High 5 For Teens: Events Scheduled For 09/04/15 – 09/23/15

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High 5 is a non-profit organization that offers teenagers $5 tickets to arts events in and around New York City. Whether it’s dance, theater, music, film, art or spoken word you’re into, tickets are available.

 

Mercury Fur

New York Times Critics’ Pick! “Blistering. I promised myself not to look away and was glad that I kept that vow. For this production deserves your full attention. Mercury Fur is sensational in pretty much every sense of the word, and leaves you moved, muddled and gasping for air.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times

In a society ravaged by warring gangs and a hallucinogenic-drug epidemic, Elliot and Darren, under the sway of the ruthless Spinx, throw parties for rich clients in abandoned apartment buildings – parties that help guests act out their darkest, most sinister fantasies. As the teenage brothers prepare for the latest festivities, some unexpected guests threaten the balance of the world they have created in the midst of this dystopian nightmare. Hailed as a “savage and utterly gripping drama” by Ben Brantley, Philip Ridley’s Mercury Fur is a terrifying, yet tender, look at just how far people will go to protect those they love the most.

**Includes adult content and situations. Recommended for ages 16+.**

Visit for www.thenewgroup.org for more info!

Click dates for tix:

Wednesday, September 2 @ 7:30pm

Thursday, September 3 @ 7:30pm

Friday, September 4 @ 7:30pm

Saturday, September 5 @ 2pm

Saturday, September 5 @ 8pm

Sunday, September 6 @ 2pm

The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre
480 West 42nd St., Manhattan
A, C, or E to 42nd St;
1, 2, 3, 7, N, R, Q, W, S to 42nd St.-Times Square

NOCTURNE plus Vanessa Long Dance Company

Nocturne
Alexandra Pinel

Nocturne is about the process of collecting and reassembling blurry memories that appear at night. Inspired by personal experiences as a teen club promoter in France, dancemaker Alexandra Pinel combines memories, movement, and music to create her own, unique vision of American pop as seen through the eyes of an outsider. The piece is also an ode to dance as an entryway to trance.

Vanessa Long Dance Company

The Vanessa Long Dance Company combines both theatre and dance to create pieces about social and political issues we face in everyday life. The VLDC’s work is highly theatrical and each pieces has a story to tell that is easy to understand and relatable. The hope is that through our work we can get our audience to question the status quo and work towards a better tomorrow.

Visit dixonplace.org for more info!

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Wednesday, September 2 @ 7:30pm

 

Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St. (btwn Rivington and Delancey)
B, D to Grand St.
F to 2nd Ave
J, Z to Bowery St

New Music @ Subrosa

LOWEREASTSALSA

From a young age the musical influences and hardcore sound of salsa resonated with the two. “Tommy” followed in the footsteps of his uncle Ray Alcantara who played timbales for the 70′s group form the Lower East Side “SAOCO” among many other bands. After studying percussion at Boy Harbor in El Barrio under famed timbalero Jimmy Delgado, “Tommy” continued to play with many other groups in and around New York City. The strength of the group lies in it’s LIVE performances where they get thing HOT!!! Having shared the stage with such luminaries such as Gilberto Santa Rosa, Victor Manuelle and many more… This Group holds their own.

Wednesday, September 2 @ 8pm

PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP

Celebrated Cuban percussionist Pedrito Martínez and his group (The Pedrito Martínez Group) hosts a new monthly residency at Subrosa, with performances multiple nights each month. The Pedrito Martinez Group [PMG] came together in 2005 at a Cuban restaurant in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen, called Guantanamera. A scene has developed since then around the group that has attracted musicians from all over the world, including, Eric Clapton, Derek Trucks, Ruben Blades, John Scofield, Steve Gadd, Steve Winwood and Taj Mahal, to name a few.

Thursday,September 3 @ 8pm

Friday, September 4 @ 8pm

GERARDO CONTINO Y LOS HABANEROS

Gritty, witty and streetwise, the Havana-born Gerardo Contino, “El Abogado de la Salsa,” is a Cuban singer and songwriter. This former lead singer of the Cuban mega-group NG La Banda is a party onstage: he loves to improvise, to pull the audience into call & response, and to provoke fans into hip-shaking abandon.

Saturday, September 5 @ 8pm

**$20 Minimum per person per Set**

Visit subrosanyc.com for more!

Subrosa
63 Gansevoort St., Manhattan
A, C, E to 14th St.

The Quantum Eye: Magic & Mentalism

**Sales close Friday, 9/04 @ 10am**

Awarded the world record for the longest running, one man, Off-Broadway magic show!

