Category Archives: performance

vaudeville park

25 Mar Filed under bushwick, closed, east williamsburg, music, performance, williamsburg. 4 Comments.

space type: art & music venue | neighborhood: williamsburg | active: 2008–2013 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Vaudeville Park is a plucky arts venue with wildly diverse programming. It sits right on the borderline (at least, the current …

the muse

15 Jan Filed under bushwick, performance, williamsburg. 6 Comments.

space type: aerialist venue | neighborhood: williamsburg, bushwick | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Update, spring 2015: Last winter, Vice magazine took over two adjoining buildings on the Williamsburg waterfront, evicting several underground spaces in …

chez bushwick

1 Nov Filed under bushwick, nonprofit, performance. 10 Comments.

space type: dance studio | neighborhood: bushwick | active since: 2002 | links: website, facebook, myspace

Chez Bushwick, an artist-run dance studio and performance space, is one of the vanguards of the modern incarnation of Bushwick as an …

red lotus room

7 Jul Filed under crown heights, parties, performance, underground. 19 Comments.

space type: parties | neighborhood: crown heights | active since: 2009 | link: blog, facebook

The Red Lotus Room is breathtaking. The first time I went was for BANZAI!!!!!, a surreally crazy art and performance party, full of …

house of yes

27 Jun Filed under bushwick, east williamsburg, performance, underground. 16 Comments.

neighborhood: east williamsburg | space type: performance venue | active since: 2008 | links: website, facebook, twitter

update, summer 2014: In sad but of course not shocking news, the House of Yes lost their East Williamsburg lease in …

big sky works

12 Jun Filed under performance, underground, williamsburg. 14 Comments.

neighborhood: williamsburg | space type: circus | active since: 2011 | links: website, facebook, twitter

Wau Wau Sisters at Big Sky Works

When I was in college in New Jersey, we used to come to Brooklyn to hunt …

gowanus ballroom

12 May Filed under art gallery, gowanus, historic, makers, parties, performance, underground. 23 Comments.

neighborhood: gowanus | space type: art & events | active since: 2010 | links: website, facebook

Gowanus Ballrooom is one of my very favorite spaces, one I can’t help updating and re-writing about again and again. (In fact, check …

lost horizon night market

9 May Filed under dumbo, greenpoint, parties, performance, spectacle, underground. 13 Comments.

neighborhood: nomadic | space type: guerilla art | active since: 2009 | links: website

Okay, the Lost Horizon Night Market isn’t exactly a space, it’s more an idea contained in many, many spaces. But it’s such a spectacularly fun …

bushwick starr

22 Apr Filed under bushwick, nonprofit, performance, theatre. 10 Comments.

neighborhood: bushwick | space type: theatre | active since: 2001 | links: website, facebook, twitter

The first play I saw at Bushwick Starr was The Ring Cycle Parts 1&2, a recontectualizing of Wagner‘s famous opera set …

rubulad

18 Feb Filed under bed-stuy, parties, performance, underground. 33 Comments.

photo from the New York Times

neighborhood: bed-stuy | space type: parties & art space | active since: 1993 | links: none (sorry!)

update December 2011: Rubulad is moving! After nine years in South Williamsburg and six in Bed-Stuy, this …