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Tuesday, MaY 15 at 7:30pm Jordan Isadore, Christina Jasen, Samantha SpeIs, Dages Keates UNDER EXPOSED Tickets: $12 (advance) / $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Curated by Doug Post, this series provides an opportunity for choreographers who are either beginning or evolving in their careers. Under Exposed presents work by choreographers who are not often given the opportunity to show work in larger venues which demand more "finished" visions.

This month: Jordan Isadore, Cristina Jasen (pictured), Samantha Speis, Dages Keates.

Dance/Theater, Queer Wednesday, May 16 at 7:30pm Juan Michael Porter II / The Kandake Dance-Theatre for Social Change The Keeper of Consequences / Come Undone (Excerpts) Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) The Keeper of Consequences: Concept and Choreography: Juan Michael Porter II. Assistant Choreographers: Caroline Yost & Michelle Maleh. Photography: Yvonne Ng. Additional Music: Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Visual Art: Timothy Jackson Arbon. A snake and an apple? Screw that! Watch Cain and Eve show what REALLY happened.

AND The Kandake Dance-Theatre for Social Change: Founder & Artistic Director: Olga El. Executive Director: Lasha Nazira. Performers: Anna Leah, Kat John Adams, Crystal Craigen, Sapphire Morrison, Tatianna Morales. Experience stories of modern women through indigenous art-forms and experimental theatre. Come be pampered, titillated, embarrassed, and fed.

Musical Theater That Rocks FINAL WEEKEND: DON'T MISS IT!
May 17 - 19 at 7:30pm,
May 12 & 19 at 9:30pm The Talking Band The Peripherals Tickets: $20 (advance), $25 / $20 stu/sen (door) Written and composed by Ellen Maddow and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Sluice and Suzy Q, well past their youth, perform a subterranean pop music concert, accompanied by back up singers and a rock band, The Peripherals. They sing eclectic, original songs that juxtapose pop music and stories of peripheral people, who slip by unnoticed but whose lives are unexpectedly deep, colorful, complex, subtle and unique. Get more on The Peripherals' dedicated page.

Theater Thursday, May 17 at 9:30pm The Stenographers Crosstalk Coconut Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Created & Performed by The Stenographers: Debra Disbrow, Téana David & Damaris Webb; dramaturged by Ashley Hughes. What if you had no choice but to taste your neighbor's personality? Or see explosions of magenta every time he opened his mouth? Crosstalk Coconut, a submersion into the neurological condition of synesthesia, is a visceral, and sometimes campy, romp awakening our sense perceptions.

Theater, Performance Friday, May 18 at 9:30pm warner|shaw The Latvia Project Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Conceived and directed by Annie G. Levy; created in collaboration with Franny Silverman; choreography by Allison Ross. It all started with an arcane footnote, a six hundred year-long tragedy, a letter of national introduction, a highly empathic sun goddess and a mythologically-inclined searcher who must make her peace with History.

Theater, Art, Revival Service Sunday, May 20 at 11:30am Chris Wells and Friends The Secret City Tickets: $10 suggested donation Part revival, part salon, part show, these monthly services feature performance, visual art, music, food & literature, designed to inspire, excite & invigorate the creative community of NYC. More info on their website.

Benefit Performance and Recording MONday & TUESDAY, May 21 & 22 at 7:00Pm BD Wong HERRINGBONE Tickets: $50-$2,500 BD Wong (Law & Order SVU) comes to Dixon Place in "the delightfully unsettling one-man musical" for two nights only: a special concert recording for Yellow Sound Label. Book by Tom Cone (based on his play), music by Skip Kennon, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, directed by Roger Rees. Go to the dedicated page for more information!

"BD Wong delivers a most impressive, whirlwind performance with a display of unflagging energy." --Talking Broadway

New Dance SeriesWednesday, May 23, 7:30 - 9:30pm NYC Dance Week NYC10 Dance Initiative Tickets: $10 (advance - limit 50); $15 thereafter and at the door NYC10 is a unique dance project designed by NYC Dance Week, where 10 emerging companies or groups are given up to 10 minutes to showcase their work. It's a platform to expand and explore new repertoires or simply try something new. For more info on NYC Dance Week and this program, visit their website.

