A figure drawing workshop with live model for artists and amateurs alike. You should bring a drawing board, paper, charcoal and/or other art supplies.
In this short residency Jen Rosenblit and Gary Wilmes are invited to begin research towards a performance project initiated by Simone Aughterlony, titled Remaining Strangers. Pursuing our conceptions and affections of and for ‘the stranger’, this research takes emphasis on hospitality and endurance as it relates to locality and the necessity in times of hyper globalization to, in a sense, land back on earth.
The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City. We are pleased to announce that the fifth resident artist will be Juliette Deschamps (Spain) from September 2–22.
In Manmade Earth, eight teenagers from the Congo, Egypt, Malaysia, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, and the United States—each with a unique path into this country— come together to create a new landscape on stage. With an abundance of materials, including cardboard, rope, buckets, and wood, Manmade Earth unites the audience and performers for a celebration of communal construction in the hands of these powerful young people.
Artist Fanny de Chaillé employs theater to restage one of Michel Foucault’s most famous lectures, L’Ordre du discours (The Order of Discourse). She at once re-imagines this historical moment, which was never recorded, and continues Foucault’s investigation into the power inherent in words.
DIRTY SECRET II is the expanded version of DIRTY SECRET I which debuted at the Invisible Dog Art Center in 2013. The first iteration featured a plastic wrapped room, Whiteley’s fetish videos, light projections, and a dominatrix experience. DIRTY SECRET II will provide more interactive and subversive play by an all-male cast of costumed antagonists.
A poetry reading of the newly published Time of Lebanese-American Etel Adnan and of poets in connected circles.
Straddling genres, genders, boundaries, and eras, Дyми Moï (Dumy Moyi) is an astonishing and intimate solo performance that breaks down the rituals of Western theater. François Chaignaud blends ritualistic and mystical songs and dances that simultaneously suggest styles from India, the Ukraine, the Philippines, or Sephardic cultures without explicitly referencing them.
Concrète Jungle is a work of sound art performed live by composer Dan Siegler and special guests. The piece is inspired by and takes its title from musique concrète, an electroacoustic genre in which readymade sounds are employed in place of instrumentation. Featuring hundreds of intricately edited New York voices, Concrète Jungle highlights borough-specific accents, linguistic filler and word repetitions to form assembled sentences and musical grooves.
Conceptual artist Anne Mourier strongly believes that “Taking Care” is important and maypossibly be the only way to mend our broken society: “Taking Care” of our planet, “Taking Care” of things instead of replacing them, “Taking Care” of each other…
Les Editions de l’Epure at The Invisible Dog.
Treiber Farms will be offering a mix of fresh winter produce, preserved goods, sauces, spices, honey, handmade crafts and so much more. All of it grown, prepared and made by them.
My Diary: Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia is based on twenty chapters that cross over within the frame of two hours. Musicians, dancers and designers interact, but not directly—a parallel to incidents of sound, text and action, a metaphor for endless continuous circles of life, fluxuating between utopia and war. While observing, the audience perceives the results of war—tipping utopia.
A celebration of Pride and Presence, featuring guest artist Julian Fleisher, guest speaker Edafe Okporo (Executive Director of RDJ Refugee Center and advocate for human rights of LGBTQ, immigrants, and minorities) + special guest artists and poets to help us mark the 50th Anniversary of Stonewall.
Treiber Farms will be offering a mix of fresh winter produce, preserved goods, sauces, spices, honey, handmade crafts and so much more. All of it grown, prepared and made by them.
Elastic City: Prompts for Participatory Walks is a new book that will include instructions (aka prompts) from more than 35 artists' walks along with a section that features the insights and philosophy of EC Founder Todd Shalom, who spent 14 years presenting and refining walks.
We May Never Dance Again® is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on stage and via social media.
Conceptual artist Anne Mourier strongly believes that “Taking Care” is important and maypossibly be the only way to mend our broken society: “Taking Care” of our planet, “Taking Care” of things instead of replacing them, “Taking Care” of each other…
An unnamed Sri Lankan inmate has barricaded himself inside a prison computer lab in Dutchess County, New York. A riot rages outside, incited by a poem published in The Holding Pen, the house literary journal. This, our narrator’s final Editor’s Letter, is his confession. An official accounting of events, as they happened.
Odalisque is a new performance by Peter Clough in which he reimagines the classical reclining nude as a gender non-conforming queer bondage submissive. Sculpture, projection, text, live performance, and music come together in an immersive environment that complicates power relations between Sub and Dom, viewer and performer, subject and object.
