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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 10, 2025?

34 free events take place on Friday, January 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out January 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of January . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, January 10, 2025

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free events nyc Works by Chopin and Ravel for Piano, Cello, and Violin
free events nyc Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day
free events nyc Eight-Piece Salsa Ensemble from Alphabet City
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Tai Chi

Workshop | Zumba Gold Workout


Zumba Gold offers a low-impact workout set to a fusion of Latin, International and popular music dance themes, creating a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that challenge both the heart and muscles. With fun music and easy-to-follow steps, you can’t go wrong. Instructor: Melissa Perez
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Zumba Gold Workout

Workshop | Adult Zumba


Featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography. Work on your balance, coordination and range of motion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Adult Zumba

Museums | Asian Art and Culture Museum


The museum features a diverse collection of artworks, including traditional and contemporary pieces from various Asian cultures. 2 pm: guided tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Asian Art and Culture Museum

Classical Music | Works by Chopin and Ravel for Piano, Cello, and Violin


Sarah Tuan, Piano; Esther Chae, Cello; Juyeon Lee, Violin. Program Chopin (1810-1849), Mazurkas, Op. 17 Ravel (1875-1937), Piano Trio in A Minor
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
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Concerts, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Works by Chopin and Ravel for Piano, Cello, and Violin

Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation (in-person and online)


The sessions are non-denominational and will focus on the basics: meditation to quiet the mind, to focus the quiet mind, using the focused mind for analysis, and using the focused mind to create and uphold a positive vision of and outlook on the world. Other more specific uses of meditation may be discussed however the class is meant for all, beginners and those with a regular practice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Lunchtime Meditation (in-person and online)

Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Concerts, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Gallery Talk | Franz Kafka: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Tour (online)


Explore literary manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and photography related to Franz Kafka, including the original manuscript of his novella The Metamorphosis with a virtual docent-led discussion of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talks, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Franz Kafka: The Making of an Icon: Exhibition Tour (online)

Film | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024): monster film


Godzilla and the great Kong face a gigantic threat hidden deep within the planet, challenging their very existence and the survival of the human race. Director: Adam Wingard Cast: Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens, Kaylee Hottle, Alex Ferns, Fala Chen
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024): monster film

Film | Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Al Pacino


Once the star of a 1950s television Western, actor Rick Dalton struggles to find meaningful work in a Hollywood he no longer recognizes. He spends his days drinking and hanging out with his friend and longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. Rick also lives next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, the filmmaker and actress whose futures will be changed forever by members of the Manson family. Director: Quentin Tarantino Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Al Pacino Leonardo DiCaprio is an American actor and film producer known for his work in biographical and period films. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, his films have grossed over $7.2 billion worldwide, and he has been placed eight times in annual rankings of the world's highest-paid actors. Brad Pitt is an American actor and film producer who has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry. Margot Robbie is an Australian actress and producer known for her work in both blockbuster and independent films. She has received various awards and nominations, including nominations for two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and five British Academy Film Awards. Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2017 and she was ranked as one of the world's highest-paid actresses by Forbes in 2019. Al Pacino is considered one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century, Pacino has received numerous accolades: including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him one of the few performers to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Films, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019) with Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, and Al Pacino

Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation

Film | The Fall Guy (2024) with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt


After leaving the business one year earlier, battle-scarred stuntman Colt Seavers springs back into action when the star of a big studio movie suddenly disappears. As the mystery surrounding the missing actor deepens, Colt soon finds himself ensnared in a sinister plot that pushes him to the edge of a fall more dangerous than any stunt. Director: David Leitch Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Teresa Palmer, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke Ryan Gosling is a Canadian actor. Prominent in both independent film and major studio features of varying genres, his films have accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards and a BAFTA Award. Emily Blunt is a British actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three British Academy Film Awards. Forbes ranked her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the world in 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Films, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, The Fall Guy (2024) with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt

Museums | American History and Artifact Collections


Enjoy a stroll through galleries of an extensive collection of American art, learn about the history of New York and the USA. Last admission is at 7 pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Museumss, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, American History and Artifact Collections

Workshop | Cardio Dance Workout


This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Cardio Dance Workout

Museums | Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day


Experience the exhibits in the museum galleries which include paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, films, videos, and much more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free
Museumss, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Modern Art: From The 19th Century to the Present Day

Open Mike | Poetry Open Mic


Come and share your work with the world at the Poetry Open Mic. Participants can share their original work for up to five minutes. Space is limited to 15 readers; show up on time to get a slot! Registration saves you a seat; it does not guarantee mic time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Open Mikes, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Poetry Open Mic

Workshop | 3-3-3 Bodyweight Burn


This total body workout highlights a unique format of 3s that will challenge your stamina all while having fun to your favorite beats. Please bring a mat. Instructor: Nandini Radhakrishnan  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, 3-3-3 Bodyweight Burn

