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Fall for Dance Festival
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- Parent Category: Other Festivals
- Category: Music
- Published on Thursday, 03 September 2009 18:26
- Written by fftraveler staff
For 10 exhilarating days each year, the Fall for Dance Festival presents the passion, the energy and sheer joy that is dance, from New Yor
k City, across the country, and around the globe. The world-famous alongside the cutting-edge, treasured favorites surrounded by undiscovered gems will perform at NY City Center. Multiple companies appear in each performance, offering audiences a sampling of the best that dance has to offer – from contemporary to capoeira, ballet to modern , tap to tango!
Celebrating 100 Years of the Ballets Russes, This year festival offers a special focus on this famous company. Sergei Diaghilev set the European cultural scene ablaze with his creation of the Ballets Russes, a collaboration of the continent’s most talented musicians, designers and dancers who more than rejuvenated the performing arts of their time.
From 1909-1929, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes served as a canvas for Europe’s brightest artists to display their works, nurturing choreographers like Michel Fokine, Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska and George Balanchine as well as composers like Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Francis Poulenc. The Ballets Russes reclaimed the importance of the arts and forever changed the way people viewed dance.
To pay tribute to its extraordinary contribution to the arts, the 2009 Fall for Dance Festival includes eight companies presenting Ballets Russes classics or contemporary interpretations of its great works. New York City Center and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center, will exhibit portions of Diaghilev's Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath at New York City Center during the Festival.
In addition, Fall for Dance’s annual DanceTalk series will provide attendees with the opportunity to hear from dance experts about creative collaborations during the Ballets Russes era and influences this seminal period in dance has had on today’s artists.
For each Fall for Dance performance is a live DJ and drinks to keep the party going before and after the show. A video feed from the stage lets you follow Festival performances as they happen. Plus, attend open dance lessons before select performances. Lounge FFD admission is free, and no reservations are required.
tickets $10 on sale from September 13, 2009 at 11am.
the Fall for Dance Festival
City Center Mainstage
Sep 22 - Oct 3, 2009
65th Annual New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at Park Ave Armory
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- Category: Art/Antiques
- Published on Friday, 28 March 2025 20:46
- Written by Brad Balfour
From April 3rd to the 6th, the Park Avenue Armory (643 Park Avenue, New York, NY) will become a treasure trove of rare books, maps, photographs, ephemera, and much more. The 65th Annual ABAA New York International Antiquarian Book Fair is more than a mouthful, it’s also where galleries and dealers from around the world converge to showcase rare works of paper. Whether you’re interested in art, design, popular culture, science, medicine, literature, history, gastronomy, fashion, music, or philosophy, the International Antiquarian Book Fair has a little something for everybody. Take home a vintage print of Josephine Baker, or an early 20th century cookbook, some maps, and 19th century pin up photos.
Along with exhibitors the Fair includes NYIABF Presents, a series of talks on the rare book industry and amplifies novel ideas about literature, print, and material culture.
To learn more, go to: https://www.nyantiquarianbookfair.com/
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
April 3 - 6, 2025
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY
Indie Comics Come Alive at MoCCA Arts Fest
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- Category: Art/Antiques
- Published on Friday, 28 February 2025 15:29
- Written by Brad Balfour
New York’s indie comics festival is back. Presented by the Society of Illustrators, the MoCCA Art Fest runs March 15 - 16 at the Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W 18th St, New York, NY), MoCCA fest has assembled legendary greats and new up-and-comers from the world of independent comics and zines.
Special guests include:
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Badiucao (You Must Take Part in Revolution)
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Charles Burns (Final Cut, Unwholesome Love)
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Michael DeForge, Holy Lacrimony
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Bim Eriksson
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Olivia Fields
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John Hankiewicz (Hot House)
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Jaime Hernandez (Life Drawing)
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Frances Jetter
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Aidan Koch (Spiral and Other Stories)
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Mattie Lubchansky
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María Medem (Land of Mirrors)
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John Vasquez Mejias
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Anders Nilsen (Tongues)
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Katie Skelly
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Kay Sohini
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Linnea Sterte (World Heist)
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Adrian Tomine
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Chloé Wary (Season of the Roses)
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Lale Westvind, Grand Electric Thought Power Mother
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Bianca Xunise, Punk Rock Karaoke
MoCCA Fest also includes programming and panel discussions exploring professional development for artists, the careers of artists such as Jaime Hernandez and Adrian Tomine, and more.
To learn more, go to: https://www.moccafest.org/
The Society of Illustrators MoCCA Arts Fest
March 15 - 16, 2025
Metropolitan Pavilion
125 West 18th Street
New York, NY 10011
The Armory Show Returns to the Javits Center this September 6-8 to Celebrate its 30th Anniversary
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- Category: Art/Antiques
- Published on Monday, 02 September 2024 14:52
- Written by Brad Balfour
Photo by Vincent Tullo
The Armory Show
VIP Preview Day
Thursday, September 5
September, 6th – 8th
Javits Center
Though I never thought of the Javits Center as the ideal place for an art exhibit let alone a major art fair, it adapts well when it hosts the annual Armory Show. New York City’s iconic fair returns with a must-see edition that features an array of incredible artists represented by over 235 leading international galleries from 35 countries.
Since 1994, it has shaped the international art scene of New York and beyond. Celebrating 30 years of the fair this September, it runs from the 6th to the 8th 2024, Kicking off with it VIP Preview Day on Thursday, September 5, at the Javits Center.
The fair plays a leading role in the city’s position as an important cultural capital through elevated presentations, thoughtful programming, curatorial leadership, meaningful institutional partnerships, and engaging public art activations.
To discover The Armory Show 2024’s exhibitors, the fair is organized into the following sections: Galleries, Solo, Focus, Presents, and Platform.
The Armory Show also reveals noted curators for the 2024 Platform and Focus sections and the Curatorial Leadership Summit.
Besides all the galleries and artists, the Show becomes a focal point for collectors, art historians, students, burgeoning curators and media. It serves not only as a community gathering places but a beacon for contemporary prompting a number of othe3r art fairs happening during this week. And the Show also makes for the starter of the Fall art season.
Stay in the know by signing up for updates about the fair by going online to thearmoryshow.com
Tickets available at thearmoryshow.com or #TheArmoryShow
