RE:Vision

Forward Motion Theater presents RE:Vision, a collaboration of live performances weaving multimedia and dance from a fresh critical perspective. The evening features six independent works by artists combining choreography, video, spoken word, and music. RE:Vision builds on Forward Motion Theater’s 6-year successful series EyeWash that fostered interdisciplinary collaborations between more than 200 digital media artists and live performers.

One night show, February 24th at 8pm, one subway stop from Midtown Manhattan at The Secret Theatre 44-02 23rd St, in the Long Island City Arts Building, LIC, Queens. Tickets are $10. For reservations: www.secrettheatre.com or purchase at the door.

participating artists include:
Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder
Urban Wash Dance
Blue Muse Dance
Tyler Stone
Wetcircuit
(+1–1)
Blind

THE SECRET THEATRE – LONG ISLAND CITY ARTS BUILDING
44-02 23rd Street
Long Island City, Queens
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RE:Vision

Forward Motion Theater presents RE:Vision, a collaboration of live performances weaving multimedia and dance from a fresh critical perspective. The evening features five independent works by artists combining choreography, video, spoken word, and music. RE:Vision builds on Forward Motion Theater’s 6-year successful series EyeWash that fostered interdisciplinary collaborations between more than 200 digital media artists and live performers.

One night show, January 27 at 8pm, one subway stop from Midtown Manhattan at The Secret Theatre 44-02 23rd St, in the Long Island City Arts Building, LIC, Queens. Tickets are $10. For reservations: www.secrettheatre.com or purchase at the door.

participating artists include:
Urban Wash Dance
(+1–1)
Blind
Wetcircuit
Kim Gibilisco Dance
ActivePhaze

THE SECRET THEATRE – LONG ISLAND CITY ARTS BUILDING
44-02 23rd Street
Long Island City, Queens
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Thank You Gregory – A Tribute to the Legends of Tap

Penn State Center for the Performing Arts
October 2, 2009 – 7:30 pm
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Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Zellerbach Theatre
October 6-10
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…more tour dates below

Produced by Dance Affiliates, under the artistic direction of Randy Swartz, written by Tony Waag and directed by Ann Marie De Angelo, Thank You Gregory starring Maurice Hines salutes American tap legends – Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers, Honi Coles, the Nicholas Brothers, Gene Kelly, Bojangles Robinson, the Copasetics, and Jimmy Slyde. This all new production, based on the 2005 original show which premiered on the Dance Celebration Series, honors the American Ambassador of Tap, Gregory Hines.

Video design by Forward Motion Theater

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Gutterball Lounge & Discotheque

Every Tuesday beginning September 15, 2009
Lucky Strike Lanes, 42nd Street and West Side Highway
* *Private entrance on 42nd Street* *
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9:30pm – 2am
Free Admission before midnight – ($2 thereafter)
Half price drinks before midnight!
Free Bowling!

Every Tuesday Wetcircuit (aka FMT’s own Holly Daggers) serves up retro visuals and contemporary video art in this plush lounge where socialites mix, mingle, and bowl.

Nightlife impresario Lee Chappell presents this weekly of special guest artists and music industry promotions in a lounge with private bowling lanes, full bar and rotating gallery of art. Lady Rizo and Shien Lee co-host the entertainment-rich and art-savvy arcade with their live stage performances featuring turntable sets by DJs Michael T. and Steve Sidewalk, roaming visual stimulus by Alienation, a massive digital projection by Wetcircuit with fashionable club-goer ambassadors Hunter & Markus.

Join the Gutterball Lounge & Discoteque group on Facebook!

Social (Virus) – A Student Curated Exhibiton

Gossip and rumor. Truth and lies. Storytelling is the social glue thta binds us all together. Sure, some things are better left unsaid, but without stories, who would we be?

May 14 – 24, 2009
Opening Reception May 14, 6-8pm

NUTUREART
910 Grand Street, Brooklyn 11211
www.nutureart.org

Social (Virus) is an exhibition curated by students from the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School, an features the video work [gossip] created by Forward Motion Theater and students from the school participating in NUTUREart’s Education Outreach Program.

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