Participating companies this month: Kalamandir Dance Company, Lonely Goat Dance Company, MADboots Dance Co., CoreDance Contemporary, Kuchipudi Dance Academy, Rainwater Dances, Untitled|Collective, Kordkor Dance, Yoo and Dancers, Royce Zackery Perspectives

Performance Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm Chris Wells BIG SENSUAL MAN, songs and stories about The Body Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Written by Chris Wells with original songs by Wells and Jeremy Bass, directed by Emma Griffin. A collection of hilarious and touching songs and stories by the Obie award winner (The Secret City) relating to The Body. From a surprising encounter at a Korean Massage Parlor, to an unlikely fetish uncovered at a gay bar, and a terrifying ride at Six Flaggs, Big Sensual Man charts the funny, wonder-filled and terrifying adventures of one Big Man in search of life's great sensations.

Dance, Theater Thursday, May 24 at 9:30pm Kristin Hatleberg & Aaron Hodges / Cori Kresge it took nine days to eat. / new work Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) it took nine days to eat.: created and performed by Kristin Hatleberg & Aaron Hodges with Pedro Jimenez. A journey into the mental and emotional wilderness of fear, loneliness and power, an abstract exploration in the solitude of psychopathy lit only by handheld lights. Borrowing its title from a letter written by cannibal Albert Fish to the mother of his young victim and steeped in the atmospheric travel recordings of audio documentarian Quiet American, it took nine days to eat. bridges the shadowy divide between the unspeakable and the transcendent.
PLUS New Work by Cori Kresge

Dance Saturday, May 26 at 9:30pm Annika Sheaff L.O.V.E. Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) L.O.V.E.: Choreographed by Annika Sheaff, performed by Lucie Baker and John Sorensen-Jolink. A funny, innocent duet about young love. This piece will bring you back in time to an age when you didn't know how to talk to your crush! You are sure to fall in love again for the first time!

Dance Tuesday, May 29 at 7:30pm Lindsay Gilmour, Mana Kawamura, Nejla Yatkin, Selma Trevino, Ann Mazzocca CROSSING BOUNDARIES Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Curator Marcia Monroe mixes different forms of expression and encourages artists to take risks and overcome limitations within their own art form. The boundaries crossed may be cultural with artists coming from abroad or elsewhere in the US, or within disciplines as "legitimate" local artists travel "downtown" for the first time.

This month featuring: Lindsay Gilmour, Mana Kawamura, Nejla Yatkin, Selma Trevino, Ann Mazzocca (pictured)

Toy Theatre and Ventriloquism May 25 - June 2 at 7:30pm, June 8-9 at 9:30pm Paul Zaloom WHITE LIKE ME: A Honky Dory Puppet Show Tickets: $15 (advance), $18 / $12 stu/sen or TDF (door) A New York Premiere and Exclusive Engagement! Performed by Paul Zaloom; created by Zaloom and Lynn Jeffries. Legendary puppeteer Zaloom (star of CBS' Beakman's World) employs the drawing room medium of toy theater to tell the story of the archetypical "white man" and his universe. White-Man leaves his planet Caucazoid, travels through space, "civilizes" the earth (populated with aliens), becomes a philanthropist and savior, and finally, freaks out about his approaching minority status. Get more info on the dedicated web page.

Theater, Performance, Music, Comedy, Queer Circus Wednesday, May 30 at 7:30pm Billy Hough and Susan Goldberg Scream Along presents Billy and Sue in Death in Venice Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Billy and Susan return to DP for their last NYC show of the season—maybe ever— performing, in it's entirety, their critically-acclaimed new album Venice. This long awaited follow up to their smash debut (Scream Along with Billy: The Album) contains the single Venice as heard in the recent Oren Moverman film Rampart. With special guests and puppets. (We didn't say "no puppets.")

Dance Theater Thursday, May 31 at 7:30pm 277DanceProject Run, Run, As Fast As You Can Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) Concept & Direction: 277DanceProject — Nicole Philippidis and Stacey Cervellino; Choreography: Nicole Philippidis; Videography: Peter Zaharatos; Music editing: John Philippidis; Costumes: Marianna Tsartolia; Cast: Stacey Cervellino, Kevin Chu, Alissa Clarke, Audrey Ellis, Richard Epstein, Jordan Gehley, Sayako Harada, Shang-Ho Huang, Melissa Lazo, Katherine Lenhart, Laurence Martin, Olgierd Minkiewicz, Nicole Philippidis, Adina Valerio. "As you're pretty be wise...wolves lurk in every disguise..." What are the myths and fairy tales that shape our lives? What do we choose to believe? What do we secretly long for? Be careful what you wish for...

