Other
Festival Events
The Hellenic Festival includes a range of events presented
by other organizations whose programming in theater, dance, music, and
visual art brings the
celebration of Greek culture to multiple venues around the city.
Greek Cultural Center
The 2004 season marks the Greek Cultural Center’s 30th Anniversary.
The Greek Cultural Center is instrumental in bringing the rich, multifaced
culture of Greek life to New York City. The Center produces and promotes
a variety of art-related projects and events, including year-round presentations
in theater, folk dance, children’s theater, film, and literature.
The Greek Cultural Center hosts ongoing classes and workshops annually.
Greek Cultural Center
27-18 Hoyt Avenue
718-726-7329
The Joyce Theater
Jane Comfort and Company
Persephone
October 5-10
Tuesday-Friday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm and 8pm; Sunday at 2pm and 7:30pm
Jane Comfort and Company’s Persephone is a dance-theater meditation
on the Greek myth, performed in an interactive visual setting of neon and
fiber-optic sculptures by Keith Sonnier and to live music by Tigger Benford.
The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
JoyceCharge: 212-242-0800
www.joyce.org
Friendly Fire presents
Hecuba by Euripides
October 7-30
World-renowned voice teacher Kristin Linklater stars as Hecuba in Euripides'
tale of a fallen queen. Eerie in its timelessness, Hecuba is
about political corruption, the devastating effects of war, and the resulting
loss of humanity.
Hecuba is produced by Les Gutman, translated
by William Arrowsmith, and directed by Alex Lippard.
The Culture Project
45 Bleecker Street, NYC
Information and tickets: www.hecuba.info
Freshly Squeezed Creative Juices Theatre Company
Acharnians by Aristophanes
October 7-24
Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm
Acharnians is a rarely performed political satire about one
frustrated citizen’s attempt to make peace by signing a personal
treaty with the enemy. Set in contemporary times, it explores issues
of justifying
war and individual responsibility that make it hauntingly timely.
Theater Three
311 West 43rd Street, 3rd Floor
Smarttix: 212-864-4444
www.freshlysqueezedtheatre.org
Kouros Gallery
October 14
Leonidas Goulandris-Exhibition of recent paintings
December 2004
Group show of 20 artists of Hellenic extraction
Curated by the Kouros Gallery and held at the Cultural Center of the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
March 2005
Nicolas Vlavianos-Exhibition of sculpture
Readings of prose and poetry
Bimonthly on Saturdays throughout the festival.
Kouros Gallery
23 East 73rd Street
212-288-5888
www.kourosgallery.com
THEATRON INC.
Greek-American Performing Arts Center
O Mamakias (in Greek)
October 22-November 14
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm; Sundays at 3pm and 8pm
This hilarious farce, based on K. Pretenteris’s comedy O Counenes,
deals with the life and behavior of a 40 year-old man who continues to
be a mama’s boy!
Hellenic Cultural Center Theater
27-09 Crescent Street
718-721-7610
www.theatroninc.org
Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
Isadora Duncan and the Spirit of Greece
Lori Belilove & Company, the resident performing company of the Isadora
Duncan Dance Foundation, will present a series of performances and lecture
demonstrations. Included in the series are a performance as part of
the Raymond Gerson Cultural Arts Series at Senior Council Center and
an intimate
salon performance at IDDF Studio.
October 28 at 1pm
Senior Council Center
241 West 72nd Street
January 10 at 7pm
IDDF Studio
141 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor
For more information about these and other events contact:
Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation
212-691-5040
www.isadoraduncan.org
The New York Festival of Song
From the Grecian Isles
November 17
8:00pm
The New York Festival of Song, with Artistic Director Steven Blier and Associate Artistic Director Michael Barrett, continues its 17th season on Wednesday, November 17th with FROM
THE GRECIAN ISLES, a program of scenes and verses inspired by Greek mythology and poetry, ancient and modern. The concert, featuring John Musto’s song cycle, Penelope, as well as works by Schubert, Grieg, Ravel and Theodorakis, will take place at 8 p.m. at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 West 67th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue.
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 W 67th St.,
Broadway & Amsterdam Ave.
http://www.nyfos.org/
Dance Theater Workshop
Maria Hassabi
Dead is Dead
December 9-11
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm
A chaotic meditation from six performers who fuse their individuality,
passions, and misfortunes to reflect the random impulses that spring
from the overstimulation of a contemporary urban environment.
Amanda Loulaki
New Work
March 2-5
Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm
In her new work, Amanda Loulaki uses physically expansive, aggressive movement
to evoke emotional states.
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
Box Office: 212-924-0077
www.dtw.org
World Music Institute
Romeiko Ensemble
Mystical Music of Constantinople: Byzantine Chant and Turkish Sufi
December 11 at 8pm
An annual holiday event, this program is a rare opportunity to hear Greek
and Turkish musicians together in concert performing the sacred music of
Christianity and Sufism, traditions that flourished together in Constantinople
(Istanbul) over the past 500 years.
St. Mary’s Times Square
145 West 46th Street
Box Office: 212-545-7536
www.worldmusicinstitute.org
HERE Arts Center
Café Antarsia
as part of HERE’s Culturemart Festival
January 14 and 15 at 9pm
A new Mediterranean opera set in a mythic taverna on the island of Crete.
Composed by Nikos Brisco and written by Ruth Margraff, Café Antarsia
is inspired by the rebetika folk songs and café amanethes-style
of performance of 1930s-50s Greece.
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Avenue
212-868-4444
www.here.org
La MaMa
Great Jones Repertory
Perseus
April 28-May 15
Perseus represents a continuation of La MaMa’s tradition
of contemporary interpretations and adaptations of the ancient Greek
myths. Perseus has
new text and treatment by Ellen Stewart, music by Elizabeth Swados, and
musical direction by Michael Sirotta.
La MaMa-Annex Theatre
74A East 4th Street
Box Office: 212-475-7710
www.lamama.org
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