Tuesday, JULY 17, 7pm BPC Rockefeller Park Led by Tamango, this ultimate jam session with a global ensemble of dancers and musicians fuses freestyle tap, African stilt dancing, human beat box, jazz and funk music. A post-classical revision of ballet at once uniquely American and very New York. This summer The Shakespeare Project collaborates with America's permiere puppet master, Ralph Lee and his Mettawee Theatre Company, to tell the whimsical tale of Archy the cockroach, a poet and cultural critic, and his sassy sidekick Mehitabel the cat. Up Visual Art Orpheus Descending Through Thursday, JUNE 28 North Bridge Above the steady flow of pedestrian traffic, Paul Pfeiffer's new video installation displays the ten-week life cycle of a flock of chickens as they hatch from their eggs and develop from day old chicks to full grown adults. The video is displayed in real time 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the full duration of the birds' seventy-five day life cycle.
Admission is free unless noted otherwise.