Screening. Classic Russian Cinema: Sergei M. Eisenstein & Dmitri Vasilyev's Alexander Nevasky (1938). 11.06.09
Snob Magazine presents A Writer's Cabaret. An evening of song with Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. 11.0 6.09, 8PM.
Russian Samovar 256 West 52 St.
Moscow’s Snob Magazine, she is taking her act on the road to NYC. "A Writer's Cabaret" is a show conceived, written, and performed by the author herself. Petrushevskaya, who is 71 and a classically trained singer, will sing a selection of classics from the European cabaret, including her own Russian versions of such songs as "Lily Marlene" and "Ma Vie en Rose.” There could be no better setting for it than the Russian Samovar, whose bohemian air and vodka infusions have long made it a favorite destination for writers and bon vivants of all stripes. ABOUT THE BOOK There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby is a collection of Petrushevskaya's "bold" and "haunting" urban fairy tales. It is the first of her works to be published by a major American publishing house. These creepy, fantastical stories combine the Russian tradition of the grotesque (think Gogol) with astute observations of the bleakness of Soviet and post-Soviet society. ABOUT SNOB MAGAZINE The knowingly titled, politically independent Snob, described in the Stateside press as a “cross between Visionaire and Monocle,” is a format-busting magazine that publishes both the finest Russian authors and original pieces commissioned to top-tier Western journalists. Its unique web site, www.snob.ru, also functions as an invitation-only private arts club that stages “offline” events for its 400+ members in Moscow, London and New York City. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts Gallery. 31 Mercer St., at Grand St11.07.09
Umka. Poetry reading & acoustic concert. Knizhnyj
Magazin № 21
Event: Jiří Kadeřábek - Moravian Folk Inspirations. FEZ ART CAFE
Before he turned to contemporary music, he had composed, played and sung jazz, rock and pop music as well as created theater, literary and visual works. He studied composition at the Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague (Czech Republic), Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Czech Republic) and the Royal Conservatoire in the Hague, the Netherlands. In 2005 he received the bourse La Sacem for work residency for composers in Paris, thanks to which he has become familiar with the latest technologies and applications in composition. He has attended several workshops at the IRCAM as well as another composition courses and private lessons (Marco Stroppa, Tristan Murail, Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Oehring, Lasse Thoresen, Stefano Gervasoni, Adriano Guarnieri, Marek Kopelent, Jeff Beer, Martin Smolka etc.). He received prizes in the Zenith Composers Competition (2009), International Cimbalom Festival Composition (2008), Czech Radio Composition Competition (2006), Generace Composition Competition (2003, 2004, 2006, 2007), he also won the Dean of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague Award (2006), became a finalist of the Musica Nova International Composition Competition (2008) and was nominated for the Gideon Klein Award (2006). His works have been commissioned and performed by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Hradec Králové Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmony Teplice, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmony Zlín, the Slovak Philharmonic Choir, the National Theater in Prague and chamber ensembles such as the Fama Quartet, Rainbow Quartet, the Ensemble Martinů, the Ensemble Calliopée, the Ensemble MoEns and the Intrasonus Ensemble. In his current work various styles are confronted or even fragments of pop-music as well as historical music quotations are integrated. He also works with recorded real sounds, incorporated in the musical structure, often he uses various theatrical elements. He himself sees his pieces „as polygons with internal side mirrors that make it possible to look at each side again and again but always from a different perspective.“ Often he involves himself in the performings of his works, whether as a conductor, singer or a keyboard player. He is also a sought-after composer of stage music (the National Theater, the Theater Na zábradlí, the Theater Komedie, the Café-Theater Černá labuť, Anifest) and film music (Tomáš Váňa & Hidden Child, the Czech Television, FAMU). Vvirsky Ukrainian national Dance Company. Brooklyn Center. 11.08.09
Direct from Kiev
Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 2:00pm
The internationally renowned Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company combines classical ballet technique with traditional folk dance in a vibrant and breathtaking tribute to the culture, beauty and spirit of Ukraine. Hailed by The New York Times as "astonishing," the company of 65 dancers and musicians performs a program ranging from light-hearted pieces of traditional Ukrainian folk dance to ritualistic interpretations of warfare rituals. (718) 951-4500
Iconoclash! - Political Imagery from the Berlin Wall to German Unification
about transformations that permanently altered the trajectory of politics and society. Using examples from material culture, the exhibition Iconoclash! – Political Imagery from the Berlin Wall to German Unification, premiering at the Goethe-Institut Washington November 4, 2009 – January 8, 2010, captures the sentiments during the decades of change from the 1980s to the present. Political iconography is established with meaning and purpose. Tampering with an icon reflects that the original value system has been altered, compromised, or simply fallen away, creating new meanings in the process. This array of objects reflects the abrupt transformations during the last twenty years. They also represent the legacy of the people who produced, consumed and used the material culture of the Eastern Bloc as a canvas for political expression, commemoration, humor, or even entrepreneurial opportunity. The objects range from flags, portraits of political leaders, political posters, and t-shirts to chunks of the Berlin Wall. Some of the exhibited items have seen a spectacular trajectory-from a venerated icon, to an object of mockery, to a popular commodity. Some have remained as they were twenty years ago; others have become desired collectors' items. This exhibition of political and cultural artifacts and their changed meaning commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. Objects on loan from the Wende Museum, a musuem and archive of the Cold War in Culver City, California. Support for Iconoclash! is provided by Friends of the Goethe-Institut. An exhibition catalog, made possible by the Heinrich Bőll Foundation, accompanies the exhibition. © New York Plus Plus Contact: Natasha Sharymova
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