ACT AMERICAN! Acting class and English practice for internationals
- Mar 1, 2011 at 3:00pm EST to Apr 12, 2011 at 4:00pm EDT
- Location: Pearl Studios
- Description:
In this introduction to acting workshop, international students will learn basic acting technique while improving their English skills. We will incorporate voice work, physical improvisation and scene study to prepare students to perform in American English. The 5 session class will culminate in a presentation of monologues and scenes. In keeping with our mission to promote international theatre by living artists, we will draw on texts by contemporary famous finternational playwrights. Students will have the choice to work on contemporary American texts or translate their scene or monologue into English from their native tongue, if they so desire. The class will include regular visits to international theatre events followed by discussion.
When: Tuesdays 8-10.30pm
March 1 - April 12Where: Pearl Studios, 500 8th Avenue, btw 35th and 36th
- Created by: Anne
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 (11)
SERGE GAINSBOURG: INITIALS L.G.
- Mar 24, 2011 at 7:00am to Apr 23, 2011 at 1:00pm EDT
- Location: FIAF - 22 East 60th Street
- Description:
The FIAF Gallery is proud to present from March 24-April 23 the US debut of a new exhibit of photos of France's legendary bad boy, Serge Gainsbourg.
Initials L.G. features portraits as well as rare and unusual images of the icon from noted photographers who documented his celebrity.
- Created by: FIAF
French Artist, Did Dontzoff, in NYC Exhibition
- Mar 25, 2011 at 7:00am to Apr 15, 2011 at 2:00pm EDT
- Location: Agora Gallery
- Description:
Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature a French artist, Did Dontzoff, in Degrees of Abstraction. The exhibition is scheduled to run from March 25, 2011 through April 15, 2011 (opening reception: Thursday, March 31, 2011).
About the Artist
Fun, unexpected, original – there are many words that could be used to describe Did Dontzoff’s paintings because this artist's unique style refuses to fit into ordinary categories. However you characterize them, it is certain that Dontzoff has created a singular body of work with a veritable brand appeal to it. The Russian native crafts wild images of otherworldly figures that appear to zigzag and fold into their surroundings, themselves, and each other. The beings alternate between proud, statuesque poses and others that deflate into a thrilling jumble of lines. They often seem to split apart or reach toward one another so that you cannot tell where one figure ends and another begins. Dontzoff employs a robust, graphic style with areas of flat, vivid col - Created by: Lee Eagle
EXPRESSIONS DENTELLE: exposition au Fashion Institute of Technology du 1er au 17 avril 2011
- Apr 3, 2011 to Apr 17, 2011
- Location: FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- Description:
From April 4th to April 17th, Claire Catoire, the French designer of "Claire Veut la Lune" will exhibit her creations at the Fashion Institute of Technology. For this project, Claire Catoire has worked in association with Pascal Auvé, a French photographer.
This exhibit is an illustration of our world-famous lace heritage, typical of Northern France.
Through photographs, cocktail and wedding dresses, Claire and Pascal propose a dream-like anthem to lace.
This event - organized by 2 teachers and the students of Lycée Saint Jude located in Northern France - is the first of a series of events aiming at presenting and promoting Northern France through its most attractive aspects.
April will be the month of Northern France in New York!
dossier presse Lace exhibit.doc
Isabelle Refouni
- Created by: Refouni Isabelle
Paris au Present
- Apr 4, 2011 to Apr 26, 2011
- Location: Florence Gould Hall
- Description:
The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), New York's premiere French cultural center, celebrates the spring with a new CinémaTuesdays series exploring Paris, the City of Light.
How does one capture the essence of a city, recreate its soul, the beatings of its heart, and describe its mutations while celebrating what makes it timeless and unique among all of the other cities of the world? These questions continue to guide us through the evolving history of thousands of films that feature Paris as either subject or backdrop. By summoning the first films of young filmmakers alongside works by recognized directors and blending the genres of fiction, documentary and animation, FIAF shares with you the eternal city of light.
The Paris au présent series is co-curated by Marie Losier, Laurence Herzberg of The Forum Des Images and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. - Created by: FIAF
Fashion exhibition!!!
- Apr 4, 2011 at 2:00pm to Apr 17, 2011 at 3:00pm EDT
- Location: Institute of Technology
- Description:
EXPRESSIONS DENTELLE: exposition au Fashion Institute of Technology du 1er au 17 avril 2011
From April 4th to April 17th, Claire Catoire, the French designer of "Claire Veut la Lune" will exhibit her creations at the Fashion Institute of Technology. For this project, Claire Catoire has work…Organized by Lycée Saint Jude, Armentières- Northern
- Created by: Louchie Anais
Isaach De Bankole: An Unexpected Gentleman
- Apr 8, 2011 at 3:00pm to Apr 29, 2011 at 3:00pm EDT
- Location: Museum of Arts and Design
- Description:
Isaach De Bankolé, An Unexpected Gentleman
Frequent star of films by Claire Denis, Jim Jarmusch, and Lars Von Trier, the French actor Isaach De Bankolé has become the preeminent leading man in a contemporary wave of cinema tackling the effects of Western colonialism on Africa.
