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ELIZAVETA, TIMUR AND THE DIME MUSEUM & A VILLAGE RAID

THURS JAN 16

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

Elizaveta mixes opera, pop, jazz and soul, stir in some beats, flawless live looping, and creates an experience that truly transports the audience.

The “extravagantly transgressive tenor,” Timur will preview selections from Collapse, a post-ecological requiem about the environmental catastrophes caused by humans.

Danny Taylor aka A Village Raid has worked with the likes of Performa, The Spectrum and 280 Washington and The New York Mix Experimental Film Festival. He has DJ’d globally from Brazil to Berlin.

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SKY PONY & ANDREWANDREW

WEDS JAN 15

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

Sky-Pony serves up lush, lyrical, often cheeky indie-pop with a healthy dose of theatrics. Rock concert meets performance art meets burlesque.

A New York-based creativity team working behind the scenes and in front of large crowds since 1999.

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NICK HALLETT, SPACE PALACE & WOAHMONE

TUES JAN 14

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

Composer Nick Hallett presents selections from his work, Rainbow Passage, featuring soprano Daisy Press. Space Palace rockets in from Portland, Oregon to take our spirits higher and onto the dance floor. WOAHMONE serves up an arty mix of dance music.

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HEATHER CHRISTIAN & THE ARBORNAUTS

MON JAN 13

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

With a special presentation of the Spalding Gray Award by Performance Space 122, On the Boards, the Warhol Museum and Walker Art Center.

Chamber punk avant-songstress and her band play a set of their Dream hymns set somewhere between interstellar space and the American deep south. “Christian howls like a Werewolf with a voice made of Molasses” — Variety

The Spalding Gray Award is a special commission in Spalding’s honor that supports gifted playwrights or performers whose work continues on in the legacy of Spalding, a fearless innovator of theatrical form. The SGA is supported by Kathleen Russo, his widow, Performance Space 122 in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Seattle’s On the Boards. Recipients of the SGA receive a commission and full presentation of new work in an upcoming season at each of the partners’ theaters.

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Mårten in concert with Lune 3
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Mårten Spångberg

La Substance, but in English
World Premiere

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ETHAN LIPTON AND HIS ORCHESTRA & PK

SUN JAN 12

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

The Obie-winning, nationally-touring Ethan Lipton & his Orchestra will play the songs that have made them “New York’s Best Lounge Act” (New York magazine).

A product of the Hiphop 80s, 90s Euro Dance, and Daddy’s Motown Sundays, PK is a musician and multidisciplinary artist from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is known for his characteristic ability to find connections where there are no obvious ones, strong sense of improvisation, and experimental endeavors.

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M. LAMAR, CHRISTEENE & CHRIS GIARMO

SAT JAN 11

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

M. Lamar draws from the negro spiritual, fuses classical to dissonant black metal piano styles and sings with unique operatic vocals. Lamar’s sound makes one think the world might end right then and there.

CHRISTEENE is a sexually-infused sewer of unclassifiable musical stylings and vile shamelessness, commanding a stage presence of furious intensity and burnt offerings.

DJ Chris Giarmoof NY’s Big Dance Theater and Half Straddlespins house, booty jams, mashups and 90s pop to make your ass drop n bop.

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CHAMPAGNE JERRY & FRIENDS

FRI JAN 10

Doors 9:30PM . Performances 11:00PM . DJs All Night

THIRD FLOOR at THE PUBLIC THEATER
425 Lafayette Street / FREE

Champagne Jerry is a rap act, a performance art piece and all of your dreams coming true simultaneously.