela nam endingazaziyoFriday, November 15, 8:30 pmDue to a health emergency, we will be rescheduling this performance. New dates will be announced after the biennial.
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St
Joan Jonas Reanimation
Saturday, November 16, 3:00 pmJoan Jonas and pianist Jason Moran create an icy multimedia alchemy, inspired by the novel Under the Glacier.
$20 · Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Saturday, November 16, 7:30 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Alexandre Singh The Humans
Saturday, November 16, 7:30 pmShakespearean stylings and Molière's antics meet Greek storytelling in a operatic and comedic retelling of the origin myth.
$20 · BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
Joan Jonas Reanimation
Saturday, November 16, 8:00 pmJoan Jonas and pianist Jason Moran create an icy multimedia alchemy, inspired by the novel Under the Glacier.
$20 · Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
RESCHEDULED
Nicholas Hlobo Zinintsi izinto ezimayela nam endingazaziyoSaturday, November 16, 8:30 pmDue to a health emergency, we will be rescheduling this performance. New dates will be announced after the biennial.
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St
Zachary Fabri Shiny Shoes
Sunday, November 17, 1:00 pmA new live performance interweaving physical movement, monologue and sound from the galleries of The Studio Museum in Harlem to 125th St.
Free with Museum admission · The Studio Museum in Harlem
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Sunday, November 17, 3:00 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Alexandre Singh The Humans
Sunday, November 17, 3:00 pmShakespearean stylings and Molière's antics meet Greek storytelling in a operatic and comedic retelling of the origin myth.
$20 · BAM Fisher, 321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn
Jérôme Bel and Theater HORA Disabled Theater
Sunday, November 17, 7:00 pmBrutally honest and highly political, this powerful performance pairs the Performa alum with a theater company of professional actors with learning disabilities.
$15 - $40 · New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Monday, November 18, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Shana Lutker The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm
Tuesday, November 19, 8:30 pmA fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.
$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Tuesday, November 19, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
David Antonio Cruz TAKEABITE: The Opera
Wednesday, November 20, 7:00 pmA short and humorous operatic performance explores migration, gluttony, and consumption of the American dream.
Free with RSVP · El Museo del Barrio
Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs
Wednesday, November 20, 8:00 pmVitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.
$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City
Shana Lutker The Nose, The Cane, The Broken Left Arm
Wednesday, November 20, 8:30 pmA fistfight between Surrealists and Dadaists is revisited and re-imagined by this LA-based artist.
$15 · Theatre 80, 80 St Marks Place
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Wednesday, November 20, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs
Thursday, November 21, 8:00 pmVitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.
$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City
Raqs Media Collective The Last International
Thursday, November 21, 8:30 pmA performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
Rashid Johnson Dutchman
Thursday, November 21, 10:00 pmLeRoi Jones's Dutchman is restaged in the steamy confines of the unique Russian & Turkish baths.
$35 · 10th Street Bath House, 268 East 10th Street
Molly Lowe HANDS OFF
Friday, November 22, 7:00 pmA surreal and otherworldly performance imagines a culture where humans have devolved into a tangle of fingers.
$10 · Presented with Recess at Temp Art Space, 57 Walker Street
Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs
Friday, November 22, 8:00 pmVitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.
$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City
Raqs Media Collective The Last International
Friday, November 22, 8:30 pmA performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
Molly Lowe HANDS OFF
Saturday, November 23, 7:00 pmA surreal and otherworldly performance imagines a culture where humans have devolved into a tangle of fingers.
$10 · Presented with Recess at Temp Art Space, 57 Walker Street
Marianne Vitale The Missing Book of Spurs
Saturday, November 23, 8:00 pmVitale transforms her studio in Long Island City into a mythical saloon-weather station-brothel, populated by a cast of tap-dancing astrologers, rattlesnake-bitten cowboys and dart throwing Indians.
$20 · 5-01 46th Road, Long Island City
Raqs Media Collective The Last International
Saturday, November 23, 8:30 pmA performed installation with sculpture, archival documents, auctions, newly filmed footage, and music.
$25 · Connelly Theater, 220 E 4th St
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