DANCENOW / FEBRUARY 10TH & 11TH

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2012 DANCEMOPOLITAN FEATURE SERIES 

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Monica Bill Barnes & Company along with guest performers will expose the trials of performing with deadpan humor in The Snow Globe Show.  Inspired by vaudeville and silent film, this evening length work capitalizes on the possibility that anything can happen during a live show.  Performers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass attempt to tackle the tribulations of showmanship and stage fright as unexpected interruptions send the show spinning off in new directions.  Special Guests may or may not make any of their entrances on time or at all during this evening length romp, which celebrates the lives of performers and the magic and failure that can only happen in front of an audience. Performance starts at 7pm, Doors open at 6:30pm.

Joe's Pub has rescheduled the performance of "Who's Your Baghdaddy or How I Started the Iraq War" to February 9th.  Tickets Now On Sale HERE . 

Only a boisterous, irreverent musical comedy with singing and dancing CIA agents could tell the true story of how we started the Iraq War. Prissy pundits, bickering bureaucrats and a dissolute defector get medals for their supporting roles.

Our story follows three main characters, an amalgam of people real and fictional, from 2001 - 2003. Richart, an ambitious German junior secret agent catches a prize defector who will become the CIA source on WMD. Nelson, a CIA analyst in Langley, can't get anyone to see the flaws in the story. The third character is journalist David Kay, who declared mistakenly on NBC that mobile germ labs had been found in Iraq, and was rewarded with a special assignment from George Tenet himself.

This is the story behind the story, the one you never really heard, told with humor, music, and good old fashioned show biz panache!

The show will feature Jesse Swenson (Spring Awakening, The Addams Family), Nehal Joshi (Les Miserables, Falling for Eve), Brandon Espinoza (Gypsy, Big), Alyssa Fox (Wicked - San Francisco), Matthew Myers (JC Superstar Natl Tour - original DC cast "best actor" dc theater scene), Harry Winter (Gigi Natl Tour - original DC cast), Claire Neumann, Tessa Faye & Olli Haaskivi.

http://www.whoisyourbaghdaddy.com

DanceNOW Receives Grant From NEA

Congratulations to DanceNOW, who will be the recipient of $10,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts. To support the Silo Guest Artist Residency program. Innovative choreographers and their companies will spend one to two weeks at the historic Kirkland Farm in Springtown, Pennsylvania to develop work that will premiere at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in New York City.

DanceNOW will be back at Joe's Pub for two performances on February 10th and 11th.  Click HERE to view the event information and buy tickets.  

Never Sleep Alone  

Go Ahead, Touch Someone. You Just Might Take Her Home.

By Neil Genzlinger

Usually when a couple say they met in the theater, they mean they were in the cast or on the stage crew together. Patrons who venture to the show at Joe’s Pub on Thursday night may find themselves constituting a different class entirely: audience members who were more or less ordered to couple up by the performer. Spectators are game at Roslyn Hart's one-woman show, “Never Sleep Alone." The show is called “Never Sleep Alone,” and that performer may look familiar to Joe’s Pub devotees. She is Roslyn Hart, who since 2007 has been turning up periodically on the pub’s stage in a one-woman comedic soap opera called “Shells.” For her new production she has shelved that character and rolled out a new one: Dr. Alex Schiller, a brassy, foul-mouthed sex therapist who is determined to make sure that those on the prowl find one another and know what to do once they connect.

“It was beyond my wildest expectations,” Ms. Hart, who also wrote the show, said of that first performance. “I mean, I knew it was going to be a good show, but I didn’t know it was going to be that good of a social event.” Her director, Peter James Cook, was also a bit surprised. “It really felt like you were at the Roman circus,” he said.The bookers at Joe’s Pub took notice. Initially slotted as a monthly show — Thursday night’s performance will be the second — “Never Sleep Alone” has already been penciled in to go weekly in March.

OUT Magazine has included some of Joe's Pub's favorite performers HERE

Justin Vivian Bond

Described in The New Yorker as "The greatest cabaret artist of (v's) generation" by Hilton Als, Mx Justin Vivian Bond is also a writer, painter and Tony nominated performance artist. Mx Bond's novella-length memoir, TANGO; My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels is now available from The Feminist Press and v's debut CD DENDRPOPHILE was self-released by WhimsyMusic. From Oct 30- Dec 15th, 2011 Justin Vivian's first solo art exhibition The Fall of the House of Whimsy will be presented at Participant Inc. in New York City.  Mx Bond was nominated for a Tony Award for Kiki and Herb Alive On Broadway in 2007. Other notable endeavors include touring with avant-garde performance troupe The Big Art Group and appearing in the John Cameron Mitchell film Shortbus.

Hahn Bin  

Hahn-Bin, whose name means ‘the shining star’ in Korean, launched The Renaissance of Classical Music in Spring 2010, an undertaking he calls “an all-encompassing project which aims to bring the quarantined genre into the mainstream pop culture.” The latest installment in The Renaissance of Classical Music is Tilldawn Sunday a "hybrid music theater work where a genderdefying storyline meets a genre-defying musical kaleidoscope," says Hahn-Bin. Weaving together the music of over 20 composers and set to a narrative written by Hahn-Bin himself, Till Dawn Sunday takes the audience on a voyage through the fullest spectrum of emotions with its four distinct episodes. "Though I’ve always told stories through the violin, the difference with Till Dawn Sunday is that I have now become the drama. I am now the art," says Hahn-Bin about his new musical odyssey, which features many of the greatest hits in music. Included are classical golden oldies like Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Elgar’s Salut d’amour, and Monti’s Csárdás, as well as the evocative film scores of Schindler ’s List, The Wizard of Oz, Young Frankenstein, and The Witches of Eastwick. “I have a morbid fascination for those moments in great films where the soundtrack speaks the unspeakable and in turn reveals truths about the character,” HAHN-BIN says. “I have always been a living cinema, and the violin, my soundtrack — but this time around, with Till Dawn Sunday, there are no secrets left untold.”

Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard is priming her hysterical insight, outspoken views and outrageous mouth to ring in the New Year. Sandra's brilliant unity of hilarious diatribes on the state of modern culture and classic rock attitude burns smart. Sandra's show is fresh, crazy and real. She inspires and invigorates. With her band, The Rebellious Jezebels, she still has all the raucous energy of youth, bringing audiences to their feet. See her New Years Weekend and rave! Discounts on New Year's Eve show if you purchase before Thanksgiving!