Opening Reception | Are My Hands Clean? Art as Political Resistance


Are My Hands Clean? by Rajkamal Kahlon. Building on two decades of research into drawing and painting as forms of political resistance, Kahlon’s work engages with imperialism and colonial archives to explore the intersection of trauma, the body, and political violence. Her art reimagines the studied, objectified body through painting and drawing as acts of care, offering both disruption and healing in response to Western hegemony. Rajkamal Kahlon's work has been featured at Stadtmuseum Dresden, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Artists Space, New York, NY; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia; among others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Are My Hands Clean? Art as Political Resistance

Opening Reception | Nature is the Best Techno: Paintings


Nature is the Best Techno is a solo exhibition of paintings by Nick Irzyk. Irzyk continues to explore the grid, a motif selected for its connection to modernist painting. Painted as massive structures or boundless landscapes, the viewer is placed both within and outside the network.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Nature is the Best Techno: Paintings

Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Genius on Display (online)


Genius on Display continues with a stellar lineup of artists’ talks for 2025, beginning with Dr. Bahia Shehab. Dr. Shehab’s award-winning artistic practice has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Skoll World Forum, UNESCO, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, among other distinguished organizations. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about the powerful and moving work of this multifaceted artist.  Dr. Bahia Shehab is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, political activist, and historian whose work focuses on the interaction and intersection of modern identity and ancient cultural heritage. Her imaginative combination of calligraphy and Islamic art history produced cutting-edge, beautiful, impactful street art during the Arab Spring and continues to inform her work as an educator and designer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talks, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Artist Talk: Genius on Display (online)

Opening Reception | Ceramic, Stone, Textile, Photography: Works by 20 Artists 


Even In Arcadia There I Am is a group showcase of 20 artists working in painting, ceramic, stone, textile, moving image, and photography. In these works, landscape plays the role of subject and material, each contemplating environments real and imagined.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Ceramic, Stone, Textile, Photography: Works by 20 Artists&nbsp;

Workshop | Dance Fitness


Dance Fitness is a creative workout that fuses dance and aerobics. The goal is to improve cardio fitness while having fun and getting a full body workout! This class is taught to music with easy-to-follow steps that will surely get your heart pumping. Instructor: Claudia Gomez
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Dance Fitness

Opening Reception | Fantastical Casino: Masked Gamblers, Machine/Animal Hybrids Through Paintings


Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson's "Hard Times and Silver Teeth at the Spicewood County Casino" presents a narrative set in a visionary casino, featuring masked and costumed gambler/performers alongside fantastical slot machine/animal hybrids that resemble altars. Within this timeless setting, Wilson's poetic story blurs the boundary between reality and imagination, with gambling serving as an allegory for life and love.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Opening Receptions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Fantastical Casino: Masked Gamblers, Machine/Animal Hybrids Through Paintings

Opening Reception | Immersive, Life-Size Diorama with Bizzare Sea Creatures


Roxanne Jackson's exhibition turns the gallery’s street-facing windows into an immersive, life-size diorama, inviting viewers into the artist’s imagined world. In Jackson’s hands, these vitrines become portholes into a submerged, fantastical ecosystem within a light-teal ocean, blurring the line between above and below water. The creatures are both bizarre and opulent, strange yet alluring.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Receptions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Immersive, Life-Size Diorama with Bizzare Sea Creatures

Book Discussion | How to Sleep at Night: A Novel of Ambition to the Breaking Point


Elizabeth Harris' new book is a witty and whip-smart novel about love, marriage, and family ties stretched thin by ambition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussions, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, How to Sleep at Night: A Novel of Ambition to the Breaking Point

Dance Performance | 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival: 2 New Dance Works


Featuring: Miranda Brown/Noa Rui-Piin Weiss; Nattie Trogdon/Hollis Bartlett Out-FRONT! Fest is a new dance, performance art, and film festival championing the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist artists for a lively exchange of art and culture. The Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Trevino, and Daniel Diaz; producer Remi Harris, and cultural organizer Joyce Isabelle. The Festival features award-winning artists who enlighten, entertain and promote conversations around aesthetic diversity and personal journeys on the intersection of mutual ideas, cultures, and meanings. Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss: !!simon says~~!:));)$$ We follow instructions. We fail at following instructions. We are described. We are indescribable. We steal the Declaration of Independence. We face our fears on the dance floor. We leave with no fears. Choreography and Performance: Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss. Sound Design: Miranda Brown + Noa Rui-Piin Weiss Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett: VESSELS VESSELS is a work of memory and from memory - part fantastical dream state and part mundane maneuver. Two performers draw on a shared archive of material from pop culture, bodily memory and instinctual responses; blurring the legibility of their embodied histories and personal desires. Distorting and repeating these forms, however horrific or ecstatic, in the pursuit of something that feels like transformation or preservation or simply just aliveness. VESSELS is a dance of desperate meanings unraveling unto some queer itch that feels like home. Choreography and Performance: Nattie Trogdon + Hollis Bartlett
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performances, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival: 2 New Dance Works

Workshop | Gentle Yoga (online)


