Thu, December 7
@ 6 PM | Register
Choreographer, writer, and performer Jack Ferver stars in the dance film, Nowhere Apparent, by filmmaker Jeremy Jacob. The film creates a kaleidoscopic world of queer isolation, theatricality, and abandonment in response to disappeared parental figures and the failed response to the AIDS crisis. Both Ferver and Jacob were Dance Research Fellows with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 2019, working with the Division’s AIDS Legacy Project.
A screening of the film will be followed by a… | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium | Adults |
Sat, December 9
@ 2:30 PM | Silent Clowns Film Series Register here!
Silent Clowns, New York’s longest-running regularly scheduled silent film showcase hosts an afternoon of hoots and hijinks! Presenting the silent comedies of Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Lloyd, and many others, all with live musical accompaniment by renowned silent-film accompanist Ben Model. Every program features a spoken introduction and Q&A by film historians Steve Massa and Model. For classic-film fans young and old alike!
Animals were very popular in silent fil… | New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium | Adults |