Category: The Arts

Dulcinea Comes Downtown

Battery Park City’s own New American Youth Ballet (NAYB) will present next Sunday (May 22) a dance adaptation of “Someday,” the elegy to motherhood by children’s book author Alison McGhee. The dancers will be led by NAYB director and choreographer Elizabeth Flores and accompanied by a full, 40-piece orchestra, performing original music by Alan Turry,...
New American Youth Ballet

Department of Music

Join the Tribeca Chamber Players and pianist Peter Basquin on Sunday, May 15 at 2pm as they perform Antonin Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major, Opus 81 in a free presentation in the Great Hall at the Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center. Written in late 1887 – at a time when melody was king –...
Antonin Dvorak

ART DOWNTOWN

ONE ART SPACE Diane Detalle is a self-taught artist born in France and working in New York. Her exhibition Horizons Within at One Art Space in Tribeca features a new body of work inspired by the horizons from the south of France. Diane shares thoughts behind her artistic process: “Working on the floor allows me to be...

They Campaigned in Poetry, But Will Govern in Prose

With over 60,000 volumes of poetry, over 80,000 visitors annually and millions of viewers online, Poets House sets the standard for national literary programming. Nicholas Potter On February 12, America’s poetry library elected new leadership to its board of directors. Nicholas Potter was elected president of the board of directors, has been a member of...

Avant Kids

A glimpse of the intensively creative, wildly inventive ferment that is a core part of the curriculum at Blue School, in the Seaport District, was on display last weekend at Gibney Dance, on Chambers Street. Picture an intensely visual reinterpretation of Dr. Seuss, infused with elements of the Who’s rock opera, “Tommy,” all rendered in...

Annual Art Exhibit Opens

The annual art exhibit presented by the Battery Park City Parks opened on Sunday at the gallery in their headquarters. Scores of watercolors, charcoal and pen drawings were on display, the fruit of labor from dozens of students who participated in the free weekly art classes offered May through October. Inspired by the natural beautiful...