Performa 11

Opening Night BenefitFeaturing World Premiere of Elmgreen & Dragset's Happy Days in the Art World and Special Live Retrospective

• Tuesday, November 1, 7:00 pm

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Skylight SoHo MAP
Multiple Ticket Levels

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Opening Night of Performa 11 with feature the world premiere performance by Elmgreen & Dragset, followed by an exceptional party featuring a retrospective of live performances by the artists.

Elmgreen & DragsetHappy Days in the Art World

• Tuesday, November 1, 7:30 pm
• Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm

Skirball Center for the Performing Arts MAP
$25 and up

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Elmgreen & Dragset reflect on the artworld in a Beckett-esque self-portrait starring Joseph Fiennes and Charles Edwards.

Mika Rottenberg and Jon KesslerSEVEN

• Thursday, November 3, 6:00 pm
• Friday, November 4, 2:00 pm
• Saturday, November 5, 2:00 pm
• Wednesday, November 9, 2:00 pm
• Thursday, November 10, 2:00 pm
• Friday, November 11, 2:00 pm
• Saturday, November 12, 2:00 pm
• Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 pm
• Thursday, November 17, 2:00 pm
• Friday, November 18, 2:00 pm
• Saturday, November 19, 2:00 pm

Nicole Klagsbrun Project Space MAP
Free.

A chakra sauna channeling chromatic body fluids from New York to Cradle of Humankind in Africa.

Frances StarkPut a Song in Your Thing

• Friday, November 4, 8:30 pm

Abrons Arts Center MAP
$30

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A semi-autobiographical stroll through the creative chaos of the artist’s life, involving a dancer, and DJ from the dancehall “daggering” scene.

Gerard ByrneIn Repertory

• Saturday, November 5, 6:00 pm

Abrons Arts Center MAP
Free

A process-based project installed underneath a theater, with viewers responding to installed props, mixing with actors employed in a subtle, interspersed fashion.

Tarek AtouiVisiting Tarab

• Saturday, November 5, 8:30 pm

SIR Stage 37 MAP
$30

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Artists from pop, hip hop, electronic, and improvised music re-imagine the world's largest archive of Classical Arab music.

Simon FujiwaraThe Boy Who Cried Wolf

• Wednesday, November 9, 7:30 pm
• Thursday, November 10, 7:30 pm

Abrons Art Center MAP
$30

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An epic narrative in three parts, about explorers, sex and Abstract Expressionist painting.

Ming WongPersona Performa

• Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
• Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm

Museum of the Moving Image MAP
$30

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After Bergman’s Persona, a human filmstrip of American cinema archetypes winds its way through the museum.

Shirin NeshatOverRuled

• Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
• Saturday, November 12, 5:00 pm
• Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm

THERE IS NO LATE SEATING
FOR THE PERFORMANCE

Cedar Lake MAP
$35 General, $35 to $100 Opening Night

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A highly stylized performance set in a courtroom which references historical and contemporary Iranian and Arab uprisings against various forms of dictatorship and theocracy.

Laurel Nakadate and James FrancoThree Performances in Search of Tennessee

• Sunday, November 13, 12:00 pm

Abrons Art Center MAP
$30

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A spirit calling, theatrical karaoke, and an open audition all based around Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.

Liz Magic LaserI Feel Your Pain

• Sunday, November 13, 8:00 pm
• Monday, November 14, 8:00 pm

The SVA Theatre MAP
FREE, first come first serve.

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A constructivist-style “living newspaper” restaging America’s recent political contestations as a romantic drama.

iona rozeal brownbattle of yestermore

• Thursday, November 17, 8:00 pm
• Friday, November 18, 8:00 pm

Skylight West MAP
$30 / $15 with discount code: "kabuki"

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An epic battle myth told in a mix of voguing, hip-hop and Kabuki theater.

Guy MaddinTales from the Gimli Hospital: Reframed

• Friday, November 18, 7:00 pm
• Friday, November 18, 9:00 pm
• Saturday, November 19, 7:00 pm
• Saturday, November 19, 9:00 pm

Please note new performance dates and times.

Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center MAP
$25 in advance / $30 at the door. Discount for Performa and Film Society members/students/seniors ($20/$25).

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A live, dreamlike re-imagining of Maddin’s first feature film, produced in 1988, with a new score by acclaimed Icelandic musicians.

Ragnar KjartanssonBliss

• Saturday, November 19, 12:00 pm

Abrons Arts Center MAP
$30 / $10 ticket with discount code "figaro"

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A twelve-hour live loop of the final aria of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, with full orchestra, scenery, and period costume.