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free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges
free events nyc Beverly Semmes' FRP, an Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings
free events nyc There Is No Mountain, a Psych-Pop Duo
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Tour | Grand Central Terminal Tour


For nearly 100 years, the Beaux-Arts beauty known as Grand Central Terminal (a.k.a Station) has been more a testament to the ingenuity and ambition of a great city, impressing both travelers and visitors with it's wonderful architecture and pulsating vibe. It's history is a story of immense wealth, great engineering, a few accidents, a planned sabotage and one terrific ceiling, but most importantly a story of survival and rebirth. less
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international more monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow! less
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Southern Park Welcome Tour


Travel from Grand Army Plaza, past the Pond and Gapstow Bridge, and stop at the Dairy on this trip through more the southern Park highlights. Route involves moderate inclines and some stairs. 45-minutes. less
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of more choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
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1:00 pm
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Opera | Opera Feroce: Magdalene's Decision


The struggle between Sacred and Profane Love played itself out in the churches, salons, and theaters more of the Renaissance and Baroque. They bring this argument to life in selections by Bononcini centering on Mary Magdalene, the symbol par excellence of humankind’s battle to be good in spite of so many compelling reasons to be bad. less
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1:15 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, more food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments. less
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2:00 pm
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Film | Mitchell Leisen's Murder at the Vanities (1934): Backstage Skullduggery


Starring Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jock Oakie. Murder backstage at the first night of Earl Carroll’s more Vanities. 89 min. A short film will precede the feature. less
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Subway Art Tour


Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest more mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public. Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly. less
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Ann Shein


An extraordinary opportunity for connoisseurs of great music and young talent. An outstanding artist more of today discusses and critiques performances by outstanding artists of tomorrow at a world-renowned conservatory. less
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2:30 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander more Hamilton Customs House. less
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3:00 pm
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Concert | College Clarinet Competition Finals


Program: MOZART Clarinet Concerto
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Generation World


A talk by David Sable, Global CEO of Y&R. “Generation World” Sable will present “Generation more World” — a generation defined by their shared values rather than by age, demographic or geography. David will present examples of brands from around the world and from a variety of industries—retail, music, food and technology that are effectively connecting to this generation. You will also learn about some of the biggest challenges facing marketers today including connecting the physical and digital experience and collaborating with innovative partners to create work that drives results. less
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4:00 pm
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Talk | Fashion in Conversation: Scott Schuman of 'The Sartorialist'


Founder/photographer/blogger Scott Schuman began his blog, 'The Sartorialist' with the idea of creating more a two-way dialogue with his readers about the world of style and its relationship to daily life. Join a moderated conversation with Schuman as he talks with Kinvara Balvour about the popular fashion blog and takes a few questions from the audience. less
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sally Davies' Photographs of the Lower East Side


The Canadian-born photographer now lives and works in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | The Social Labs Revolution: A New Approach to Solving Our Most Complex Challenges


An Evening Talk with Zaid Hassan. In the Social Labs Revolution, Hassan draws on over a decade of hands more on practical experience in addressing our most profound challenges. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Workshop | Got Clutter? Join the Clutter Support Group


Do you feel overwhelmed by the possessions, papers and piles that have taken over your life and space? more Don't know how or where to start to make changes? You're not alone. Join the Clutter Support Group, an educational support group for individuals who are struggling with clutter and disorganization. Open to people of all ages with any degree of disorganization. less
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Pamela Shields / Jo-Ann Brody


Pamela Shields, One Body - Shields explores female sexuality in her large charcoal drawings. She is exhibiting more her 'Masturbation Series' for the first time at Ceres Gallery. Frank depiction of a woman as a sexual being, rather than as a sexual object, is still taboo. Shields breaks down this taboo by presenting women's sexuality as a beautiful thing in her monumental, weighty figures. Jo-Ann Brody, Scar Tissue - Scars are areas of tissue that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of repair and scarring is a natural part of the healing process. Every wound results in some degree of scarring. Scars represent healing of many sorts-healthy or not. Scars are metaphorically and/or literally explored through the artist's personal iconography. less
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Beverly Semmes' FRP, an Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings


The Feminist Responsibility Project (FRP) is a collection of images and objects produced by crude gestures more and the application of ink and paint to defile pornography. Picture a committee of rogue censors responding to the stained, dog-eared pages of vintage erotica. BEVERLY SEMMES was born in Washington, DC and lives and works in New York City. Semmes has had numerous solo museum shows including major exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Her work may be found in the collections of the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; the Denver Art Museum, Denver; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. less
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Gallery's 30th Anniversary Exhibition


A show by artists who have shown at the gallery in the last three decades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Seeking Engagement NSA


