Available Light
CHOREOGRAPHER LUCINDA CHILDS REVISITS ‘AVAILABLE LIGHT’ at MASS MoCA
(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Lucinda Childs, one of the most celebrated choreographers of the modern era, revives Available Light, her seminal 1983 collaboration with composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry, with three intimate, work-in-progress showings in the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 8 pm, and Sunday, March 8, at 3pm. The event comes after an extended artistic residency at MASS MoCA, and features an updated version of Childs’s choreography and Gehry’s set.
BERKSHIRE MUSEUM OPENS NEW GALLERY SHOWCASING BERKSHIRE ARTISTS
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – BerkshireNow, a new gallery at Berkshire Museum devoted to showcasing the work of artists living in the Berkshires, will be open free to the public during Pittsfield’s First Friday Artswalk on Friday, March 6, 2015. The inaugural BerkshireNow exhibition, curated by Maria Mingalone, features Pittsfield-based artists Michael McKay, Monika Pizzichemi, and Marcel Bova, who comprise Empty Set Projects.
ART SPIEGELMAN to PRESENT “WORDLESS!” at WILLIAMS COLLEGE
(WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman will present WORDLESS!, an “intellectual vaudeville show” created in collaboration with composer Phillip Johnston, at the ’62 Center at Williams College on Tuesday, March 10, 2015, at 7:30pm. WORDLESS! is a stage-show hybrid incorporating slides, a talk, and a musical performance. The performance looks at the history of comics and their capacity to be interpreted by the brain as wordless messages. The music, all-new scores written by Johnston, will be performed live by a sextet. Click here to view an introductory video for WORDLESS! Tickets are free but reservations are required; for tickets, call the ’62 Center box office at 597-2425, Tuesday through Saturday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Brazilian Girls
BRAZILIAN GIRLS BRING MULTILINGUAL DANCE-ROCK to HELSINKI HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – They are neither Brazilian nor all girls, but Grammy Award-nominated Brazilian Girls bring their singular, sophisticated, and catchy fusion of electronic dance music and world-beat styles to Club Helsinki Hudson on Saturday, March 7, at 9pm. The ensemble – three guys and one fabulous frontwoman, vocalist Sabina Sciubba – has recorded with David Byrne, Baba Maal and Angélique Kidjo, and has established a reputation as New York’s premier international party band. The rhythmically colorful group thinks nothing of drawing inspiration from a wide range of music, including bossa nova, dub, dance/electronic, jazz, easy listening and German Schlager. The overall vibe is ultra cool and ultra sexy.
‘Creation of Adam in the Paradise’ by Jan Breughel the Younger
AMERICAN SYMPHONY to PERFORM HAYDN’S ‘CREATION’ at BARD
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) – Members of the American Symphony Orchestra, Bard College Conservatory Orchestra, Bard Festival Chorale, Bard Chamber Singers, Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and Longy Chorale will perform Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Friday, March 6, and Saturday, March 7, at 8 p.m. There will be a preconcert talk at 7pm by James Bagwell, chorus master. The oratorio will be conducted by Leon Botstein, music director of the American Symphony Orchestra.
‘The Problem Persists’ by Pops Peterson
POPS PETERSON REINVENTS ROCKWELL for SOHN FINE ART GALLERY EXHIBITION
(LENOX, Mass.) – There will be a reception for Reinventing Rockwell, a solo show featuring works by Pops Peterson that reinterprets Norman Rockwell’s artwork with contemporary views on politics, social issues, and technology, at at Sohn Fine Art Gallery on Saturday, March 7, from 4 to 6:30 pm. The show remains on view now through Sunday, March 15. Reimagining Norman Rockwell’s imagery and social issues in the 21st Century, Peterson explores roles of gender, ethnicities, sexuality and attitude. Using his surrounding environment in the Berkshires, as Rockwell did, Peterson presents pious, joyful and controversial imagery that effectively evokes the evolution of society from the 1940s and ‘50s to the current day.