And I keep forgetting to mention that we're having an informal showing of the video that I've shot at DPI.  It's being projected inside the building at 983-A Dean St this Saturday, 26th July.  It's designed to be viewed from the street.  The building is in the middle of the block between Franklin and Classon (nearest subway C train to Franklin Ave).  

Weather permitting, Monica Ruzansky (www.monicaruzansky.com) will be projecting her beautiful photography on the surrounding architecture and up on the roof, where we'll be hanging out and having drinks with anyone who wants to drop by and join us from 9pm onwards.  Hope to see you there!

SOHO Think Tank ICE FACTORY '08 : TRACES/fades
July 16-19 Wednesday-Saturday 7PM $10-$15
Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St

a meditation on Alzheimer's and our national inability to remember history.
an intergenerational performance that examines the fluidity of identity.

written and conceived: Lenora Champagne
directed: Lenora Champagne and Robert Lyons
featuring: Mary Fogarty*, Judith Greentree*, Joanne Jacobson*, Quanda Johnson*, Matthew Lewis*, Amelie Lyons and Lenora Champagne
music and sound:Daniel Levy and Lisa Dove
video: Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty
lights: Stacey-Jo Marine
costumes: Liz Prince
stage management: Nicole Marconi
assistant direction: Tricia Cramer and Janina Santillan

Red handle's Yellow Electras
PERFORMANCE: July 10 - 19 $17
Ontological-Hysteric Incubator

Red handle creates and presents live performances that crash through boundaries of media, genre, storytelling, and audience.
Red handle's newest remaking creates a new template for an old myth, mixing video, movement, opera, and theatre in a playful series of episodes, interruptions, and entertainments. Following the success of iph.then at the Ontological last summer, YELLOW ELECTRAS is a mash-up of the Electra myth and Kandinsky's Yellow Sound, and includes several Electras, a chorus, opera, dance, and sounds from Strauss, Kandinsky, and & Grizzly Bear.

Writer/Director: Peter A. Campbell
Dramaturgy: Ramona Thomasius
Movement: Laura Ward
Co-Producer: Eve Hartmann
Stage Manager: Christine Vartoughian
Sets + Lights: Peter Ksander
Video Design: Ann LePore
Video Editing + Operator: Laura Keller
Light Operator: Lauren Barbara

CAST:
Laura Heidinger - ELECTRA
Genevieve de Gaillande - ELECTRA
Karen Rich - ELEKTRA
David Gordon - ORESTES
Gavin Starr Kendall - MENTOR/PYLADES
Chorus: Diane Botta, Jackie Byrne, Carissa Cordes,
Annie Deng, Sarah Hartmann, Cindy Kawasaki,
Jaime Lubin, Ashlie Miller, Lauren Ospala,
Marjorie Polunas, Justine Raczkiewicz,
Iracel Rivero, Jennifer Stepanyk, Jenny Vallancourt

Prince: Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol
PERFORMANCE: July 9th-20th 8PM
additional late show Sat 11PM
PS122

"Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol is Neal Medlyn's fourth and largest to date pop song tragic-comedic extravaganza. Following the success of his Lionel Richie Opera, R. Kelly cabaret, and wild and bloody spin on Phil Collins, Medlyn takes on the purple, hyper- sexualized world of Prince.

Set to many of Prince's biggest hits and infamous b-sides, all performed onstage by a live band, Neal plays out an evening of seduction and intense internal spiritual conflict between two characters: an engaged cab driver and a messianic libertine. Jealousy, band troubles, violence, death, a dream ballet, decent into hell and the eventual transubstantiation of body fluids and redemption all find their place in an operatic and overblown evening of androgynous musical entertainment.

Co-written and with musical arrangements by Tony-Award Nominated and Obie winner Kenny Mellman; Herb of Kiki & Herb and co-creator, with Bridget Everett and Michael Patrick King ("Sex and the City") of At Least It's Pink. Neal will also be joined by Adrienne Truscott, lauded choreographer and half of the award winning neo-vaudeville duo the Wau Wau Sisters, who will also contribute choreography, and Carmine Covelli.
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Troika Ranch Champagne Party Fundraiser
EVENT:June 25 2008 7-9 PM $50 and up
Affirmation Arts
523 West 37th St

A chance to reconnect with our local community, meet
new people, and celebrate with live music, art, refreshments and more!

The event will celebrate and expose the creative process of Loop Diver Troika Ranch's current work-in-development. Get a glimpse behind the scenes at the
choreography, sceneography and visual imagery.

The evening will include free-flowing champagne and hors d'oeuvre's, a live excerpt from Loop Diver and a Troika Ranch interactive installation, set design models and drawings from Colin Killian, and the exquisite art of William T. Hillman on view.

The evening will conclude with live music and dancing featuring Jacob Jiles and his band and guests Adam Matta and Noah Hoffeld

Ballet Mécanique / Frequency Hopping
PERFORMANCE: June 22
   7PM Frequency Hopping
   Followed by Ballet Mécanique

3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich St, NYC

Following a special evening performance this Sunday of the Hourglass
Group's new play Frequency Hopping, Paul Lehrman and LEMUR will present
Ballet Mécanique, George Antheil's mind-breaking 1924 work for
sychronized player pianos and lots and lots of percussion. It will be
performed by eight Yamaha Disklaver player pianos and an array of LEMUR
percussion robots including two xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, a
siren, seven doorbells and three "airplane propellors". It will also be
accompanied by the collaborative film of the same title by Fernand
Lèger.

Assember Dilator
PERFORMANCE:  June 20,  21 8PM $10
Bushwick Starr

207 Starr St. Brooklyn, NY

ASSEMBER DILATOR is A loud work in progress with Caitlin McDonough Thayer and Mike Sharpie.
Featuring the work of Shannon Sindelar, Mirit Tal, Jon Luton, Andreea Mincic, TaraFawn and Benjamin Brown.

31 Down creates moody, audio-based imagistic work infused with obsession, voyeurism, time and ingenuity; covering such topics as surveillance, privacy, invention and innovation; telepathy, radio, television, the Internet and mass media; sanity, delusions and the last days and thoughts of people’s lives.