Dance THURSDAY - SATURDAY, MAY 31 - JUNE 2 AT 9:30PM NATALIA DUONG PROJECT AGENT ORANGE Tickets: $18 / $10 stu/sen Project Agent Orange is a movement collective that investigates how war is inherited in the body: across borders and generations. It is a story best told through movement, as it is through the bodies of survivors that trauma due to warfare continues to thrive. We are interested in the remnants that remain in the wake of war; how communities remember themselves and their histories; how we journey forward.

Circus Arts, Variety Monday, June 4 at 8:00pm Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Hour Tickets: $5 suggested donation A first look at NYC's finest emerging variety and circus talents. Get more info on their dedicated web page here.

To sign up, e-mail Keith at with "Open Stage" in the subject line. Include a description of your act and the date(s) you are interested in performing.

This new series continues throughout 2012: July 2, August 6, September 3, October 1, November 5, December 3.

Dance Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5 & 6 at 7:30pm Jen McGinn and Gillian Walsh Brink: mcginn & again / out of body
& New Work Tickets: $12 (advance); $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Curated by Kim Brandt.

mcginn & again and out of body. Created by Jen McGinn, with James McGinn, Maggie Cloud, iele paloumpis and Brandon Washington. Two pieces that have a direct relationship to one another.

Followed by
New work from Gillian Walsh Dance, Theater Thursdays - Saturdays, June 7 – 23 at 7:30pm RACHEL KLEIN SYMPHONY OF SHADOWS Tickets: $15 (advance), $18 / $12 stu/sen or TDF (door) Created, Choreographed & Designed by RACHEL KLEIN. A macabre aerial spectacle in expressionistic dance theater, Klein’s choreography evokes 1920s Max Fleisher cartoons and silent film a la Phantom of the Opera. Get more info and see the preview video on their dedicated webpage. Dance, Theater/Performance, Music, Photography, Visual Art Sunday, June 10 at 6:00pm
Doors open at 5pm ARTS BY THE PEOPLE Across the Platform Tickets: $15 Choreography: Katie Stehura; Live Music: Bisco Smith; Spoken Word: Gustav Gauntlett; Photography: Marko Kovacevic; Visual Art: Jin Koh; Production: Paul Rabinowitz; Additional Performance: Sarah Barber, Daniel Holt, Kiki Williams and Rabbi Darkside; Lighting Design: Nicole Gross.

Theater meets Modern Dance meets Hip Hop meets Live Art & Photography. A fresh performance art piece created and produced by ARTS By the People's artists.

Doors open at 5pm. Food and drinks will be available after the show. Proceeds from this event go to support ARTS By the People’s workshops for youth and senior citizens. Theater, Dance, Music, Performance Art, Media, Robotics monday, June 11 at 7:30pm LITTLE THEATER Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 / $10 stu/sen and TDF (door) OBIE-winning cutting-edge series (theater, dance, music, performance art, media, robotics, animals -- serious fun). Curated by Scott Adkins, Rob Erickson, Jeff Jones, Tina Satter & Normandy Sherwood. Dance Tuesday, June 12 at 7:30pm Lauren Grace Bakst, Barbie Diewald, Randy Burd, Nikki Nasto UNDER EXPOSED Tickets: $12 (advance) / $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Curated by Doug Post, this series provides an opportunity for choreographers who are either beginning or evolving in their careers. Under Exposed presents work by choreographers who are not often given the opportunity to show work in larger venues which demand more "finished" visions.

