Dance<\/p>\n
Native American dance traditions take the spotlight at the annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers powwow and concert<\/a> at Theater for the New City in the East Village through Feb. 8. Highlights of the 90-minute show include a Deer Dance from Yaqui performers and a Grass Dance and Jingle Dress Dance from the Northern Plains people. At the matinees, children ages 5 to 12 are welcome to attend with an adult ticket holder for an extra $1 per child.<\/p>\n Black History Month<\/p>\n On Feb. 5, the Harlem Chamber Players<\/a> presents its annual Black History Month concert. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cAmerican Landscapes,\u201d<\/a> with music by living composers, including Trevor Weston and Adolphus Hailstork. The show is at Aaron Davis Hall at City College in Harlem. Admission is free, but registration<\/a> is required.<\/p>\n When you think of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times Magazine and the creator of \u201cThe 1619 Project,\u201d a reckoning with history comes to mind, not a night of booze and comedy. But she and the improv group UCBLK are among the storytellers in \u201cDrunk Black History,\u201d<\/a> which blends history lessons with laughs and, yes, drinks. The show is at the Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn, on Feb. 13.<\/p>\n Valentine\u2019s Day<\/p>\n Splurge on your sweetie at La Maison du Chocolat\u2019s Upper East Side boutique. The French American educator C\u00e9cilia Jourdan holds workshops, at 2 and 4:30 p.m., that combine discussions of French culture with chocolate tastings. Tickets<\/a> are $180 for two people and include servings of nonalcoholic champagne and a small heart-shaped box of chocolates.<\/p>\n Love takes time \u2014 that\u2019s the message at \u201cPlay Another Slow Jam,\u201d<\/a> the Roots\u2019 Valentine\u2019s Day show at Brooklyn Bowl with D.J. sets by Questlove. Fans of the quiet storm genre<\/a> can keep the love flowing at \u201cSlow Jams NYC,\u201d<\/a> a \u201clate-night R&B escape for lovers, almost-lovers and everyone caught in between,\u201d at Littlefield in Gowanus, Brooklyn. You my want to take a disco nap: The dancing starts at 11 p.m. and goes until 4 a.m.<\/p>\n The Museums Special Section<\/p>\n For a more risqu\u00e9 evening, Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village presents \u201cFilthy Gorgeous Burlesque Valentine\u2019s Spectacular,\u201d<\/a> featuring music, circus acts and performers like Peekaboo Pointe and Queerly Femmetastic.<\/p>\n A Century of Wow<\/p>\n To mark 100 years of defying gravity and thrilling children of all ages, the Harlem Globetrotters<\/a> brings its basketball alchemy and good will to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Feb. 15.<\/p>\n Pop Music<\/p>\n Here are this month\u2019s highlights by generation: For baby boomers, Steve Earle<\/a> is at the Gramercy Theater on Feb. 27. Gen X, wear your best all-black ensemble for Nine Inch Nails<\/a> at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on Valentine\u2019s Day. Millennials, you\u2019ve got Jade<\/a> at the Brooklyn Paramount on Feb. 19. And Gen Z, Conan Gray<\/a> is all yours at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., on Feb. 28.<\/p>\n Classical<\/p>\n John Williams is best known for his scores<\/a> for more than 100 films, including \u201cStar Wars\u201d and \u201cJaws,\u201d but he\u2019s also an accomplished classical composer<\/a>. In four performances<\/a> starting on Feb. 27, Emanuel Ax performs the New York premiere of Williams\u2019s \u201cPiano Concerto,\u201d inspired by the jazz pianists Art Tatum, Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson.<\/p>\n Film<\/p>\n Film at Lincoln Center remembers Diane Keaton, the prolific and multidimensional actress who died<\/a> in October at 79, with \u201cLooking for Ms. Keaton,\u201d<\/a> a 15-film retrospective (Feb. 13-19). In addition to her Oscar-winning role in Woody Allen\u2019s comedy \u201cAnnie Hall\u201d<\/a> (Feb. 16 and 18), I\u2019m a fan of her performance in Allen\u2019s \u201cInteriors\u201d<\/a> (Feb. 18 and 19), a piercing family drama in which she shows her considerable chops as a serious actress.<\/p>\n Theater<\/p>\n Daniel Radcliffe returns to Broadway in \u201cEvery Brilliant Thing,\u201d<\/a> a heart-tugging solo show about a man who recounts why life is worth living using memories etched on small pieces of paper. It starts in previews on Feb. 21 at the Hudson Theater.<\/p>\n Bon Temps<\/p>\n This year, Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. Mardi Gras) falls on Feb. 17, but you can kick off Carnival season early: The Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, with Mozart for Munchkins, is welcoming families to its Mardi Gras Jazz Parade<\/a> on Feb. 7 starting at 11 a.m. at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights. Admission for children under 13 is free.<\/p>\n Comedy<\/p>\n When I\u2019m having a rough day, I\u2019ll put on Liza Treyger\u2019s Netflix comedy special \u201cNight Owl\u201d<\/a> just to listen to her explain why she loves wasting time watching videos of animals using other animals as chairs. She\u2019s at Gramercy Theater<\/a> on Feb. 21.