Best Things To Do In NYC This Weekend
You'll want to bundle up and head out into the cold this weekend, so awesome are our picks for the best eating, drinking, and merrymaking events around NYC on Saturday and Sunday. Read on—you won't disagree! By Jessica Allen.
According to artistic director Vallejo Gantner, this year's COIL festival of art, dance, and theater "attacks the very concept of boundaries and of limits. The boundaries between ideologies, life and death, the contemporary and historic, human and machine, light and darkness, audience and performer. Limitations of time, identity, age and geography disappear. The work we will see this year deals with evolutionary transformation." Tuesday, January 5, through Sunday, January 17, see schedule for details, tickets required.
The Under the Radar Festival spotlights theater that has flown under the radar, almost 200 theater companies from 40 countries over the past 12 years. You'll see new work from around the world, a series of plays, performers, musicians, and others who haven't had their big break—yet. It's a celebration of diversity and a great opportunity to stand on the cutting edge and see what's what, long before anyone else does. Wednesday, January 6, through Sunday, January 17, see schedule for details, tickets required.
Taking over the Abrons Art Center on the Lower East Side, American Realness is a festival of dance, music, performance, theater, and various combinations thereof. We're particularly jazzed up about Sorrow Swag, which seeks to understand the language of sadness while exploring both melancholy and race, and Mass, which focuses on the possibilities of the body, as its three female performers form an interdependent being of movement, singing, and dancing. Thursday, January 7, through Sunday, January 17, see schedule for details, tickets required.
Hey there, do you like jazz? If so, we've got a weekend event for you: Winter Jazzfest features hundreds of musicians playing hundreds of concerts around the city over the course of four days. (Jazz Times voted it the #1 Jazz Festival in North America!) Make sure to book time in your planner to attend the legendary marathon. Dig it! Wednesday, January 13, through Sunday, January 17, see schedule for details, tickets required.
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The fourth annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival celebrates the author of such classics as A Scanner Darkly and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The selected movies "push the cinematic form to new levels of creativity and originality, and challenge the viewer's reality with ideas and concepts not normally found in conventional stories." Thursday, January 14, through Sunday, January 17, see schedule for details, tickets required.
