Something new at the New

...Museum, that is. Dance comes to the New Museum on Friday, June 13 (7:30pm) with Mesmerized by Vangeline Theater and Ray Sweeten. The performance will take place in the museum's brand new 182-seat white box theater, the first time that this space has played host to a dance performance.

"The artists in create dances and musical compositions that move at extremely slow speeds, aspiring towards profundity with near-microscopic subtlety. The culminating effect is mesmerizing and stunningly dramatic.

"Vangeline Theater fuses the traditions of Butoh dance (characterized by exaggerated, even grotesque, isometric movement) with an aesthetic inspired by glammed-out science-fiction movies like Blade Runner and Liquid Sky. Ray Sweeten processes music through an oscilloscope—an instrument that allows voltage signals to be viewed graphically—translating shifting claustrophobic sonic environments into a mysterious new kind of sign language."

Admission: $8/members, $10/general public

New Museum
235 Bowery Street, Manhattan