<\/p>\n Jazz<\/p>\n To savor a late-night jazz treat, I\u2019ll be downing an espresso before heading to the West Village club Smalls<\/a> for one of the jam sessions it hosts several nights every month. Shows start at 11:45 p.m. and continue through 4 a.m., and are hosted by a roster of musicians, including the trumpet player Carlos Abadie<\/a> (Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25) and the drummer Adam Ray<\/a> (Feb. 9 and 23).<\/p>\n Kids<\/p>\n Ten artists will be paired with a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal ice carv\u00ader from Okamoto Studio, a maker of custom ice pieces, dur\u00ading the free \u201cGov\u00ader\u00adnors Island Ice Sculp\u00adture Show\u201d<\/a> on Feb. 7. The afternoon includes a D.J. set from Miss Ali\u00adcia and food trucks with win\u00adter-themed treats.<\/p>\n Irish setters, Italian greyhounds and Siberian huskies are among the 150 dogs at Meet the Breeds<\/a>, the annual kid-friendly dog extravaganza sponsored by the American Kennel Club. The event takes place on Feb. 7 and 8 at the Javits Center.<\/p>\n Lunar New Year<\/p>\n On Feb. 21, the Museum of Chinese in America in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown hosts a morning and an afternoon family-friendly celebration<\/a> of the Year of the Horse that includes lion dances and fan and ribbon dance workshops. In Queens, Flushing Town Hall is holding a handful of Lunar New Year festivities, including \u201cRed Horizon,\u201d<\/a> a free exhibition of Asian painting and sculpture on view in its gallery through March 1.<\/p>\n Art<\/p>\n The New York Times once described<\/a> the artist Pat Oleszko as \u201ca founding force majeure in performance art and video.\u201d See the storm this slapstick-happy, feminist artist has unleashed in \u201cFool Disclosure,\u201d<\/a> which is at SculptureCenter in Long Island City, Queens, through April 27. The show fills two floors with Oleszko\u2019s works, many of which are gleefully oversize, radically colorful inflatables.<\/p>\n In 2004, the Queens-born artist Joe Macken<\/a> took balsa wood, cardboard and glue and started constructing what became a 50-by-27-foot model of New York City, complete with entire neighborhoods and landmarks like One World Trade Center. His monumental achievement in miniature is on display beginning on Feb. 12 in \u201cHe Built This City\u201d<\/a> at the Museum of the City of New York on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n Last Call<\/p>\n Two Broadway shows \u2014 both critic\u2019s picks \u2014 are ending their runs: \u201cOedipus\u201d<\/a> at Studio 54 on Feb. 8 and \u201cMarjorie Prime\u201d<\/a> at the Helen Hayes Theater on Feb. 15. \u201cAn Ecology of Quilts,\u201d<\/a> at the American Folk Art Museum<\/a> near Lincoln Center, closes on March 1. That\u2019s also the last day to catch \u201cThe Eggs and Trixie\u201d and three other cartoon shorts in a series dedicated to that little green goofball Gumby<\/a>, at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dance Native American dance traditions take the spotlight at the annual Thunderbird American Indian Dancers powwow and concert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53381,53387,35145,53354,1597,53366,53376,6212,46969,53355,53352,16074,53262,12397,2947,53362,30055,13531,53383,1589,53378,53377,53356,53380,53357,34071,25769,53358,53359,53361,53360,6160,53384,1588,53363,53364,53365,53386,41672,53353,158,53367,3835,2576,2538,2826,1768,9,24,55,54,53368,56,20075,53382,53369,6075,53371,53372,53379,30563,53370,905,53373,28318,53374,53385,53375,47697,18066],"class_list":["post-121835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adolphus","tag-ahmir-questlove","tag-american-folk-art-museum","tag-american-kennel-club","tag-annie-hall-movie","tag-arts-venue","tag-ax","tag-bar","tag-barclays-center-brooklyn","tag-bell-house-brooklyn","tag-black-people","tag-brooklyn-bowl","tag-children-and-childhood","tag-city-college-of-new-york","tag-classical-music","tag-convention-center-manhattan","tag-culture-arts","tag-dancing","tag-daniel","tag-diane","tag-earle","tag-emanuel","tag-film-at-lincoln-center","tag-hailstork","tag-harlem-chamber-players","tag-harlem-globetrotters","tag-hayes","tag-helen","tag-hudson-theater-manhattan","tag-jacob-k","tag-javits","tag-jazz","tag-john-1932","tag-keaton","tag-la-maison-du-chocolat","tag-le-poisson-rouge","tag-littlefield-brooklyn","tag-liza","tag-lunar-new-year","tag-mardi-gras","tag-movies","tag-museum-of-chinese-in-america","tag-museum-of-the-moving-image","tag-museums","tag-music","tag-music-venue","tag-native-americans","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nine-inch-nails-music-group","tag-ny","tag-pop-and-rock-music","tag-radcliffe","tag-roots","tag-sculpture","tag-sculpturecenter","tag-smalls-manhattan","tag-steve","tag-studio-54","tag-the-music-group","tag-theater","tag-theater-for-the-new-city","tag-thompson","tag-thunderbird-american-indian-dancers","tag-treyger","tag-ubs-arena-elmont","tag-valentines-day","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}