The Quantum Eye is Sam Eaton’s entertaining and fascinating exploration of mentalism, magic, perception and deception, where extraordinary ability and humor blend with the audience to make for a different performance every time. Join Sam on a journey past the limits of possibility in a show that you will never forget!

**The Maximum Group Size for this show is 4**

Visit www.TheQuantumEye.com for more!

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Saturday, September 5 @ 5pm

Theatre 80
80 St. Marks Pl., Manhattan
6 to Astor Place; N/R to 8th St

Join us for FREE Pizza and a Movie Night!

Friday, September 4th, 5-8pm

**RSVP by Friday, September 4th @ 12pm**

Seating is limited, so you must lay claim to your seat & slice by selecting “Free Ticket- RSVP HERE” on the event page. Fill in your information and you will receive a reminder email the day before the event. Please let us know exactly how many people you’ll be bringing. If you have any questions, feel free to emailThomasB@artsconnection.org

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Friday, September 4 @ 5pm

PLEASE NOTE: This is a TEENS ONLY event, open to anyone currently in HIGH SCHOOL.

Also, don’t be late! If you arrive later than 5:15 PM, you will miss the group and won’t be able to get into the theater.

Sony Wonder Technology Lab
Sony Plaza, 56th St. near Madison Ave.
(Look for the SONY PLAZA PUBLIC ARCADE sign on 56th St.)
4, 5, 6, N or R to 59th St; E to 5th Ave; F to 57th St.

 

 

Bargemusic

Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”

Since 1977, Bargemusic has presented chamber music in an unlikely and startlingly beautiful venue—a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. Both established and emerging musicians perform at Bargemusic on a small stage with the dramatic backdrop of the East River and lower Manhattan skyline.

Visit www.bargemusic.org for more!

Click dates for tix:

Friday, September 4 @ 8pm

Saturday, September 5 @ 8pm

Bargemusic
Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water St., Brooklyn
A, C to High St.; F to York St.

 

 

Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind

Same time each week. Different show each week!

With its ever-changing “menu” of plays, Too Much Light… is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes—an original concept by Greg Allen. The audience is fully part of the act, deciding the order that these plays are performed. Each week, these plays shift as ensemble members add new plays to the existing body of work. The single unifying element of these plays is that they are performed from a perspective of absolute honesty. Read more about what it means to be a “Neo-Futurist.”

Please note: May contain adult themes

Visit nyneofuturists.org for more info!

Click the dates for tix:

Friday, September 4 @ 10:30pm

Saturday, September 5 @ 10:30pm

The Kraine Theater
85 East 4th Street, Manhattan
F to 2nd Avenue; N/R to Astor Place; B/D/F/M to Broadway Lafayette

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis

$12 Tickets are now available to Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. But hurry – they’ll be gone before you know it!

Carlos Henriquez: Back in the Bronx

To kick off Jazz at Lincoln Center’s new season, Bronx native Carlos Henriquez brings the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis back to the Bronx with a one-night-only performance at Lehman Center for the Performing Arts, where his compositions and most notable Latin jazz arrangements will be front and center. Joined by special guest percussionists, Henriquez presents music that shows the breadth of his technical and stylistic dexterity. Henriquez is truly homegrown talent, both of the Bronx, and of Jazz at Lincoln Center, who has become a cornerstone of a shared story.

One of the first truly bilingual musicians, equally virtuosic with the language of jazz and the Afro-Latin tradition, Carlos Henriquez – the Bronx-born, Nuyorican veteran bassist of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra – is a force to be reckoned with. By age 14, Henriquez was performing at People’s Park, across the street from his high school, with Latin jazz greats Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, and Celia Cruz, and as a member of the first ever top-placing Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival and Competition jazz band, Henriquez’ roots with Jazz at Lincoln Center run deep.

Visit www.jazz.org for more info!

Click the date for tix:

Saturday, September 12 @ 8pm

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts
250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx
4 or D to the Bedford Park Boulevard

Amateur Night at the Apollo

Amateur Night at the Apollo is one of New York’s most popular live entertainment experiences, attracting performers and audiences the world over. The classic competition is known for its notoriously “tough” audience, gleefully deciding who will “be good or be gone” to win the grand prize. Who will be the next Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown or Michael Jackson? At Amateur Night, you decide.

Visit www.apollotheater.org for more!

Click dates for tix:

Wednesday, September 23 @ 7:30pm

more dates available!

Apollo Theater
253 W. 125th St., Manhattan
A, C or D to 125th St.

 


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