Erica’s Cancer Journey: “Incredible lightness of being”
Enough. I am not here to do it Right; I am here to do it Real.
Entertainment
New show at Saugerties’ Emerge Gallery explores multiple takes on the ideal
Abstrakt: A Group Exhibition of Abstract Art, opens at Saugerties’ busy Emerge Gallery this Saturday, July 7. Some 44 local artists will explore varieties of mediums and styles for a showing through the month, including a preview this Friday evening, July 6.
Maverick heats up
Trio con Brio Copenhagen’s playing of Beethoven’s “Ghost” Trio, Op. 70, No. 1 was about as fine a version of that piece as I’ve ever heard, vigorous and energetic with powerful accents, appropriately creepy in the second movement, and with very good balance.
Breathe life into a stone: Macbeth at Opus 40
Artistic director Matt Mitler said he is fascinated by the mythological archetype of the trickster, an entity who destroys to make way for the new. “In some spiritual practices, it’s considered ‘holy destruction,’” Mitler explained, “from Baldr in the Norse myths to Jesus.” In the search for a text that would embody destruction leading to creation, the company turned to Macbeth. They approach the play’s violence as a kind of ritual combat, designed to create a purifying catharsis for actors and audience. Dzieci Theater Company will present Makbet, their Eastern European-flavored version of the Shakespeare tale of ambition and revenge Saturday, July 7.
Highly acclaimed new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, will make you miss Mister Rogers
His show, while constantly reinforcing messages that helped children feel secure and loved and valuable, was anything but “safe.”
Singular Extreme Actions at Lumberyard in Catskill
Friday-Sunday, July 6-8: A gravity-defying, family-friendly performance by the Brooklyn-based company known as the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, a/k/a SLAM or just Streb.
Kids’ Almanac (7/5-7/12)
Revolution on Huguenot Street!
Nels Cline 4 at Helsinki Hudson
Saturday, July 7: ne of the brassiest ideas Jeff Tweedy ever had was to open Wilco’s elegant and inclusive progressive-roots sound to the shred-grade chops of Nels Cline. Let’s be clear: Hip people hate chops, and let’s be equally clear: Cline has them and makes no attempt to hide them.
Modernist poetry masterpiece reimagined at Bard
Four Quartets is the first authorized dance performance ever to be based on T. S. Eliot’s career-crowning work.
Woodstock’s Colony hosts John Hall Band Reunion
Saturday, July 7: Founder of the band Orleans and former US congressman from New York, Hall also scored co-wrote such classics as “Still the One,” “and “Dance with Me.”