LaGuardia Performing Art Center

2009-10 Upcoming Events
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	ZVI DANCE Work in Progress ZviDance, a company comprised of athletic and lyrical dancers, blends contemporary aesthetics with lush, full-bodied movement. The company exists to provide live audiences a means of experiencing a world-class dance company with the unique choreographic vision and movement vocabulary of Israeli-born Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner. Each piece defines a unique set of relationships and experiences, boldly addressing the depths of the human experience. ZviDance has received critical praise and significant funding for its artistic pursuits. The company performs frequently at home in New York City at venues such as the Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop and Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Acting as a cultural ambassador for the city, ZviDance has toured across North America to festivals such as Jacob’sPillow Dance Festival and The American Dance Festival, and abroad to Germany, Poland, Russia, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador and Japan.	Friday, Jan 22 at 8pm Mainstage Theatre General Admission: FREE For reservations, email: rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu
	NAI-NI CHEN CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION With dazzling costumes and fantastic props, the dancers combine the flowing lines, twirling ribbons, martial arts and acrobatic moves in this colorful celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger. This is an extraordinary production that brings the young people to explore one of the most ancient cultures in the world and it includes both traditional and contemporary music and dance. The New York Times says that Nai-Ni Chen's singular style which weaves the discipline of Chinese Arts with the freedom of American modern dance, is "an impressive, remarkably smooth blend of new and old."	Feb 1st & Feb 2nd 10am & 11:30am Mainstage Theatre Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061
	Target Margin Theatre “The Really Big Once” Work In Progress Target Margin Theater's new work in development is The Really Big Once, a new play about the collaboration between Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams on one of their most celebrated failures, Camino Real. The work has incorporated notebooks, letters, marginalia and memoirs (much of this work unpublished), as well as selections of dialogue and scenes from the existing versions and drafts of Williams' play. Between 1948 and 1953 these two giants developed one of their most ambitious productions in the context of a crucial moment in their growth as artists and in the life of our country. *Since 2007 Target Margin has conducted developmental sessions at New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater and The Chocolate Factory. Their work at LaGuardia will be the final developmental phase before mounting the world premiere production in April 2010 at The Ontological at St. Mark's Church.	Friday, Feb 5 at 8pm Mainstage Theatre General Admission is FREE For reservations, email: rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu
	DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter/composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he's lived since the mid 1980s, Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including trumpeter, composer, and jazz "Artist of the Year" by such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics' Society. Douglas has released albums with his long standing Quintet, the electronic sextet Keystone, and the mixed chamber ensemble Nomad. His latest project, Brass Ecstasy - released in Spring 2009 - features a brass quintet of trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba and drums.	Thursday, Feb 11 at 8pm Little Theatre General Admission is FREE For reservations, email: rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu
	ANDREW CLEMENTS' FRINDLE Produced by The Griffin Theatre Company Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen -- it's a Frindle. “Frindle is …about discovering the true nature of words, language, thought, community, learning. It’s also about great teaching and great teachers, and about the life that surges through corridors and classrooms every school day.” - Andrew Clements	Tuesday, March 9th 10am & 11:30am Mainstage Theatre Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061
	The A.O. Movement Collective “90 ways to Wake from drowning” “90 ways to Wake from drowning” centers on a couple that find themselves in a purgatorial state of constant memory and re-memory, trying to navigate different types of reality – the now time, memory, dreams, and mis-memory – to come to terms with their past and escape a stagnant future. What does it mean to be stuck with certain memories? How do our memories change, distort, and re-write themselves as time passes? When and how will we wake from drowning? * The A.O. Movement Collective has been developing this new work since early September of 2008. Supported in part by Dance Theater Workshop’s 2009 Van Lier Fellowship, this piece features a cast of eight dancers and collaborations with musicians Theo Wilson, Chris Spears and Sam Stein, and costume designer Hunter Kasczerowski. Premiering at Joyce Soho July 30th and 31st 2010.	Friday, Mar 26th at 8pm Mainstage Theatre General Admission is FREE For reservations, email: rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu
	HISTORY OF THE INSPIRED MIND Word up y’all. Live from Queens, New York; the home base for hip hop culture, LPAC is proud to bring the ideas of New York’s most talented spoken word poets to the Mainstage. The History of the Inspired Mind is a fresh, interactive, captivating 60 minute performance that incorporates a "live theatre experience" with an in-school workshop and literacy program. The performance captures the voices of today's youth through hip hop, spoken word poetry, dance and music and introduces students to methods of expression in a positive uplifting fashion.	Thursday, Apr 15th 10am & 11:30am Mainstage Theatre Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061
	OPEN MIC NIGHT Join LPAC ‘s Open Mic Night featuring Brandon Wilson and guitarist Debbie Knapper and The Knappertime Band. Even before his 2008 debut of his album, Finding Home, soul musician, Brandon Wilson had earned a reputation for setting the bar high for East Coast R&B. A child musical prodigy, Brandon began writing music at the age of 14 and has shared the stage with Grammy-winning performer Geoffrey Harris and Blues artist Robin Rogers. Following the performance local musicians and LAGCC students will have the opportunity to sign-up to perform on stage.	Thursday, Apr 15 at 7pm Little Theatre General Admission $10 $5 Students
	DRE.DANCE Lab 301 dre.diohead dre.dance embarks on an evening-length work set to the music of the legendary alternative rock band, Radiohead. This world premiere is set in the middle of a New York City block. The street not only acts as a backdrop for the 8 dancers movement, but also as delineation between the ‘stage’ of public life versus the ‘backstage’ of private life. Inspired by the universal yet highly personal music of Radiohead, dre.dance Artistic Director Andrew Palermo shines a light thru the walls of a metropolis’ boxed homes to illuminate that which binds us to and repulses us from one another.	Friday, Apr 30 Saturday, May 1st at 8pm Mainstage Theatre Reserved Seating: $15 in advance $20 at the door $10 students
	ZIKRAYAT Lab 201 / Multimedia Zikrayat pays tribute to the abundant creativity of Egyptian singers, musicians and dancers during the mid-20th century, both on screen and on stage, with a variety show featuring classical vocal pieces, solo and group dance numbers, original compositions and improvisations, and multimedia. Zikrayat's multimedia numbers feature clips of songs and dance pieces from Egyptian films of the 1950s and 60s, silently accompanying live performances of those numbers. The performances are presented in the context of their scenes in the film (in some cases showing the scenes just before or after the music or dance number), and the social and historical context of the period.	Friday, May 7 at 8pm Little Theatre General Admission: $15 in advance $20 at the door $10 students
	Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series Presents Ethel ETHEL incorporates rock, blues, classical, jazz, and other popular genres to create a sound that defies categorization. The four musically omnivorous members of ETHEL perform self-composed works as well as works by notable contemporary composers. Past collaborations with members of ETHEL include Bang on a Can, the Steve Reich Ensemble, Ornette Coleman, Sheryl Crow, and Yo-Yo Ma, among many others. Most recently, this Juilliard-trained group appeared at: BAM.s Next Wave Festival to present ETHEL’s TruckStop®: The Beginning and WNYC Radio’s Greene Space inaugural concert.	Thursday, May 13 at 8pm Little Theater General Admission is FREE For reservations, email: rsvp-lpac@lagcc.cuny.edu