TheaterMatters, the unique live-theater-review series curated and moderated by Hunter College Theater Professor Jonathan Kalb, continues at The Invisible Dog!
This summer, FAD Market returns to The Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, NY. Join us for five incredible Maker Markets featuring a rotating lineup of over 50 of the city’s best emerging designers each week. Browse unique handcrafted jewelry, art, apparel, bath and body care, tableware and home furnishings.
The 2019 Look + Listen Festival closes with No Instruments Required, music generated by the human body featuring tap-dance interpretations of minimalist classics and vocal explorations of Depression-era America.
Cycle is a performance presented by artists 2Fik and Anne Mourier. They will portray 28 minutes in the life of a woman, seeking the feeling of one human organism instead of two.
In celebration of the Open Studios and Season Ten, The Invisible Dog presents Friend of a Friend: A Group Show Curated by the Creatives of the Invisible Dog, featuring the work of 25 artists, each selected by the 25 artists of the Invisible Dog Art Center.
Artist Anne Mourier designed the Glasshouse in 2013 for her solo show Cleaning It Up. As a temporary structure, the Glasshouse was destined to be ephemeral and to be demolished. We invited Mourier back to do a last show after the demolition…
For our Spring edition of TueNight Live we're spilling SECRETS–some of our deepest, darkest, nearest and dearest. You won't want to miss this one–our crew of fabulous grown-ass women tells all.
The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City for 1-3 months. We are pleased to announce that the fourth resident artist will be MARLO & ISAURE (Tunisia) from April 29 – May 23.
For one week, Thomas Ferrand will explore Brooklyn in search of edible wild plants. He will take notes and photos, keep a journal, and suggest different menus with the help of Lucien Zayan, all chiefly cooked from the daily harvests in parcs, abandoned areas, or asphalt cracks.
Lady Susan, a young widow, flees London and arrives at the country home of her obliging brother-in-law and his suspicious wife. Soon to come–uninvited–are an eligible suitor, her willful daughter, her chatty confidante, and a dimwitted bachelor. Lady Susan schemes, but all does not go according to plan as she and her daughter become rivals for the same man.
The Rumpus and Books Are Magic are proud to present an evening of poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month! With readings from Andrés Cerpa, Hafizah Geter, Donika Kelly, Rachel McKibbens, Nicole Sealey, and Emily Skaja. Emceed by Cortney Lamar Charleston.
NEEDED: 40 PEOPLE TO TAKE TO THE STREETS AND HAVE A CATCH AROUND AN ENTIRE BROOKLYN CITY BLOCK AT NOON, TUESDAY, MARCH 26!
TheaterMatters, the unique live-theater-review series curated and moderated by Hunter College Theater Professor Jonathan Kalb, continues at The Invisible Dog!
Houston-based artists Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin present two new pieces, the fifth in their ongoing series of interdisciplinary installations that connect little known LGBTQI2 histories from each state to contemporary queer experiences (50 States: Arkansas) and a five channel video installation featuring drag performers from Eastern Oklahoma (Political Gestures).
Through a sculptural garden installation, local artist, Iviva Olenick is "greening" the exterior of the Invisible Dog, celebrating contributions of native and nonnative plants (and peoples) to the (bio)diversity of Brooklyn through Plant(n)ation: Brooklyn As Farm. The project will debut on March 9, 2019, with new blooms appearing throughout the spring, summer and fall, and public harvests in late summer–fall.
The Elizabeth Krief and Jacques Manardo Artist Residency Program at The Invisible Dog offers artists of all disciplines and nationalities the opportunity to reside in New York City for 1-3 months. We are pleased to announce that the third resident artist will be Nathanaëlle Herbelin (France) from March 1–31.
A series of dinners centered on that unavoidable work of American drama, that unstoppable generator of American Mythology, A Streetcar Named Desire. As we ponder the significance of the white-ribbed-tank top, Lucien Chef Ambition will serve dinner, actors will read scenes, and David Levine and Shonni Enelow will lead a discussion.
Conceptual artist Anne Mourier strongly believes that Taking Care is important and may possibly be the only way to mend our broken society: Taking Care of our planet, Taking Care of things instead of replacing them, Taking Care of each other…
Performance artist ALOK hosts a series of interventions to challenge the dominance of romantic love, collapse the myth of the stranger, and exercise alternative intimacies.
We are delighted to announce and host the Wassaic Project’s 2019 Winter Benefit.
