Melora Creager and Luis Mojica (photo Fredo Viola)
ETHEREAL GOTHIC-FOLK DOUBLE BILL FEATURING MELORA CREAGER and RYDER COOLEY at CAFFE LENA
(SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.) – Ryder Cooley & Dust Bowl Faeries and Melora & Luis, featuring Melora Creager of Rasputina, will perform a double bill of original, ethereal gothic-folk at Caffe Lena on Saturday, June 27, at 8pm. Melora & Luis are Melora Creager, the founder/leader of the all-cello rock group Rasputina, and Luis Mojica, the internationally renowned pianist and experimental vocalist. Dust Bowl Faeries is an electro-acoustic, multimedia gothic-folk ensemble led by artist-musician Ryder Cooley and featuring Sara Ayers, Karen Cole, Jen DuBois, JoAnn Stevelos, and Hazel, a transgender taxidermy sheep.
Piero della Francesca’s ‘Angels’
PS21 KICKS OFF with 10th ANNUAL ALL-BACH PROGRAM
(CHATHAM, N.Y.) – PS21: Performance Spaces for the 21st Century opens its 2015 summer season with the Tenth Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert on Sunday, June 28, at 2pm. This year’s all-Bach program features the Broad Street Chorale and Orchestra directed by David Smith, performing works of Johann Sebastian Bach for chorus, orchestra, and both vocal and instrumental soloists. A Gala Opening Reception for the festival will follow the performance.
Pam Tanowitz Dance (photo Christopher Duggan)
PAM TANOWITZ DANCE MAKES BARD SUMMERSCAPE DEBUT
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, NY) – Pam Tanowitz Dance makes its Bard SummerScape debut with a triple bill featuring a world premiere solo for Ashley Tuttle and live music by the FLUX Quartet in the Fisher Center at Bard College on Saturday, June 27, and Sunday, June 28. The program showcases the choreography of Bessie Award-winning Pam Tanowitz, and includes the world premiere of Tanowitz’s “Untitled (solo for Ashley Tuttle),” set to music by Mexico’s Carlos Cha?vez – subject of the 2015 Bard Music Festival – and danced by former American Ballet Theatre principal Ashley Tuttle. Bookending the new work are two of Tanowitz’s most recent ensemble pieces, “Broken Story (wherein there is no ecstasy)” and “Heaven on One’s Head,” named “Among 2014’s Best” by the New York Times, with live music from FLUX Quartet.
Caravan Stage’s ‘Hacked’
THEATER SHIP DOCKS at WATERFRONT to PERFORM FREE MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Caravan Stage Company has docked its 90-ft-tall ship, the Caravan Stage Tall Ship Theatre, at Hudson’s waterfront in order to stage its newest experimental opera, “Hacked: Treasure of the Empire,” a contemporary tale set in a futuristic and dystopic world of pirate hacker activists taking on the largest global bank on the planet, in a free presentation sponsored by Time & Space Limited, running Wednesday, June 24, through Saturday, June 27, at 9pm each night. Sunday, June 28, is set aside as a rain date.
Unitard
COMEDY TRIO to PRESENT ‘HOUSE OF TARDS’ at STAGEWORKS/HUDSON
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – “House of Tards,” the latest show by comedy trio Unitard, will be performed at Stageworks/Hudson on Saturday, June 27, at 8pm. Unitard is a series of comic sketches and monologues skewering social, political and sexual mores. Programs alternate between solo monologues and group pieces, with a gay sensibility.
Carly Fox-Horton (photo Courtlyn Hanson, compliments of NY Baroque Dance Co.)
ASTON MAGNA PRESENTS MONTEVERDI, VIVALDI, MARAIS, MOZART, BAROQUE DANCE & MORE
(ANNANDALE-on-HUDSON, N.Y.) — The vibrant music of Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart and Marais, along with a Baroque dance performance, comprise Aston Magna Music Festival’s 2015 season, “A Musical Feast,” running June 18 through July 18. The longest running summer festival of early music brings virtuoso guest artists on stage with the Aston Magna ensemble, playing on period instruments, on five Friday evenings at 8 p.m. at Bard College’s Olin Auditorium. On Saturdays the Festival moves to Great Barrington, Mass., on June 27 and July 4 at the Daniel Arts Center at Simon’s Rock College at 6 p.m. The July 18 Great Barrington season finale performance takes place at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. Aston Magna Artistic Director Daniel Stepner, Baroque violin, leads each event and delivers a pre-concert talk one hour before each performance.
EXHIBIT JUXTAPOSES SHAKER and MODERN DESIGN at SHAKER MUSEUM MOUNT LEBANON
(NEW LEBANON, N.Y.) – The Shaker Museum|Mount Lebanon will open its main season exhibition, Side By Side: Shaker and Modern Design, to the public on Sunday, June 28. The exhibition, which pairs Shaker works with works by contemporary and modern designers, will be on view during the museum’s hours, every Friday-Monday 10am to 4pm through October 12. Museum members are invited to preview the exhibit on Saturday, June 27, with an opening reception for the museum’s donors being held that evening at 5pm.