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What For? Why Not?

Friday, April 7, 2017,
8pm,
Triskelion Arts at Muriel Schulman Theater, 
106 Calyer Street, 
Brooklyn, NY 11222,
G to Nassau Ave (walk 3 blks north to Calyer & 3 blks west to #106) • map

Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston in What For? Why Not? FestivalThe “What For? Why Not?” series combines two artists from different disciplines juxtaposing dance, music, spoken word, and visual art. 
Patti Bradshaw (dance) / Vienna Carroll & Keith Johnston (music)
Act 1: Choreographer and puppeteer Patti Bradshaw shares the evening with singing storyteller duo, Vienna Carroll and Keith Johnston. Bradshaw’s Flowers in Space uses dance, puppetry, and slide projections in a solo for dancer Valerie Striar inspired by the turn of the twentieth-century painter, poet, set designer, and subtle social commentator Florine Stettheimer, (1871-1944).
Act 2: In Folk First: Black Roots Music, Carroll as griot and Johnston as guitarist celebrate the spirituals, work songs, prison blues, and sea shanties of antebellum African Americans, and their links to contemporary artists like Biggie Smalls and Pharrell Williams.

3/Fifths: A provocative and radically satirical exploration of race and privilege in America

3/Fifths - Photo of "Mammy" character played by Vienna Carroll
Vienna Carroll, center, in an intentionally provocative scene. Credit: Caitlin Ochs for The New York Times

“Vienna Carroll, as the infant-swaddling, breast-exposed Mammy, turns in an exceptionally beautiful performance that’s conflicted and powerful.”
– Theatre Is Easy

 

3/Fifths
Written by James Scruggs
May 1 – 28, 2017
At 3LD Art & Technology Center
80 Greenwich Street (south of Rector St. & north of Edgar St.)

New York, NY 10006
Get directions
Phone: (212) 645-0374
1 to Rector St. (closest, same block); J/Z to Broad St.; 4/5 to Wall St.
http://www.3fifths.org

Staged as an immersive participatory carnival and cabaret, and sprawled across 10,000 square feet, 3/Fifths transformed 3LD Art + Technology Center into a dystopian interactive ethno-theme park known as SupremacyLand.  Mass incarceration, racist carnage, and political incorrectness have never been more entertaining!

Read reviews:
Off Off Online
Theatre Is Easy
StageBuddy
New York Times
Time Out New York

Vienna Carroll at MamapaloozaNYC!

Mamapalooza NYC
1 – 2 pm: Vienna performs with the fabulous fierce band:  Stanley Banks, bass; Newman Taylor Baker, washboard; Keith Johnston, guitar
12 noon – 5 pm: entire festival, so come early and stay late!
May 28, 2017
Riverside Park South
Pier i, 500 W 70th St. (path to pier is at Riverside and 68th Street, see map below)
New York, NY 10069
(Nearby Pier i Cafe has excellent food & drink, but no alcohol on the pier outside cafe grounds.)

Concert on the end of the 795 feet pier! Stunning river views. Fishing. Dog-friendly, family-friendly, bring chairs or a blanket to sit on, some benches.

MamapaloozaNYC 2017