The Sundance Kid is Beautiful with Christopher Knowles features the artist performing a selection of new and rarely-shown works in a multimedia environment that incorporates poetry, dance, and sculpture.

Zero to 120 MPH in less than four seconds. A few seconds later, you’re 420 feet in the air. In the race for pure adrenaline thrills, nothing compares to Midnight, Deville Cohen’s high-horsepower shot from the sky.

An evening of readings from Erje Ayden’s works featuring Jim Fletcher, Ross Fletcher, Lisa Holm-Ayden, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Sibyl Kempson, David Macke, Katiana Rangel, Rafael Sánchez, Kate Valk, Kathleen White and Ben Williams

A live art performative diptych spanning two nights, June 27th and 28th, 2014. Lawrence Graham-Brown and company will extract from variations on themes surrounding contemporary concepts of well-being, our youth-driven culture, and coming of age and being gay, lonely, alone, empty, arrogant, et al.

GHOST RINGS, a project by Half Straddle, will be a fully sung-through piece with original music by Chris Giarmo in collaboration with Erin Markey, and concept, lyrics, and text by Tina Satter.

It features performers Erin Markey and Kristen Sieh, who play strange sisters interacting in existential communion with their spirit animals.

The third night of the Performing China film series features choreographer Wen Hui’s first documentary film, Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories. Based on Wen’s third grandmother (great aunt) Su Mei-Ling’s reminiscences about love, everyday life, and the political reforms that have shaped the People’s Republic of China, the film experiments with embodied memory, sensory transmission, and the passage of time in performance. The short Chinaman’s Suitcase documents a public performance that Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based artist Miao Jiaxin performed in New York’s Chinatown and Zucotti Park.

Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories
Directed by Wen Hui. 75 minutes. 2011. Digital video. In Chinese with English subtitles.

Chinaman’s Suitcase
Directed by Miao Jiaxin. 7 minutes. 2011. Digital video.
Total program running time: 81 minutes.

*Miao Jiaxin will be in attendance for a post-screening discussion.

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