Originally born on the Ivory Coast before moving to Paris, where he was discovered on the street., Isaach De Bankolé has changed the face of French cinema as a pioneering leading man of color in French Cinema.
A César award winner, De Bankolé is well know to European audiences for his powerful, subtly intense, and compelling performances. Whether an assassin, Cameroonian houseboy to French colonialists, or asylum seeker, De Bankolé’s presents his characters will dignity, power, and refinement. No matter how complicated the moral code or choices a role tackles, De Bankolé’s imbues each performance with the grace and strength of a gentleman.
Surveying this extraordinary actor’s career, MAD is proud to team with the Fre
- Created by: mad
“Indépendances africaines : illusions et désillusions” by novelist, essayist, blogger professor of French
- Apr 12, 2011 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm EDT
- Location: Yale University- Whitney Humanties Center
- Description:
The Department of French
The Council on African Studies
The Department of African American Studies
present a lecture
by one of the leading French-language writers
Alain Mabanckou
novelist, essayist, blogger
professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature, UCLA
winner of the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique noire and the Prix Renaudot
“Indépendances africaines : illusions et désillusions”
in French
questions and discussion in French and English
For more on Alain Mabanckou, see www.alainmabanckou.net/
and www.gallimard.fr/rentreelitteraire/AlainMabanckou.htm
- Created by: Marie Laffitte
RADIO NOUVELLE VAGUE
- Apr 12, 2011 from 4:00pm to 7:45pm EDT
- Location: The Bell House
- Description: Paris, Nice or Strasbourg, circa 1984. As the rest of the world argued Madonna vs. Cyndi Lauper, French teenagers were pegging their Levi's 501s and swaying sullenly to a hit parade all their own: Artists like Partenaire Particulier, Les Rita Mitsouko and Léopold Nord et Vous were redefining French music, one weird, wacked-out 45 at a time.DJ Frankie Teardrop and DJ Andouillette will spin hits and obscurities from one of the most prolific and experimental periods in French pop culture, guaranteed to transport you to the 1980s en boîte
- Created by: the skint
Radio Nouvelle Vague
- Apr 12, 2011 from 4:00pm to 7:45pm EDT
- Location: The Bell House
- Description: RADIO NOUVELLE VAGUEParis, Nice or Strasbourg, circa 1984. As the rest of the world argued Madonna vs. Cyndi Lauper, French teenagers were pegging their Levi's 501s and swaying sullenly to a hit parade all their own: Artists like Partenaire Particulier, Les Rita Mitsouko and Léopold Nord et Vous were redefining French music, one weird, wacked-out 45 at a time.DJ Frankie Teardrop and DJ Andouillette will spin hits and obscurities from one of the most prolific and experimental periods in French pop culture, guaranteed to transport you to the 1980s en boîte.
- Created by: the skint
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! 3.0 (Tuesday April 12th)
- Apr 12, 2011 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm EDT
- Location: MUG Lounge: 448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st ave and ave A)
- Description: UG! COMEDY SHOW!! Tuesday April 12th, 2011 ed.
Todd Montesi and Justin Murray present awesome comics in front of a cool supportive crowd in the epicenter of hip NYC the East Village. Featuring both established comic veterans you've seen on TV to the up and comers, UG guarantees a swell time all for FREE! We've also got tons of drink specials ($3 drafts $4 wells)! So what are you waiting for? Come down and UG! it with us!!!
UG! COMEDY SHOW!! (Now @ MUG)
Presented by Todd Montesi and Justin Murray
TUESDAYS @ MUG Lounge
448 East 13th st. (bet. 1st and ave. A)
showtime: 8PM No Cover, One Drink Min.
($3 drafts, $4 wells till 10PM!!!)
For info/reservations: (646) 746-1357
Via subway: L train to 1st ave.; or F train to 2nd ave.
This week's guests (Tuesday April 12th, 2011 lineup):
Ryan ‘W.W.E.’ Hoffmann!
Bam! Kendra Cunningham!
Joe ‘oh noooooooo’ Pontillo!
’The Hammock’ T.J Amick!
Derek ‘He’s Not Eric’ Minto!
A Really Short Set From Abbi CrutchField!
et al!
Hosted by Todd Montesi - Created by: Todd M.