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The World Financial Center presents these concerts inside the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center as well as outdoors on the World Financial Center Plaza. The World Financial Center is located at 220 Vesey Street. The Winter Garden at the World Financial Center is easily accessible by subway: A/C, J/M/Z, 2/3, or 4/5 to Fulton Street; E to World Trade Center; R to City Hall or the PATH to World Trade Center.
Sunday, June 19 - 11 am-12 am
Bang on a Can Marathon
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Bang on a Can returns with its incomparable 12-hour-plus super-mix of genre-defying
music featuring over 150 astounding musicians and composers from throughout the
world. Highlights include Philip Glass performing live with the Bang on a Can All-Stars;
music by Bryce Dessner of The National; sonic downtown legend Glenn Branca; the
outer-planetary Sun Ra Arkestra; the Asphalt Orchestra playing music by David
Byrne/Annie Clark, Yoko Ono, and Frank Zappa; the intrepid Signal in a blistering string
orchestra work by Julia Wolfe plus New York premieres by Richard Ayers, Fausto
Romitelli, Poul Ruders, Toby Twining and much more!
Tuesday, June 21 - 12:30 (Acoustic)
Thursday, June 23 - 5:30 pm (Full Band)
Ivan & Alyosha
World Financial Center Plaza
Seattleʼs Ivan & Alyosha are not nihilist indie rockers, but a new brand of tender
dreamers. They navigate the music world contemplating their path as a band, and,
despite the uncertainty, Ivan & Alyoshaʼs soulful folk tunes suggest a band inspired,
hopeful, and longing, unafraid to probe their collective faith and doubts.
Thursday June 23 - 12:30
The Poetry of Food: Elaine Equi
World Financial Center Greenmarket
Stimulate your creative side with this food-specific poetry reading by noted poet Elaine
Equi, while surrounded by fresh local delights at the WFC Greenmarket. Equi will share
poems inspired by our degustation. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The New
Yorker, and in her many published books, including Ripple Effect: New & Selected
Poems.
Saturday June 25 - 1 pm & 4 pm
Dancing Classrooms Colors of the Rainbow Team Match
World Financial Center
Culminating this yearʼs Dancing Classrooms program, talented 5th (4 p.m.) and 8th (1 p.m.) grade dancers from New York City public schools compete in this city-wide competition for the grand prize as they Fox Trot, Merengue, Rumba, Swing and Tango their way to the gold.
Tuesday, June 28 - 7 pm
New York City Opera – Rufus Wainwright Goes To the Opera!
World Financial Center Winter Garden
Join New York City Opera singers, pianist Kevin Murphy, and the great singer/songwriter
and opera composer, Rufus Wainwright, who hosts a performance featuring excerpts
from his opera Prima Donna (which receives its New York premiere at New York City
Opera in Spring 2012) and a selection of his favorite arias. Wainwright will also
perform excerpts from a selection of songs inspired by his love of opera.
Thursday, June 30 - 5:30 pm
Emmet Cohen
World Financial Center Plaza
At 21, jazz piano prodigy Emmet Cohen plays with the maturity and confidence of a
seasoned veteran. With astonishing technique and an innovative harmonic palate,
Emmet shares a deep musical bond with his audience. He has shared the bandstand
with a plethora of jazz luminaries including Christian McBride, Joshua Redman, Patti
Austin and Maceo Parker.
Thursday July 7 - 5:30 pm
Ellio Villafranca: Cuban Roots Cuban Soul
World Financial Center Plaza
Villafranca and his top-notch band featuring guest vocalist, Giovanna Robinson, perform
a selection of Cubaʼs most exciting and popular danzones, guarachas, sones, cha-chacha,
and boleros from the 1950ʼs and ʻ60ʼs, and other more contemporary work,
highlighting the richness of the music and culture of the island.
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, July 17 - 11 am-7 pm daily
Extraordinary Moves: The Dancer Films
World Financial Center Winter Garden
The Dancer Films is a collection of very short films based on Jules Feifferʼs beloved
cartoon character, the modern Dancer. Director Judy Dennis brilliantly translates six of
Feifferʼs memorable cartoons−A Dance to Spring, A Dance to Art, A Dance to Summer,
A Dance to the Loss of Innocence, A Dance to the New Year, and A Dance to the End of
Summer−from the page to the soundstage, alchemizing drawing into dance for film.
Brought to life by Merce Cunningham Dance Company dancer Andrea Weber, the
Dancer is an icon to optimism and earnestness as she dances to celebrate a cycle of
seasonal, emotional and political milestones. Produced by Ellen and Judy Dennis.
Choreography by Susan Marshall and by Larry Keigwin, and original music by Jane Ira
Bloom.
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, August 14
(July 9-17, 11am–7pm daily; July 19 – August 14, Tuesday – Sunday,
12–4pm)
World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery
Extraordinary Moves: A Dance to Spring: The Drawings of Jules Feiffer
An extraordinary exhibition of original cartoon strips, watercolors, and iris prints by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, author, playwright, and iconic New Yorker Jules Feiffer.
The centerpiece of the show is a selection of the Dancer cartoons, which ran for 40
years in The Village Voice and as a monthly feature in the New York Times.
Sunday, July 10 - 2pm
Extraordinary Moves: Express Your Inner Feiffer Dancer
World Financial Center Winter Garden
In a live dance-in inspired by The Dancer Films, release your inner Dancer while Jules
Feiffer creates new cartoons joined by dancer Andrea Weber and live music by Jane Ira
Bloom. All ages welcome!
Thursday, July 14 - 12:30 pm
Extraordinary Moves: Third Rail Projects: Looking Glass
Looking Glass is a site-adaptive, immersive performance experience utilizing and
highlighting pre-existing architecture. The work invites audiences to see the
surroundings anew by charting their own path through a cutting edge, fierce, and
sophisticated re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland & Through The
Looking Glass. The work is a durational performance, presented on a loop for roughly
one hour.
Thursday, July 14 - 6 pm
Friday, July 15 - 12 & 6 pm
Saturday, July 16 - 2, 4 & 6 pm
Extraordinary Moves: STREB: Human Fountain
World Financial Center Plaza
Inspired by the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, Human Fountain involves performers
leaping from as high as 30 feet from a three-story, open, honeycomb structure in order to
create cascades of airborne liquid muscle. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing,
exquisite and amazing human flight, and wild action sport, which captures kids, older
people and the general publicʼs hearts, minds, and bodies.
Thursday, July 14 - 6 pm
Friday, July 15 - 12 & 6 pm
Saturday, July 16 - 2, 4 & 6 pm
Extraordinary Moves: Michael Moschen: Triangle
World Financial Center Plaza
MacArthur laureate Michael Moschen is considered to be the supreme juggling virtuoso
of our time. His creations have been seen on stage, screen, and television as well as in
leading theatre and dance festivals all over the world. In Triangle, Moschenʼs incredibly
famous, jaw-dropping piece, three balls and a triangle become a musical and visual work
of art.
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