Seeking Engagement NSA, curated by Beth McNeil, explores the work of eight East End (Long Island) based more artists, Jack Ceglic, Tom Dash, Tapp Francke, Julia Greffenius, Jeff Muhs, Nika Nesgoda, Darius Yektai and Gavin Zeigler that share an intense investigation of personal identities. less
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Time and Again


Participating Artists: Rosaire Appel, Olga Ast, Miriam Carothers, Amy Cheng, Barbara Confino, Anne Gilman, more Chris Jordan, Katherine Jackson, Paul Kartis, Christiana Kazakou, Leigh Anne Lester, Sarah Nicholls, Susan Schwalb, Simona Soare, Ellen Wiener, Carola Willbrand, Thomas Parker Williams, Elisabeth Wörndl. less
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Opening Reception | Sculpture: Bernard Klevickas' Surface


Works of formed stainless steel and tin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez discuss their book Everyone Wants to Be Me or Do Me: Tom and Lorenzo's Fabulous and Opinionated Guide to Celebrity Life and Style


Join popular bloggers Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez as they discuss their hilarious book.
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Opening Reception | Intimate Science, an Exhibition at the Interesection of Art, Science and Technology


The most recent manifestation of artists working at the intersection of art, science, and technology more demonstrates a distinctly autodidactic, heuristic approach to understanding the physical and natural world. Intimate Science features artists who are engaged in non-disciplinary inquiry; they aren’t allied to the customs of any single field, and therefore have license to reach beyond conventions. Exhibition artists: BCL (Tokyo), Center for PostNatural History (Pittsburgh), Markus Kayser (London), Allison Kudla (Seattle), Machine Project (Los Angeles), and Philip Ross (San Francisco). Preceded by a curator's talk by Andrea Grover at 5:30 p.m. less
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Talk | Abundant Access: Public Transit as an Instrument of Freedom


In this engaging lecture, Jarrett Walker leads us beyond some of the distractions that sometimes dominate more transit debates, to an understanding of public transit's core power: to give people freedom. less
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Gallery Talk | Deborah Grant discusses her exhibit Christ You Know it Ain't Easy!!


The artist and the curator will lead a public walkthrough of the exhibition.
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Author Reading | Harlow Giles Unger discusses his book Mr. President: George Washington and the Making of the Nation’s Highest Office


The acclaimed historian reveals how Washington responded to several crises during his two terms and, more in the process, defined the American presidency. less
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Other | Kinokophonography Night


Welcome the Kinokophone Collective, a world-wide organization of sound artists, field recordists, and more listeners, for their first New York City Kinokophonography Night. Join this curated sound-cinema event that features audio artworks from anywhere and everywhere. Celebrate the experience of listening and the variety of sounds around us. less
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Dance Performance | 11th Annual CoolNY 2014 Dance Festival


CoolNY Dance Festival presents its eleventh year of contemporary dance programming, This two-week extravaganza more will present the vast spectrum of facility by burgeoning ensembles led by inventive rising choreographers along with dancemakers with a definitive national and international zeal. Featured companies include: 277DanceProject, 4thrightdance, Allison Jones Dance, Amos Pinhasi, ANAHATA Dance with Kate Corby, The Andrea Torres Dance Company, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Azul Dance Theatre/Yuki Hasegawa, BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT, Benjamin Briones Ballet, BIODANCE, The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, Catherine Cabeen–Hyphen, Dance Sudeikis, Eidolon Ballet/Melanie Cortier, Erick Montes-Chavero, Inclined Dance Project, James Hansen/Assemblage Dance, Janice Rosario, Kathleen Dyer/KDNY, Kathleen Hiley Solo Projects, Kip Martin/Namja Yoja, La Petite Chouette Aerial Dance Company, Laura Neese, Li Chiao-Ping, Malini Srinivasan, Mary Love Dance Projects, Mich-Mash Productions, Monkeyhouse, NEVILLE Dance Theatre, Oniin Dance Company, Peggy Choy Dance, Raw Delivery/Carrie J. Brown, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, SunHwa Chung/Ko-Ryo Dance Theater, Texture Contemporary Ballet, Theodora Boguszewski, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Tiffany Spataro/Visions Contemporary Dance, The Ume Group, Tomomi Imai, Zullo/RawMovement, and more. less
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Author Reading | 2 Authors: Joan Silber / Jean Valentine


Joan Silber is most recently the author of the story collection “Fools,” published by W. W. Norton more in 2013. Jean Valentine’s collections include “Break the Glass” (Copper Canyon, 2010). The authors will be introduced by writer and Creative Writing Program faculty member Chuck Wachtel. less
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Opening Reception | Different Distances: Fashion Photography Goes Art