This month: Lauren Grace Bakst (pictured), Barbie Diewald, Randy Burd, Nikki Nasto Comedy, Music Wednesday, June 13 at 7:30pm and Saturday, June 16 at 9:30pm Lisa Brigantino and Lori Brigantino Inside Vickie and Nickie Tickets: $12 (advance) / $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Created, written and performed by Lisa Brigantino and Lori Brigantino; co-directed by Lisa Brigantino, Lori Brigantino and Jerry Snee. The multi-instrumental, singing housewife sister duo share their Minnesota origins through this wacky autobiographical musical comedy. Get more info on their website. Theater, Physical Theater, Women in Theater Friday, June 15 at 9:30pm Gold No Trade The Pinks Or, How the Pinkerton Detectives defeat the Wild Rose of the Confederacy, No. 2. Tickets: $12 (advance) / $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Created by Megan Campisi, Max Dana, Jay Dunn, Kevin Lapin & Siobhan Towey. Written by Megan Campisi. Real life Confederate spy Rose Greenhow is seducing half of Washington for the Southern cause, but the Pinkerton detectives are on her trail in this historical comedy about tolerance across political divides. Get more info on their website.
Photos (top to bottom), Column 1: Darien Bates (The Talking Band), Whitney Brown (Christina Jasen), Todd Williams (The Keeper of Consequences), Theresa Keil (Kandake Dance-Theatre), Ben Yalom (Crosstalk Coconut), Birdhouse Media (The Latvia Project), Kaori Sohma (Ann Mazzocca), Aaron Hodges (it took nine days to eat.), Abbey Roesner (Annika Sheaff), Howard Wise (Paul Zaloom), Jaqlin Medlock (277DanceProject), Alvaro Ponce (Natalia Duong),Jim Moore (Bindlestiff Family Cirkus), Jenn McGinn (artist), Erika Latta (Lauren Bakst), Joseph Rivera (Vickie & Nickie). Column 2: Mellody Mudd (Eleni), Andrew Bridge (Aimee Norwich), Susan Potoroka (Rarefaction), Ed Kaz (Sense Memory).

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Literature, Lounge Tuesday, May 15 at 7:30pm Hector Canonge and Andrew Weems Experiments & Disorders Tickets: $6 Experiments and Disorders is DP's long running literary series, curated by Christen Clifford and Tom Cole. Recent participants include: Lynne Tillman, Paul Lisicky, Karen Lillis, Ethan Lipton, Phillip Lopate, Laurie Stone, Rebekah Rutcoff, Patty Powers, McKenzie Wark, John Wray, and Eileen Myles

Hector Canonge lives and works in New York City where he studied Comparative Literature, Filmmaking and Integrated Media Arts. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performative narratives.

Andrew Weems has appeared on Broadway in Born Yesterday, Inherit the Wind, The Green Bird, and London Assurance.

Get more info on these guests on the E&D page.

Lounge, Theater Thursday, May 17 at 7:30pm
& Saturday, May 19 at 7:30pm Joseph Mauricio rattlethecage Tickets: $5 cash only at the door A one person performance in one senseless act with Joseph Mauricio, directed by Robert Prichard with a special appearance by Caroline Contillo. rattlethecage is an interactive performance that spins observational comedy, philosophy, science and spirituality into a whirlwind of sound, texture and insight. It's a guided tour of the circles of hell, rings of heaven and condom strewn parking lots of purgatory by way of the New Jersey Turnpike.

Lounge, Performance Thursday, May 17 at 9:30pm Eleni A simple masturbating matter Tickets: FREE Written and performed by Eleni. Sometimes you don't just need to get into the head of your shrink to get off, you need to climb on top of it and scream.

Film, Theater, Performance, Lounge Friday, May 18 at 7:30pm Danielle Winston Sense Memory Tickets: FREE Written and directed by Danielle Winston. Featuring *Samantha Karlin, Alex Davis, *Nic Grelli, *Alyssa Simon, *Patricia Norris, Elizabeth Dilley and Nicholas J. Coleman. A haunted actress, seduced by a ghost, fears her first role may be her last!

Music, Lounge Friday, May 18 at 9:30pm Jerold H. and Aimee Norwich Rarefaction and Dark Number Tickets: FREE Two soloists on bass.

Jerold H / Rarefaction (the opposite of compression) is a reference to sparseness & minimalism. With a strong focus on texture, timbre and impact, many of the often hypnotic "emotionally athletic" instrumental pieces are easily reminiscent of film soundtracks.

Aimee Norwich: The dark number in statistical data is the figure more closely representing the true figure of a statistical analysis. It is the figure that goes unpublished. The concept of this piece is derived from the idea of bringing truth to light, through internal reflection and analysis.

Lounge, Music, Performance Thursday, May 24 at 7:30pm Butters Papi MaDHatTers CabArEt's: MAYHEM Tickets: $5 cash only at the door MaDHaTters CabArEt prides itself in bringing audiences performance art that subverts, enlightens and questions notions of gender, race and sexuality.

