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Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama perform Ilusiones de Percantas (Women’s Dreams)

Although you might find her on 14th Street dressed as a maid, Anabella Lenzu is actually a dancer, choreographer, and teacher with 20 years of experience under her belt. Naturally, we were quite pleased to have her join this year’s Art in Odd Places festival because of her unique brand of “socially-conscious dance theatre”. Originally [...]

23 Skidoo in Pictures

Photos by Chelsea Keys Here are a dozen photos to compliment the interview I had with Shandoah Goldman, choreographer and producer of a flashmob called 23 Skidoo. The concept centered around an historic scene: the Flatiron Building in the early 1900s. The wind patterns around the building caused women’s long skirts to fly up revealing [...]

Sherry Aliberti’s Cocoons: An Exploration of Space

By Zoe Weitzman Sherry Aliberti’s work is not easy to ignore. Seriously. We dare you. Just try and walk by one of her Cocoons without lowering your iPhone and taking a good, hard look. As part of an ongoing project, Aliberti sheathes actors and dancers head-to-toe in neon elastic fabric and encourages them to move [...]

Red, White and Blood: An Interview with VDREY and Schultz

by Chelsea Keys VDREY is a French, multimedia artist. Schultz is an electronic musician. The two dynamic personalities began collaborating in 2006 and have performed throughout Europe. White Blood Cells, their latest work, involves red ballons, live, harsh, industrial music, red paint, blank white canvases and video of microscopic white blood cells. I contacted Schultz [...]

23 Skidoo: Putting a Literal “Flash” in Flashmob

by Chelsea Keys I walked into Pork Pie Hatters on 9th St. and Ave A to a wide variety of hats: felt, straw, fedora, feathered, some looked old and some looked new, all looked like they belonged in the early 1900’s. Here I met Shandoah Goldman, choreographer and producer of a new project called 23 [...]