Different Distances: Fashion Photography Goes Art shows the work of five internationally renowned Swedish more fashion photographers, presented by the Consulate General of Sweden to coincide with New York Fashion Week. Curated by Greger Ulf Nilson, the exhibition strives to create a balance between art and fashion photography by taking into account cultural history as well as the photographers' personal experience. less
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Author Reading | Armistead Maupin discusses his book The Days of Anna Madrigal


Armistead Maupin brings us his latest in the 'Tales of the City' series, which follows the tenants of more 28 Barbary Lane. He will be in discussion with best-selling author, book critic and Editor-at-Large of Cosmopolitan magazine John Searles. less
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Author Reading | Daniel Jones reads from his book Love Illuminated: Exploring Life's Most Mystifying Subject (With the Help of 50,000 Strangers)


New York Times Modern Love columnist Daniel Jones shares the intimate relationships of the thousands more of letters he received in the past decade in his new heart-stirring survey. less
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Book Signing | E.L. Doctorow signs copies of Andrew's Brain


This brilliant new novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, more and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster. less
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Opera | Michael Jarrell's Cassandra, Performed by the Argento Ensemble


U.S. Premiere of the illustrated production created by Nimrod Opera Zurich and Czech video artist Dalibor more Pys. Performed by Argento Ensemble led by conductor Michel Galante and featuring actress Anna Clementi. The work will be performed in English. less
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Discussion | Revisiting The Armory Show


In 1913, the International Exhibition of Modern Art came to New York. Organized by a small group of American more artists and presented at the Lexington Avenue Armory (and thus nicknamed the Armory Show), it introduced the American public to European avant-garde painting and sculpture. The exhibition is an exploration of how the Armory Show inspired seismic shifts in American culture, politics, and society. less
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Screening | The New York Fashion Film Festival


The New York Fashion Film Festival seeks to investigate the evolving genre of fashion film and explore more its influence and impact on the fashion industry. The NYFFF hosts an annual screening of selected fashion films followed by a panel discussion focusing on the nature of the genre and its growing relevance to the world, the business of fashion as well as the potential for fashion imagery to be a platform for invention, creativity and subversion. less
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Concert | There Is No Mountain, a Psych-Pop Duo


Known for its catchy, off-kilter sonic adventures, There Is No Mountain, composed of married couple Kali more Giaritta and Matt Harmon, specializes in songs that are intricate, fun, and playful. African rhythms, jazz harmonies, classical arrangements, theatrical melodies, and psychedelic swirls seep through an Americana exterior, making the band’s live shows a thrilling surprise. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Andreas Klein


The German-born pianist has established a reputation as a dynamic and compelling performer who is known more for his imaginative interpretations and his command of a wide range of tonal colors. less
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Concert | College Violin Recital


Benedicte Lauziere, Violin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | The Newman and Oltman Guitar Duo


The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo is a creative locus of the guitar world and presents an annual recital more and master class. Hailed by the New York Times as "fresh, hot, and headed for fame," the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo, consisting of Michael Newman and his spouse, Laura Oltman, continue to fulfill that promise with more than 30 years of international touring, 12 critically acclaimed recordings, and new works developed for the ensemble. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | 11th Annual CoolNY 2014 Dance Festival


CoolNY Dance Festival presents its eleventh year of contemporary dance programming, This two-week extravaganza more will present the vast spectrum of facility by burgeoning ensembles led by inventive rising choreographers along with dancemakers with a definitive national and international zeal. Featured companies include: 277DanceProject, 4thrightdance, Allison Jones Dance, Amos Pinhasi, ANAHATA Dance with Kate Corby, The Andrea Torres Dance Company, Ayo Janeen Jackson, Azul Dance Theatre/Yuki Hasegawa, BARKIN/SELISSEN PROJECT, Benjamin Briones Ballet, BIODANCE, The Brooklyn Dance Ensemble, Catherine Cabeen–Hyphen, Dance Sudeikis, Eidolon Ballet/Melanie Cortier, Erick Montes-Chavero, Inclined Dance Project, James Hansen/Assemblage Dance, Janice Rosario, Kathleen Dyer/KDNY, Kathleen Hiley Solo Projects, Kip Martin/Namja Yoja, La Petite Chouette Aerial Dance Company, Laura Neese, Li Chiao-Ping, Malini Srinivasan, Mary Love Dance Projects, Mich-Mash Productions, Monkeyhouse, NEVILLE Dance Theatre, Oniin Dance Company, Peggy Choy Dance, Raw Delivery/Carrie J. Brown, Sue Bernhard Danceworks, SunHwa Chung/Ko-Ryo Dance Theater, Texture Contemporary Ballet, Theodora Boguszewski, Thomas/Ortiz Dance, Tiffany Spataro/Visions Contemporary Dance, The Ume Group, Tomomi Imai, Zullo/RawMovement, and more. less
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