Modern dance often leaves audiences asking the question: But what does it mean? Well, this show creates its own meaning, asking audiences to leave their imaginations at the door and enter a world where gravity is nothing and creativity is everything. Then, the storytelling resembles a dream. Pilobolus presents re: Creation three times at Queens…
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Regardless of any jet lag, prehistoric Australian dinosaurs will visit Modern Day Flushing for a few hours on Sunday, Feb. 2. Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live will evolve at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium, starting at 3 pm. Audience members will observe, meet, feed, and interact with life-like dinosaurs, insects, and other giant puppet creatures. They’ll be…
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#PickoftheWeek | Welcome the Year of the Snake with the Nai-Ni Chan Dance Company in Queens this Weekend
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Intuition, transformation, and wisdom are the main buzzwords of the approaching Year of the Snake. Celebrate this spirit with colorful costumes, graceful movement, and maybe even a dragon or two. The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company offers two shows at Queens College’s Goldstein Theatre this weekend. Consider it a “vibrant weave” as performers bring ancient choreography…
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#PickoftheWeek | Celebrate Balkan Culture at Zlatne Uste Golden Festival in Astoria this Weekend
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There’s some dispute about which countries are in the Balkans. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia are definitely in. Greece and Turkey are kind of in – and kind of out. And what about Yugoslavia? But there’s no dispute that the Balkan countries have fascinating histories and…
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Just follow the bouncing ball. The Winter Squash Classic will take place in Maspeth on Saturday, Jan. 11, from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. The event features two matches corresponding to the semi-finals of the $35K Intsel Steel Pro Invitational. On the men’s side, Timothy Brownell, who is currently the best men’s squash player in…
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Move over, Hollywood. Eat your digital heart out, Japan. Queens is activating. The Museum of the Moving Image hosts AniTOMO’s NYE Anime Rewind on Saturday, Dec. 28, at 12:30 pm. The one-day conference celebrates the outgoing year’s most popular anime stories with a live panel discussion featuring diverse digital content creators, a Q&A with experts,…
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#PickoftheWeek | Oratorio Society’s Holiday Concert Goes from Handel to Hollywood on Dec. 22
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They do it every year, and every year it amazes. The 100-plus-member Oratorio Society of Queens presents Holiday Concert: Handel to Hollywood at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center on Sunday, Dec. 22, at 4 pm. The program’s first half spotlights excerpts of Handel’s “Messiah” with accompaniment by members of the Forest Hills Garden Players. The…
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Some experiences are hard to describe, but everybody knows that they’re simply awesome. Gentlemen Brawlers offers Truth & Magic at Culture Club LIC on Friday, Dec. 13, and Saturday, Dec. 14. (Both shows start at 7 pm.) Attendees can expect all sorts of surprises, including elements they can taste, smell, see, touch, and hear during…
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#PickoftheWeek | Bria Skonberg Offers ‘Jingle Bell Swing’ with Brass-and-Sass on Dec. 7
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Here’s a great way to get in the holiday spirit. Bria Skonberg brings her Jingle Bell Swing to the Kupferberg Center for the Arts on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 pm. The multiple award-winning trumpeter adds her brass-and-sass – aka smoky vocals and fiery trumpet – to such classics as “Let It Snow,” “What Child…
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#PickoftheWeek | New York Theatre Ballet Presents ‘The Nutcracker’ in Queens on Dec. 1
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Tickets are selling like sugar plum hotcakes for The Nutcracker at Queens College’s Colden Auditorium on Sunday, Dec. 1, at 3 pm. New York Theatre Ballet offers this rendition of the timeless Christmas classic, which has a 1907 Art Nouveau theme with mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, dancing flowers, a time-bending clock, and a luminous owl….