Start your weekend off right with a 60-minute Friday evening yoga class. A gentle, low-impact practice to help improve flexibility, release tension, and energize the body. Ideal for all levels, come join us for a relaxing and invigorating star to your weekend. Instructor: Michele Griffin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Many Happy Returns: A Dance Version of a Memory Play


With movement and language, Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri create a shared character, a woman in the middle of her life who moves with total clarity but can't stop revealing the doubt she's desperate to dance over. It's a hilarious, heartwarming look back at who we thought we were and a communal search for solace in who we've become.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performances, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Many Happy Returns: A Dance Version of a Memory Play

Concert | The Songs We Write: Original Music


Sit back and enjoy original live music! Featured performers are a mix of local songwriters and composers. Each artist will be performing music they have written.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concerts, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, The Songs We Write: Original Music

Lecture | Winston Churchill and the Transformation of Conflict (online)


Speaker David C. Isby is an historian, defense and foreign policy analyst, game designer, and author of Fighting in Normandy: The German Army from D-Day to Villers-Bocage, The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea 1939-45: As Seen by Officers of the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe, and other scholarly works.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Lectures, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Winston Churchill and the Transformation of Conflict (online)

Concert | Eight-Piece Salsa Ensemble from Alphabet City


Avenida B is led by bandleader David Frankel, born and raised among the Latin-American sounds in Alphabet City in New York's Lower Manhattan. With a love for that "old school sound" and the swing of a Latin percussion section, Avenida B's mission is to reconnect salsa dancers, musicians, and DJs and to inspire the perpetuity and evolution of salsa dura and its singular energy and swing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concerts, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Eight-Piece Salsa Ensemble from Alphabet City

Performance | Lolo's Boyfriend Show and Many More Acts


APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) Showcase: 7:30 PM - FROM A DISTANCE: LETTERS & MUSIC OF WARTIME STARRING DONNA GROOM 8:00 PM - LOLO'S BOYFRIEND SHOW 8:30 PM - MUSICAL MEMES - A MUSICAL COMEDY SHOW 9:00 PM - CALPULLI MEXICAN DANCE CO. 9:30 PM - IN THE MOODS WITH BEN DEEM 10:00 PM - FROM A DISTANCE: LETTERS & MUSIC OF WARTIME STARRING DONNA GROOM 10:30 PM - BREAK! THE URBAN FUNK SPECTACULAR 11:00 PM - BREAK! THE URBAN FUNK SPECTACULAR
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performances, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Lolo's Boyfriend Show and Many More Acts

Dance Performance | 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival: 2 New Dance Works


Out-FRONT! Fest is a new dance, performance art, and film festival championing the voices of LGBTQ and Feminist artists for a lively exchange of art and culture. The Out-FRONT! Festival 2025 is curated by Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte, Philip Treviño, and Daniel Diaz; producer Remi Harris, and cultural organizer Joyce Isabelle. The Festival features award-winning artists who enlighten, entertain and promote conversations around aesthetic diversity and personal journeys on the intersection of mutual ideas, cultures, and meanings. Blaze Ferrer: Dick Biter Dick Biter is a dance that mourns the death of punk while channeling its contemporary detritus. Using deconstructed drag movement, mylar fringe buttplugs, traffic cones and Fiona Apple's 1997 VMAs speech as a springboard, Dick Biter collages dance scores and texts to embody both the divine femme and butch, and propose a space for abrasive, seat-forward revelry. Choreography: Blaze Ferrer Performance: Blaze Ferrer, Joey Kipp, and Alex Romania Sound Design, Composition, and Percussion: Jeff Aaron Bryant, Guitar: Alex Romania Lighting Design: Ebony M. Burton Costume Design: Emily White Stuart B Meyers: thegarden thegarden is an abstract movement exploration of the ever-becoming nature of the body and its outer world. As a blueprint for technotronic invention, the corporeal reveals itself to be a glitching system – one that is ripe for repair, updates and visioning. By constantly and consciously reconnecting to the body as organic material, the dance proposes a rediscovery of the supportive unseen forces that sustain us. It moves to re-member the spiritual processes and practices that ground us in our own ability to build newly gleaming futures. Choreography and Performance: Stuart B Meyers
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Dance Performances, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival: 2 New Dance Works

Dance Performance | Dance Works on Human Entanglement with Nature


Jody Sperling and her Time Lapse Dance ensemble present visually captivating programs that explore human entanglement with nature. The company's showcases highlight the climate change-themed collaboration between choreographer Jody Sperling and environmental composer Matthew Burtner. The performance features excerpts from Sperling-Burtner works. Their newest collaboration, Arbor, dwells on the nature of trees. In Wind Rose, dancers render changing atmospheric patterns palpable to sight, sound, and touch. The solo Piece for a Northern Sky is a stunning meditation on planetary motion. All of these works employ the company's signature style involving the use of body-extending costuming that abstracts the essence of human movement into elemental and organic forces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:45 pm
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Dance Performances, January 10, 2025, 01/10/2025, Dance Works on Human Entanglement with Nature
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