FEBRUARY SELECTS
🎂 1 year of four/four selects! A short, cold month of dance, music and some gr8 exhibitions in NYC.
Jan 30: Zeena Parkins, with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Craig Taborn at e-flux
Join Zeena Parkins, alongside improvisers Craig Taborn and Ishmael Houston-Jones, for Lace Action Cards, a dynamic performance exploring the interplay of sound, movement, and pattern. Part of Parkins’s ongoing Lace Project, this event reimagines lace as a living score.
Feb 14 + 15: Florentina Holzinger | TANZ at NYU Skirball
Get ready for TANZ, a bold and unforgettable fusion of ballet, raw athleticism, and theatrical spectacle. With an all-female cast aged 30 to 80+, this fearless work celebrates strength, vulnerability, and the limits of the human body while turning dance traditions on their head. Intense, funny, and full of surprises, TANZ is like nothing you’ve seen before.
Note: Performance ft. strobe lights, nudity, and graphic content.
Feb 5-9: Camille A. Brown | I AM at The Joyce
Award-winning choreographer Camille A. Brown returns with I AM, a powerful celebration of Black joy and cultural liberation. Inspired by Lovecraft Country and Drumline, this dynamic new work blends dance and music from the African Diaspora to imagine a boundless future. With live, original music by Deah Love Harriott, Juliette Jones, Jaylen Petinaud, and Martine Wade.
Feb 12-16: Akhram Khan | GIGENIS: The generation of the Earth" at The Joyce
Acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan brings together his unique blend of Kathak and contemporary dance with an incredible lineup of Indian dance artists, including Kapila Venu, Mavin Khoo, Mythili Prakash, and duo Vijna Vasudevan and Renjith Babu. GIGENIS is a heartfelt celebration of tradition, memory, and the love of dance, all woven into a powerful, unforgettable performance.
Feb 26: Benjamin Booker at Public Records
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New music from Benjamin Booker - check out Lower! His first album in 8 long years. Slow Dance in a Gay Bar is my fav track on the album. I’m excited to see him for a rare live appearance.
Feb 22: Rafiq Bhatia w/ Chris Pattishall at National Sawdust
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Master of genre-less experimental guitar work, Rafiq creates his own musical language and is a special artist close to four/four’s heart. Expect an evening of soundscapes and emotional resonance.
Feb 21-22: Floating Points w/ Mary Lattimore, Julianna Barwick +more at Knockdown Center
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Floating Points headlines a rare, live NYC show at KDC with our favorite harpist Mary Lattimore, ethereal loop queen Julianna Barwick and more!
Through Feb 23: Luna Luna: Forgotten Fantasy at The Shed
This exhibition invites visitors into a colorful, riotous fun house of carnival attractions by visionary artists of the 20th century, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Delaunay, Keith Haring, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, and more. Luna Luna first opened in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany, as a spectacular fairground. And then, by a twist of fate, the park’s treasures were forgotten in storage in Texas for 36 years...until now!
Through Feb 9: Edges of Ailey at The Whitney
Edges of Ailey is the first large-scale museum exhibition to celebrate the life, dances, influences, and enduring legacy of visionary choreographer Alvin Ailey. Described as an “extravaganza”, this exhibition brings together visual art, live performance, music, archival materials, and a multi-screen video installation drawn from recordings of his company’s repertory to explore the full range of Ailey’s personal & creative life.
Feb 14: Fly Love Songs w/ J.PERIOD at Lincoln Center
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💓 A cute Valentine’s Day moment! From the early days of Whodini and LL to The Pharcyde and Tribe, from Lil' Kim and Mary J., all the way up to J. Cole and Drake, Grab your boo and head to an all-night DJ dance set of modern R&B and classic rap love songs, curated by the mixtape assassin J.PERIOD playing Cupid on the wheels of steel.