Presented by New York Live Arts – Back by popular demand, The Shining is a thrilling dance-installation set inside the intricate maze of 350 refrigerator boxes.
The electric guitar quartet Dither presents the third “Invisible Dog Extravaganza!” – an eclectic festival event that represents a cross-section of the creative music scene in New York.
UPERWOLF presents the NY Premiere of Take her to See the Maco Lights, a play by Bekah Brunstetter, as a theater, installation, and musical performance.
Sarah Maxfield presents two installations as part of her Nonlinear Lineage project, an oral history and ephemera archive of experimental dance and performance in New York City.
Prolonged Exposure, curated by Kaegan Sparks, explores boredom and restlessness as charged effects, suspended between detachment and agitation, inertia and change.
From 1971 to 1978, Kotik worked with texts by Gertrude Stein, a period that culminated in his largest work to date, Many Many Women (1975-78). It uses the entire text of Stein’s 86-page novella of the same title. There is no general score, and the 173 sections are distributed among the musicians who shape the piece, deciding indivudually on each section’s entry.
Leor Grady, who was born in Israel to Yemeni parents inserts his own personal narrative into artwork that explore themes of home and identify politics. The artist tackles these complex themes by documenting and re-presenting minute details and every day objects in an interdisciplinary practice that comprises video, photography and site-responsive installation.
Walls and Bridges, the Franco-American arts and ideas event series which brought over 40 cultural events to New York in 2011, returns to the city in October 2012!
CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event that blows through Brooklyn every couple of months. CATCH is curated by Jeff Larson, Andrew Dinwiddie and Caleb Hammons.
Chaos Manor is a play written by Jaymes Jorsling, directed and produced by Christopher McElroen, and co-produced by Sam Stephenson, based on Stephenson’s 2009 book, The Jazz Loft Project, and his forthcoming book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Gene Smith’s Sink.
SHABOYGEN by STEVEN & WILLIAM LADD-In 2009, The Invisible Dog asked Brooklyn-based brothers Steven and William Ladd to create a chandelier for our grand opening.
MATE is a series, curated and organized by Richard Garet, dedicated to sound and moving image presentations that are derived from ideas, processes, material, and media experimentation.
13P, in association with True Love Productions, presents Melancholy Play (a new chamber piece) by Sarah Ruhl.
For the eighth edition of The ciné-club in conjunction with Bastille Day’s celebration on Smith Street Brooklyn, we will present Les Valseuses (Going Places) directed by Bertrand Blier.
Heather O, choreographed by Yanira Castro, is a solo that explores portraiture, projection and presence through movement created for performer Heather Olson from 2002 to 2008. It is performed by Kimberly Young.
2012 Artists in Residency: Jacquelyn Landgraf and Ariel Goldberg
MATE is a series dedicated to sound and moving image presentations that are derived from ideas, processes, material, and media experimentation. This series attempts to present from within a large spectrum of today’s experimentalists, the work of artists that are vigorously contributing to our cultural landscape.
CATCH is a multi-faceted, multi-disciplinary, rough and ready performance series-event put on every two months or so, usually in Brooklyn, NY.
Directed and starring Jacques Tati with a script written by Tati and Henri Marquet, Les Vacances de M. Hulot (Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday) is the story of a man going on a vacation to a beach where he unknowingly creates chaos every step he takes.
Pâquerette welcomes the audience into a deep appreciation and debate of the human condition: the dancers search for gratification, the audience’s sense of curiosity and the human bodies’ holes as connecting points to an exterior and lonely world.
Anonyme and Nos Cousinailles are two ten minutes French plays inspired by the theme Retrouvailles (Reunion), featuring LLS students [The Language and Laughter Studio] in Brooklyn.
Everything is Index, Nothing is History explores a world chronicled by gestures and physical traces that establish a factual connection to the world independent of cultural codes.
Holy River is a multimedia exhibition by the New York-based artist Prune Nourry and curated by Tatyana Franck.
Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor.
Edgar Lee Masters’ epic work, The Spoon River Anthology, will receive a staged theatrical production, conceived & directed by Jimmy Maize, with music by Eli Zoller, choreography by Jon Cooper&Marine Sialelli, and music direction by Ethan Wagner, and featuring a cast of one-hundred performers.
The Invisible Dog will host the REHEARSAL series, a work-in-progress showing of various types of performance.
US Army war veteran Hazel Motes may not be a believing Christian, somehow observations like the state of a run-down country church, meeting the ridiculous frauds on the streets and memories inspire him to take up, after initially fierce refusal, the part of a traveling preacher when a cab driver insists he looks like one in his new hat.
Updating the contemporary art aesthetic is a struggle for every emerging artist. How do you modernize the artistic pallet in the age of the post, post everything?
A sculptural installation overwhelming the ground floor of the Invisible Dog Art Center inspired by R. Justin Stewart’s research into the Jewish concept of the Messiah and curated by Risa Shoup.