Founded in 2009 by Cristina "Cris" Izaguirre and Zakiyyah Shabazz, Butters Papi is a queer and trans people of color production company, that develops performances in theater, visual arts, film and other new media. Our goal is to promote, support and increase the visibility of queer artists of color.

Lounge, Queer, Literature Thursday, May 31 at 9:30pm Max Steele, Christopher Stoddard, SAHEED JONES FAG CITY Tickets: FREE A multidisciplinary reading and performance series organized by Max Steele, featuring Christopher Stoddard and Saheed Jones. FAG CITY introduces NYC audiences to new and upcoming talent and provides an opportunity for established writers and artists to present new work,The series celebrates and reflects the diversity of New York's queer and trans communities by fostering an inclusive space for new, experimental voices and work.

Lounge, Cabaret, Music, Theatre/Performance, Comedy Fridays, June 1 and 8 at 9:30pm Raquel Cion Gilding the Lonely Tickets: FREE Written & Performed by Raquel Cion, directed by Hillary Spector, musical direction by Lance Cruce, drums & percussion Bill Gerstel, costumes by David Quinn. Performer/Chanteuse Cion returns to The Lounge, bringing all the glitter-ball performance, wry humor, pathos, passion and song she’s known for.

Lounge, Music Friday, June 8 at 7:30pm THE FAMOUS ACCORDION ORCHESTRA Tickets: $5 cash only at the door The Famous Accordion Orchestra, led by Bob Goldberg (of the late Washboard Jungle), is a group of flexible size that bridges the traditional and the post-modern, ranging from Rossini to Duke Ellington to Paolo Conte to Kraftwerk. They have performed in clubs, gardens, cemeteries and parades throughout the city.

Dance, Short Film, Lounge Saturday, June 9 at 7:30pm Charles Dennis
with Elise Knudson and Kayoko Nishima Dance Films Tickets: $5 cash only at the door Choreographer/videographer and P.S. 122 co-founder, Charles Dennis, will screen a collection of his dance/video/art short films. Included are The Ride Home (2012), February (2011), Squibnocket Tides (2012), After Rush Hour (2010), Shoot Out at Betacam Canyon (2000), New York 1985, and Feet With The Beat - created in collaboration with Alain LeRazer (1986), plus a new live dance/video work by Dennis featuring guest dancers Elise Knudson and Kayoko Nakajima.

Literature, Lounge Tuesday, June 12 at 7:30pm Sarah Maxfield, Heidi Schreck and Jeff Ragsdale Tickets: $6 Sarah Maxfield investigates contemporary performance and its history through practice discussion and critical theory. Among numerous other projects, she currently curates two ongoing performance series One Shot (online) and Throw (Chocolate Factory), and she is conducting an oral history of experimental dance and performance in New York, which will be compiled into a book titled Nonlinear Lineage.

Heidi Schreck is a playwright as well as a Drama Desk and Obie-winning actor whose plays include Creature, Backwards Into China, Stray, Mister Universe, Memorial Day and Spirit Lake.

Jeff Ragsdale is the author of Jeff, One Lonely Guy. He has worked as a stand up comedian, actor and home builder. He lives in New York City.

Get more info on these guests on the E&D page.

Music, Lounge Thursday, June 14 at 7:30pm and 9:30pm Salieu Suso, Tripp Dudley, Joshn Ragusa & Kevin Nathaniel KALEIDHAPHONIC Tickets: $5 suggested donation A dynamic musical quartet breaking new ground in the fusion of world, trance, ancient and modern musical genres. In Kaleidhaphonic, African, Indian and Western instruments combine, weaving a colorful and mesmerizing soundscape of deep grooves, dancing rhythms, and simply beautiful sounds.

Performance, Queer, Lounge Saturday, June 16 at 9:30pm Raquel Almazan PORNING THE PLANET: The De-Sensitiz Nation of a Generation Tickets: $5 cash only at the door Written and performed by Raquel Almazan, directed by Penny Arcade, choreography by Vangeline, mutli-media by Sandra Powers, art direction and costumes by Sindy Butz, muse/consultant: Brittany Andrews, sound design by Adam Mansell. Porning the Planet challenges our notion of how pornography has altered our social communication.

DP NEWS HOLLY HUGHES' THE DOG AND PONY SHOW (BRING YOUR OWN PONY), which was presented in the 2011 HOT! Festival, has been nominated for a 2012 GLAAD Media Award. Congratulations to Holly and her excellent team for another stellar production!
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